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UOB and Amazon Web Services have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore hybrid cloud and AI projects for banking across five ASEAN markets. The plan puts data residency and regulatory controls alongside customer-facing ideas such as conversational banking, but it is an exploration, not a confirmed rollout.
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AI investment is pulling capital towards the companies and infrastructure behind the boom, with possible knock-on effects for government borrowing and developing economies. Bloomberg’s documentary also links the AI build-out to rising trade imbalances and bond yields, making the question bigger than whether the next data centre earns…
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Quanome Technologies says its subsidiary XDT has signed a five-year agreement to supply dedicated computing capacity for an enterprise customer’s AI applications, with a commitment exceeding $100 million. It is the first customer deal for XDT’s AI-computing business, though service has not yet started.
Anthropic Watch
An astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins used Anthropic’s Claude Science to assemble a full-sky ultraviolet map, filling gaps that had left earlier surveys incomplete. About a third of the map is estimated rather than directly observed, and the team tested those predictions against hidden data before filling the real…
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China’s leading AI models have narrowed their reported performance gap with US rivals to about 3%, while several Chinese models are now appearing near the top of global rankings. The shift is not just about DeepSeek: Alibaba, Moonshot AI and Z.ai are also gaining visibility, and DeepSeek V4.1…
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Memento 3’s researchers say their framework cleared every level across ARC-AGI-3’s 25 public games, while a Pong controller won 21-0 in evaluated episodes without further calls to a large language model. The intriguing idea is to let a frozen agent improve its behaviour through a revisable rulebook, rather…
Sakana AI Watch
Sakana AI says its Japanese-focused Namazu model has been adopted by Evidence Finder, a medical literature search service for doctors in Japan. The pairing puts the model into a workflow that retrieves research, cites sources and checks that cited papers exist, while a reported medical-exam score offers a…
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Bloom has raised $3.6 million to expand an AI-assisted marketplace that connects hardware companies with suppliers and service providers. The Detroit startup says its platform has already handled more than 2,000 matches, and it plans to build out financing and AI agents for procurement tasks.
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries is developing Home LEO, a quadruped social robot intended to support older adults at home, with a commercial launch targeted for fiscal 2028. The significant step is the move from care robots in facilities towards a system designed for private homes, where companionship, monitoring and…
Microsoft AI Watch
Asurion has built a Microsoft Copilot Studio agent to resolve some invoice-processing errors before they reach its finance system. The useful idea is not simply putting AI in accounts payable: it is routing specific exceptions through a defined workflow, rather than asking a model to improvise its way…
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Veir has raised $110 million to take its superconducting power-delivery systems towards commercial use in AI data centres, bringing its total funding to $225 million. The company says it has demonstrated a 3-megawatt system and is preparing initial commercial projects, tackling the less glamorous question of how to…
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AI chip interconnect startup Eliyan has told some investors it received a takeover bid, The Information reports, while Arm held early talks about a possible purchase but made no offer. The report puts a potential deal in the middle of a useful question for the AI hardware race:…
Anthropic Watch
Anthropic has added a rule against sustained, needless abusive or cruel behaviour towards Claude, Gizmodo reports. The policy is due to take effect on 12 November, but the company has not clearly defined where abuse begins.
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Open-weight models have given developers more freedom to run and adapt AI systems, but access to weights is not the same as access to training data, unrestricted terms or frontier-scale computing. A new overview traces how Llama, Mistral and DeepSeek helped broaden the field, while leaving important advantages…
OpenAI Watch
The Information says OpenAI’s annualised revenue is closer to $50bn than the $70bn figure it and others reported last week. The correction puts a sharp spotlight on how much can hinge on turning one month’s revenue into a headline-grabbing yearly run rate.
