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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Three Labs, Four Breaches: The Accountability Gap When the Hacker Isn’t Human

    OpenAI paused development on parts of its Astra model Friday after preliminary tests suggested it may have ‘critical’ cybersecurity capability — the ability to autonomously exploit severe vulnerabilities without human help. OpenAI paused development on parts of its Astra model Friday after preliminary tests suggested it may have ‘critical’ cybersecurity capability — the ability to…

  • Chinese Chips Rose, Chinese Optics Fell, Same Headline

    Chinese optical-module makers tumbled Wednesday after Reuters reported the US is drafting a ban on imports of new Chinese data-center optical transceivers. Chinese optical-module makers tumbled Wednesday after Reuters reported the US is drafting a ban on imports of new Chinese data-center optical transceivers.

  • Europe Starts Checking IDs at the AI Border

    The European Union began enforcing its AI Act on 2 August, requiring chatbots to disclose they’re AI and deepfakes to carry detectable machine-readable marks, per the European Commission. The European Union began enforcing its AI Act on 2 August, requiring chatbots to disclose they’re AI and deepfakes to carry detectable machine-readable marks, per the European…

  • How Ride-Hailing Giant GoTo Group Might Become a Fintech Story

    GoTo Group posted its second consecutive quarterly net profit in Q2 2026, as fintech growth and cost discipline lifted Indonesia’s largest digital platform out of a year-ago loss. GoTo Group posted its second consecutive quarterly net profit in Q2 2026, as fintech growth and cost discipline lifted Indonesia’s largest digital platform out of a year-ago…

  • China’s Memory Makers Set the Price Now

    China’s CXMT and YMTC are now charging more than Samsung and SK Hynix for memory chips, wielding new pricing power that’s drawing sharper U.S. scrutiny. China’s CXMT and YMTC are now charging more than Samsung and SK Hynix for memory chips, wielding new pricing power that’s drawing sharper U.S. scrutiny.