Today’s top Asia AI stories
The day’s ten most important Asia AI developments.
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Trump's AI free-for-all plays into China's hands
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Uber, China’s Pony.ai to test robotaxis in London
Pony.ai supplies the self-driving system and vehicles, Verne owns and operates the fleet, and Uber provides the booking platform.
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Can China match up with Meta’s Muse in race to harness AI agents?
Meta Platforms’ breakout Muse personal AI agent is shining a spotlight on a new battleground in artificial intelligence – one in which China’s biggest internet companies are already jostling for position. Launched on September 8, Muse surpa
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- Japan machine tool order backlog hits all-time high on AI demand Nikkei Asia
- AI casts shadow over India's multinational tech job machine Nikkei Asia
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Singapore data center operator DayOne explores $500m bond
DayOne filed for an initial public offering in the US this week and has considered raising about US$5 billion.
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Kurt Campbell on US’ China focus, the Indo-Pacific Quad, risks of AI
Kurt Campbell is a veteran US diplomat and strategist who has played a leading role in shaping Washington’s approach to China and the Indo-Pacific for more than a decade. He served as the White House coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs fro
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Anthropic claims Chinese AI firms secretly use Claude. Is it true?
Did Chinese AI companies secretly tap US models to close the technology gap? That is the central question hanging over China’s tech sector following a wave of allegations from Washington and American AI lab Anthropic. According to a joint a
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Indian AI Startup Funding Surges 265% YoY In Q3, Will Momentum Continue?
AI emerged as the defining theme in the Indian startup ecosystem in the July-September quarter, with startups in the segment…
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China state funds double down on Hua Hong in legacy chip push
Chinese state funds are ramping up support for the country’s second-largest contract chipmaker, pouring billions of yuan into the parent of Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor and a new manufacturing facility to fuel Beijing’s drive for self-relia
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Chinese optical chip stocks extend rout amid fears of potential US curbs
Renewed fears of potential US trade curbs on next-generation optical transceivers for data centres have sent shares of Chinese suppliers tumbling, deepening a sell-off across artificial intelligence supply chain stocks. Shares of Chinese op
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Singapore AI video platform Topview expands filmmaking tools
The product helps creators plan, generate, and refine AI short films.
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India’s TCS shares rise 3.5% as AI revenue grows 20%
TCS said AI-related revenue rose nearly 20% from the previous quarter in July to September, to US$3.1 billion from US$2.6 billion.
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- Japan bank to connect small businesses with US AI developers Nikkei Asia
- Australia's AirTrunk to triple Japan data center investment to up to $30bn Nikkei Asia
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CoreWeave plans 240 MW India data center with AdaniConneX
CoreWeave also said it plans to open an office and hire locally in India, expanding its Asia presence after recently entering Indonesia.
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China’s open-weight AI models are winning global users. Who is capturing the value?
China’s open-weight artificial intelligence models are taking off globally, but much of the money they generate is flowing to third-party providers rather than the companies that create them, according to a new study. Developers including D
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Indian AI debt-resolution startup Credfix raises $1.67m
The company said it will use the funding to develop its product and AI tools, and expand borrower support across India.
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58% of Singapore firms report AI-driven phishing attacks: survey
In Singapore, 81% said their organizations enforced multi-factor authentication across all applications and services.
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US risks ceding AI governance leadership to China and the EU
Standing alongside prominent technology executives, US President Donald Trump announced a voluntary agreement under which major artificial intelligence (AI) companies will use internal controls and monitoring, outside audits and board overs
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Shanghai AI Lab Open-Sources Intern-Decision, Small Models That Output Decisions, Not Text
Shanghai AI Lab's Intern-Decision comes in 0.8B, 2B and 4B sizes and returns choices, scores and yes/no answers with probabilities; MetaX shipped Day-0 support.
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KT Cloud to build 50MW AI data center in South Korea
The facility will include a liquid-cooled AI zone for high-density graphics processing unit servers and separate space for general cloud services.
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As China’s AI race accelerates, ‘model fatigue’ becomes the next challenge
On September 22, the global artificial intelligence landscape spun on its axis within a matter of hours. In Beijing, Xiaomi engineers went live with an unusual broadcast, streaming the training run of their new MiMo-V2.6 model. In San Franc
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- Samsung takes Vietnam up semiconductor value chain with $5bn expansion Nikkei Asia
- Can India turn AI disruption into job growth? Nikkei Asia
- TSMC and other Taiwan players boost AI spending in US, Southeast Asia Nikkei Asia
- Tokyo Electron poised to log record profit on AI momentum: CFO Nikkei Asia
- China's DeepSeek, peers launch 16 AI models in month despite Anthropic warning Nikkei Asia
- Taiwan's AUO, Innolux bet on glass as next-gen AI chip material Nikkei Asia
- China's Q3 growth estimated below target at 4.4% despite AI boom Nikkei Asia
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Indian AI agribusiness startup Myca raises $1.3m pre-seed
Myca said its AI software turns field updates from messages, calls, and photos into structured workflows for agribusiness operations.
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ServiceNow’s India Bet: Can It Put AI To Work Inside Enterprises?
Enterprise software major ServiceNow is betting that its next leg of growth in India will come not just from digitisation…
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Would China agree to slow AI development? That’s the wrong question
The latest US-China summit covered a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence (AI). However, the official readouts from both countries did not touch upon an issue that has generated heated debate: whether the United States and
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- Mitsui Fudosan to build data center in abandoned tunnel in Japan Nikkei Asia
- Japan's TEPCO to tap AI to speed nuclear restarts Nikkei Asia
- Japan's Nikkei average briefly regains 70,000 mark as AI optimism returns Nikkei Asia
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Singapore data center operator DayOne files for IPO
DayOne lists Singapore among its markets on its website.
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Indian tech firm Aurionpro lands $15.6m AI data center order
The project will be Aurionpro’s first skid-based modular deployment.
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Japan’s Rapidus plans 17-firm alliance for advanced chip design
Japan has approved 3 trillion yen in support for Rapidus.
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Indian AI firm AM Intelligence expands Vera Rubin buildout
The company said the orders represent about 70 megawatts of planned capacity.
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- Qualcomm to pay Huawei for first time in 5G, AI patent breakthrough Nikkei Asia
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Hanmi Semiconductor wins $18.1m Samsung deal for AI substrates
The contract is equivalent to 4.24% of Hanmi Semiconductor’s 2025 consolidated sales of 576.7 billion won (US$427 million).
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- Japan's Rapidus to help 17 companies design chips for clients Nikkei Asia
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China’s RoboParty unveils RP1 humanoid robot for developers
Visitors pushed and kicked RP1 as it demonstrated balance recovery.
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Quality over quantity: China’s AI microdrama producers battle viewer fatigue
Two decades after stepping away from the spotlight, iconic actress Joey Wong made an unexpected return to the screen – not through a traditional production, but via artificial intelligence-powered reconstruction. In a two-minute video by Ne
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Google pauses open source bug bounty program over AI spam
Google plans to provide an update on the pause in the first quarter of 2027.
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Autodesk links AI transparency cards to its assistant
Autodesk first launched its AI Transparency Cards in 2024.
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Dario Amodei’s American AI imperialism
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to believe that he, the American artificial intelligence (AI) industry and the United States are the only ones who should have the right to determine the fate of humanity. While he pays lip service to involv
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Anthropic to invest $100m in AI engineer academy
The first cohorts include engineers from Accenture, Morgan Stanley, and Novo Nordisk.
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Amazon to invest $1b in US data center communities
AWS says it is 75% of the way toward its 2030 water-positive goal.
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Researchers Flag AI Overreach, Moneyview’s Bumper IPO & More
OpenAI Dispute Sparks Academic Panic Last month, OpenAI’s Codex possibly solved the Navier-Stokes equations in days. But mathematician Tristan Buckmaster…
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How US-China RISC-V collaboration is deepening despite chip rivalry
As global adoption of the open-source RISC-V chip architecture accelerates, US intellectual property provider MIPS is collaborating with Chinese firms at an unprecedented level, according to a senior executive, highlighting how cross-border
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More Chinese banks likely to adopt AI rules after Ping An move: analysts
After Ping An Bank became the first listed Chinese lender to formally adopt rules governing its use of artificial intelligence, analysts said more mainland institutions were likely to follow, with the move setting an early benchmark for how
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China overtakes US as top workplace for elite AI researchers, study finds
For China’s elite artificial intelligence researchers, Silicon Valley no longer holds the unrivalled appeal it once did. A growing number are opting to stay home to build their careers, helping China overtake the United States as the leadin
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China and the US are racing ahead on AI. Can they manage risks together?
The United States and China must work together to establish safety guardrails for artificial intelligence, leading scholars and industry leaders said at a Singapore forum, warning that rapid advances in the technology demand stronger risk c
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- Kawasaki Heavy aims for fully autonomous humanoid AI robot by 2030 Nikkei Asia
- Airbnb unlikely to let AI agents like Muse make bookings, CEO says Nikkei Asia
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Skin In The Game: Why Banks Are Taking Stakes In AI Labs
Rogo, a US-based financial-services AI startup, raised $30 Mn this month. What made this unique was that some of the…
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OpenClaw adds Tencent AI tool to security checks
The security setup was tested on a 556-case subset of Tencent’s SkillTrustBench.
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OpenAI helps Chatham Financial expand AI use in capital markets
One tool cut trade validation time from 30 minutes to under four.
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