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Bangladesh Bank eases forex rules to keep freelancers' dollars in formal banking channels
A 4% cash incentive on IT and software exports now pairs with looser currency rules, as Dhaka tries to stop freelance earnings…
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What the week in technology actually means
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SK Hynix leads a chip rally in Seoul and Tokyo as both governments lock in supply-chain ties
South Korean and Japanese semiconductor stocks surged this week, with SK Hynix backing 54 trillion won in new investment as the two…
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TSMC just raised its 2026 capex to $64 billion. AI 'slowdown' talk hasn't reached Taiwan yet
Calls from Amodei, Altman and Musk to slow AI development briefly rattled Asian chip stocks, but Taiwan Semiconductor is building 13 new…
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Fiji is writing a national AI strategy. It's also short on the basic laws to enforce one
Fiji and Papua New Guinea are ahead of most Pacific Island nations in drafting AI plans, but the region still lacks data-privacy,…
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Brazil's AI bill pits creator royalties against a $4.1 billion computing bet
PL 2338 would force AI companies to pay rights holders for training data, but industry groups warn the copyright fees could push…
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Albanese wants AI 'reined in' again, but still hasn't said how
The Australian PM's latest warning echoes UN General Assembly remarks from other world leaders, leaving industry split over whether Canberra should follow…
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UAE bets $30 billion on a distributed AI build-out as geopolitics reshapes the Gulf's tech playbook
Abu Dhabi's G42 is spreading a five-gigawatt data centre programme across the country instead of one mega-campus, hedging against chip export controls…
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Brussels holds the line on binding AI rules as Washington pushes a lighter touch
With provisions of the EU AI Act now enforceable, Belgium's capital is emerging as the site of a widening transatlantic split over…
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Canada picked voluntary AI codes over a binding law. Is that still the right bet?
With Washington favoring lighter rules and Brussels enforcing binding ones, Ottawa's middle path of sector guidance and voluntary commitments faces growing pressure…
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Why 'AI that researches itself' is further off than the hype suggests
A new preprint from Princeton's Sayash Kapoor argues today's models can sharpen existing algorithms but aren't close to running open-ended research on…
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Inside the AI industry's circular-financing problem
Nvidia's investments in its own customers, Broadcom's $100 billion debt push and Anthropic's IPO plans are all tangled together, and that's exactly…