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Kuo: an OLED MacBook Pro with a touch screen is set to enter mass production by late 2026, while a cheaper MacBook with an iPhone chip will skip the touch panel (www.macrumors.com)
2025-9-17 iPhone MacBook

Permanent Standard Time Could Cut Strokes, Obesity Among Americans (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-17 U.S.

CrowdStrike: DeepSeek refuses to write code or produces less-secure code when English prompts say the code will be used by groups or regions disfavored by China (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-9-17 China

Sources: Anthropic refused federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, such as the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House (www.semafor.com)
2025-9-17 AI

The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech stocks, rose ~3.9% to its highest level since November 2021, amid renewed AI enthusiasm (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 Hong Kong AI

Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, a stronger ban than earlier guidance focused on H20 (www.ft.com)
2025-9-17 China Alibaba Ban Nvidia

China Tells Its Tech Companies To Stop Buying All of Nvidia's AI Chips (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-9-17 China AI Nvidia

Chinese state media: Alibaba has secured China Unicom as a major client for its AI chips; earlier reports said Alibaba was supplying tens of thousands of chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 China Alibaba AI

Scientists Find That Ice Generates Electricity When Bent (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-17

A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)
2025-9-17 China AI Pentagon

The UK has ramped up the use of facial recognition, AI, and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-17 AI Facial Recognition

Indian on-demand home services provider Urban Company surged 56%+ in its stock market debut after raising $215M in India's most oversubscribed major IPO of 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 India IPO

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B+ via bonds this month for AI and digital infra; with JD.com, their combined 2025 AI capex is projected to top $32B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 Alibaba AI Tencent

Foxmont and BCG report: Philippine startups raised a record $1.12B in 2024, up 16.7% YoY, with foreign investment rising to 52.5%, but regulatory hurdles remain (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-17 Startup Philippines

Critics say the Philippine government is prioritizing collecting online casino license fees, projected at ~$1B in 2025, over tackling online gambling addiction (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 Philippines

The World Shipping Council launches an AI tool to scan millions of bookings in real time to identify risks of cargo fires, which reached a decade-high in 2024 (t.co)
2025-9-17 AI

A New Report Finds China's Space Program Will Soon Equal That of the US (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-17 China

Tencent and Baidu sold $3.3B combined in offshore bonds this year, the most ever for Chinese tech companies, as companies secure cheap financing for AI buildout (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 China AI Tencent

China calls US-China framework deal to move TikTok's US business to American ownership a “win-win”; Trump and Xi are expected to confirm the agreement on Friday (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-17 Trump China U.S.

Singapore-based used car marketplace Carro raised $60M led by Japan sovereign wealth fund Cool Japan Fund to promote Japanese cars in the Asia-Pacific region (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-17 Japan Asia Singapore

Sources: SMIC is testing China's first domestically produced DUV lithography machine, aiming to reduce reliance on western chipmaking technology (t.co)
2025-9-17 China

How Meta's California super PAC, rare as a single-company entity, lets Mark Zuckerberg spend Meta's money on his own political choices, including AI regulation (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-17 AI Zuckerberg California

ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID For Age Verification (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-17

Sources: StubHub is pricing its US IPO at $23.50/share after marketing a range of $22-$25, giving it an $8.6B market cap, and will trade under the ticker STUB (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 IPO

Microsoft Announces $30 Billion Investment In AI Infrastructure, Operations In UK (news.slashdot.org)
2025-9-17 Microsoft AI

Q&A with Amy Lanzi, CEO of marketing and ad agency Digitas, on digital marketing, AI's impact on advertising, the creator economy, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-17 AI

US tech giants announce £31B+ in UK investments, coinciding with Trump's visit to the nation; OpenAI will bring Stargate to the UK with Nvidia and Nscale (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-17 Trump Nvidia

Fedora Linux 43 Beta Released (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-9-17 Linux

Google is testing a Windows desktop app that brings Mac's Spotlight-like search bar to PC users, allowing them to search local files, Google Drive, and the web (www.theverge.com)
2025-9-17 Google

China says the US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the US-agreed framework includes “licensing the algorithm and other IP rights” (t.co)
2025-9-17 China Algorithm

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