Tencent Holdings is in talks to walk away from several of the minority stakes it holds in Japanese game studios, among them the Tokyo-listed developer Marvelous Inc., as the company reassesses a global games portfolio it spent years assembling. The dis…
The price of tin is being driven up by strong demand for the old metal in modern electronics, including data centers being developed for artificial intelligence (AI)
The FreeBuds Pro 5 offer excellent battery life and audio quality, though the active noise cancelation is just good but not great.
The most expensive promise Prabowo Subianto made on his way to Indonesia’s presidency was lunch. His free-meals programme, budgeted at roughly $15bn to feed some 83 million children and pregnant women across an archipelago of thousands of islands, is t…
A semiconductor boom is a fine problem for a country to have, until you start asking where the money goes. That is roughly the question South Korea’s top economic policymaker put to the public this week. Kim Yong-beom, who heads policy planning in the …
As Anthropic reportedly targets a $1 trillion IPO, it is facing intense public scrutiny over safety concerns of Claude Fable 5.
The figure that reframes the problem is a share, not a sum. In more than half the countries Interpol surveyed for its latest Asia and South Pacific cyber-threat assessment, cybercrime now accounts for around 30% of all crime recorded nationally. That i…
SoftBank and OpenAI are moving into cyber defence. The two said on Tuesday they are launching “Patching as a Service,” a security product built on OpenAI’s technology, to shield the companies behind Japan’s critical infrastructure from a rising wave of…
Adani and Jabil are teaming up to make AI hardware in India. The Adani Group, India’s infrastructure-and-energy conglomerate, and Jabil, the US contract manufacturer, said on Monday they intend to form a strategic alliance to build a vertically integra…