Marvie Basilan

The tropical storm, which was upgraded into a typhoon Sunday night and intensified in the past several hours, has been projected to potentially strengthen further into a super typhoon Tuesday as it remains unclear whether it will hit Hong Kong or Taiwan.

As other big tech companies continue to release new AI products and announce AI collaborations, Apple, known for wrapping its products in secrecy, is reportedly working on AI tools that could challenge the likes of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

FTX is suing Sam Bankman-Fried and several others in the disgraced crypto titan's inner circle for allegedly misappropriating company funds for their own interests, among them being loans borrowed from Alameda that the accused allegedly had no intention to pay.

FibroGen joins Illumina and Genentech in implementing job cuts among Bay Area biotech firms this year.

Chinese FM Qin Gang has been out of public view since June 25, and speculations have continued about the reasons for his disappearance, including an alleged extramarital affair.

SEC chair Gary Gensler is requesting additional funding to help the agency regulate crypto markets that he said were "rife with noncompliance." The agency has been clamping down on the crypto industry, with Ripple scoring a win earlier this month over a security lawsuit.

A video showed a man looking like Yevgeny Prigozhin greeting Wagner mercenaries. His exact whereabouts are still unknown and there have been speculations about whether he is in Belarus or not.

Microsoft reportedly eliminated more than 1,000 jobs in the past week, affecting customer service and sales units the most. The company has been investing heavily in AI in recent months.

Video-sharing app TikTok has rolled out beta testing for its music streaming service in three more countries after previously launching the service in Brazil and Indonesia. The move could allow the ByteDance-owned company to compete with Spotify and other dominant players in the industry.

There are so many potential uses for AI in the BPO industry such as enhancing the workflow and eliminating repetitive tasks among BPO workers. Will the benefits outweigh fears regarding potential human job losses?

Prime Trust, which was supposed to be acquired by BitGo, has been placed into receivership following a petition by Nevada's financial regulator over alleged shortages of customer funds at the crypto custody firm.

Australia's financial regulator has finally canceled FTX Australia's license after suspending it in November. The company still has to compensate its clients.

Celebrity greeting app Cameo is cutting its staff again after laying off employees last year. The company admitted to hiring too fast during the pandemic and is now looking to operate with a "more streamlined" workforce.

The Philippines' OSG said the ICC decision will not prevent the government from pursuing its own investigation into allegations regarding the Duterte administration's drug war.

China, which obtains a huge portion of its grains from Ukraine, is under international pressure to convince Russia to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal that plays a major role in ensuring exports to food insecure countries.

Elon Musk and other Tesla board directors have agreed to return $735 million to the company over claims they were overpaid between 2017 and 2020, which the directors have denied.

Another Russian commander has reportedly been dismissed, and this could mean a pattern of insubordination has built up within the Russian military command as criticism among the army's leaders seem to mount.

BlackRock's Larry Fink believes cryptocurrencies have the ability to someday "transcend" all traditional currencies, about six years after he criticized digital assets, saying they could be used for money laundering activities.

Binance's legal troubles are mounting, and recent reports suggest the company is reducing its workforce in the thousands days after a string of executive exits.

A large portion of the northern states are under air quality alerts due to the smoke from Canadian wildfires. Some states are expected to experience poor air quality through late Monday as more than 580 fires are still "out of control" in Canada.

Indonesia is fast-becoming a star in Southeast Asia's digital economy, and while its local digital stars are making a name in the global stage, issues such as accessibility and inclusivity may be holding the country's flight back.

The FTC wants OpenAI to "describe in detail" multiple aspects of its business, including how it trains each LLM and collects data to train chatbots and also details of its risk management practices.

Another Indian edtech startup seems to have fallen victim to a funding crunch that has been biting the industry since the educational system started reverting back to offline learning as Skill-Lync reportedly cut around 200 jobs.

Early opposition to a NATO office in Japan thwarts the idea that security in Europe and Asia is indivisible, a notion that "crystallized" when Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year, said Patrick M. Cronin, chair for Asia-Pacific Security at the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Hudson Institute.

China slammed the United States for forcing it to accept a 2016 arbitral ruling that dismissed Beijing's claim to much of the South China Sea. The same day, Taiwan – which also has the U.S. as its ally, like the Philippines – said Beijing sent navy ships and a huge group of warplanes around the island nation for a span of two days.

Digital superintelligence may arrive within six years, Elon Musk told two lawmakers Wednesday, warning that the world should "worry" about how such technology may affect humanity in the future.

The heat wave that has been affecting southern U.S. states in the past few weeks is expanding to the west, as California and Nevada are now also experiencing extreme temperatures.

The Philippines is celebrating seven years of winning an arbitration case against China over the latter's South China Sea claims, but the commemoration seems to be overshadowed by controversy surrounding a map depicted in the "Barbie" movie that Vietnam recently banned.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, even if he staged a failed coup last month, won't be jailed by the Kremlin since Vladimir Putin needs his forces, a retired U.S. general said. The Wagner chief's exact whereabouts are still unknown a few weeks after his failed coup.