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Backed by a record chip boom and a state-run “AI Squid Game” to build sovereign models, South Korea is also nurturing a new generation of AI startups—like Wrtn, an interactive storytelling platform now eyeing a U.S. launch.
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Across every sector, companies are racing to prepare for an electrified, AI-enabled future. Manufacturers are reshoring facilities. Data center developers are securing land as fast as they can. Transportation fleets are electrifying, logistics hubs are modernizing, and entire industries are

Asia-Pacific’s newest crop of entrepreneurs are rapidly turning to artificial intelligence, with founders both launching new AI startups and spending more on AI tools.
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Spending on AI tools by founders rose 20% last year, according to an in-house study of over 37,000

In 2023, as Dario Amodei was fundraising for the company’s $750 million Series D round, an investor was seated with the CEO at a dinner when he recalled him getting worked up in a conversation about safety issues around artificial intelligence.
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The U.S. economy has been on unsteady footing for a while now, but the catalyst to tip it over the edge could be an event playing out on the other side of the world.
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The conflict in Iran is not even a week old, but observers are already seeing ways the war could cascade and c

Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry’s vulnerability to conflict.
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The company’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, said

In the unlikely event any U.S. importers rubbed their hands together at the prospect of a tariff rebate this year, they will be sorely disappointed. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent believes $175 billion (collected under a tariff scheme that has now been ruled illegal) will never see the light of

A private Indian university was booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its staffers displayed a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university’s own innovation.
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After months of infighting over the Department of Homeland’s handling of ICE’s immigration crackdown, President Trump announced on Thursday that he will replace Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem with Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a junior senator hailing from the state of

The Strait of Hormuz has become the center of the energy universe again after the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran over the weekend.
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In retaliation, the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has launched missiles at vessels near the critical choke point in the global e

The U.S. leads the world in both crude oil and natural gas production, but the top exporters are already shipping near their capacities, allowing them to reap larger profits but not fill the supply gaps caused by the temporary loss of 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) volumes

The deaths of 72 tigers in two animal parks for tourists in northern Thailand shouldn’t be a major concern for the public, officials said Tuesday, because they were caused by a virus not known to affect humans, rather than bird flu.
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No one has shown any symptoms so far, but a

TikTok is buzzing with unemployed Gen Z graduates scrambling to secure a career in the current tough job market.
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But even millennials—who joined the workforce in the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis—know a thing or two about resorting to unusual tactics when

Few would choose the humble showerhead when asked to name a product vital to the world’s sustainable future. Unless you are a hair salon engaged in the business of washing customers’ hair, of course. Then using 70% less water could well matter as you attempt to cut your carbon footprint. It is

The United States has poured a veritable war chest into combating the sale and abuse of drugs over the past several decades. But in 2026, more than half a century after President Richard Nixon first declared his “War on Drugs,” powerful traffickers continue to unleash violence across the border, and

After months of infighting over the Department of Homeland’s handling of ICE’s immigration crackdown, President Trump announced on Thursday that he will replace Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem with Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a junior senator hailing from the state of

As Professor Joseph Stiglitz sees it, AI is not just another technology wave—it’s a force that can erode jobs and hard‑wire a new era of inequality. That is, unless governments and institutions deliberately push it in a different direction. 
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AI lets firms strip labor out of p

Wealth managers are increasingly letting the next generation of Asia’s wealthy “call the shots” in how to manage their money, amid an intergenerational wealth transfer that could shift as much as $5.8 trillion in assets by 2030.
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Previously, Asia’s rich were “typically very

The Louvre Museum’s director resigned Tuesday after months of pressure following the October theft of the French crown jewels, as the world’s most visited museum faced widening scrutiny over security failures, labor unrest and a suspected ticket fraud scheme.
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