TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia
TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia

The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under 16 in Indonesia, the country’s communications minister said on 25 June. The bulk of the cuts came …

Philippine Tycoon Lance Gokongwei Bets On Online Gaming With PhilWeb Deal

Online gaming exploded in the Philippines following the broad adoption of mobile Internet gambling during the pandemic. It rose 30% to 201 billion pesos ($3.3 billion) last year.

South Korean chip shares rally after Micron’s upbeat earnings
South Korean chip shares rally after Micron’s upbeat earnings

South Korean chip stocks rallied on Thursday after Micron Technology reported a record quarter and an upbeat outlook, reviving optimism that demand for AI memory will stay tight well into next year. The benchmark KOSPI rose about 4.1%, with the country…

China’s Self-Reliance Drive Powers 1,200% IPO Surge, Minting A New Billionaire

Wang Bing, chairman and CEO of semiconductor component maker Chongqing Genori Technology, has amassed a fortune of $4.7 billion as shares soared almost 1,200% after its Shanghai listing.

Singapore Video Startup Founded By Tencent’s Former AI Head Bets Big On World Models

Fresh off an $80 million round from investors including AMD and Hyundai Motor, Video Rebirth is competing shoulder-to-shoulder with tech giants atop a major AI video leaderboard. Now it’s building a world model that can create real-time interactive 3D …

Apple’s suppliers are racing to Hong Kong to fund their robot pivot
Apple’s suppliers are racing to Hong Kong to fund their robot pivot

Two of Apple’s biggest Chinese suppliers are racing to Hong Kong in the same week. Luxshare wants about $3bn, Lingyi just banked $1.1bn. Both are using the cash to pivot from smartphone parts to AI hardware and humanoid robots. The companies that build…

‘Star Fox’ Switch 2 Review: A Very Faithful And Suitably Shiny Remake

One of the defining games of the SNES was the original ‘Star Fox’, and its sequel, ‘Star Fox 64’, cemented its legacy even further. So how does this remake stack up?

South Korea is in talks with Samsung and SK Hynix over a second chip cluster
South Korea is in talks with Samsung and SK Hynix over a second chip cluster

A presidential adviser says AI demand could pull forward the next phase of fab construction by more than a decade, and that the country needs somewhere to put it. South Korea’s government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about the next…

Blackstone plans $30B for Japan AI data centres, and is unbothered by bubble talk
Blackstone plans $30B for Japan AI data centres, and is unbothered by bubble talk

Blackstone plans to invest roughly $30 billion in artificial-intelligence data centres in Japan over the next three to five years, the firm’s president and chief operating officer, Jonathan Gray, told Nikkei in an interview published on Monday. The wor…

South Korea’s chip worker bonuses are so large the central bank is treating them as an inflation risk
South Korea’s chip worker bonuses are so large the central bank is treating them as an inflation risk

The semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea’s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country’s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy. The Bank of Korea warned this month that performance b…