A developer built a family of MCP servers enabling AI agents to accept payments across 30 countries, including Pix in Brazil and UPI in India. After a Reddit user suggested adding guardrails for agent…
South Korea's proposed RE100 industrial complex remains stalled without a passed special bill or selected site more than a year after its introduction, while the 800 trillion won southwestern semicond…
South Korean energy experts warned on July 7, 2026, that planned AI data centers and chip fabs could require 216.4 TWh annually, exceeding the electricity demand increase in the current national plan.…
Presiden Prabowo Subianto dan Perdana Menteri India Narendra Modi mendorong kerja sama praktis antara Indonesia dan India di berbagai bidang, termasuk perdagangan, pangan, kesehatan, pertahanan, marit…
A UPI Voices essay published on July 7, 2026, argues that humanism, transhumanism and posthumanism are reshaping debates over what counts as the human person, offering conceptual framing for AI ethics…
South Korea policy chief Kim Yong-beom defended a 10-year national AI strategy on July 6, tying semiconductor, AI data-center and physical-AI projects to long-term investment plans from Samsung Electr…
South Korea's Agency for Defense Development launched Add+i, an in-house generative AI service on its closed internal network, developed by the Defense Artificial Intelligence Technology Research Inst…
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe told TechCrunch that AI will be heavily involved in the next era of UPI payment growth, emphasizing small specialized language models trained on India's payment data rather than la…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung nominated Han Seong-sook, currently minister of SMEs and startups, as prime minister nominee, citing her IT and startup experience as suited to lead an 'AI transfo…
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe said AI could help India's UPI system reach 1 billion daily transactions by improving fraud detection, credit distribution, and voice-based multilingual onboarding. UPI currently p…
At the Open Source Summit India in Mumbai, a developer reported that India has become the second-largest contributor to open source globally and the fastest-growing OSS developer base. Linus Torvalds …
A developer built five finance automations for Indian businesses using Python, free APIs, and existing ledgers like Tally or Zoho Books. The automations include bank reconciliation, cash application, …
The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) released the GIST 2217-Bus Test System, an open simulation model of South Korea's national power grid built from publicly available map data and …
US export controls on advanced AI models have prompted Indian venture capitalists and AI leaders to call for accelerated domestic AI capability. Anthropic disabled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for …
Gaon Cable's U.S. unit LSCUS secured multiple AI data center power contracts in 2026, including a five-year busduct supply agreement potentially worth up to 4 trillion won ($2.7 billion) with an unnam…
Pine Labs launched the Pine Labs Payment Protocol (P3P) on June 11, 2026, enabling AI agents to execute UPI payments after a single upfront user authorization. The protocol combines UPI mandate framew…
Naver Cloud presented a sovereign defense AI strategy at the Korea Defense Industry Development Expo on June 10, unveiling its HyperCLOVA X Omnimodal model that integrates text, voice, video and maps …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with White House officials and congressional leaders in Washington, D.C., including House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, an OpenAI spokespers…
Andhra Pradesh minister Nara Lokesh met Sberbank Senior Vice-President Albert Yefimov in Moscow on June 3, 2026, to discuss collaboration on artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure. Lokesh …
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won appeared on KBS1's documentary 'Documentary Insight - Talent War 2' and argued that generalist talent capable of connecting humans and AI will become more important than…