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The UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre after Iran named it as a target

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The United Arab Emirates has gone back to the drawing board on the biggest AI construction project in the Gulf, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. The original idea was a single campus covering ten square miles of desert outside Abu Dhabi, roughly 26 square kilometres of computing in one place. What is being drawn […]

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Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents

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Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters and CNBC also reported it. According to the announcement, the framework is meant to help card networks, digital wallets, […]

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DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model

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DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding and agent tasks, at a lower price. The Hangzhou lab announced it in a thread on X and published the weights on Hugging Face under the MIT licence. That lets anyone download, modify and run […]

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China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

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Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacturers for clear indicators when a camera or microphone is recording. Those rules regulate an act […]

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Kawasaki signed an AI chip deal with a startup the Pentagon backs

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed an agreement to put a startup’s AI chips into Japanese aerial defence platforms. The chip company is the interesting part. EdgeCortix, a fabless semiconductor firm based in Kanagawa, announced the deal last week, a teaming agreement running from 2026 to 2028. Hideaki Nishimoto, who runs Kawasaki’s defence and aerospace division, […]

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Nvidia-backed Zankore raises a $3.1bn loan to buy Nvidia GPUs for Indonesia

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Zankore has secured a senior term loan facility of up to $3.1bn to buy and deploy Nvidia GPUs across Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Nvidia is one of the company’s backers and also the supplier of the hardware the financing will pay for. Citi acted as exclusive debt adviser, while Citi, ING, Natixis CIB, Qatar National […]

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OpenAI just anchored an Australian company’s Malaysian data centres

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An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it. Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus […]

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South Korea’s AI boom could need 20 new nuclear reactors’ worth of power

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South Korea expects artificial intelligence, and the chip fabs feeding it, to add between 25 and 30 gigawatts to national electricity demand, which by the country’s own reactor standards is roughly 20 nuclear plants. The government now has to decide whether to build them. The figure comes from Kim Sung-hwan, minister of climate, energy and […]

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Malaysia weighs Huawei chips for sovereign AI, Bloomberg reports

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Malaysia is leaning towards Huawei silicon to run its national AI project, according to Bloomberg. No foreign government has openly chosen Chinese AI accelerators over American ones before. Washington told the world last year that buying these particular chips could break its rules. Faris Mokhtar, Mackenzie Hawkins and Niki Koswanage reported the deliberations for Bloomberg. […]

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Taiwan pledges $20bn more in US chip investment while courting the EU, Reuters reports

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Taiwan spent this week’s SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once to Brussels: that its chips arrive with democratic governance attached. The commercial half of that argument came with a number, and economy minister Kung Ming-hsin supplied it, announcing a further $20bn of planned Taiwanese investment […]

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