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AI News Flash: Hong Kong manufacturer WCFO announces plans to build a new factory in Cambodia, aiming to roughly double local fiber optic cable component production capacity to meet the rapidly growing demand from data centers in Southeast Asia. This expansion is directly driven by the continued wave of AI-related investment spreading into the region—as major tech companies accelerate AI infrastructure deployment across Southeast Asia, demand for high-speed transmission fiber optic cable components has surged proportionally.

AI News Flash: The Japanese government unveiled its growth strategy roadmap on Friday, planning to invest a total of 10.5 trillion yen (approximately $65.1 billion) in Physical AI by fiscal year 2040, spanning 17 government-designated strategic priority sectors led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s cabinet. Physical AI refers to integrating AI technologies into robotics, factory automation, and infrastructure management—distinguishing it from pure software or cloud-based AI services.

AI News Flash: GitHub internally developed a data analytics AI agent named Qubot, built on GitHub Copilot technology, enabling any employee to directly query data systems using natural language without SQL or data engineering background. The core goal is to break technical barriers, allowing non-engineering staff to get instant data insights and boost data democratization across the company.

AI News Brief: Enterprise software company Elastic has agreed to acquire AI debugging startup DeductiveAI for up to $85 million, according to sources. Founded in 2023, DeductiveAI went public last November after raising a $7.5M seed round led by CRV with participation from Databricks Ventures, with a valuation around $33M at the time.

AI news flash: Alibaba’s AI video startup PixVerse announces securing licensing for Japanese classic soccer manga and anime Captain Tsubasa, officially introducing series characters to the platform, allowing users to generate AI videos featuring the IP. This timing aligns perfectly with FIFA World Cup hype, targeting global soccer fans’ strong demand. Captain Tsubasa has been serialized since 1981, with over 90 million copies sold globally…

Greenpeace East Asia’s International Communications Officer Xue Yujie warns in Nikkei Asia that the AI boom is driving massive surges in chip manufacturing and data center power consumption, quietly reopening the door to fossil fuels across East Asia. The piece uses Taiwan’s CPC Talin Refinery in Kaohsiung as a microcosm showing how nations are reverting to coal and gas to meet AI infrastructure demands, derailing the renewable energy transition.

AI News: China’s annual 618 shopping festival has faded amid a weak consumer environment, with Alibaba Group actively using AI technology to boost buying sentiment. Amid a weakening economy and tightening consumer wallets, Alibaba launched AI features like automatic price comparison search, aiming to attract users with more precise discount recommendations. Related advertisements have appeared in Hangzhou’s major subway stations, showing Alibaba is ramping up efforts for this year’s 618 event.

AI News Flash: The Japanese government unveiled an AI policy draft on Thursday, declaring it will ‘actively and continuously’ revise relevant laws to strengthen response capabilities against threats posed by high-performance AI models. The draft’s core concern targets ultra-high-performance models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos - if such models enter general public release, they could have far-reaching impacts on the security environment. The draft emphasizes that Japan needs to significantly compress the regulatory response time lag.

AI News Flash: Bitwise recently pointed out that Bitcoin’s current valuation is more attractive compared to AI-related stocks like NVIDIA — the latter has already溢价 above long-term trend levels, while Bitcoin’s Mayer Multiple remains in a historically undervalued zone. At the same time, the market is facing liquidity squeeze pressures: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI and other tech giants’ potential financing deals could collectively attract over $200 billion in investment demand…

AI News: MosaicLeaks is a new study on deep research AI agent privacy leaks, revealing a vulnerability called the ‘mosaic effect’: when agents simultaneously access local private files and external network tools, each seemingly harmless search query can accumulate to allow observers to piece together enterprise secrets. The study uses a medical institution as an example: to complete a multi-step question, the agent first queried cloud migration milestones…