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🇻🇳 VietnamTechnologyAug 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.

🇻🇳 VietnamTechnologyAug 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.

🇻🇳 VietnamTechnologyAug 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.

🇻🇳 VietnamTechnologyAug 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.

🇻🇳 VietnamTechnologyAug 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.

🇻🇳 VietnamTechnologyAug 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

🇻🇳 VietnamTechnologyAug 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.

🇻🇳 VietnamTechnologyAug 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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