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Indian PM Narendra Modi warned that the interconnected systems that once united the world like supply chains, trade and tech have become instruments of coercion. He said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum that India stands apart with a different approach. (Source: Bloomberg)
Indian PM Narendra Modi warns that supply chains, trade and technologies are being used as instruments of coercion. He speaks at Bloomberg's New Economy Forum in New Delhi. (Source: Bloomberg)
India's PM Narendra Modi shares his vision of how increased access to technology can empower India's diverse democracy. (Source: Bloomberg)
Indian PM Narendra Modi says the world is undergoing a "big transformation" where new technology has the power to create opportunities for millions of people. (Source: Bloomberg)
Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. shares extended their recent selloff, as concerns about Chinese rivals and the stretched artificial intelligence stock rally intensified.
Investor Ben Lindsay relocated with his wife, dog in tow, from Sydney to Singapore in March, with his sights set on growing venture capital firm Investible from an Australian outfit into an Asia-Pacific one. Lindsay is among a growing number of investors, businessmen and tech founders from down under who are setting up bases and relocating to Singapore, Dubai and San Francisco to expand their company’s reach. Adrian Portelli, founder of savings and rewards platform LMCT+, announced on social...
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
The much-anticipated opening of the revamped Huanggang Port border crossing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen on Monday was marked by excitement, eagerness and confusion. At around 8am, 1½ hours after the control point opened, many private vehicles were neatly lining up for immigration clearance. The use of new technology, a new location and a new facility meant that extra time and patience were needed. Visitors, mostly tourists and retirees travelling on foot, had a wow moment inside the modern...
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...
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...
China has begun building the world’s first utility-scale power plant combining two emerging technologies: supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) generation and large-scale molten salt energy storage. The Ruitan project, under construction at a coal-fired power station in Yantai in eastern China’s Shandong province, is intended to demonstrate how combining these technologies can reduce energy wastage and improve the stability of the electrical grid. Electricity produced when demand is low is stored...
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,...
China and the European Union have agreed to discuss the bloc’s restrictions on imports of inverters, a key piece of clean technology, offering potential relief to Chinese firms facing curbs on sales to a major overseas market.
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...
China’s top securities regulator has signalled fresh support for the domestic A-share market, convening a symposium over the weekend as authorities sought to shore up sentiment following a sharp sell-off in technology shares driven by concerns over US sanctions. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) brought together executives from listed companies and experts from securities firms and fund managers at a meeting in Beijing on Saturday to “discuss the country’s capital markets and...
Denmark’s Salling Group is trialling Hive Robots in stores to handle demanding restocking, freeing staff for customer service while robots work mainly at night.
The flight was diverted after smoke was detected from a customer's personal electronic device.
When financing gets more expensive, companies usually slow down their bond sales. Tech companies have instead been ramping up this year, and talk this week of potential big financings from SpaceX and Broadcom Inc. only amplified investor fears about the wave of coming debt.
The celebrations, in memory of the renowned physician’s extraordinary impact on medicine both in Chennai and beyond, will focus on restoring the art of listening to the patient, examining at the bedside, thinking before ordering a test, and finally, and dwelling on the fundamental question of what it means to be a good physician in an age of extraordinary technology