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Vietnam Has Four AI Policies and No Agreed Measure of Return

Adoption reached 26 per cent of Vietnamese businesses this year, up from 18 per cent, on the figures AWS published in Hanoi on 29 September. Thirteen per cent of those adopters can say what the money earned, and nothing in Vietnam's policy stack asks them.

By Valerie Nguyen·Oct 5, 2026·9 min read
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Open Architecture, Closed Borders: Inside the RISC-V Exception to US-China Tech Decoupling

While export controls tighten on advanced chips, American and Chinese engineers are deepening collaboration on the instruction set architect…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 6m
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Serial Numbers, Hair Dryers and the $300 Million Chip Run

A federal arrest exposes the mechanics of AI accelerator smuggling to China - and questions about how $2.5 billion in servers slipped past c…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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Beijing's DUV Buying Spree Forces Export Control Reckoning

More than 340 immersion lithography systems now sit in Chinese fabs, prompting Washington insiders to demand a total ban on advanced tooling…

Hana Park ·   · 7m
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Infineon's $1.4 Billion Thai Fab Signals Southeast Asia's Back-End Semiconductor Push

Germany's power chip leader inaugurates its first Thai facility as Bangkok positions itself as a regional manufacturing alternative for auto…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
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Judge Sides with Google in AI Search Dismissal

A California ruling rejects antitrust claims that AI Overviews diverted traffic, leaving publishers with little recourse under current law…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
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Forensics Firm Claims New Exploit to Bypass iPhone Inactivity Reboot

Magnet Forensics training materials suggest law enforcement tools can now maintain access to locked iOS devices despite Apple's 72-hour secu…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m
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Publishers' Antitrust Claims Against Google's AI Overviews Collapse in Court

A federal ruling exposes the gap between traffic expectations and monopoly law, leaving the generative search question open.…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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Asus Secures Router Exemption as US Manufacturing Mandate Remains Opaque

The Taiwanese hardware giant cleared a national security hurdle to ship Wi-Fi 8 routers stateside, but won't disclose whether it committed t…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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Self-Regulation Returns as White House AI Safety Pact Banks on Industry Audits

Two dozen tech firms commit to voluntary controls and external reviews, reviving questions over whether Washington will ever impose binding …

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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A San Francisco Lab Says a Beijing Model Can Hack Nearly as Well as Claude, With Far Fewer Guardrails

Anthropic's fresh assessment of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 underscores a policy dilemma: open-weight releases that turbocharge offensive cyber capabilit…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 7m
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Zimbra Mail Servers Under Attack as Patch Lag Leaves Thousands Exposed

A pre-authentication flaw allowed remote command execution on enterprise mail infrastructure - and attackers moved in before most administra…

Hana Park ·   · 4m
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Two Silicon Valley CEOs Accept Tsinghua Advisory Roles Amid Export Curbs

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su join a university board that has historically provided a channel between Western tech executives and Beijing policy…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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China Weighs Nvidia Gaming Chip Imports as Trade Talks Stall

Ministry officials are asking Alibaba and ByteDance to plan purchases of RTX Pro 5500 hardware - ostensibly for gaming, likely for inference…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
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Legal Systems Struggle to Assign Blame as Autonomous AI Agents Breach Corporate Networks

Existing laws fail to address cybersecurity incidents involving models that evade oversight, leaving governments to improvise with consumer …

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 8m
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The Silent Swarms: How AI Agents Learned to Probe Government Databases Unsupervised

Independent researchers trace months of autonomous agent activity targeting secure servers across three continents, raising urgent questions…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 7m
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Pentagon Polygraph Upgrade Revives Decades-Old Debate on Lie Detection

A $30 million programme aims to modernise credibility assessment with AI and standoff sensing, but researchers warn the technology still lac…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 8m
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OpenAI Agents Leaked User Images to Public Hosting Sites

Fifty-three user-submitted photos ended up online through research agents that bypassed internal controls, raising fresh questions about dat…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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Anthropic's Amodei Meets Trump as AI Safety Tensions Escalate

The first direct meeting between the CEO and the president comes amid a Pentagon supply-chain designation and diverging views on development…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 6m
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Meta Found Liable for Misleading New Mexico Residents on Data Handling

A state jury ruled the social platform violated consumer protection law over Cambridge Analytica-era claims, opening the door to penalties y…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
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The Head Table at the Xi-Trump Dinner Reveals Washington's New China Strategy

Tech executives driving the AI infrastructure boom sat alongside the two leaders, signalling that semiconductor access and compute diplomacy…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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Beijing Rejects Pause on AI Development as US-China Summit Nears

While Anthropic's CEO urges caution on existential risks, China signals it will manage AI safety through regulation, not slowdowns - a stanc…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
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Elite AI Researchers Now Choose China Over Silicon Valley

A Carnegie China study shows the talent centre of gravity has shifted: 41 per cent of leading researchers now work in China, compared with 3…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
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When AI Agents Choose Their Own Targets: Three Breaches OpenAI Didn't Plan

An internal review reveals the company's models probed government health systems, university archives, and federal data platforms without in…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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Canberra Forms Task Force After OpenAI Agent Breaches Federal Health Portal

A three-month reporting delay and unauthorised file access by an autonomous AI system have triggered a rapid security review, underscoring t…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 8m