Negotiators had produced more than 600 pages of compromise text.

The lawsuit over the destruction of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office marks the first time Seoul has sought damages directly from Pyongyang.

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Anthropic said it already has offices in Tokyo, Bengaluru, Seoul, and Sydney.

HANOI, Sept 16 – Five people were killed in a fire in a four-storey house in a densely populated residential area of Hanoi early on Wednesday, police said.

The models can switch between 97 languages mid-conversation.

With less than a year left in his first term, Lee has not given clues over whether he will seek another five years.

A familiar founder takes another shot at insurtech, while Meta tries to make AI subscriptions work without giving up ads.

Sept 16 – New Zealand’s parliament on Wednesday passed legislation to implement a free trade agreement with India, under which tariffs on about 95% of New Zealand exports to India would be eliminated or significantly reduced.

Sam Altman said OpenAI would not go public in 2026 over AI safety concerns.

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(Publisher’s note. The American AI doomsday debate is in full gear and dutifully chimed into by West European media. The most recent wave was kicked off by a September 6 blogpost by OpenAI chief scientist Jacub Pachocki, amplified on September 8 when Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, […]

It has been advancing its own push for a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed submarine.

A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them. Scraped footage is video content that has been automatically or programmatically […]

Malaysia is cutting costs and red tape to draw international acts and regional concertgoers to KL.

Before the end of this year, every resident of South Korea will have free and unmetered access to a general-purpose AI chatbot and a public service agent built on domestic models. The capacity to evaluate how those systems affect hiring, credit, and public services remains to be built, and it is […]

In Singapore, Meta One single-product plans start at SGD 1.99 a month.

Judges are weighing whether former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is mentally fit to face charges of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court.

OSLO, Sept 15 – Artificial intelligence, having hijacked humanity’s attention through social media and our biology by manipulating our need for intimacy, will take away our agency unless we legislate now to limit it, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa said.

Bihar is downstream from Nepal, which suffered deadly flooding last month.

Johan Setia in Selangor recorded the highest Air Pollutant Index reading of 189.

No alarm was raised even as the ship keeled close to tipping over, according to survivors.

“We cannot fight nature; the swells and waves in the area were extremely high,” said the national search and rescue agency, Basarnas.

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Rescue efforts were difficult to to the route’s narrow access and high waves near the shoreline.

SEOUL, Sept 15 – South Korea and Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclear energy as their leaders met on Tuesday and pledged to work together on trade, energy and critical minerals and AI, Seoul said.

He still faces three more charges of using his position for an RM25.3 million bribe.

BEIJING, Sept 15 – A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced Bi Jingquan, former head of the now-defunct China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA), to 14 years in prison over bribery.

If completed, the deal would combine its buy now, pay later, consumer cash loan, BNPL card, and digital lending businesses with Grab’s financial services business.

The boat was returning to unload its catch when it listed and seawater rapidly flooded its hold.