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China has established a new enterprise owned by the state, the National Data Group Co, tasked with managing vast national data resources. This development aims to accelerate the nation's artificial intelligence industry and its digital economy. Concurrently, Beijing is considering proposed export bans and controls on artificial intelligence technologies, actions that analysts suggest will tighten its grip on a strategically important sector.

Southeast Asia's digital economy is on course for USD 368 billion in gross merchandise value this year, up 17% on the year before and tracking past USD 1 trillion within a decade, according to the eleventh e-Conomy SEA report from Google, Temasek and Bain & Company. The headline the authors push is adoption rather than spend. Generative AI use has reached 243 million people, or 58% of the working population, in under three years, a pace four times faster than the mobile inter

Malaysia's National Cyber Security Committee has examined the security risks that come with Waze, the navigation app founded in Israel and owned by Google, and concluded that users should weigh an alternative. Malaysia's prime minister, who chaired the meeting, said the app falls under Israeli government laws, which places the location data it collects within another country's legal reach. According to Free Malaysia Today, he set out the position in a Facebook post after the