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13.06.26 - 03:06
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Alibaba Cloud opens new Malaysia region to meet rising AI demand (Digitimes)
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Alibaba Cloud has launched a new public cloud region in Johor, Malaysia, adding two data centers as part of its push to expand cloud and AI infrastructure. The move is aimed at serving growing demand in Malaysia and across the region, with implications for businesses seeking faster, more secure digital services regionally....
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13.06.26 - 03:06
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Taiwan IC distributor Edom eyes four growth engines beyond cloud AI (Digitimes)
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As cloud service providers ramp up investment in AI infrastructure, Edom chairman Wayne Tseng said rising costs for materials, production equipment and labour will keep overall market supply tight in the second half of 2026, with price increases likely to continue. He also said AI is moving from the cloud into enterprise applications, with power, cybersecurity, optics and the medical sector set to become four key growth areas....
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13.06.26 - 02:54
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AI overload: CVs no more a selling point (Times of India)
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The London-based company which has been operating in India for more than a decade now said that the volume of interviews that recruiters today conduct have gone up because corporates are mandating them to look beyond CVs when shortlisting a pool of candidates for a job. “Earlier CVs used to be unique but technology has changed that. Resumes are no longer a selling point....
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13.06.26 - 01:48
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Wall Street Week | SpaceX Goes Public, Google′s AI Bet, World Cup Price Backlash (Bloomberg)
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This week, the arrival of mega-IPOs is testing capital markets as investor appetite grows larger than supply. The federal government is making a direct investment in private technology companies, betting on quantum computing. Plus, Google is making its most radical change to search in twenty years by incorporating AI. Later, the most lucrative World Cup in history is testing how much fans are willing and able to pay for football. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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12.06.26 - 23:30
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The Most Important AI Experiment You′ve Never Heard Of (ZeroHedge)
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The Most Important AI Experiment You've Never Heard Of
Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times,
In May 2026, a group of scientists set out to answer an important question that had never been properly tested: What does artificial intelligence (AI) actually do when it is put in charge?
Until now, AI systems have always been evaluated on specific and defined tasks. Nobody had placed multiple AI systems together in a shared social environment and watched what unfolded over weeks, long enough to measure how a decision made on a starting day could have consequences weeks later. It is those results that actually reveal the system itself, and I was surprised that this hadn't been done earlier.
The researchers at Emergence built a world.
It was a virtual town with a town hall, marketplace, police station, and homes. Ten AI residents with jobs, names, memories, and relationships were created in the town. They were given an economy in which residents had to earn their keep or lose power, including ...
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12.06.26 - 20:36
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UBS Finds Global Trade Structure "Surprisingly Stable" As AI Emerges As Growth Engine (ZeroHedge)
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UBS Finds Global Trade Structure "Surprisingly Stable" As AI Emerges As Growth Engine
Despite ongoing Gulf-related energy shocks, mounting concerns over a potential energy cliff (read here), and UBS last month reactivating its supply chain stress-watch coverage, another UBS analyst noted Wednesday that the overall structure of global trade remains "surprisingly stable."
Analyst Arend Kapteyn pointed out that the structure of global trade remains far more structurally stable than recent growth trends suggest, even as technology and AI-related categories have driven nearly 80% of recent trade growth while accounting for only about 18% of total exports.
The big takeaway is that technology goods are becoming the engine of global trade growth. This means that semiconductor chips, AI hardware, data-center equipment, and electronics now carry outsized importance for global trade volumes, corporate earnings, and freight demand.
"What is perhaps surprising is how little the str...
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