Officials warn of Russia’s tech-for-troops deal with North Korea amid Ukraine conflict
10,000 of Kim Jong Un's soldiers believed to be headed for front line The EU has joined US and South
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AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train Japan’s engineers in $50M government deal
Government wants to make semiconductors big on home turf again Japan has asked AI chip startup Tenstorrent to train up
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Staff can’t code? No prob. Singapore superapp’s LLM whips up apps for them
NP-hard to NP at all Southeast Asia's Uber-esque superapp, Grab, has developed a tool that allows its employees to build
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A new city springs from the rainforest to become Indonesia’s tech hub
Jakarta who? Indonesia's new capital, Nusantara, is packed with tech If an entire major city was designed from scratch today,
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Toyota and Joby complete Japan’s first air taxi flight test
Automaker bets big on startup while other promising eVTOL companies scrape around for funding Joby Aviation – backed by Japanese
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Singapore to increase road capacity by tracking all vehicles with GPS
Plus: China Unicom auctions off old cables; Japan's My Number Card also soon a driver's license; and Hong Kong chief
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OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code OpenAI has alleged the
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Asian crime gangs are growing – fast – thanks to AI and other tech
UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy' Organized crime syndicates across Asia are using
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China reportedly tells local AI buyers to ignore Nvidia
Plus: Google, Oracle, spend $9.5 billion on Asia datacenters; Philippines to tax clouds; Vietnam infosec praised; and more In Brief
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Data harvesting superapp admits it struggled to wield data – until it built an LLM
Engineers at Grab don't need to ask each other questions any more Asia's answer to Uber, Singaporean superapp Grab, has
