President Lee's push to make South Korea a central player in the global AI supply chain comes as demand for chips and computing infrastructure outpaces supply, driving tech companies into closer partnerships with the country's semiconductor and memory leaders.

The European Commission on Thursday fined Google 890 million euros (US$1 billion) for breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the bloc's landmark law policing the conduct of dominant online platforms.

The binding ruling now requires that tariff determinations include an obligation to offer services where unused data is preserved without additional fees under the pretext of extending validity periods.

Europe's crackdown on Big Tech has angered US President Donald Trump's administration, which has threatened to retaliate with tariffs.

OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced AI models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI start-up Hugging Face last week.

The Communications and Digital Ministry has uncovered fraudulent practices by some SIM card retailers aimed at bypassing the procedure.

Artificial intelligence should not be dominated by a single country, China's President Xi Jinping said Friday, urging international cooperation on its development at a major conference in Shanghai.

Official says other countries are weaponizing technology chokepoints as competition shifts to hardware manufacturing and compute infrastructure.

The banking industry has seen a whopping 260 percent increase in suspected online gambling transactions from 2024 to 2025, according to the OJK, which is working to enhance interinstitutional system integration, enforcement coordination and technological capacity to crack down on the evolving criminal sector.

By the senior economy minister's estimates, the project could cost up to $720 million in total to expand capacity from 580 MW at present to the targeted 1.3 GW at around $1 million per MW, though he did not say how much of that might be footed by the American chip-making giant.

Launched on Tuesday and integrated into the Meta AI chatbot, Muse Image can use photos as input and allows users to edit AI-generated images directly through sketches.

OpenAI has discussed giving the US government a 5 percent stake, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, as AI firms face growing scrutiny in Washington over the potential misuse of advanced models and whether Americans will share in the sector's profits.

The communications ministry and US tech giant Meta are set to form a joint team to tackle a sharp rise in spam comments flooding platforms with gambling promotions, with a view to expanding cooperation with other social networks.

The Tasmania-based artificial intelligence company is set to build one of the Asia-Pacific's largest digital infrastructure facilities on the island of Batam, under a multinational partnership that includes global chipmaker Nvidia to woo AI-native customers.

Indonesia’s e-commerce market was estimated at US$57.7 billion in GMV in 2025 according to Momentum Works, dominated by Sea Group’s Shopee at 54 percent market share, followed by TikTok Shop at 38 percent.

Venture capital and private equity investments in China totaled $91.6 billion in the first five months of this year, jumping nearly 60 percent from a year earlier, according to ChinaVenture Investment Consulting.

The presidential regulation lays out a roadmap for ministries and regional governments to adopt AI from 2026 to 2029, targeting "economic growth through development, facilitation and use of AI especially in the president's priority programs."

The case centers on US$25 million in investments made between 2019 and 2023 by BRI Ventures and MDI Ventures, the venture capital arms of state-owned firms BRI and Telkom, respectively, into agritech start-up PT Tani Group Indonesia (TaniHub).

Monday's decision is Elon Musk's second legal loss against OpenAI in four weeks.

Cross-border QRIS payment system breaks barriers between Indonesia and China, as it seamlessly allows merchants and customers in both countries to be able to do transactions through UnionPay's cross-border payment network.

Anthropic's relationship with the government ruptured this year after it refused to allow the US military to use its AI models for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems, responded by the government by putting Anthropic on a supply chain blacklist, set to take effect later in the year.

17-year old Russell James Young finds purpose through his initiative Beatkeepers Collective in an effort to decrease death rates in emergency situations related to cardiovascular-related events, fostering a new generation of first aid responders.

Jadrianna Sutrisno, 16-year-old student from Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS), examines the correlation between soil used for agriculture complemented by volcanic ash, and the statistics of stunting in each province.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic suggested Thursday a global pause on building the most powerful AI systems as the latest models are beginning to show signs they could escape human control.

Website publishers, particularly media outlets, claim that artificial intelligence models take their content without compensation.

The EU will set out on Wednesday how the 27-country bloc hopes to slash its dependence on American and Asian technology, and favor European digital alternatives.

China's central bank is making a broad push to increase the use of digital yuan at home and abroad, several industry sources said, setting Beijing on a different – and potentially competing – path from the United States in shaping the future of money.

The Financial Services Authority (OJK) has shut down 951 unlicensed lending entities and two unauthorized investment offers operating through websites and applications in the first quarter of the year, as part of an intensified nationwide crackdown on illicit finance.

The Trade Ministry plans to expand the definition of trade conducted through electronic systems under Trade Minister Regulation No. 31/2023 on electronic commerce to include ride-hailing services and online travel agencies (OTAs).

With people increasingly adopting Artificial intelligence to help plan their vacations, hotels are working to make sure that you check them out – and check in.