Good morning, Here’s your Friday edition of Asia AI News! I'm not sure that this will be a big surpri
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December 18 · Issue #349 · View online |
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Good morning, Here’s your Friday edition of Asia AI News! I’m not sure that this will be a big surprise, but just letting you know that the next couple of weeks are going to be a bit sporadic and I doubt that I’ll be able to send you this newsletter daily. I’ll be doing the best that I can, but work and Christmas/New Year commitments are already colliding! Scroll down for lot of news including autonomous vehicles, smart cities, healthcare, semiconductors, food, drones, defence and more. Stay safe and have a great weekend! /Carrington
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Japanese AI company looks to utilise AI to transform corporate culture
#Japan #business - Founder and CEO of Cinnamon Inc. Miku Hirano, believes AI technology has the potential to transform the way we work: liberating us from mundane tasks and streamlining processes that, up until now, have eaten up a significant portion of our working hours. (Japan Times)
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Sony AI unveils trio of food projects including AI-powered recipes and robots
#Japan #F&B - Sony AI, an AI and robotics research and development company spun out from Sony, today announced its “Gastronomy Flagship Project.” The new food-related endeavors include an AI-powered recipe creation app, a robot chef’s assistant and a community co-creation initiative. (The Spoon)
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Ping An launches artificial intelligence assisted clinical decision support system for gastroesophageal cancers
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Plus to sell autonomous trucks on Chinese freight-matching platform
#China #AVs - Self-driving truck technology company Plus (formerly Plus.ai) will sell trucks powered by its automated driving system on Full Truck Alliance (FTA), the Google-backed Chinese digital freight-matching platform. The Level 3 autonomous trucks will be manufactured by another Chinese trucking giant, FAW, the world’s largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer. (Freight Waves)
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Hyundai JV, Lyft to launch driverless U.S. robotaxi services in 2023
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LG Uplus shows off 5G autonomous parking tech
#SouthKorea #AVS - LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, demonstrated Thursday an autonomous vehicle that can park on its own, using its high-speed 5G network. The test car, a Genesis GV80 SUV equipped with lidar and radar sensors. (Yonhap News Agency)
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Trucks in China are watching if drivers doze, speed or slack off
#China #trucking - Trucks in China connected to G7’s fleet-management network do more than just haul goods. Using IoT, they can employ anti-fatigue cameras to call out bad driving, built-in advanced driver-assistance systems to send warnings about insufficient space between vehicles on highways, and real-time cargo weighing to prevent stealing. (Japan Times)
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IBM outlines commitment to developing the Quantum ecosystem in India
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Can JD.com’s AI make Chinese cities ‘smarter’ and reduce pollution?
#China #smartcities - JD iCity, a unit of ecommerce company JD focusing on smart cities, has applied its AI-driven control system to a thermal power plant in North China with the aim of improving efficiency and cutting pollution. (Caixin Global)
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JD partners with NVIDIA to build world’s first smart city with smart deliveries
#China #US #smartcities - GPU inventor NVIDIA announced at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) that it will work with Chinese retail giant JD.com to build the first smart city with the world’s first level-4 smart delivery vehicle application. (Pandaily)
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Panasonic to test public acceptance of delivery robots in Japanese 'smart town'
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Japan set to sell ‘smart city’ services to SE Asian cities
#Japan #ASEAN - The Japanese government has decided to market the country’s comprehensive technologies and services for “smart cities”, a next-generation city model that optimises the use of cutting-edge telecommunications, to Southeast Asian countries. (Asia News Network)
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Horizon robotics takes aim at the AI stack
#China #AIchips - Horizon Robotics is not only developing chips but also the software and cloud platform, with an eye toward prying into applications like security cameras and autonomous cars. (Electronic Design)
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Drone business attracts attention as growth industry
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US-China tech war: rivals no longer worlds apart as they shoot for the moon
#China #US #techwar - Launching missions to the moon and Mars, diving to the depths of the oceans and racing to develop Covid-19 vaccines, China and the United States are competing on almost every frontier of research and technology on Earth and beyond. (SCMP)
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Huawei’s role in the China-Russia technological partnership
#China #Russia #Huawei - Growing global technology tensions have led Huawei to make a bet on Russia. This strategy—while largely driven by Huawei being pushed out of the West—is also catalysed by Chinese and Russian government support for bilateral science and technological cooperation. (CFR)
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China’s Digital Silk Road Initiative: a boon for developing countries or a danger to freedom?
#China #DigitalSilkRoad - As part of China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Beijing launched the Digital Silk Road (DSR) in 2015 with a loose mandate. It has since become a significant part of Beijing’s overall BRI strategy, under which China provides aid, political support, and other assistance to recipient states. (The Diplomat)
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Chinese firm sanctioned by U.S. builds a global surveillance, security network
#China #surveillance -When Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, wanted a new police command center, it turned in March 2019 to a Chinese state-owned company. CEIEC set up the facility and installed dozens of surveillance cameras on the city’s streets, including 20 equipped with facial recognition technology – at its own expense. (Kharon)
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RSAF combines sensors, shooters and AI in 'state-of-the-art' system to better defend Singapore's airspace
#Singapore #airforce - Singapore’s air defence can now strike airborne threats that are twice as far away. That’s with new ground-based missiles in the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s Island Air Defence system that can dart 70km away in a matter of seconds. (Channel News Asia)
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About Carrington Malin
Carrington Malin is a UAE-based entrepreneur, marketer and writer who focuses on emerging technologies.
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