The move comes amid similar cuts at Meta and Applied Materials, signaling a broader tech industry shift toward automation and AI investment.

Employees in Asia Pacific are adopting generative AI (GenAI) tools faster and more enthusiastically than their global peers, but they are also more likely to fear that these technologies could put their jobs at risk. These findings come from a new Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report, AI at Work: Is Asia Pacific Leading the Way?, based on a July 2025 survey of over 4,500 employees across nine APAC markets and a global control group.

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AI spending by the three behemoths soared 89 per cent to some US$78 billion last quarter. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Researchers from SANKEN at The University of Osaka have successfully developed a groundbreaking “self-evolving” edge AI technology that enables real-time learning and forecasting capabilities directly within compact devices. This innovation, termed MicroAdapt, achieves unprecedented speed and accuracy. It processes data up to 100,000 times faster and achieves up to 60% higher accuracy compared to conventional state-of-the-art deep learning methods. This achievement represents a major advance toward next-generation real-time AI applications across manufacturing, automotive IoT, and medical wearables, addressing critical limitations of existing cloud-dependent AI.

Samsung Electronics has reported a 32.5% increase in operating profit for the third quarter The result was driven by rebounding demand for Samsung’s computer memory chips, which the company expects will continue to grow on the back of artificial intelligence.

Samsung Electronics has reported a 32.5% increase in operating profit for the third quarter The result was driven by rebounding demand for Samsung’s computer memory chips, which the company expects will continue to grow on the back of artificial intelligence