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Singapore’s DayOne Secures a Whopping US$2B Series C to Power Global Data Infrastructure Boom

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Why the Biggest Banks May Lose Next—and the Most Precise Ones Will Win

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China’s Bold New AI Safety Rules - Protecting Kids and Curbing Harmful AI Influence

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How a Wave That Paralyzed Him Sparked a High-Tech Fight for Mobility

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Meta’s $2B AI Power Play - Why the Manus Acquisition Matters for the Future of AI Agents

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Decoding Agentic AI - A Practical Framework to Navigate the Complexity

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Context Graphs Could Be the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Breakthrough

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What’s Really Happening When Online Debates Turn Heated So Fast

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Beyond the Filter - How AI Influencers Are Redefining Social Media Fame

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China Wants to Regulate Human-Like AI — And It's a Sign of What's Coming Next

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Weekly Qwen AI Ecosystem Update – Official Qwen Announcements December 27 2025

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Microsoft Week in Review - December 20–27, 2025 — Infrastructure Releases & AI‑Powered Platform Expansion

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Weekly Google Insight Report Dec 27 2025

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Perplexity Weekly Brief - No New Official Releases (Dec 20–27, 2025) — Strategic Pause Amid Product Momentum

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Anthropic Year‑End Developer Surge - Holiday Usage Expansion & Open Source Evaluation Framework

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OpenAI Weekly Brief - Security Hardening, Image Model Updates, and GPT‑5.2‑Codex Expansion (Dec 21–27, 2025)

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Hugging Face Platform Activity - Advanced Architectures, Small Model Breakthroughs & Research Frontiers Shaping ML Development

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Weekly AI Tech Research Update (to 27 Dec 2025)

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Startup funding updates from the past 7 days Dec 27 2025

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FintechNews.sg – Weekly Newsletter

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Fintech Frontier Weekly — The Rise of Agent-Driven Payments

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Fintech Frontier Weekly — December 27, 2025

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China AI Toy Market Set to Skyrocket to $12 Billion by 2030—A New Frontier for Play and Tech

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Japan Tech Push - Quadrupled Chips & AI Budget Signals Strategic Reset

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Huawei Takes Aim at Nvidia - AI Chip Battle Heats Up in South Korea

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How Google’s A2UI Is Redefining the Way AI Agents Speak to Users — Beyond Text to Rich UI Experiences

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Humanoids, Hacks, and Herd Helpers - The Top Robotics Stories of 2025

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Quantum Leap - How Neutral-Atom Computers Could Finally Make Quantum Advantage Real

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China’s LandSpace Nears STAR Market IPO as Reusable Rocket Pushes Forward

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China AI Power Play - Zhipu AI & MiniMax Unveil Flagship Models Ahead of IPO Showdown

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AI Avatars Move Beyond Text - Lemon Slice Raises $10.5M to Bring Interactive Video Bots to Life

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When AI Hits the Newsroom - Europe’s Media Firms Face a Perfect Storm

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Daily Fintech Newsletter — Dec 23 2025

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AI Arms Race Piles Up Record-Breaking Tech Debt: Boom or Bubble?

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Japan’s AI Turnaround - New National Plan Sets Sights on Growth and Safety

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Why AI Browsers May Never Be Fully Secure — and What That Means for the Future of the Web

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Forgery 2.0: How AI Is Undermining Trust in Art Ownership and Provenance

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India Wealthtech Scene Heats Up - PowerUp Money Raises $12M in Series A Led by Peak XV

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How AI-Driven Defense Is Set to Revive European Industrial Power in 2026

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Why AI Agents Without Guardrails Are a Site Reliability Nightmare

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