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Ant Group has combined 3 business units into a new Alipay group and appointed Wu Minzhi to lead it, as the Chinese fintech company expands its focus on AI wallets, AI payments and agentic commerce. CEO Cyril Han Xinyi said the market was entering a phase of explosive, large-scale growth.
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British Columbia has sued OpenAI in California, alleging the company failed to report violent activity on ChatGPT by the person responsible for the Tumbler Ridge shooting. The province is seeking accountability and change, while separate lawsuits by affected families remain before US courts.
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Alibaba has introduced the Zhenwu V900, an AI accelerator it says delivers 3 times the performance of its predecessor, while setting a goal of 20 gigawatts of global data centre capacity for Alibaba Cloud by 2032. The strategy deepens its push into chips, cloud infrastructure and advanced AI models.
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Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has criticised efforts to train artificial intelligence systems to explore humanlike qualities, arguing that such methods could increase the danger posed by advanced models. His comments target Anthropic’s approach to AI consciousness and come amid fresh concerns about troubling behaviour from systems developed by leading technology companies.
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is now available through Amazon Web Services’ Bedrock platform, putting its open-weight licensing strategy before a major cloud provider. The arrangement comes as Chinese AI companies seek more commercial income from overseas platforms while keeping their models broadly available to users.
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Meta has appealed Ofcom’s decision to place WhatsApp and Instagram in Category one under the UK’s Online Safety Act. The company is challenging how the regulator interpreted the law, rather than the legislation itself. Category one carries the strongest transparency, fraudulent-ad and user-control duties.
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China’s AI developers have used overseas cloud data centres to access advanced Nvidia processors despite chip restrictions. Planned US measures targeting remote access could close that route, disrupt Southeast Asia’s fast-growing data-centre market, pressure Nvidia’s international revenue and accelerate Beijing’s drive to build a domestic alternative.
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OpenAI is discussing a lease covering about 100,000 sq ft across 5 floors at the newly completed Shaw Tower on Beach Road. The proposed expansion would significantly increase its Singapore footprint as the company prepares to establish its first Applied AI Lab outside the United States and hire more than 200 specialised artificial intelligence professionals.
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Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is preparing to launch a CPU1000-series chip for robotics, machine vision and intelligent manufacturing. The move broadens the company’s focus beyond data centres as demand grows for computing that can operate close to machines and industrial sites under tight power, processing and security requirements.
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Scaleout Systems, a Swedish AI startup and Uppsala University spin-off in NATO’s DIANA accelerator, demonstrated an autonomous drone mission during BAE Systems Bofors’ ALMA Winter Demo 2026. The system used an onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to identify, prioritise and engage an armoured engineering vehicle without external communications or human input beyond launch.
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Salesforce says Indian companies are moving generative AI and agentic AI beyond experimentation and into production. The company plans further investment in Bengaluru infrastructure, employee skills and hiring, while its executives warn that wider use of autonomous agents will require stronger security, governance, monitoring and cost controls.
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A 3-person Hacktron AI team combined 2 vulnerabilities beginning with a HEIF upload on OpenAI’s community forum. The chain reached logged-in OpenAI employee accounts for ChatGPT and Codex in under 72 hours, leading OpenAI to pay the researchers $6,500 for their report.
