AI

Cloud growth becomes key measure of AI returns for US tech giants – BMI

Revenue growth from cloud computing has emerged as the main measure of whether major US technology companies are turning heavy artificial intelligence (AI) investments into returns, as investors increasingly scrutinize cash flow and the cost of expanding infrastructure, BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said on last Friday. 

Singapore manufacturers remain optimistic amid sustained strength in global AI-related demand – EDB

While geopolitical developments continue to cloud the global economic outlook, business sentiments in the manufacturing sector remain optimistic, amid sustained strength in global artificial intelligence (AI)-related demand, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) said on Monday.

AI marketing platform Profound establishes Singapore as Asia Pacific headquarters

Profound, the artificial intelligence (AI) marketing platform, announced Monday the establishment of Singapore as its Asia Pacific headquarters.

Meta expands teen safety alerts across Facebook and Messenger

Meta is extending parent alerts for teen self-harm signals to Facebook and Messenger, with flagged Meta AI chats receiving human review.

Tencent Cloud, OmniOps partner to provide sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

Tencent Cloud, the cloud unit of Chinese technology giant Tencent, and OmniOps, a Saudi Arabian AI infrastructure company, will jointly build sovereign AI infrastructure for enterprises in the Kingdom

DeepSeek open-sources dsh-superagent research prototype

DeepSeek has open-sourced dsh-superagent, a research prototype that routes approved software-development requests to separate agent sessions.

TacnIQ.ai’s Aashish Mehta on turning tactile AI into a platform for physical intelligence [Q&A]

TacnIQ.ai CEO Aashish Mehta discusses tactile datasets, cross-sensor generalization, deployment reliability, safety and what it takes to scale physical AI.

Kuaishou’s Kling AI completes $2.9B financing

Kuaishou's Beijing Kling unit completed an approximately RMB19.80 billion financing while the short-video platform retained control of the AI business.

Foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the United States at the Quad meeting in Atlanta

Quad pledges over $85M for trusted AI in Indo-Pacific

The Quad plans more than $85 million in trusted AI assistance and a new review of semiconductor and AI-hardware supply-chain chokepoints.

IBS plans HK$563M acquisition of AI chip company

Hong Kong-listed IBS has agreed to acquire QuantumCompute Solutions for HK$563 million in a conditional move into AI chip design and edge computing.