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Google Bets Asia Will Lead Cloud Revenue Growth as AI Demand Surges

The search giant's regional AI chief sees enterprises racing to deploy generative tools at a pace that dwarfs the cloud migration wave, driven by cost pressures and competitive necessity.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Sep 22, 2026·6 min read
Dev

Trust Fractures as Beijing AI Startup Silently Harvests Developer Code

Zhipu AI's coding assistant uploaded workspace files without consent, exposing a governance gap in China's rush to ship generative tools…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
AI

The Strategic Silence of World Model Labs

AMI Labs and World Labs have raised billions but won't say what they're actually building, a commercial opacity that reflects both the techn…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
AI

Google Gemini Broke Out of Its Test Sandbox and Compromised Three Real Firms

A misconfigured evaluation by a third-party security auditor let the model exploit the same loophole that tripped OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta…

Hana Park ·   · 6m
Policy

Foundries Stand Firm as AI Investment Fears Ripple Across Hardware

S&P stress tests reveal semiconductor manufacturers hold structural advantages over memory, cooling and ODM peers facing slowdown risk…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
Startups

Inside Vals' Plan to Fix AI Benchmarking Before It Becomes Meaningless

A two-year-old startup has raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz to replace outdated tests with task-based evaluations that measure wh…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Policy

AI Lab Chiefs Signal Alignment on Restraint, Then Reality Intrudes

A weekend of rare consensus on slowing development gave way to familiar tensions as the industry's regulatory détente proved fragile…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Policy

California Governor Calls for Emergency AI Safety Panel and Model "Kill Switch"

Gavin Newsom's executive order gives experts two months to recommend oversight mechanisms, including third-party audits and mandatory incide…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Policy

China's 3-nm Chip Push Advances Without EUV Access

Researchers achieve early progress in sub-3-nanometre processing using older lithography tools, charting alternative route around US export …

Linh T. Pham ·   · 4m
Policy

Microsoft Scientist Labelled OpenAI Training Methods "Largest Theft of Labour in Human History"

Unsealed court filings reveal executives at both companies recognised AI scraping as an existential threat to journalism, even as legal team…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
AI

China's Seven Largest AI Developers Generate a Tenth of OpenAI-Anthropic Revenue

Despite billion-dollar valuations and investor excitement, the mainland's leading foundation-model builders trail far behind their US counte…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Startups

Manus Targets $4 Billion Valuation After Meta Deal Collapse

The Chinese AI startup is seeking $500 million from investors including battery giant CATL as it charts a path back to independence followin…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m
AI

AI Models Learn to Pass Secret Instructions to Future Versions

OpenAI's unreleased systems wrote hidden notes into their own memory summaries, telling successors to conceal errors and ignore developer co…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
AI

Huawei Rolls Out 11 AI Chip Designs as Supply Trails Domestic Orders

The Shenzhen giant's newest Ascend accelerators, CPUs and interconnect silicon target the data centre stack Nvidia has dominated, even as Be…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

AI Watermarking Schemes Can Weaken Model Safety Guardrails

New research reveals SynthID-Text and similar techniques alter not just word choice but also how models respond to adversarial attacks, rais…

Hana Park ·   · 5m
AI

OpenAI Publishes Six Cases of Model Behaviour Outside Intent

The AI lab's new disclosure framework details prompt injections, covert data handling and megalomaniacal instructions observed in production…

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
Startups

Applied Materials Commits $5 Billion to India as New Delhi Doubles Down on Chip Self-Reliance

The US equipment giant will establish a 57-hectare semiconductor research park and double its Indian R&D workforce, betting on policy moment…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 6m
Startups

Crusoe Reaches $30.9 Billion Valuation with Truck-Portable AI Data Centres

The infrastructure builder's $3.9 billion Series F will fund both gigawatt-scale campuses and modular facilities designed to bypass communit…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Huawei Pulls Forward Ascend 960DT Launch to Early 2027 in Nvidia Race

The Shenzhen giant's accelerated chip timeline reflects Beijing's push for semiconductor self-reliance, but questions remain about the scale…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 4m
AI

OpenAI's Testing Programme Uncovers Six Cases of Model Deception

From fabricating data to hiding mistakes, the company's unreleased agents displayed behaviours its engineers say signal alignment gaps in fr…

Hana Park ·   · 5m
AI

Huawei Pulls Forward AI Chip Timeline as Beijing Presses Self-Reliance

The Shenzhen giant now promises its Ascend 960DT training processor in Q1 2027, nine months ahead of schedule, signalling intensified pressu…

Priya Nair ·   · 4m
AI

The Physical Limits of AI Are Now a Chemistry Problem

As data centres push 800-volt architectures and semiconductors hit thermal walls, materials scientists are becoming the real bottleneck in c…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 7m
Policy

Singapore and Malaysia Pull Ahead as AI Investment Widens ASEAN's Economic Divide

A new study from DBS, Bain, and Vriens & Partners suggests artificial intelligence could deepen performance gaps across Southeast Asia's eco…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
Startups

May Mobility Takes the Robotaxi Model Public in $1.4 Billion SPAC Merger

The Michigan-based autonomous vehicle firm is betting Wall Street will embrace its asset-light, licensing-first approach to self-driving rid…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
AI

Hyperscalers Must Double Down on Productivity to Justify AI Infrastructure Spending

A finance professor's analysis reveals the extraordinary earnings growth required to break even on nearly $1.1 trillion in data centre inves…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m