Meta has claimed nearly $6 billion in tax credits by classifying its AI data centres as experimental facilities. The argument is audacious: that infrastructure housing some of the world’s most commercially productive AI systems qualifies as tentative, failure-prone research. The…
A Passenger’s Penalty A resident of Aberdeen is paying £264 more per year for bus travel than necessary, solely because the cheaper monthly pass offered by operator First is locked behind a smartphone application incompatible with his device — a…
When a search engine returns an answer before a user ever clicks a link, the publishers who produced that answer tend to notice the silence where traffic used to be. That silence is precisely what drove Penske Media Corporation and…
A Formal Warning From The Hague The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) issued a formal public warning on Wednesday, alerting drivers across Europe that the digital systems embedded in modern vehicles — including microphones, cameras, GPS trackers and…
What exactly was discovered at Cibinong prison? When Indonesia’s ombudsman conducted an unannounced inspection of the Cibinong men’s correctional facility in Bogor, south of Jakarta, what they encountered bore little resemblance to the conditions one would expect inside a prison…
The central question in the ongoing false trading trial of Dr Goh Jin Hian is not merely whether he conspired to manipulate New Silkroutes Group’s share price, but whether a man of his standing — the son of former prime…
McDonald’s has been using artificial intelligence to set menu prices dynamically across its US and global franchise network — and the architecture of that system reveals something more consequential than a mere pricing experiment. The central thesis here is straightforward:…
Hong Kong’s government has launched a benchmark-sized, four-year euro-denominated green bond in digital form, setting final price guidance at 11 basis points above mid-swaps, according to a term sheet released on Monday. The issuance represents another step in the city’s…
Singapore’s semiconductor sector has committed more than S$500 million — approximately US$390 million — to research and development over the five-year period beginning 2026, surpassing the S$400 million invested in equivalent efforts between 2020 and 2025. The figures come from…
The numbers tell a stark story. Some RM9.25 million — roughly US$2.27 million — has been raised through the Najib Razak Solidarity Fund since UMNO launched it on September 18, yet the court-imposed fine that would allow Malaysia’s jailed former…
