Marvie Basilan

ChatGPT has been found to have high "emotional awareness," but some experts are concerned about the possible risks that come with its application in the mental health field.

The Taiwan issue isn't unnoticed in Southeast Asia, experts said, but there is an apparent reluctance in taking a side as Washington and Beijing fire up the debate on the self-governing island's arduous path to total autonomy.

Two more neighbors are calling out China over its new map that highlights its claims over the South China Sea, but Beijing insists that its map launch was just routine practice for "public awareness."

Pegasystems is cutting another 4% of its headcount after it slashed its workforce in January, joining several other software firms affected by the greater tech reckoning.

Malaysia became the first ASEAN member to reject China's claims in its new map, followed by the Philippines. The tensions come as ASEAN countries prepare for its 43rd summit.

SkyKick, which has been in a years-long legal standoff with British media conglomerate Sky, has implemented a new round of layoffs around five months since it last conducted job cuts.

Nvidia shares rose Tuesday after it announced an expansion of its AI partnership with Google Cloud, becoming the best performer so far this year in the S&P 500.

Super Typhoon Saola is leaving the Philippines with more than P41 million in infrastructure damage, nearly 200,000 individuals affected, and 52 totally damaged houses.

Chinese AI company SenseTime has reportedly cut its workforce after an earlier restructuring last year. The company recently won the Best Paper Award at the CVPR 2023 conference.

Xpeng continues to forge partnerships as it explores possibilities in shared smart mobility, with its latest move coming through the acquisition of ride-hailing giant DiDi's smart EV arm.

Typhoon Saola, locally known as Goring, continues to pour heavy rains across parts of the northern Philippines – the same area that Super Typhoon Doksuri battered in July.

China's Shanghai Micro Electronic Equipment is reportedly poised to deliver the country's first home-grown lithography machine capable of producing 28-nanometer chips by the end of the year. Although much behind the current 3nm and 5nm chips, these can still help China make progress in rapidly growing industries like electric vehicles.

Japan is pushing for a tech-driven defense strategy amid geopolitical tensions, and it has already laid out several key priorities in this year's plan which includes virtual reality capabilities.

Just two months after it laid off 20% of its staff, Chingari has reportedly implemented another workforce reduction, this time affecting a larger portion of its headcount.

Hours after news of Prigozhin's presumed death broke, theories emerged about the Russian mercenary chief possibly "faking death," or even evading death, after a second private plane linked to him landed safely near Moscow around the same time as the one supposedly with Prigozhin on board crashed.

Shopify customers can now use USDC to pay through the e-commerce platform's integration with Solana Pay.

The leader of Russia's Wagner Group has reportedly died alongside nine other passengers and crew onboard a plane that crashed en route to St. Petersburg on Wednesday.

BioWare is laying off 50 workers weeks after parent company Electronic Arts moved the SWTOR game to an outside studio.

China, along with some activists in Japan and South Korea, are urging Japan to cancel its plan of discharging Fukushima waste water into the ocean.

Biotech companies have also been hit by the wider tech reckoning that has so far resulted in more than 231,000 job cuts so far this year.

Thailand has threatened to take legal action against Facebook over cryptocurrency scams on the platform that are being facilitated through advertisements.

Beijing has issued another stark warning against foreign intervention in the South China Sea dispute after tensions escalated in recent weeks over a water cannon incident at the Second Thomas Shoal.

Elon Musk has admitted that X, previously known as Twitter, may be poised to fail less than a year after he acquired the social network for $44 billion, and some users believe Linda Yaccarino is to blame.

Workers in Singapore are quickly adapting to the modern workplace concept as they have been upskilling themselves with AI-related skills, a new report has found.

AI "hallucinations" have been at center of discussions surrounding the fast-evolving tech in recent months, but the errors show that human verification is crucial in AI outputs, interviews with experts showed.

AI and metahumans are gaining much attention in Indonesia's influencer marketing sector, but it may play a greater role in driving the country's digital transformation as more industries explore possibilities with AI-infused digital avatars.

Grayscale filed a lawsuit against the SEC in June 2022 after its spot bitcoin ETF proposal was rejected, but it is now looking to expand its ETF team amid a looming decision by the SEC on ether futures-based ETFs.

Coinbase said its Canada arm has filed an application for registration in certain Canadian jurisdictions "but has not yet obtained registration."

Microsoft is already enjoying the benefits of its investment in OpenAI and now it is reportedly banking on Databricks to launch a new AI service.