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- 01 of 10CHINA
China says its AI sector is now worth 1.2 trillion yuan
A state research body reported the country's AI industry passed 1.2 trillion yuan (about $177bn) in 2025, up roughly 40 percent on the year. It counted more than 6,600 AI companies by June 2026, with most of the money coming from applications rather than model building.
OUR TAKEVery big number, announced by the people whose job is to produce big numbers. Still, the company count is hard to wave away.
Read more → - 02 of 10KOREA
Korea Post and KDB put 1 trillion won behind AI data centres
South Korea's postal service and the Korea Development Bank signed a deal in Seoul to create a fund worth about $700m for next generation data centres and the power to run them. It is their first joint investment vehicle since 2006.
OUR TAKEWhen the post office starts funding data centres, you know the buildout has stopped being a tech story.
Read more → - 03 of 10CHIPS
Samsung shows off memory stacked straight onto AI chips
At a storage conference in Santa Clara, Samsung revealed concept models of zHBM, memory bonded directly on top of AI accelerators. The company claims about eight times the speed of its next generation HBM5, triple the energy efficiency and less than half the heat resistance.
OUR TAKEConcept models are the easy part. If the heat numbers hold up in a real rack, everyone else has a problem.
Read more → - 04 of 10SINGAPORE
Acrab raises $130m to run big models on small boxes
The Singapore chip firm closed a $130m Series B led by Vertex Ventures, two months after a $350m raise. Its edge chip is built to run models with 100 billion parameters on the device itself, and the cash goes towards its Agent Box hardware.
OUR TAKEA second raise inside a quarter suggests investors believe the pitch, or that they are terrified of missing it.
Read more → - 05 of 10BRAZIL
A Brazilian legal AI startup becomes the region's first AI unicorn
Enter, which reads legal documents, audio and video evidence for corporate court cases, crossed a $1bn valuation after a deal involving Founders Fund. Its recurring revenue has grown thirteen fold since April 2025.
OUR TAKEBrazil has one of the world's largest piles of litigation. Turns out that pile is an asset.
Read more → - 06 of 10HEALTH
US regulator clears an AI tool that reads breast ultrasounds
DeepHealth, owned by imaging chain RadNet, won FDA clearance for software that spots lesions in breast ultrasound scans and drafts the report. In the submitted study across 16 radiologists, detection sensitivity rose 8 percent and reading time fell 37 percent.
OUR TAKEThe detection gain will get the headlines. The 37 percent time saving is what actually gets it installed.
Read more → - 07 of 10ENERGY
Korean firm builds software that tilts solar panels for the crops below
Paru, working with two partners on a state backed project worth 2.86bn won, is building a system that manages solar generation and farming on the same land. It reads power output, crop growth, soil and weather to angle the panels for the right amount of shade and to run irrigation.
OUR TAKEFarming and power generation have been arguing over the same fields for years. A referee that reads soil data is a decent compromise.
Read more → - 08 of 10THAILAND
AIS and Huawei Cloud sign up to wire Thai factories for AI
The Thai operator and Huawei Cloud agreed to build private 5G, fibre and GPU cloud services for local manufacturers moving to smarter production lines. Industry accounts for roughly a quarter of Thailand's economy and 6.2 million jobs.
OUR TAKEThailand is betting that the factories stay if the computing shows up. Reasonable bet, expensive if wrong.
Read more → - 09 of 10AFRICA
South African firm launches AI agents that run on local machines
Johannesburg based Untapped AI released a platform letting local businesses deploy customer service agents on GPUs hosted inside South Africa rather than on foreign clouds. The pitch is keeping company and customer data in the country.
OUR TAKESovereign computing is having a moment everywhere. Doing it from Johannesburg is the harder, more interesting version.
Read more → - 10 of 10SECURITY
Chatbot builder Dante AI reportedly loses 73,500 accounts
A criminal forum post claims data from Dante AI, which lets businesses build custom chatbots, including 73,547 user records and around 2.9 million analytics entries. The samples reportedly hold emails, IP addresses, device details, session IDs and location data, and were handed out free.
OUR TAKENobody threat models the chatbot vendor. That is precisely why the chatbot vendor keeps being the way in.
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