AI Around the World News — 2026-11-11 (Wed) Daily News

Overview

Over the past 24 hours, New York State announced an AI research institute (US), Alibaba's chip unit filed for a Hong Kong IPO (China), and Anthropic hired UK political advisers ahead of its IPO (Europe). Israel and South Korea advanced national AI efforts, while Qantas announced AI-linked job cuts in Australia and India, Bangladesh, Brazil and Africa each saw AI policy or investment news. 【Governor Hochul and New York State, US】 - New York State: Governor Hochul declared that New York will lead the nation in AI science and safety and launched a new research institute (SUNY).

China

- Alibaba: its chip unit T-Head filed for a Hong Kong IPO amid China's AI push (South China Morning Post). - DeepSeek and other Chinese AI firms: have just 10% of the revenue of OpenAI and Anthropic (Nikkei Asia).

Europe

- Anthropic (UK): tapped a UK lobby firm before its IPO to counter AI backlash (Bloomberg). - Anthropic (UK): is hiring UK political veterans as it prepares for its IPO (Quartz). - Italy: adopted AI guidelines for public administration (Digital Watch Observatory).

India and South Asia

- Bangladesh: the government plans AI education for classes VI-XII from 2027 (Dhaka Tribune). - Qantas (Australia, with work moving to India): see section 6 for the job cuts and outsourcing to India (Quartz India, The Tech Buzz).

Southeast Asia and Oceania

- Qantas (Australia): will cut 850 Australian jobs and outsource work to India under an AI-driven overhaul (The Guardian). The cuts are part of an AI-driven deal with Accenture (Quartz India), and 850 IT jobs are being outsourced to India (The Tech Buzz). Workers have voiced fears as Qantas blames AI impact for the job cuts (Yahoo Finance Australia).

South Korea and Taiwan

- South Korea: Nvidia and KAIST are tackling Korean AI's data shortage (The Korea Herald). - South Korea: Nvidia, SK Telecom and Rebellions plan Korean sovereign AI systems (TNGlobal). - South Korea: faces a balancing act between driving growth and disgruntling the public (Korea JoongAng Daily). - Asia (regional): is not riding the AI boom but building it (GIS Reports).

Middle East

- Israel: plans a national AI model to reduce foreign dependence and protect control of critical infrastructure (The Media Line, Ynetnews). - Israel: its AI czar warns the country must build its own AI infrastructure or risk dependence on foreign tech (The Times of Israel). - Israel: launched a National AI Institute to accelerate public-sector adoption (HPCwire).

Africa and Latin America

- Enza (pan-Africa venture firm): seeks up to $80 million for an AI fund (Bloomberg). - Teleperformance: its latest results spotlight Africa's AI opportunity (Business Insider Africa). - Brazil: an analysis argues its AI development strategy needs an edge layer (Tech Policy Press). 【Integrated analysis: what is happening】 Similar moves: Israel and South Korea are both pursuing nationally controlled AI capacity. Israel's plan is framed around reducing foreign dependence (The Media Line, Ynetnews), and South Korea's around sovereign AI systems (TNGlobal). Italy and Israel are both building AI capacity inside government, through guidelines for public administration and a public-sector adoption institute (Digital Watch Observatory, HPCwire). New York and Bangladesh are both setting up public institutions, a research institute and school education, which suggests governments are investing in AI skills and oversight bodies at the same time as in infrastructure.

Different moves: In China, the headlines point to commercial and capital-market activity, with a chip unit IPO filing and a revenue gap with US firms (South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia). In the US and UK, the focus is on safety research and on corporate political positioning ahead of an IPO (SUNY, Bloomberg, Quartz). In Australia, AI is cited as the reason for job cuts, which appears to bring labor-market effects into view sooner than in the other countries covered (The Guardian, Yahoo Finance Australia). In Africa, the items concern investment and outsourcing opportunity (Bloomberg, Business Insider Africa), and the Qantas shift of work to India points the same way.

Implications for Japan: Companies and agencies in Japan may need to weigh domestic or allied AI capacity against reliance on foreign providers, as Israel and South Korea are doing. Japanese firms using outsourcing or overseas service providers may also need to prepare for AI-linked workforce changes of the kind reported at Qantas. These are inferences from the headlines, not reported findings.

What to watch

- Whether Israel's national AI model and South Korea's sovereign AI systems move from plans to funded, built systems; the headlines describe plans only (The Media Line, TNGlobal). - Whether Alibaba's T-Head Hong Kong IPO filing leads to a listing, and whether the revenue gap with US firms reported by Nikkei Asia narrows. - Whether Qantas's AI-linked cuts prompt public or worker responses in Australia, given the worker fears already reported (Yahoo Finance Australia).