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  • The Asia-Pacific has led deal-making activities in the global data centre market this year, with M&A value totalling US$840.47 million
  • In 2023, the region’s data centre deals hit a record high of US$3.45 billion

The billionaire ByteDance founder is living in Singapore while keeping Chinese citizenship, joining a raft of corporate chieftains who’ve relocated from China to the city state in recent years.

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Alat CEO Amit Midha said the only request so far has been to keep supply chains separate, but it would divest if asked because the ‘US is the number one partner for us’.

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Launched in partnership with a local tech group, ShoppyHub.mn aims to offer products from Chinese manufacturers on Alibaba’s wholesale marketplace 1688.com.

The Beijing-based start-up, dubbed one of the ‘four new AI tigers’ of China, is said to have plans to release ‘high-quality text-to-video tools’ by this year at the earliest.

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The company’s flagship EH216-S autonomous flying vehicle took off in Abu Dhabi, as part of a plan to launch commercial flights in the UAE.

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The MAI-1 model is being overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI start-up Inflection, The Information reported.

The fierce price war sweeping China’s EV market is likely to persist for years, with the impact to be felt by foreign carmakers which will see their market share shrink, Leapmotor co-president Michael Wu says.

The autonomous driving start-up plans to launch the L4-capable FlashBot in Shanghai this year, followed by other tier-one mainland cities. It is also seeking tie-ups in Hong Kong, Europe and North America.

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‘Aqueous batteries with high energy density are possible, offering a development option for grid-scale energy storage, and even electric vehicles’: researchers.

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Case is third public body security breach in a week, after revelation of leaks at Electrical and Mechanical Services Department as well as the Consumer Council.

US lawyers representing young people and their families allege that the overseas version of TikTok protects children in China in ways that the US version does not.

The South Korean memory chip maker has already sold out its high-bandwidth memory chips for this year, as enterprises aggressively expand artificial intelligence services.

Silicon Valley giants including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, along with Chinese tech conglomerates such as Alibaba, are making a big push to grow in Southeast Asia.

Eight US newspapers are suing ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Microsoft for alleging ‘purloining millions’ of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbot.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk cancelled his meeting with India PM Modi last week, and instead went to China to make progress towards an advanced driver assistance package.

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