Category: Emerging Tech
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This computer incorporates real human brain cells
WORLD At the Mobile World Congress 2025, held in Barcelona until March 6, the Australian start-up Cortical Labs is causing a stir with the CL1, billed as the world’s first ever commercial biocomputer. This computer features an innovative system with human neurons grown directly on a silicon chip, allowing direct interaction via electrical signals. The…
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Trump wants to abolish $52.7 billion in federal funding for semiconductor industry
WORLD President Donald Trump said Tuesday US lawmakers should get rid of a landmark 2022 bipartisan law to give $52.7 billion in subsidies for semiconductor chips manufacturing and production and use the proceeds to pay debt. “The CHIPS act is a horrible, horrible thing. We give hundreds of billions of dollars and it doesn’t mean…
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Malaysia to invest US$250mil over next decade via strategic collaboration with Arm Holdings
WORLD Malaysia will invest US$250 million (US$1= RM4.44) over the next decade, leveraging on Arm Holdings Plc’s expertise, to create a new ecosystem in the artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor industry through a strategic collaboration with the United Kingdom-based company. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is expected to launch the strategic collaboration later today.…
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DeepSeek reveals theoretical 545% profit margins on its AI models
TECHNOLOGY Chinese artificial intelligence phenomenon DeepSeek revealed some financial numbers on Saturday, saying its “theoretical” profit margin could be more than five times its costs, peeling back a layer of the secrecy that shrouds business models in the AI industry. The 20-month-old startup that rattled Silicon Valley with its innovative and inexpensive approach to building…
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First global operation against AI-generated child abuse material
INTERNATIONAL / TECHNOLOGY Two dozen arrested in int’l swoop for links to AI-made child sex abuse images Two dozen people were arrested this week for their role in a criminal group that distributed images generated by artificial intelligence of children being sexually abused, the European Union’s police agency said on Friday. The operation is one…