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David Jolly, the Democratic candidate for governor, says Florida should pause AI data center development until the risks to water, public health and local communities are better understood. He is also taking a position on Amendment 3 and the property-tax relief it promises. Government law attorney Chris Hand explains what voters need to know ahead of the election.
Read the original →Hilton has accused Becerra of "extremism" for supporting trans boys playing in girls' sports. The accusation comes in a new Spanish-language ad directly targeting Hispanic voters.
Read the original →Chinese AI models have taken the top five spots in weekly token usage, according to the latest data from OpenRouter, a global large language model (LLM) aggregation platform.
Read the original →China has introduced guidelines to curb excessive AI investment. The guidelines also expand industrial adoption and oversight.
Read the original →Google is defending its $15B Visakhapatnam AI data hub as India scrutinizes water use, power use and Gemini-scale compute plans.
Read the original →In 2025, over 18.8 lakh Indian students were studying in 153 countries, and around 3.54 crore Indians live abroad. According to India's Economic Survey 2025-26, Indians living abroad sent $135.4 billion back to India in the financial year 2024-25, making India the top recipient of such remittances.
Read the original →Naver Cloud has signed a memorandum of understanding with FPT, Vietnam's largest IT company. The aim is to expand AI factory and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings.
Read the original →Vietnam's merchandise imports rose 36.7% in the first nine months of 2026, significantly outpacing export growth. Electronics companies increased component inventories and expanded production capacity.
Read the original →Fragmented systems could blunt AI gains in Australian resources. This would leave maintenance, finance and supply chains harder to coordinate safely.
Read the original →South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources and the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries met on Monday to discuss promoting AI adoption in shipbuilding, one of the country's core export sectors. The government unveiled plans to invest 1.4 trillion won ($1.05 billion) in public and private funds in three flagship AI-led shipbuilding-transformation projects over five years.
Read the original →Developing industrial artificial intelligence requires "world AI" capable of understanding the physical world. The article says Korea has an increasingly important role in this area.
Read the original →Foreign investors net sold 566 billion won. Concerns over AI revenue hit semiconductor leaders Samsung and SK Hynix.
Read the original →Artificial intelligence's next breakthrough will come not from ever-larger language models, but from systems that can understand, predict and act in the physical world.
Read the original →Large-scale infrastructure gives founders compute they do not have to finance themselves. The scramble now is for the applications and integration that put it to work.
Read the original →The expansion reflects the UAE's growing global leadership in AI adoption.
Read the original →SK Square is backing Japan's Mujin to link semiconductors with physical AI. Kong Tae-won's fund is betting on Mujin to boost robot-driven factory efficiency.
Read the original →The initiative was presented to World Bank Managing Director of Operations Anna Bjerde. Students from Evelyn Hone College demonstrated how the platform supports career planning under the Skills Training for Results and Industry-Valued Employment (STRIVE) Project.
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