South Korea’s ‘fake news’ law is live, and it can cost you five times the damage
South Korea’s ‘fake news’ law is live, and it can cost you five times the damage

Post something a South Korean court later rules false, and it could cost you five times the damage. The country’s new “fake news” law is now in force, and journalists are alarmed. South Korea has begun enforcing a tough law against false information on…

Taiwan’s Unimicron seeks up to $1.4bn as AI lifts the chip-substrate makers
Taiwan’s Unimicron seeks up to $1.4bn as AI lifts the chip-substrate makers

Unimicron Technology is looking to raise as much as $1.4bn from a sale of global depositary shares, joining the long line of companies cashing in on investors’ appetite for anything tied to artificial intelligence. The Taiwanese firm is selling 50 mill…

Chinese AI Billionaire Yan Junjie Battles Heavy Selling Pressure After $39 Billion Market Wipeout

With the imminent expiration of lockup periods on Wednesday, MiniMax Group founder Yan Junjie faces an uphill battle persuading investors to hold on to the Hong Kong-listed AI model developer’s shares.

South Korea plans a ‘future response fund’ built on its AI chip tax windfall
South Korea plans a ‘future response fund’ built on its AI chip tax windfall

South Korea will seek to create a “future response fund” financed by the tax windfall from its semiconductor boom, Yonhap reported. The proceeds would flow into AI, advanced manufacturing, and other long-term growth engines. Presidential chief of staff…

Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand
Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand

Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain the…

3 Facts About Super Typhoon Bavi. One Of The Strongest Storms Of 2026

Three things to know about Super Typhoon Bavi, one of the strongest storms of 2026 so far.

Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima expansion to chase AI memory demand
Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima expansion to chase AI memory demand

Micron Technology broke ground on Saturday on a ¥1.5 trillion, roughly $9.3bn, expansion of its factory in Hiroshima, western Japan, the company’s latest bet on the AI memory boom that has already pushed its market value past $1 trillion. The Boise, Id…

Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable
Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable

Microsoft has joined a consortium led by Singapore-based Lightstorm to build a new subsea cable connecting India with Singapore and Malaysia, the companies announced on Thursday. T he I-2SEA system will run 3,600 kilometres and is intended to support t…

Super Micro says two Taiwan staff detained in probe involving its AI servers
Super Micro says two Taiwan staff detained in probe involving its AI servers

Taiwanese court has ordered the detention of two Super Micro employees as part of a widening investigation into whether AI servers built with Nvidia chips were illegally routed to China. The Keelung District Court detained the pair, identified in Taiwa…

Samsung details $90bn plan for South Korea’s Chungcheong region
Samsung details $90bn plan for South Korea’s Chungcheong region

Samsung Group has put a number on its next decade of domestic manufacturing: 140 trillion won, or roughly $90 billion, spread across displays, memory chips, batteries and chip-packaging materials in South Korea’s central Chungcheong provinces. Samsung …