AI news flash: Japanese electronics component giant TDK announced it will acquire US startup Fabric8Labs for up to $400 million, officially entering the fast-growing AI data center cooling market. Fabric8Labs’ core technology applies 3D printing to the manufacturing of cooling components, more efficiently dissipating the heat generated during GPU compute. Compared to traditional air or liquid cooling, 3D…
AI News Flash: The official GitHub blog introduces a way to boost Copilot CLI’s code understanding: installing and configuring an LSP (Language Server Protocol) server. The traditional approach relies on brute-force search (grep) or decompilation to understand code structure, which only does string matching and lacks real understanding of types, symbol definitions, and references. With LSP…
AI news flash: Meta announces partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries to build a 168 MW AI data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, marking Meta’s first AI infrastructure investment in India. The facility will run on renewable energy, cooled by desalinated seawater, with all energy and water costs fully covered by Meta. The data center is expected to be completed within two years and gradually scale capacity, serving not only the Indian market but also integrating into Meta’s global AI computing network.
AI News Flash: At the Nikkei Asia ‘Future of Asia 2026’ summit, Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour warned that the energy crisis triggered by a de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz is spreading into broader economic areas, hitting industrial raw material supply, logistics, food prices, and tourism, and putting multi-front downward pressure on Asian economies. Beyond the Iran geopolitical risk, the forum also focused on the potential threat AI disinformation poses to regional stability…
AI news brief: The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is partnering with OpenAI to drive trusted AI adoption across its global operations. According to a customer story published by OpenAI, the core goal of this partnership is to make AI trusted and scalable across LSEG’s entire business, not just confined to specific departments or pilot projects. The partnership has delivered three standout results…
AI news flash: Google announced Monday it’s cutting Google AI Plus’s monthly price from $7.99 to $4.99, while doubling the plan’s cloud storage from 200GB to 400GB, with the update rolling out to existing subscribers over the coming days. Launched this January, Google AI Plus is positioned as the cheapest paid AI subscription plan in the US market, aimed mainly at…
AI news brief: Japan is actively working to secure a bigger say in Asia’s subsea cable landscape, as explosive AI demand fundamentally reshapes the requirements for global data transmission infrastructure. Amid this transformation, industry veterans with over 25 years in the subsea cable business admit that traditional ways of operating are hitting bottlenecks, struggling to keep up with the new era’s high-bandwidth, low-latency demands. Notably, new players who previously had little involvement in this highly specialized field are now moving in aggressively…
AI news brief: Anthropic’s release of Claude Mythos (internally codenamed Fable 5) has put the crypto community on high alert. In April, hackers stole a total of $629.7 million in crypto, the highest monthly figure since February 2025, and analysts are linking this directly to the widespread adoption of AI tools. VC firm Moonrock Capital’s founder…
AI News Flash: Japan’s Mitsubishi HC Capital plans to partner with Canadian investment group Brookfield to acquire renewable energy plants across Europe through a UK joint venture, targeting wind and solar farms in markets like the UK and France. The deal is driven by the rapid expansion of AI technology, which is pushing global electricity demand sharply higher and significantly boosting the strategic value of renewable assets. Mitsubishi HC Capital has long focused on equipment leasing and infrastructure financing…
AI News Brief: Notion recently shared how it’s actually using OpenAI Codex in production. According to the company, Notion’s engineering team uses Codex for ‘one-shot specs’ — having AI generate executable technical spec documents in a single prompt, dramatically cutting the lead time from requirements to implementation. Notion also built…