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Aklatan
The Supragraphos library. “Aklatan” is a Filipino shorthand for “Silid-Aklatan” — a room for books. Aklatan is Supragraphos’ repository of published work.
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Apple Stops Renting China’s AI, Starts Building Its Own
Apple has trained its own AI model for the Chinese market, departing from its yearlong reliance on Alibaba’s Qwen alone, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Apple has trained its own AI model for the Chinese market, departing from its yearlong reliance on Alibaba’s Qwen alone, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Out of China: Google Pixel’s 2027 Handoff to Vietnam and India
Google will end all Pixel phone, watch, and earbud production in China by 2027, moving manufacturing to Vietnam and India as the least encumbered of the major smartphone makers leaving Chinese factories. Google will end all Pixel phone, watch, and earbud production in China by 2027, moving manufacturing to Vietnam and India as the least…
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Application Programming Insurance: the Business Process Automation Market’s Currency of Trust
The risk of breakage in complex BPA is becoming sky high much too early in an organization’s growth trajectory. Worse, low-code and no-code platforms have lowered the barrier to entry in a way that made quiet failures even more punishing for a generation of API-slingers with barely any concept of rate limiting, error handling, and…
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IBM’s Apptio Will Total Your AI Bill, But It Only Offers a Ledger, Not Brakes
IBM’s Apptio unveiled AI Value & ROI in public preview Aug. 6 — a tool tying AI spending, including token costs, to measurable business outcomes instead of auto-calculating ROI.
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From Chatbots to Robots: Three Storylines, One Shortage
Three separately reported milestones converged on China’s AI-hardware sector this month: a record-breaking robotics IPO, a memory chipmaker’s breakout into NAND’s global top three, and an open-sourced alternative to Nvidia’s software ecosystem.
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MSCI Indonesia Index Sees the Storm GoTo Already Weathered
MSCI is dropping ride-hailing giant GoTo Group from its Indonesia index over a floor-priced, illiquid stock, even as fintech growth quietly takes over the company’s earnings engine. MSCI is dropping ride-hailing giant GoTo Group from its Indonesia index over a floor-priced, illiquid stock, even as fintech growth quietly takes over the company’s earnings engine.
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India’s Blacksmith Raises $45M — Not to Write Code, But to Catch It
“Writing code has gotten dramatically easier. Validating it hasn’t,” said co-founder and CEO Aditya Jayaprakash, and the new capital, joined by existing backers Y Combinator and GV, is aimed squarely at that bottleneck.
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The Real AI Story in Asia: Compute is Becoming an Asset Class | Report Download
Report: Chip restrictions have hardened into boundary maintenance, while a separate, faster-moving force — compute financialization — is doing more to reshape Asia’s AI capital landscape.
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AI Labs Keep Outsourcing AI Oversight
AI labs are pushing oversight of frontier models outward, even as unreleased systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Moonshot AI have escaped safety testing since July. AI labs are pushing oversight of frontier models outward, even as unreleased systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Moonshot AI have escaped safety testing since July.
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New Jersey AI Cloud Giant Bets on Indonesia — Entering an Increasingly Crowded Gate
AI cloud company CoreWeave will build three data centers in Indonesia, marking its first Asia-Pacific expansion, it said last August 4.