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Kinling Lo / Rest of World: Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles — Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country. — Artificial intelligence tokens …
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From low-quality “slop” such as soap operas starring humanlike cats and dating shows featuring anthropomorphic fruit, to increasingly slick productions realistic enough to pass for live action, artificial intelligence-generated video dramas have become almost inescapable on Chinese social media feeds. This week, the format graduated to prime time. A fully AI-generated adaptation of the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West debuted on Hunan Satellite Television, a major state-owned...
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Micron is installing additional HBM equipment at production sites in Taiwan and Singapore.
YMTC was added to the US Commerce Department’s Entity List in December 2022.
Krafton acquired Pune-based game developer Nautilus Mobile in 2025.
Khazna plans to deliver the campus's first 200 megawatts in the fourth quarter.
Moonshot AI recently reached a US$35 billion valuation after a US$3.5 billion funding round.
Nscale’s reported $103 billion revenue reflects projected lease income, not current sales.
Mapping Japan's cleantech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
@openai: In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment — How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it's past time for us …
The proposed sale covers 500 million Teams items and 16 million customer chat sessions.
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more — Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with US rivals, even after years of restrictions on their access to advanced chips.
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale — John Borthwick's venture firm wrote the first check Hugging Face ever received, and now owns a stake that could be worth $650 million.
India gets the global debut of Kia’s in-car AI assistant with generative AI.
Tencent will subscribe for US$200 million of the convertible notes.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters — A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
Mapping Japan’s fintech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
Thailand has 35 operating data centers and 117 more awaiting approval.
Jonathan Greig / The Record: The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia — The United States and United Kingdom will work together on an initiative to shut down scam centers stealing billions of dollars through investment and romance fraud schemes.
Gimlet raised US$80 million just six months before its latest funding round.
Anthropic is finalising a US$15 billion revolving credit facility.
Eve Bender / MobiHealthNews: Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity — The financing includes a $90 million Series C equity round and $130 million in debt facilities.
Moneycontrol: Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B — The downround, which marks a nearly 70% correction from Slice's earlier valuation, comes after funding talks with Accel …
Mapping India’s education sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
Mynt is the first company allowed a 12% initial public float under a reduced SEC requirement.
One by one, Tesla Model Y Ls roll out of the company’s end-of-line inspection bays, gleaming in black, white and gold. They are a mix of left-hand and right-hand drive – one of many signs the electric vehicles (EVs) produced here are destined for ports around the world. The company touts a total assembly time of less than 40 seconds at its sprawling Gigafactory in Lingang, a coastal area on the far southeastern edge of Shanghai. From there, Tesla says, a finished car can reach the port and be...
The US government owns 9.9 per cent of Intel, converted out of US Chips Act grants, alongside a golden share in US Steel, US$400 million in the rare earth mining firm MP Materials and stakes in roughly 30 firms worth US$26.7 billion. In 2025, Nvidia and AMD gave up 15 per cent of their China chip sale revenues in exchange for export licences. The country that spent four decades advising its allies against picking winners now runs a portfolio. The United States has not fully turned to state...
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process — Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities.
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year — Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement ending decades of conflict
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content — Fewer than 1 percent of more than 8 million chat logs regurgitated at least 16 words. … Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces …
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs “once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned” — Nvidia won't confirm that previously announced DLSS 5 games will still ship with the tech. … But unofficially, modders have already ported a leaked version …
Laurie Chen / Reuters: Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side — The U.S. and China are gearing up to discuss AI safety risks during a dialogue planned for mid-September, two sources briefed …
A new system allows agents to orchestrate complex experimental processes and extends Anthropic's reach into the physical world. The post Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Autonomously Run Science Experiments With Lab Equipment appeared first on SingularityHub.
Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November — Anthropic is expected to begin marketing its initial public offering in mid-October at the earliest and complete the listing days …
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the July Hugging Face hack; more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation — SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the recent hack its programs carried out on their own …
DeepSeek reportedly plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei AI accelerators at a new data centre in Inner Mongolia, a move that could create one of the largest known clusters of Chinese AI chips. The post DeepSeek plots major Huawei AI chip order appeared first on Mobile World Live.
OpenAI agents took over a dormant German-language wiki this spring and turned it into a coordination hub for other AI agents, according to new research. The post OpenAI agents hijacked German wiki appeared first on Mobile World Live.
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.
A Chinese defence industry research facility has unveiled what it calls the world’s first wheeled and legged robot guide dog for visually impaired people, in an example of the sector’s push into a growing range of civilian applications. Hangzhou-based Zhiyuan Research Institute, affiliated with China North Industries Group, the country’s largest defence contractor, launched the robot, dubbed Xiaoyuan, on Friday at the China Care and Rehabilitation Expo in Beijing. Equipped with wheels for smooth...
The global artificial intelligence boom recently crossed a landmark threshold: autonomous agents now consume more than five times as much data as human users, triggering a surge in processing costs that is giving lower-priced Chinese models a competitive edge, according to analysts. Unlike traditional chatbots that simply respond to human prompts, these agents operate independently to execute multi-step workflows, such as writing software, conducting research or managing business operations. A...
Cosmote Telekom began a rebrand which will see it drop the first half of its name to match consumer operations run by its parent company’s majority shareholder Deutsche Telekom. The post Deutsche Telekom eyes synergies from Greek move appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Mobile World Live (MWL) brings you our top three picks of the week as Apple’s leadership reshuffle gathered pace under a new CEO, AI was tipped to drive a $31.6 trillion data centre investment boom and Deutsche Telekom reshaped its executive board. The post The Friday File: Apple; AI; DT appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Light fidelity specialist pureLiFi entered into administration with 42 job losses, after failing to raise further capital to fund its development. The post Light tech pioneer pureLiFi goes bust appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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OpenAI took the wraps off GPT-6 Astra, its latest AI model which it claimed is the world’s most advanced and could represent the early stages of so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI). The post OpenAI claims AI supremacy with GPT-6 Astra model appeared first on Mobile World Live.
OpenAI’s new model, GPT-6 Astra, has less direct visibility into how a model thinks, a development that has sparked concerns coming just weeks after the Hugging Face hacking incident that required a Chinese open model to investigate, according to analysts. When announcing Astra on Thursday, OpenAI said it was “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model,” with a “significant jump in cyber capabilities”. OpenAI president Greg Brockman said at the end of a press call announcing Astra’s arrival...