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August 17 · Issue #287 · View online |
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Good morning, Here’s your Monday edition of Asia AI News! Some great stories today, including Japan’s plans for autonomous flying vehicles, new AI R&D centres in India and Indonesia, President Trump grants the Pentagon a waiver to continue using Huawei systems, and China uses smart systems to guard 300 Asian elephants. Also, I completely missed the Indonesian government’s announcement last week about its National AI Strategy. Read all about it on my blog here. Have a great week ahead! /Carrington
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Indonesia National AI Strategy set in motion this month
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IIT Delhi gets ₹170 crore from DST to develop collaborative robotics hub
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AI Research Centre to open in Indonesia
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S. Korean underwater construction robot deployed to foreign markets
#SouthKorea #robotics - URI-T, an underwater construction robot developed using South Korean technology, has been sent to Vietnam to bury gas pipelines under the sea floor. The robot is a part of an underwater construction robot development project carried out by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. (KoreaBizWire)
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Robot cafes, virtual doctors, — how South Korea is creating a fully contact-free society
#SouthKorea #coronavirus - South Korea’s government is encouraging people to use contactless services, and has even coined a special term for them: ‘untact’. (The Print)
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Japan aims to send flying cars into Tokyo skies in only three years
#Japan #UMS - The Japanese government hopes to see flying cars in major cities in only three years. Japan-based SkyDrive has developed a two-seater eVTOL vehicle currently at the testing stage, but is far from the only company exploring means to send our cars into the skies. Uber, Boeing, Airbus, AeroMobil, and other vendors are all exploring the VTOL space. (ZDNet)
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AirAsia chooses kerala-based startup Jiffy.ai for robotic process automation
#India #Malaysia #RPA - AirAsia has chosen Silicon Valley and Thiruvananthapuram-based Jiffy.ai platform to implement robotic process automation (RPA) in the organisation worldwide. Jiffy.ai is an RPA platform that leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing. (New Indian Express)
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NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission, NASSCOM launch AI Step-up modules to school students nationwide
#India #education - After a successful launch of a unique initiative to take AI to schools through ‘ATL AI Modules’, Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog in collaboration with NASSCOM launched the ‘ATL AI Step Up Module’ for students on the eve of India’s Independence Day in order to drive AI education and innovation to the next level in schools across the country. (India Education Diary)
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China's AI-fueled propaganda army
#China #US #Trump - An army of fake faces has been swarming over social media, in an effort by a mysterious pro-China group, to circulate and promote propaganda criticising Donald Trump. Appearing in the comments of Youtube videos and sharing posts on Facebook, you may not think twice about these seemingly “normal” accounts. (AI Daily)
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Trump orders TikTok's Chinese-owned parent company to divest interest in US operations
#China #US #TikTokban - President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday evening directing ByteDance, the Chinese-owned parent company of TikTok, to divest interest in the app’s US operations within the next 90 days. (CNN)
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Pentagon wins brief waiver from government’s Huawei ban
#China #US #Huaweiban - The Trump administration is granting the Pentagon a temporary waiver of government-wide ban on contractors using Huawei and other Chinese-made telecommunications equipment, according to a memo obtained by Defense News. (Defense News)
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India is the latest country preparing to ban Huawei from its 5G
#China #India #US #Huaweiban - India is set to become the latest country to ban Chinese telecoms vendors Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks. New rules will prevent any bids from countries which India shares a land border with under amended investment rules that cite concerns over national security. (Telecom Tech News)
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China's smart system guards 300 wild Asian elephants
#China #conservation - The Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve and Inspur Co., Ltd have joined hands to develop a world-leading system for the conservation and ecological protection of Asian elephants. Powered by AI, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and cloud computing, this system enables around-the-clock monitoring of the animals, effectively mitigating human-elephant conflict. (China.org.cn)
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