Seedance 2.5: ByteDance extends generative video to 30 seconds in a single shot
The Seed team pushes single-shot generation to 30 seconds, with multi-modal references (30 images + 10 videos + 10 audios) and timestamp editing.
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True IDC secures a $2 billion loan for a Thailand data center—the APAC compute shortage extends to Southeast Asia.
Thai carrier subsidiary True IDC seeks $2B in debt for a domestic data center build - Southeast Asia joins the debt-funded AI capex wave.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 11 15
Gemini Robotics ER 2: DeepMind bets on video-native, multi-robot orchestration
DeepMind's ER 2 update pushes embodied reasoning toward video understanding and fleet-level coordination - the embodied-foundation race gets its Google-branded milestone.
Jul 30, 2026 at 19:40 13 14
Southeast Asia's physical AI push: commercial robots over humanoids
Tech in Asia maps SEA's physical AI startup ecosystem - the region's defining choice is to bet on commercial and industrial robots, not humanoids.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:17 8 8
Nvidia signs $1.5B with Amkor: US advanced packaging becomes an AI compute hub
Nvidia commits $1.5 billion with Amkor for advanced AI chip packaging in Peoria (Arizona). One of the first public commitments of this size for a back-end located outside the TSMC / ASE Taiwan duo.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:02 10 10
WeRide WITT: Autonomous Driving Adopts the "Foundation Model" Format
WeRide unveils WITT at WAIC 2026: a "physical AI" foundation model that is multimodal and unified around "minimal physical facts." The approach borrows from the LLM architecture.
Jul 17, 2026 at 14:19 7 8
Shanghai Forum: Xi Enlists AI in Regional Diplomacy with Bangkok and Phnom Penh
Xi Jinping engages in "AI diplomacy" with the Thai and Cambodian prime ministers. The Chinese techno-sovereignty package is becoming an instrument of influence in Southeast Asia.
Jul 17, 2026 at 09:19 16 10
Anthropic prices Claude in rupees for India: pricing localisation as the first act of sovereignty
Anthropic added rupee pricing for Claude in India. Small operational change, real strategic meaning - the fight for the Indian market is now about payment rails and taxation, not model quality.
Jul 16, 2026 at 08:48 30 9
AWS multi-region: the pre-flight discovery call that blocked global failover
InfoQ publishes the analysis of a pre-flight discovery call, present in every customer session for years, revealed as an obstacle to global failover during AWS regional outages. A lesson in systems more than a patch.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 29 7
Malaika: Understanding malware through "triangulated" agent-based reasoning
A new arXiv paper proposes a multi-agent system that reconstructs malicious behaviors from partial evidence - no hype, the real utility of LLMs in malware analysis.
Jul 13, 2026 at 09:13 7 8