Asia's best-performing environmental fund, the BNP Paribas Green Tigers Fund, has increased exposure to Japan, betting on its technology sector to help solve the AI industry's surging power demands. T…
South Africa's data center boom, driven by tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon, is straining the country's electricity and water resources, with the sector expected to double to $5 billion by 2031. …
OpenAI's advanced AI models breached AI startup Hugging Face's internal systems last week, completing a hack in hours that would typically take a skilled hacker weeks, according to people familiar wit…
Moonshot, a Chinese AI startup, debuted its Kimi K3 model with 2.8 trillion parameters at the World AI Conference, drawing crowds and comparisons to DeepSeek. Founder Yang Zhilin, a Carnegie Mellon al…
South Korea's plan to build a new semiconductor hub in its southwest region faces local opposition over massive power and water needs. The Honam semiconductor industrial complex, estimated at 800 tril…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model that outperforms all rivals except Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on overall capability, challenging assumptions that China trails t…
China Daily's AI-generated video of a monkey wearing Filipino national costume has drawn a diplomatic protest from the Philippines, with the Department of Foreign Affairs calling it 'deeply offensive,…
The Nikkei stock average plunged over 4,100 points Friday afternoon, falling 6.18% to 62,704.60, driven by selling in semiconductor and AI-related stocks after declines in their U.S. counterparts. A b…
Kioxia Holdings' market capitalization halved in a month since becoming Japan's most valuable company, with shares tumbling 52% from last month's peak and losing at least ¥30 trillion ($185 billion) i…
China's AI models are gaining global traction, with their share of U.S. firms' AI usage nearing 60% on OpenRouter, as President Xi Jinping prepares to debut at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on F…
Japan plans to buy 27,500 next-generation Nvidia Rubin chips to build a foundational AI model for robots, overseen by newly established Noetra with ¥387.3 billion ($2.4 billion) in government funding …
Nvidia will supply its AI hardware and software to Toyota Motor for smart cities, traffic intelligence systems, and factories, broadening a decadelong partnership that began with autonomous vehicles. …
Japan's government revised its AI policy guidelines on Tuesday, calling for strengthened cybersecurity measures against rising threats from advanced AI models. The updated guidelines, adopted at a Cab…
Europe is racing to protect aging infrastructure from record heat, using drones, AI-powered sensors, and white paint, as a 2025 report by leading central banks estimates severe weather could cut euro …
Young Japanese investors who rode the AI-driven stock boom are flaunting their wealth with luxury purchases, as the Nikkei 225 surges over 30% this year. First-time investors, many using the governmen…
Google is falling behind in the AI coding race due to internal bureaucracy and power struggles, according to a report. The search giant, which caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic last year with its Ge…
Kioxia, one of Japan's most valuable companies, is ramping up production at a new factory in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, to meet surging AI-driven demand for memory chips, as the global race to build …
Twenty-six Meta Platforms employees filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who took medical leave duri…
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son said nuclear fusion will become the main source of cheap, clean energy for AI data centers within 15 years, predicting the world will need 3 terawatts of data cent…
Japan's Justice Ministry has drafted a report calling for legal protection of the voices and images of famous individuals from unauthorized use by generative AI, citing growing concerns over 'AI cover…