Southeast Asia is riding an investment boom, as a surge in chip exports pushes economies like Vietnam and the Philippines up the World Bank’s income ladder, as defined by the World Bank. Two forces are driving this surge: the AI wave and an intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing that has companies scrambling to diversify
The Shopify CEO didn’t have enough wine to fill his cellar, but he had plenty of uses for an AI system. Speaking with Alex Heath on an episode of the Sources podcast released on Wednesday, Tobi Lütke said he consulted his “inner 16-year-old” before converting the underused room into a home for computing hardware. “So
Microsoft’s cloud business is humming even as spending to build out its AI business remains high. The software giant’s first-quarter earnings report Wednesday showed ample demand for its AI services, as Microsoft races to put more computing capacity online and as other parts of its business, such as legacy software and gaming, lag. The Redmond,
This-as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kylie Genter, 36, a Haenyeo diver on Jeju Island, South Korea. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I’d been teaching English in South Korea for four years when I learned about the Haenyeo — female freedivers who harvest seafood without using modern equipment. I was interested.
Global brands and celebrities have lost the Chinese market over social media posts, promotional events, and trademark lawsuits. Now soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé has joined them. Mbappé, during an appearance on a popular French online talk show, described a meme figure as “a Chinese dictator,” a comment widely perceived as referring to Mao. Within days,
Is AI starting to hurt Google’s core search business? That’s the big lingering question following the company’s third-quarter earnings. Google came out of the gates on Wednesday boasting that its year-over-year query growth rate was the highest in the last five years. It also saw a 12% increase in search revenue compared to this time
