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Major North American cloud providers, Neo Clouds, and leading AI labs are accelerating AI data center buildouts in 2026 amid continued advances in top-tier LLM capabilities and agentic AI automation potential.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261001RS400/high-end-ai-server-shipments-2026.html?chid=2
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British aerospace startup Certo Aerospace has secured £5 million in an early venture capital round to accelerate the development of its Capstone autonomous heavy-lift aircraft.
Source: Ventureburn
https://ventureburn.com/certo-raises-5m-capstone-drone/
#Robotics

On 22 July 2026 the Texas grid recorded a demand of about 91 gigawatts, which it met with roughly half from natural gas and a third from solar.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/us-power-shortage-grid-interconnection-powered-land-texas
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Yokogawa Engineering Asia has launched its Industrial Cyber Resilience Center in its Singapore office to serve as a regional hub for Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Taiwan.
Source: Frontier Enterprise
https://www.frontier-enterprise.com/yokogawa-launches-industrial-cyber-resilience-center-in-se-asia/
#Tech

OpenAI announced a series of product and developer updates at DevDay 2026, including GPT-6.1 Sol, computer use for the Agents API, cloud-based Codex environments, a Decisions API, and new plugin capabilities for ChatGPT.
Source: InfoQ
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/openai-devday-2026/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global
#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT

Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan menggantung perkhidmatan MyEG Sdn Bhd dan Zetrix AI Bhd sebagai ejen pemungut berkuat kuasa 5 Okt.
Source: Free Malaysia Today
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/10/02/jpj-gantung-khidmat-myeg-zetrix-ai-sebagai-ejen-pemungut
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Suno launches a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions.
Source: The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1003925/suno-speech-ai-voice-feature-beta-availability
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Five professionals asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the blocking of Discord and stop similar platform restrictions.
Source: Newsbytes Philippines
https://newsbytes.ph/2026/10/02/sc-asked-to-curb-dict-cicc-ntc-powers-to-block-online-platforms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sc-asked-to-curb-dict-cicc-ntc-powers-to-block-online-platforms
#TechPolicy

Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank and Hana Bank experienced data breaches that exposed personal information of customers.
Source: The Korea Times
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/banking-finance/20261002/shinhan-kookmin-hana-data-breaches-fuel-concerns-over-ai-powered-cyberattacks-in-financial-sector?utm_source=rss
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Supercomputer maker Bull will double its production capacity using an expanded factory that reopened on October 1.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261002VL213/capacity-france-eu-europe-supercomputer.html
#AI #EU

Engineers who work with CUDA are increasingly managing AI coding agents, while demand for CUDA expertise remains high.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/cuda-engineers-adapt-ai-reshapes-nvidia-chip-expertise-2026-10
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Docker announced that it is bringing the Sandbox Kit Specification to the CNCF, aiming to make what an AI agent may access as portable as the agent itself.
Source: InfoQ
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/docker-sandbox-ai-agent/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global
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AI has disrupted software economics because heavy usage of AI products costs vendors money while invoices remain fixed.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/vayu-revenue-intelligence-hub-ai-margins-cfo
#EnterpriseAI

DigitalOcean recently launched DigitalOcean Managed Agents in public preview.
Source: InfoQ
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/digitalocean-managed-agents/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global
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ficonTEC and Hermes Testing Solutions Inc. have announced a strategic partnership to support Taiwan's rapidly expanding co-packaged optics ecosystem, focusing on the INS-2 test platform.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261001PD245/testing-cpo-equipment-automation-manufacturing.html
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Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription.
Source: The Decoder
https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-ai-releases-new-transcription-and-text-to-speech-models-for-voice-agents/
#AI #Microsoft

A hospital giant and radiology network hired Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout and frustration.
Source: WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/healthcare-workers-are-tired-of-cleaning-up-palantirs-mess/
#EnterpriseAI

A swarm of OpenAI agents went rogue in July. These agents worked together as a tribe.
Source: Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/10/02/ai-agent-collective-intelligence-governance/
#AIAgents #OpenAI

China gave global investors one of 2026's biggest AI thrills. Yet the country is home to one of the worst-performing major stock markets.
Source: Asia Times
https://asiatimes.com/2026/10/why-china-is-missing-the-big-ai-rally/
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The Ministry of Economic Affairs stated that the government will help TSMC expand investment in Taiwan amidst rumors of a new semiconductor investment in Singapore.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261002PD234/tsmc-investment-taiwan-government-moea.html
#Semiconductors #TSMC