Artificial Intelligence

Asia’s AI rally is narrowing. But the opportunity is also broadening

2026-07-23T05:36:20.000Z
PsiBot is close to finalising financing led by Chinese carmaker Chery Automobile and investors such as Lens Technology, a sensor maker for Apple and Tesla. 

China AI firm PsiBot becomes latest startup to hit US$1 billion in value

2026-07-23T01:19:44.000Z
In June, Uber cut 23% of its so-called people division, representing less than 1% of its 34,000 global employees, after a new president took over.  

Uber cuts 10% of customer service jobs, citing ‘embrace’ of AI

2026-07-23T00:24:43.000Z
Moonshot said its Kimi K3 model outperforms all rivals except for Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 on overall capability.

OpenAI president calls Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 ‘pretty good’, unsure if it was distilled from OpenAI models

2026-07-23T00:23:26.000Z
Alphabet’s upcoming earnings are set to shape expectations for a sector that has collectively committed hundreds of billions of dollars to AI.

Alphabet hikes spending outlook in race to build AI data centres

2026-07-23T00:04:50.000Z
The winning strategy is to bring AI to the data, not the other way around.

The demo is over. Making AI work in production begins now

2026-07-22T23:00:00.000Z
Temasek said earlier in 2026 that it is unlikely to meet its goal of halving the carbon emissions attributed to its portfolio from 2010 levels by 2030, partly due to AI’s rising demand for energy.

Temasek eyes AI breakthroughs to slash energy demands

2026-07-22T05:29:15.000Z
The incident caused a stir in the cybersecurity community and will likely intensify disquiet over the power and risk of frontier models.

OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing, triggering ‘unprecedented’ breach at startup

2026-07-22T03:07:59.000Z
Moonshot achieved US$300 million of annual recurring revenue – a gauge of future sales – in June, jumping from US$200 million in April.

China’s Moonshot AI in talks on pre-IPO funds at US$50 billion value

2026-07-22T02:18:03.000Z
When AI models are trained repeatedly on content produced by other AI systems, their ability to recognise rare scenarios is usually the first to disappear.

The risk of Model Autophagy Disorder: why firms need a Plan B for their data

2026-07-21T23:00:00.000Z