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Japan is seeing a sharp slowdown in new foreign white-collar workers as AI reduces demand for some entry-level IT and language roles despite persistent labour shortages.
Microsoft is strengthening enterprise AI controls as major companies reassess how third-party models handle sensitive data, intellectual property and retention policies.
Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow frontier AI development, signalling growing concern over safety, autonomous systems and industry oversight.
Japanese memory-chip producer Kioxia is considering a United States listing of American depositary receipts that could raise at least US$10 billion, potentially giving the company access to a deeper investor base as artificial-intelligence demand reshapes the global memory market. The possible transaction would be one of the most consequential overseas equity offerings by an Asian semiconductor company, but it remains under consideration rather than a completed mandate.
China has rejected calls to restrict its artificial-intelligence development, arguing that fear, confrontation and aggressive competition would damage global governance. The response followed warnings from a leading United States AI executive who advocated a slower development pace and continued controls on advanced chips and manufacturing equipment. The exchange moves the safety debate closer to the centre of strategic competition between the world’s two largest economies.
George Kent and Extreme Vision are collaborating to distribute agentic AI solutions in Malaysia and Singapore and pursue wider ASEAN opportunities.
Mambu’s Intelligent Core combines core banking, payments and agentic AI in a composable architecture designed to accelerate financial-services innovation.
Chinese researchers have reported a ferroelectric-memory advance designed to improve endurance by roughly 100 times, a potentially important step toward faster and more energy-efficient computing if the laboratory result can be manufactured reliably.
Beijing is promoting generative artificial intelligence for electronic-design automation, seeking to shorten chip-development cycles and reduce dependence on foreign tools at a time of tighter technology controls.
China has pledged stronger support for open-source artificial intelligence and smart-factory development across the Global South, positioning technology cooperation as a central part of its BRICS economic agenda.
