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JetBrains Research found 74% of developers use AI tools, with Claude Code becoming the most popular coding assistant since May 2025, according to Jellyfish's 2026 report. Industry leaders warn that reliance on proprietar…
Mistral AI, a Paris-based AI company, is positioning itself as an enterprise-focused infrastructure provider rather than a consumer chatbot competitor, emphasizing open weights, customization, and sovereign capabilities.…
China's goal to power AI data centers with 80% renewable energy by 2030 faces practical grid challenges, as intermittent supply clashes with the constant demand of AI workloads. Despite massive clean energy capacity, gri…
Tencent has begun internal testing of Xiaowei, an AI assistant embedded in WeChat that accepts text and voice input to execute tasks across the app's mini-program ecosystem, with a public rollout targeted for Q3 2026. Th…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to circulate in New Mexico between 2023 and 2025 to build larger cases against traffickers, a tactic whistleblower Special Agent Da…
Eight Chinese mobility leaders, including Xiaomi chief designer Li Tianyuan, will headline the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 in Seoul on June 30, discussing AI integration, EV supply chains, and cross-border cooperation…
Baidu is pursuing full-stack AI capabilities by building its own chips, models, and cloud infrastructure while gaining access to restricted Nvidia H200 GPUs. The company's Kunlunxin chip unit could be valued at $28 billi…
A developer argues that adopting AI is not a simple software upgrade but requires an organizational redesign. The post identifies four key shifts—decision speed, accountability, escalation paths, and operational expectat…
Former UAE Major General Obaid Al Ketbi will deliver a keynote speech at the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 in Seoul on June 30, discussing AI and mobility convergence and opportunities for Korea-Middle East cooperation.…
South Korea's top economic policymaker Kim Yong-beom warned that the AI-driven semiconductor boom could inflate housing prices as excess liquidity flows into real estate, urging a normalization of property taxation to pr…
Qatar's prime minister appeared to snub US Vice President JD Vance during US-Iran peace talks in Switzerland, walking past him without acknowledgment to greet Pakistan's prime minister instead. The incident, captured on …
Outgoing Prime Minister Kim Min-seok pledged to revive the Democratic Party of Korea's ratings and signaled his intention to run for party leadership, blaming current leaders for poor election results and declining appro…
Rutger Bregman argues that AI's environmental and social costs are often overlooked, calling for more honest discussions about its true impact.
Mobilintec, a mobility startup, will develop an agentic AI-based traffic collision prediction and response system for local roads as part of South Korea's 2026 AI City project, funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastruct…
Europol officials estimate that 90% of online content will be AI-generated by the end of 2026, up from 50% currently driven by bots and AI. Google, which accounts for 90% of global searches, is criticized for prioritizin…
Swedish VPN provider Mullvad has engineered a technical workaround to bypass China's Great Firewall by wrapping VPN traffic in QUIC obfuscation, making it indistinguishable from regular HTTPS traffic. The move forces Chi…
South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service has launched a probe into Mirae Asset Securities and other firms over the controversial allocation of SpaceX IPO shares, after a 2.31 million share allocation was withdrawn hou…
A proposal for a US-China AI safety hotline faces obstacles from mistrust and fear among Chinese American scientists, exacerbated by cases like Jane Ying Wu's suicide after an NIH investigation. The author argues that tr…
Anthropic criticized US export controls on AI models after the Commerce Department ordered it to cut off global access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security. The company urged AI firms to consider …
Mobilintec, a University of Seoul-supported startup, will develop an agentic AI-based traffic collision prediction and response system for local roads as part of a government-led project. The company joins the Ministry o…