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China's AI Export Register: The Model Leaves, the Kitchen Stays
Beijing registered 23 AI technologies for export, then left the API and the open weights outside the rules. The first two firms through the door both publish their weights.
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Taiwan's $215 Billion Year: The Number That Turns AI into a Balance-Sheet Item
A fifth of the economy committed in one year, paid for in advance by AI customers, and landing as the growth forecasts halve.
The One-Gigawatt Bet: Kazakhstan Wants to Sell Compute the Way It Sells Oil
A coal city on the steppe is becoming Central Asia's largest AI campus. Cheap power, clever law, and a demand gap that decides everything.
Southeast Asia Started Saying No to Data Centers. Electricity Is the Reason
The region stopped bidding for megawatts and started rationing them. Power, not chips, is the new binding constraint.
The Memory Wall Moves: Why Cheap AI Made Memory the Only Thing That Matters
When AI gets 7x cheaper, you don't save the money — you spend it, and the memory runs out.
A Phone Company Just Built the World's Best Free AI Model
A smartphone maker open-weighted a frontier-class model, and the free tier of the AI race got serious.
Ten Minutes per Robot: China's Humanoid Lines Meet Their Demand Problem
The lines can build faster than the economy can absorb. The bottleneck isn't speed anymore.
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TechTrends.Asia decodes the technological shift of Asia: AI, semiconductors, robotics, energy and digital power, across China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia. The audience is global: founders, investors and policymakers who need context, not noise.
Edited by Mauro Rubin, an entrepreneur working between Shenzhen and Milan. Every piece runs on verified, linked sources. No sponsored content.