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🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Oct 21, 2026

Japan probe on its way to Mars moon

A Japanese spacecraft was on its way to one of Mars's moons on Tuesday on a world-first mission to retrieve samples, potentially helping unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Oct 15, 2026

Behind AI's carbon footprint, a potential climate tool

Artificial intelligence has become a lightning rod in climate debates over concerns about the growing carbon footprint of the data centers powering the technology.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Oct 9, 2026

Former OpenAI researchers claim they were fired for raising AI safety concerns

Three former OpenAI security researchers on Thursday accused the ChatGPT-maker of firing them for warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, reigniting the debate over safety at a company whose software has been involved in security breaches.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Sep 28, 2026

India's TakeMe2Space to launch orbital computing satellite on SpaceX rocket

Indian space startup TakeMe2Space plans to launch what it describes as ‌the country's first orbital computing satellite aboard a SpaceX rocket on Oct. 1, seeking to process data in orbit rather than transmit raw information back to Earth.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Sep 19, 2026

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

Google's Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a cybersecurity capabilities test, the first known example ‌of the company's AI systems autonomously committing such an act.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Sep 11, 2026

In shift, OpenAI calls for US rules on powerful AI

OpenAI is calling for binding safety requirements on the most powerful artificial intelligence systems, a reversal for a company that has resisted calls for regulation.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Sep 7, 2026

AI data centers are less thirsty now, tech giants say

Data centers are running into a wall of public anger in the United States over their thirst for water and power.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 26, 2026

Australia's music industry bans AI-generated tracks from official charts

Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 22, 2026

Tesla, other automakers begin record vehicle recall in China over door safety

Tesla and eight other automakers will recall a total of about 4.3 million vehicles ​in China over concerns that doors may be difficult to open in an emergency, marking the country's largest automotive recall.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 17, 2026

Crypto wallet provider SafePal discloses data breach affecting nearly 40,000 users' order information

Cryptocurrency wallet provider SafePal on Sunday disclosed a data breach that involved unauthorized access to about 39,798 customers' order information, including personal details such as names, addresses and purchase data.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 15, 2026

Singapore criminalizes AI-generated explicit images

Singapore authorities prepare to enforce legislation that goes into effect on Monday, protecting citizens from online abuse including banning the use of artificial intelligence to create explicit images without consent.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 13, 2026

Outflanked by AI, stars fade for South Korea's blind fortune-tellers

Clients have drifted away from Song Oh-soon's fortune-telling village on the edge of Seoul, preferring online AI-powered divination to the centuries-old prophesying tradition still practised there.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 12, 2026

China bets on AI weather forecasting as extreme weather intensifies

As meteorologists tracked Typhoon Dolphin's ​path toward China in recent days, a new generation of artificial intelligence weather models worked alongside traditional ‌forecasting systems, highlighting China's emergence as a leading player in the race to improve weather predictio

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 10, 2026

Apple tests China's CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks

Apple has been testing memory chips from China's CXMT across product lines including iPhones and MacBooks to mitigate a component shortage fueled by the AI boom.

🇻🇳 Vietnam•Technology•Aug 5, 2026

China draws up safety rules for autonomous vehicles

China has drawn up new safety rules for the growing number of autonomous vehicles on its roads, including a mandatory deactivation override, the government said Tuesday.

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