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Experts discuss when and where AI should be used in healthcare, at The Hindu Sustainability Dialogues 2026, held on Tuesday
India’s software services stocks are headed for their biggest jump in 17 months as a slide in Asian chipmakers triggered a rotation into the so-called anti-artificial intelligence trade.
Global investors chasing the AI-powered equity rally are the most exposed to technology stocks since the rebound from the Covid pandemic six years ago, according to a poll by Bank of America Corp.
A former department head of Hong Kong’s fintech hub Cyberport has been granted bail after being charged with accepting bribes to help an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up secure HK$20 million in funding from a government-subsidised programme. Alice So Nga-lai, 59, former head of entrepreneurship of the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company, was accused of receiving advantages such as flight tickets, one handbag, two tote bags, one coin purse and a mobile phone between October 2023 and...
Nandan Nilekani, Chairman & Co-Founder, Infosys speaks with Bloomberg's John Fraher at the 2026 Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi. (Source: Bloomberg)
Speaking in New Delhi at Bloomberg's New Economy Forum, former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Blackstone President and COO Jonathan Gray, and Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran discuss how AI adoption will fundamentally reshape both financial movements and geopolitical realities. (Corrects title of Gray.) (Source: Bloomberg)
Chiba, Oct. 13 (Jiji Press)--Artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge digital technologies are on display as the CEATEC international exhibition opened on Tuesday at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, a city near Tokyo, joined by 821 companies and organizations from Japan and abroad. "As societal challenges become increasingly complex, it is important not only to create new...
Lori Heinel, Global CIO at State Street Investment Management, says AI is a transformative technology with long-term benefits that could spread across the global economy. She speaks on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok. (Source: Bloomberg)
Shares in Chinese companies present better opportunities today than at other times, a disciple of legendary investor Charlie Munger said in a rare reflection on the world’s second-largest economy amid tensions with the US and the ongoing artificial intelligence race. The comments by Li Lu, Chinese-American founder and chairman of Seattle-based value investment firm Himalaya Capital, came amid divergence between the markets on opposite sides of the Pacific. While stock markets in China and Hong...
China Mobile, one of the country’s state-backed telecoms giants, has tripled the capacity of its largest intelligent computing hub in northern Inner Mongolia, amid Beijing’s push to boost digital infrastructure to power the country’s artificial intelligence ambitions. The expansion of its data centre in Hohhot was recently completed, with total processing capacity increased to 20,100 petaflops, according to a report by Inner Mongolia Daily on Monday. That was triple its previous capacity of...
As calls for an AI slowdown mount, Chinese and US governments are taking different approaches to AI development. Our latest episode comes a week ahead of Presidents Trump and Xi's meeting and compares the trajectory of China's AI models against their US counterparts. In this episode of Bloomberg Tech: Asia, Shery Ahn speaks with Bloomberg Intelligence's Rob Lea and Bloomberg Economics' Michael Deng to examine the factors that enable or hinder China's AI advancement. We also hear from Phancy Group, a Chinese AI firm deeply embedded in the country's ecosystem. (Source: Bloomberg)
What if we can’t pause and catch our breath?
Michelle Weaver, head of US thematic research at Morgan Stanley, says the benefits of AI adoption are beginning to flow through to earnings, with the firm’s analysis showing high-materiality AI adopters on track for 460 basis points of EBIT margin expansion through year-end. She expects that advantage to continue into next year. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)
Among the start-ups who interacted with the PM were those working in space technology solutions for geospatial analysis and AI-powered airport operations management and passenger processing solutions
US start-up OpenAI’s latest advances in artificial intelligence may be a tipping point that leads to a breakthrough for the robotics industry as soon as next year, according to the founder of Chinese giant Unitree Robotics. Wang Xingxing, also the CEO of the Hangzhou-based company, said on Monday that OpenAI’s recently released GPT-6 model prompted expectations that a breakthrough could happen “within one or two years”. “It’s possible that, say, a GPT-7 model released next year could directly...
More than 120 robots, including humanoid machines designed for factory work and elderly care, will be showcased at two major Hong Kong electronics fairs, as mainland Chinese manufacturers seek to expand the commercial applications of AI and tap overseas markets. The Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) and electronicAsia will open on Tuesday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, bringing together more than 3,200 exhibitors from 15 countries and regions for four...
What does it take to get the Bloomberg New Economy Forum ready? Haslinda Amin goes behind the scenes in New Delhi as crews prepare the venue for global leaders and discussions on AI, trade, energy and the forces reshaping the world economy. (Source: Bloomberg)
An investment surge into artificial intelligence may be helping prop up a global economy battered by energy supply shocks, but the technology’s potential to cull jobs requires swift mitigation if Asia’s youth are to secure a place in the future workforce, delegates were warned at the IMF–World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on Monday. Soaring energy prices, persistent inflation and mounting debt framed the opening of the week-long summit, which was last hosted in the Thai capital in...
Finance officials from all over the world are meeting in Bangkok this week for the annual gatherings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The US-Iran war's energy shock and artificial intelligence should be on the agenda.
Beijing is rapidly scaling up the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to produce short-form videos and microdramas in its publicity campaigns, aligning with directives stressing technology’s role in strengthening ideological work and guiding public opinion. In contrast to sensational tropes dominating AI content across Chinese media platforms – such as Cinderella romance, rebirth for revenge and post-apocalyptic survival – a new wave of AI-generated miniseries weaves Chinese culture, policies...
What the X-Risk debate really is all about.
Since the Hugging Face incident, concerns over AI doomsday scenarios has entered the mainstream. But of course, some people have been warning about this for years, long before LLMs or ChatGPT. In their 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky spelled out their vision of humanity’s inevitable demise once superintelligent AI is built. In this episode, we speak with Soares, who serves as president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, about why he be
New research has exposed a potential flaw in the memory-saving technology underpinning DeepSeek’s models, marking a rare challenge to a breakthrough that has helped the Chinese artificial intelligence lab close the gap with US rivals OpenAI and Anthropic with its low-cost approach. The findings were published late last month in a paper led by researchers from ByteDance and co-authors affiliated with Princeton University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. The study,...
This is a special contribution from the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong. Read the full report at the end of the article. It will be available on the institute website cccw.hku.hk from October 13. With the rising strategic significance of energy, especially due to the need to support China’s artificial intelligence (AI) development, members of the Communist Party’s 20th Central Committee with energy backgrounds – the country’s “movers and shakers” in this...
North Korea has fired an unidentified projectile off its east coast, Seoul’s military said on Monday. “North Korea fires unidentified projectile into the East Sea,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a brief statement, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan. The launch follows Pyongyang’s test-firing of a ballistic missile earlier this month that it said incorporated artificial intelligence technology. That missile, fired on October 3, “is capable of changing its flight...
According to the paper, the share of Indian employment exposed to artificial intelligence has risen modestly since 2012, and the quality of that exposure has improve
Bloomberg Intelligence Senior US Banks Analyst Herman Chan tells Bloomberg This Weekend that major banks enter third-quarter earnings season with strong credit quality but face questions about the impact of higher interest rates, slowing investment banking activity and potential risks tied to AI financing. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Chan says wealth management could be a bright spot for banks including Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, while investors will also be watching for signs of credit deterioration and updates on executive succession plans. (Source: Bloomberg)