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- 01 of 10DATA CENTRES
South Korea plans a data centre under the sea
Korea's ocean science institute unveiled a pilot to sink a data centre off the coast of Ulsan. The plan saves scarce land and uses seawater to cool servers doing AI work.
OUR TAKENothing says confidence in AI quite like dropping your servers to the bottom of the sea.
Read more → - 02 of 10JOBS
Young Korean workers hit hardest by AI cuts
More than half the jobs lost by young Koreans in July were in industries most exposed to automation. Entry level office and customer service roles shrank fastest, and officials are weighing retraining.
OUR TAKEBeing replaced by a chatbot is nobody's idea of a gap year.
Read more → - 03 of 10HEALTH
Seoul hospital and KT build shared AI platform
Telecom firm KT and Seoul National University Hospital are building a joint AI platform for diagnosis and hospital operations. It will be tested department by department first.
OUR TAKEA phone company and a hospital walk into a partnership, and somehow the patients benefit.
Read more → - 04 of 10HEALTH
Hyderabad team builds AI tool for breast cancer
Researchers in Hyderabad have built a model that flags possible breast cancer signs in mammogram scans. It is meant to back up doctors in places with few trained radiologists.
OUR TAKEAn extra pair of digital eyes on mammograms is a genuinely good use of the technology.
Read more → - 05 of 10FARMING
AI pilot doubles sugarcane yields in Indian town
A 10,000 farm pilot in Baramati, Maharashtra doubled sugarcane yields while cutting water use by up to half and fertiliser by 30 percent. Farmers used sensors and AI guidance to time watering and feeding.
OUR TAKEA small farming town just out-thought plenty of glossy tech conferences.
Read more → - 06 of 10AFRICA
Algeria launches AI tool for public services
Algeria's government has launched an AI system to support public service work, announced by the higher education minister. Officials say it should speed up paperwork for citizens.
OUR TAKEBureaucracy meets AI, and somewhere a form is finally filled faster than by hand.
Read more → - 07 of 10STARTUPS
Jamaica gets a home built AI platform
Jamaican company Crimson Tide AI has launched a locally built platform called OpenJM. It arrives weeks before the island's national AI task force opens public consultations on rules.
OUR TAKEJamaica now has its own AI, though it still probably cannot fix the wifi.
Read more → - 08 of 10EDUCATION
Philippines pushes shared rules for AI in universities
The Commission on Higher Education called for stronger cooperation among Southeast Asian countries on responsible AI use in universities. It wants shared guidance on academic honesty and lecturer training.
OUR TAKENothing unites nations quite like students asking a chatbot to write their essays.
Read more → - 09 of 10CHIPS
SMIC says AI demand is lifting ordinary chips too
SMIC says AI linked demand has spread beyond top end processors to everyday chip types, pushing prices up. The firm is running above 90 percent capacity and weighing more production lines.
OUR TAKEEven the boring chips are having a moment, bless them.
Read more → - 10 of 10APPS
Tencent tests a WeChat assistant for a full day
A reporter in Beijing handed Tencent's new WeChat assistant, Xiaowei, control of tasks across the app for 24 hours. It breezed through simple jobs and stumbled on the fiddly ones.
OUR TAKEHanding an assistant the keys to your WeChat for a day takes real nerve.
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