India’s Mission AI
The Union Government has allocated Rs10,372 crore (US$1.25 billion) in the ensuing five years to encourage AI development in the country and develop a supercomputing facility with…
Standardisation of QR code payments likely across South-east Asia, Japan by 2025
When the system is in place, South-east Asian visitors to Japan could pay for goods and services by scanning QR codes with their smartphones.
Jeju introduces virtual news presenter
The computer-created female presenter primarily delivers policy updates and local news from the island, reading scripts prepared via artificial intelligence.
Japan’s Kairos rocket explodes immediately after launch
Authorities said the rocket self-destructed autonomously about five seconds after launch, with the engine igniting after an anomaly was detected in the rocket body.
3 ways generative AI will impact the way we work this year
There is a lot of technology innovation when it comes to AI, but what matters to solo business owners or employees at small businesses is the impact of the output and how well it…
Bitcoin hits new record high above W100 m in Korea
The recent bull’s run on bitcoin stems from an inflow of investments from bitcoin spot exchange-traded funds and has been advancing since the second half of last year.
AI the new obsession for venture capital investing
While layoffs and budget tightening became routine at tech companies last year, startups in the AI sector raised nearly $50 billion from investors, according to market tracker…
Chinese firms to usher in new AI era spurred by video-to-text model Sora: Experts
The new technology possesses the ability to generate video clips based on given text prompts, which experts say is an undeniable development direction for AI.
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram back up after global outage
The disruptions saw many users saying on rival social media platform X that they had been logged out of Meta’s social media platforms and were unable to log in.t
Experts stress China key to 6G
The comments came after a group of 10 countries, including the US and the United Kingdom, announced that they have endorsed a set of principles to underpin the development of…