China’s early AI chatbots more patriotic than smart

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China will require all locally used artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to censor their content, making it comport with the ruling Communist Party’s core socialist values. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country’s internet watchdog, on Tuesday (April 11) started a one-month public consultation for a set of new rules that will forbid AI chat […]Continue Reading

Thailand’s cannabis champion eyes bigger role after May election

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Opposition parties, including the Pheu Thai Party loyal to former telecoms tycoon and ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, have criticised Bhumjaithai and the ruling coalition for what they see as the rushed and loosely regulated decriminalisation of cannabis. But Anutin, a former chairman of one of Thailand’s largest construction companies, saidContinue Reading

China-indebted Pakistan looking down a deep, dark hole

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MUMBAI – Last month, China and Pakistan celebrated the tenth anniversary of the US$64 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor with bonhomie and backslapping. But a warning from Syed Tariq Fatemi, special assistant to Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, belied the joviality. “Overdue payments to the Chinese IPPs [the independent power plants built and operated by China […]Continue Reading