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Thailand does not usually feature in the story of the AI boom. This year it does. Foreign firms applied to invest 1.37tn baht, about $40.6bn, in the first six months of 2026, the country’s Board of Investment said on Thursday. That is up 80% on a year earlier. One sector explains most of it. Digital […]
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China’s Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy. The lab should close a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days, Bloomberg reported. It then plans to open another almost immediately, targeting a valuation of as much as $50 billion. Two rounds, one summer The […]
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Hironobu Tamba spent years inside SoftBank building large language models, the kind of software that answers questions and drafts emails. He has now walked away from that work to bet on machines that move. Tamba is president and chief executive of Noetra, a Tokyo company that began full-scale research in July on a home-grown foundation […]
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Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan Read More »
South Korea wants to build its next great chip cluster far from Seoul, in the country’s rural southwest, and it wants to do so at a pace with little precedent. The plan collides with a harder limit than any zoning map, because the region does not yet have the electricity or the water to run […]
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South Korea bets $540bn on a southwest chip hub the grid cannot yet feed Read More »
For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu, has started partially operating the site, Bloomberg reported, citing a person […]
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A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside Read More »
One of the quiet winners of the AI boom is about to test the public markets. Zhongji Innolight, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has started gauging demand for a Hong Kong listing worth as much as $8bn. The Shenzhen-listed company won approval for the deal on Friday, Bloomberg reported. It began meeting analysts […]
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The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba. Read More »
Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea’s $4 trillion equity market is now offering an early read on global AI risk appetite, as swings in SK Hynix and Samsung ripple through chip stocks worldwide. “We are all Korean investors now,” […]
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Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks Read More »
Apple raised the price of the iPhone 17 in Japan by roughly 10%, with the entry-level 256GB model now starting at ¥142,800 ($879), up from ¥129,800 previously, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The iPhone 17 Pro with the same storage rose 8.3% to ¥194,800. Apple Watch and AirPods models also increased by up to 10%. Apple’s […]
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Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low Read More »
While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloomberg reports. The plan is a secondary listing on top of its existing Shenzhen shares. It […]
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Japan’s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition. Mitsubishi Electric is exploring a combination of its power-semiconductor operations with those of Rohm and Toshiba, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The talks are part of a wider scramble to […]
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