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Singapore Launches Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre to Drive Regional Decarbonization

Singapore Launches Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre to Drive Regional Decarbonization

July 21, 2025, 4:49 pm EDT
Emerging Weapons Technologies to Reshape Battlefields Over Next 30 Years

Emerging Weapons Technologies to Reshape Battlefields Over Next 30 Years

July 11, 2025, 3:43 pm EDT
Hong Kong Unveils Ambitious Digital Asset Policy 2.0 to Lead Global Race

Hong Kong Unveils Ambitious Digital Asset Policy 2.0 to Lead Global Race

July 22, 2025, 3:12 pm EDT
UK Unveils New Policies to Bolster AI, Quantum Computing with Funding and Talent Drive

UK Unveils New Policies to Bolster AI, Quantum Computing with Funding and Talent Drive

July 22, 2025, 4:33 pm EDT
Hydrogen Plasma - based Extraction of High - Purity Iron from Red Mud Drives Green Metallurgy

Hydrogen Plasma - based Extraction of High - Purity Iron from Red Mud Drives Green Metallurgy

July 11, 2025, 2:57 pm EDT
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Anthropic Data Shows Minimal Demand for AI Emotional Support via Claude

Anthropic Data Shows Minimal Demand for AI Emotional Support via Claude

Anthropic’s latest report reveals only 2.9% of users turn to its AI model Claude for emotional companionship, with conversations involving companionship or role-playing accounting for less than 0.5%. This contrasts sharply with perceptions of surging demand for AI companionship.

China, Hong Kong Launch Cross-Border Payment Connect System

China, Hong Kong Launch Cross-Border Payment Connect System

China’s central bank and Hong Kong’s monetary authority launched "Payment Connect" on June 22, linking mainland China’s Online Interbank Payment Clearing System (IBPS) with Hong Kong’s Faster Payment System (FPS) to enable real-time cross-border remittances. The initiative, announced in a joint statement on June 20, aims to streamline cross-border transactions for residents in both regions.

Hong Kong Unveils Ambitious Digital Asset Policy 2.0 to Lead Global Race

Hong Kong Unveils Ambitious Digital Asset Policy 2.0 to Lead Global Race

Hong Kong has launched its Digital Asset Policy Statement 2.0, marking a pivotal upgrade from its 2022 predecessor to solidify its position as a global leader in digital assets. The June 27 announcement emphasizes stablecoin regulation and asset tokenization as core priorities, aligning with the U.S. Senate’s recent passage of the Genius Act to regulate stablecoins, signaling intensified global competition in this burgeoning sector.

UK Unveils New Policies to Bolster AI, Quantum Computing with Funding and Talent Drive

UK Unveils New Policies to Bolster AI, Quantum Computing with Funding and Talent Drive

The UK government has introduced a series of new policies to significantly boost support for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing. On June 22, it announced the establishment of a “Global Talent Fund” with an investment of £54 million to attract world-leading researchers to the UK. A “Global Talent Taskforce” was also set up, dedicated to recruiting scientists, engineers, and creative talents—with a special focus on key areas like AI and green technology—and encouraging them to innovate and develop long-term in the UK.

Energy Revolution to Reshape Global Landscape Over Next 30 Years

Energy Revolution to Reshape Global Landscape Over Next 30 Years

Over the next three decades, global energy demand is projected to rise by 35%, sparking an ongoing energy revolution. New oil extraction technologies like hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling have unlocked vast oil and gas reserves, upending the global oil market and turning the U.S. from the world’s top oil importer to its largest producer.

Combating Global Climate Change: Challenges and Tech-Driven Responses

Combating Global Climate Change: Challenges and Tech-Driven Responses

Current data projects Earth’s surface temperature will rise by 1.4 to 3 degrees Celsius by 2050. Even with extreme greenhouse gas emission cuts, climatic inertia will drive warming, triggering dire consequences: coastal city risks from rising seas, famine due to crop yield declines, water scarcity for millions from droughts, and billions in flood damages.

Hydrogen Plasma - based Extraction of High - Purity Iron from Red Mud Drives Green Metallurgy

Hydrogen Plasma - based Extraction of High - Purity Iron from Red Mud Drives Green Metallurgy

European scientists have developed a new method that uses hydrogen plasma to reduce iron oxide in red mud, capable of producing liquid iron with a purity of over 95% in just a few minutes. This process contains almost no harmful elements and is suitable for steel - making. Meanwhile, it can consume red mud, an industrial solid waste, and is expected to solve the environmental problem of 180 million tons of red mud produced annually.

Quantum Computing: Poised to Transform Technology in Coming Decades

Quantum Computing: Poised to Transform Technology in Coming Decades

Quantum computing encodes and manipulates data using subatomic properties like superposition and quantum entanglement. Long confined to theory over past decades, recent research has yielded meaningful progress, with a practical quantum computer likely to emerge within 5–15 years.

WEF Unveils Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 at Summer Davos

WEF Unveils Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 at Summer Davos

At the 16th Summer Davos Forum on June 25, the World Economic Forum (WEF) officially released its 2025 list of Top 10 Emerging Technologies. The selected technologies include collaborative sensing, generative watermarking, green nitrogen fixation, nanozymes, engineered living therapies, GLP-1 drugs for neurodegenerative diseases, autonomous biochemical sensing, structural battery composites, osmotic energy generation systems, and advanced nuclear energy technologies.

Medical Breakthroughs to Transform Healthcare Over Next 30 Years

Medical Breakthroughs to Transform Healthcare Over Next 30 Years

Over the next three decades, scientific and technological advancements will revolutionize medicine. Genomics will enable truly personalized drugs, allowing treatments tailored to individual genetic profiles to tackle cancer, cardiopulmonary diseases, Alzheimer's, and other currently intractable illnesses.

Singapore Launches Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre to Drive Regional Decarbonization

Singapore Launches Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre to Drive Regional Decarbonization

Singapore’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAAS) announced on July 10 that the Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre (APSAC) will officially launch on July 14. Partnering with Airbus, Boeing, GenZero (a green investment firm under Singapore’s Temasek), and IATA, APSAC aims to support regional decarbonization through policy research, cross-sector collaboration, and training—making it the world’s first institution focused on policy and capacity-building for sustainable aviation in the Asia-Pacific.

Trump Unveils $92B Investment to Build U.S. AI and Energy Hub

Trump Unveils $92B Investment to Build U.S. AI and Energy Hub

On July 15, Donald Trump attended the inaugural "Energy and Innovation Summit" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, announcing a $9.2 billion investment plan to turn the state into a U.S. hub for energy, AI, and innovation. It marks the largest investment in Pennsylvania’s history, covering data centers, power infrastructure, and AI training, with over 9,000 jobs expected. Twenty major firms, including Google, Blackstone, and FirstEnergy, are participating.

Emerging Weapons Technologies to Reshape Battlefields Over Next 30 Years

Emerging Weapons Technologies to Reshape Battlefields Over Next 30 Years

Over the next three decades, several new weapons technologies will emerge on the battlefield. Beyond currently developing non-lethal and energy weapons, multiple nations are pursuing anti-access/area denial (A2AD) systems to block military operations. A2AD technologies include anti-ship ballistic missiles, precision-guided anti-vehicle and anti-personnel weapons, counter-rocket, artillery, and mortar (CRAM) systems, anti-satellite weapons, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) devices.

EU Unveils "European Quantum Strategy" to Lead Global Quantum Tech by 2030

EU Unveils "European Quantum Strategy" to Lead Global Quantum Tech by 2030

The European Commission officially released the "European Quantum Strategy" on July 2 local time. Highlighting Europe's strengths, the strategy aims to build a resilient and sovereign quantum ecosystem, positioning Europe as a global leader in quantum technologies by 2030.

Perplexity Eyes Post-Training with Moonlit's Kimi K2 Model for AI Enhancement

Perplexity Eyes Post-Training with Moonlit's Kimi K2 Model for AI Enhancement

Moonlit AI, a Beijing-based AI research firm, has unveiled its trillion-parameter Kimi K2 model, a MoE (Mixture-of-Experts) architecture with 1T total parameters and 32B activated parameters. The model demonstrates exceptional capabilities in code generation and general-purpose Agent tasks, marking a significant advancement in open-source AI technology. This development has drawn attention from U.S. AI startup Perplexity, whose CEO has hinted at potential post-training on K2 to boost product performance.

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