Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips
Alibaba and ByteDance shift development to south-east Asia to sidestep US curbs — Top Chinese companies are training …
A Chinese court sentences five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death, convicting 21 in total, as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations
A Chinese court has sentenced five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations in South East Asia.
Sources: Sam Altman is on a global tour since September, including UAE and East Asia, seeking funding and urging companies like TSMC to prioritize OpenAI orders
Chief executive is looking to East Asia and the Mideast for funding and manufacturing partners for his multitrillion-dollar plan to build more data centers
Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based marketplace that enables “pig butchering” and other scams, recently debuted a few crypto products, including a USD stablecoin
- Huione Guarantee is a Telegram-based marketplace serving fraudsters in South East Asia, including those responsible for so-called “pig butchering” scams.
Guracha Belachew Bersha, a now-freed Ethiopian man, details scamming hundreds while he was enslaved for 16 months in a pig butchering scam center in Myanmar
A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture X: @felizysolo , @mikesmithwriter , @silvermanjacob , @jchengwsj , @jchengwsj , and @jcheng...
Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently
Which makes me wonder why they don't build huge data centres in northern Quebec. — Close to hydro generation. — Free cooling, both ambient air and the cold river water. — Do these take lot of pe...
The CHIPS Act has been surprisingly successful so far, giving the US greater scope to meet critical infrastructure needs in the event of a crisis in East Asia
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As chip companies seek a backup to China, Malaysia becomes a surprise investment destination, thanks to its background in packaging, assembling, and testing
Tension between Beijing and Washington over access to technology has prompted many companies to open factories in south-east Asia X: @chinabeigebook and @mjruehl X: @chinabeigebook : “#Malaysia has a ...
Sources: in a recent Microsoft breach, China-linked hackers accessed the emails of the US ambassador to China and the assistant secretary of state for East Asia
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Binance acquires Japan-based licensed exchange Sakura Exchange BitCoin for an undisclosed sum, the exchange's re-entry to Japan and first license in East Asia
- Binance has entered Japan by acquiring the locally licensed exchange Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC). — The terms of the deal were not disclosed.