Wonder Festival Commemorated ‘Patlabor’ Amidst Blistering Heat

With the Japanese summer in full swing, with intense heat and humidity, fans made their way to Makuhari Messe to enjoy Wonder Festival 2026 Summer.

Vietnam wants under-16s to keep their accounts, just not post on them
Vietnam wants under-16s to keep their accounts, just not post on them

Vietnam has settled on an unusual way to police children online. Under a draft decree unveiled this week, users under 16 would keep their social media accounts but lose the right to post, comment, or react to anything on them. It is a narrower move tha…

AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand
AI boom drives an 80% surge in foreign investment bids for Thailand

Thailand does not usually feature in the story of the AI boom. This year it does. Foreign firms applied to invest 1.37tn baht, about $40.6bn, in the first six months of 2026, the country’s Board of Investment said on Thursday. That is up 80% on a year …

‘Beast Of Reincarnation’ Hands-On Impressions: Surprisingly Compelling

With the ‘Beast of Reincarnation’ set for release in a few weeks, I was able to get an early hands-on session with the game today, and I came away impressed.

Upcoming Wearable iKairos Is A Successor To Jibo From 2017

Nearly a decade after the much-publicized rise and fall of Jibo, the product has a spiritual successor named iKairos. This time it’ll be more capable.

Hasbro Has Unveiled Some Lovely ‘Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’ Figures

With rumors circulating over the past few days, Hasbro has finally revealed its lineup of ‘Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ figures.

Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there
Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there

China’s Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy. The lab should close a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days, Bloomberg reported. It then plans to open another almost immediately, targeting a valua…

Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan
Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan

Hironobu Tamba spent years inside SoftBank building large language models, the kind of software that answers questions and drafts emails. He has now walked away from that work to bet on machines that move. Tamba is president and chief executive of Noet…

South Korea bets $540bn on a southwest chip hub the grid cannot yet feed
South Korea bets $540bn on a southwest chip hub the grid cannot yet feed

South Korea wants to build its next great chip cluster far from Seoul, in the country’s rural southwest, and it wants to do so at a pace with little precedent. The plan collides with a harder limit than any zoning map, because the region does not yet h…

A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside

For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu,…