Meet the AI chatbots replacing India’s call-centre workers
Cheap labour and English proficiency helped make India the world’s back office. Now, AI-powered systems are subsuming jobs done by headset-wearing graduates in technical…
Google to invest $15 billion in new AI hub in India’s Andhra Pradesh
The AI hub will be the largest centre of Google outside the US, combining powerful AI infrastructure, data centre capacity, new large-scale energy sources and an expanded fibre…
Japanese universities keen to train video game creators as market growth sees no end
With the domestic game market valued at more than ¥2 trillion, there is a need for talent from a diverse range of fields, including programmers, specialists in visual effects and…
Asian markets limp into weekend as AI bubble fears grow
While some markets hit record highs along with gold and bitcoin, talk is growing that valuations among some companies may have run too high, sparking talk of a pullback.
AI key to boosting Singapore’s financial hub edge: minister
Having employees who understand business processes, and not just AI specialists such as data scientists and machine learning, is also crucial to how the sector can strengthen its…
Tokyo residents anxious about increase, impact of data centres
The anxiety of the residents lies in concerns about the centres’ waste heat and noise that could negatively impact residential environs.
Taiwan will not agree to 50-50 chip production deal with US, negotiator says
Taiwan, home to the world’s biggest contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), runs a large trade surplus with the US. The island’s exports to the US are…
Japan to develop domestic AI model with government support
The move is a bid to avoid reliance on AI from the United States and China, according to sources.
Some features of Google’s AI mode expanded to support Japanese
The free artificial intelligence-based search service can now help users get answers to complex questions in a single search in Japanese, Indonesian, Korean, Hindi or Brazilian…
Satellite technology and AI provide new solutions for tackling PM2.5 pollution in Thailand
Pollution Control Department teams up with Thaicom and TISTR to create an AI-powered satellite platform for proactive PM2.5 monitoring, aiming to reduce air pollution long term.