AI

Palantir names Nebius preferred sovereign AI infrastructure partner

Palantir has named Nebius its preferred sovereign AI infrastructure partner and plans to integrate Nebius compute and inference services into its enterprise environment.

ASML and TSMC target 12-inch masks for High NA EUV

ASML and TSMC are leading an industry move to 12-inch photomasks for High NA EUV, with a pilot line targeted for 2031 and production-system readiness in 2033.

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Google says threat actors are shifting to agentic AI attacks

Google Threat Intelligence Group says attackers are beginning to use multi-agent AI systems to compress cyber operations, including a credential-harvesting campaign completed in under six hours.

France’s Mistral raises €3B led by Samsung in largest European tech funding round

France's Mistral, an AI platform for enterprises, has raised €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in a Series D round led by South Korea's Samsung Electronics, in the largest equity funding round by a European technology company.

Students avoiding AI for schoolwork outscore peers in science: OECD

Fifteen-year-olds reporting they never or almost never used artificial intelligence (AI) for schoolwork outscored their AI-using peers in science on nearly every type of task, except for utilizing AI as a general study aid, according to the PISA result conducted by the OECD.

Australia’s Firmus, OpenAI to team up on Malaysia expansion of AI data centers

Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus and OpenAI will cooperate to expand AI data center capacity into Malaysia, a new market for the Australian infrastructure company, under a multi-year partnership to develop two sites there.

Singapore’s OneByZero, AWS to jointly scale governed AI agents across Asia-Pacific

Singapore-based OneByZero, an AI-focused systems integrator, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will cooperate to expand the deployment of governed AI "coworkers" for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and Japan.

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China’s embodied AI race is entering its deployment era

Lawrence Wu of Agora argues that China’s embodied AI competition is shifting from model demonstrations toward deployment reliability, modular architectures and faster real-world iteration.

Singapore startup Estha launches private AI suite for Mac

Singapore startup Estha has launched a Mac-based AI workforce that processes supported business documents and data locally on Apple Silicon devices.

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Cathay Pacific expands Google AI contrail trials in Asia

Cathay Pacific and Google are expanding AI-powered contrail-avoidance trials across Asian and trans-Pacific routes after an initial operational test.