AI

AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s AI startup World Labs for $8.2B

AMD will acquire World Labs, an AI model and research lab led by Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion, the company said in a statement on Monday.

Samsung invests $1B in KKR’s AI-infrastructure firm Helix, joining NVIDIA, Vistra

South Korea's Samsung and five affiliates will invest a combined $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI-infrastructure company set up by private-equity firm KKR.

Singapore’s Ropedia opens physical-AI data platform to academic researchers worldwide

Ropedia, a Singapore-based physical-AI startup spun out of Nanyang Technological University, has launched a program giving academic researchers access to its wearable data-capture device.

South Korea’s LG joins NVIDIA network for AI data-center cooling, deepening infrastructure push

South Korea's LG Electronics has joined NVIDIA's partner network as a preferred supplier of power and cooling systems for AI data centers.

US President Trump rejects ‘globalist’ AI control, clashes with OpenAI, Anthropic

U.S. President Donald Trump rejects international oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) as a "globalist scheme" and said the United States would rename the technology "super intelligence" in official documents.

Singapore’s Sea Ltd. becomes first in Southeast Asia to adopt NVIDIA Vera Rubin

Sea Limited, the Singapore-based operator of the Shopee, Garena, and Monee platforms, will adopt NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin computing platform to expand its AI systems.

OpenAI urges U.S. to lead global technical standards for frontier AI, including self improvement

The United States-based OpenAI has called for the United States to lead an international effort to set shared technical standards for the most advanced AI systems, including for so-called recursive self-improvement.

China’s Tencent Cloud, Malaysia’s fintech Boost to cooperate in cloud, AI, super-app

Tencent Cloud, the cloud unit of Chinese technology giant Tencent, and Malaysian fintech firm Boost will cooperate on cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI), and super-app development across Malaysia and Indonesia.

Singapore’s TacnIQ.ai raises $1.5M from In Group Holdings in pre-seed round

Physical-AI startup TacnIQ.ai has raised $1.5 million from lead investor In Group Holdings as part of a $3 million pre-seed round.

San Francisco-based AI firm Databricks to invest $350M in Singapore, quadruple office, double staff

Data-and-AI company Databricks, based in the United States, will invest more than $350 million in Singapore over three years, doubling its local workforce and quadrupling its office space as enterprises adopt AI.