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Japan’s AI robots plan just went from a talking point to a formal national strategy. This week, the government confirmed the numbers everyone’s been quoting: 10 million AI-powered robots deployed across 18 industries by 2040, backed by public funding of up to one trillion yen, or roughly US$6.1 billion, over five years. The headline figure […]

Malaysia is pushing up the semiconductor value chain from back-end assembly into chip design, and Siemens sees it as Southeast Asia’s frontrunner, but still a step behind India and China. Two senior Siemens executives sketched where the region actually sits, and why export controls have split the industry into two parallel supply chains rather than […]

As AI adoption gathers pace, so does the evolution of the infrastructure that supports it. New standards and connectors keep appearing, and the ones that catch on spread through the ecosystem within months rather than years. That speed strengthens what AI can do, but makes it very difficult for security teams to maintain sufficient protections. […]

Spain’s AI scale-up scene splits cleanly between Madrid and Barcelona, with Bilbao and Valencia each contributing a standout of their own. Madrid is home to healthcare AI, HR automation, and clinical NLP for electronic health records, while Barcelona is producing climate risk intelligence and AI security infrastructure. From federated learning platforms built for privacy-preserving AI […]