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Microsoft Tightens Its Belt, Cuts 9,000 Jobs "Reducing Non-AI Workforce to Increase Investment" US Tech Companies Lay Off 63,000 This Year Alone Photo = Microsoft Microsoft (MS), which has been inve

Concerns become reality: UK entry-level posts shrink by 30% AI adoption and economic uncertainty drive down hiring Global firms expand plans to cut workforce via AI Since the launch of generative AI tool ChatGPT, nearly one-third of entry-lev

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframed for broader context and relevance. All views expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of East Asia Forum or its contributors.

Universities now channel almost $14 million every hour into public cloud infrastructure, a spending line that already exceeds the combined global budgets for faculty development and student mental health programs. Data centers consume 415 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, a demand curve projected to surpass Japan’s national consumption before 2030. Conventional wisdom treats those figures as the inevitable price of artificial intelligence progress.

North Korea Evades Western Sanctions Through Crypto Hacks Pyongyang Trains Elite Cyber Operatives for State-Sponsored Attacks South Korea’s Fragile Cyber Defense: A Ticking Time Bomb? North Korea is now firmly positioned at the epi

Massive subsidies and chronic overcapacity fuel a vicious cycle China’s state-led industrial policy hits structural limits Experts warn: “The era of explosive growth is over” China’s solar industry is teetering on the brink of collapse, hit ha

On a raw Tuesday morning this past April, two lines of data crossed in a way every curriculum committee should heed. First, Pew reported that 37% of American adults now begin a web search directly inside ChatGPT rather than using Google (Pew Research Center, 2025a). Second, a Vectara/Hugging Face leaderboard quietly showed that even the best model, GPT-4o-mini, still invents facts in 1.7% of answers—and in domain-specific writing, that figure can skyrocket past 40%.

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframed for broader context and relevance. All views expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of East Asia Forum or its contributors.

This article was independently developed by The Economy editorial team and draws on original analysis published by East Asia Forum. The content has been substantially rewritten, expanded, and reframed for broader context and relevance. All views expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the official position of East Asia Forum or its contributors.

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A Shocking Defeat to Singapore — Left with No Results Voices Within: ‘Overconfidence Was the Problem’ The Limits of Relying on Advanced Technology Packaging Are Now Plain to See For South Korea’s leading shipbuilders, what was widely regarded

Plaintiffs Fail to Provide Specific Evidence of Damages "Unauthorized Data Collection and Training Destroy the Creative Market" Legal Interpretation of Fair Use Still Pending A U.S.

HBM Sales Up 50%, Shipments Made to Four Major Clients Following SK Hynix, Announces Full Allocation of Next Year’s Supply Market Share Expected to Jump from 5% to 25%, Confident in Tech Competitiveness. M

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“Direct Hit from China’s ‘Value-for-Money Shock’” “Rapid Infiltration of North American and European Markets” “Samsung and LG Take the Opposite Approach with Premium Strategies” For years, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics h

When ChatGPT's blue reply light blinks, the planet's electricity meter begins to sprint. That small but telling synchrony captures the hard pivot in humanity's digital story: a decade ago, we lauded the "cloud" as a weightless substitute for carbon-heavy travel and paper; in 2025, we discovered that the computational clouds cast a widening carbon shadow. Unless we turn the engines of artificial intelligence (AI) into relentless misers of joules, decarbonization promises will evaporate in a plume of GPU exhaust.

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