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Singapore doubles down on chipmaking as the AI boom lifts its economy, but high costs, scarce land and labor, and US trade scrutiny threaten its ambitions (www.ft.com)
2026-9-30 AI Singapore

The Mecca Alliance meets the Red Sea – Saudi Arabia's new defense Pact faces its first major Test (www.juancole.com)
2026-9-30 Arabia Saudi Arabia

Hands-on with Dots, OpenAI's work-focused agentic product: highly capable and intuitive, with natural-feeling conversations represented as a chat inside ChatGPT (www.platformer.news)
2026-9-30

Alibaba's ModelScope and OSChina's MoArk are vying to become Chinese alternatives to Hugging Face; ModelScope hosts 170K+ open models, while MoArk hosts ~20K (restofworld.org)
2026-9-30 China Alibaba

Sources: US-based PaleBlueDot AI is seeking $600M in private credit to buy chips for its South Korea site, to be used by Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-30 China Korea AI

How Indonesia can protect its interests in maritime cooperation with China (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-9-30 China Indonesia

The German Left won Big in Berlin, but will it Govern? (www.juancole.com)
2026-9-30 Germany

US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country” and “free us from medical tyranny” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-30 AI

South Korea's Kospi was the world's worst-performing stock market in Q3, down 18.8% due to Samsung and SK Hynix sell-offs in early Q3, but remains up 60% YTD (www.ft.com)
2026-9-30 Korea Samsung

Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-9-30 Toyota

Apple Pay launches in India, letting eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders add their cards to Apple Wallet on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-9-30 India iPhone Apple Credit Card Apple Pay iPad

DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-30 programming

Yemen's Houthis move to control crucial Waterway – our Research maps the Countries most at Risk (www.juancole.com)
2026-9-30

The Iran War and America's Right to tell Israel “No” (www.juancole.com)
2026-9-30 U.S. Israel Iran

A profile of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Anthropic's first global affairs chief, who had helped shape California's first AI safety law in 2025 (missionlocal.org)
2026-9-30 AI California

A profile of Travis Kalanick, CEO of Atoms, whom Silicon Valley has welcomed back with VC support despite his unapologetic stance on his 2017 ouster from Uber (fortune.com)
2026-9-30 Uber

Researchers discover overlooked process of bone renewal (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-9-30

Efficient catalysis with less metal (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-9-30

New method uses surface vibrations to move and rotate small objects (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-9-30

How a new textile fabric could triple production in strawberry plants (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-9-30

Scientists call for protection and restoration of Africa's seagrass meadows (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-9-30 Africa

Kidney-sparing embolization reduces patient risks of acute injury and death compared to surgery (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-9-30

LISA to the rescue: Using light to fix cell division (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-9-30

Sovereignty isn't self-sufficiency. It's the power to make choices (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-9-30

An interview with Bill Gates about the need for more than natural incentives under capitalism to regulate AI's risks, the effects AI will have on jobs, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-9-30 Interview AI Bill Gates

Microsoft is rolling out Linux container support to WSL (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-9-30 Linux Microsoft

AI infrastructure company Accelevation and backer Olympus raise $540M in a US IPO after selling 30M shares for $18 each, below its marketed $20-$24 range (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-30 IPO AI

Here we go again. Mine countermeasures are Australia's forgotten naval capability (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-9-30 Australia

EU states push farm aid cuts to fund military buildup (www.rt.com)
2026-9-30 Europe

Robinhood plans to let users trade some US stocks round-the-clock during weekends, wager on specific corporate earnings metrics, and trade perpetual futures (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-30

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