Alibaba unveils new AI chip it says is China's most powerful and targets 20 gigawatts of data center capacity by 2032. https://bloom.bg/4ydroys
📷: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
The Nepal disaster is the latest example of how climate change is raising the risk of relying on water for electricity in the Himalayas. A changing climate is bringing with it unstable glaciers and unpredictable rain, creating new risks for existing projects and raising the potential cost of those that are still on the drawing board. https://bloom.bg/4gPKhAd
📷: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg
Japan has a $640 billion investment plan to become an AI and chip powerhouse. Kioxia’s boom in one struggling rural city shows both the promise and limits of the country's ambition. https://bloom.bg/45X3omP
📷: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
🚨 LIVE NOW: Tata Chairman N. Chandrasekaran's shock decision to not continue beyond February exit exposed deep divisions in its board. Bloomberg journalists answer your questions about the new trouble in a Live Q&A. https://bloom.bg/3Uo5jhB
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Many of Asia’s richest families are reconsidering their relocation plans and reducing billions in investments in Dubai as the Iran war rattles the city. https://bloom.bg/3NrOVtl
📷: Walaa Alshaer/Bloomberg
🚨 LIVE NOW: The India AI Impact Summit has laid out an ambitious roadmap for 2026. But can Modi make the nation truly a global AI power? Bloomberg reporters answer your questions in a Live Q&A. https://bloom.bg/4ayNSk4
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🚨 LIVE NOW: Modi secured a surprise trade deal with Trump, boosting the rupee and offering relief to conglomerates. But did Indian refiners lose their access to Russian oil? Bloomberg's Laura Davison, Shruti Srivastava, Alex Gabriel Simon, Rakesh Sharma answer your questions in a Live Q&A on the winners and losers. https://bloom.bg/3NTBfY5
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🚨 LIVE NOW: Modi's budget delivers a double shock: a shield against Trump's tariffs and a tax hike on India's booming F&O market. Bloomberg's Menaka Doshi, Shruti Srivastava, Chiranjivi Chakraborty and Subhadip Sircar analyze the impact in a Live Q&A. Join and ask your questions: https://bloom.bg/4kg2isC
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🎙️ Trillions of dollars in Japanese assets are held by elderly citizens at risk of cognitive decline.
On the latest Big Take Asia podcast, K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg’s Alice French discuss what this "dementia money cliff" means for the nation and the broader global economy: https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy
As Indian investors nurse losses in high-momentum favorites, the focus is shifting back to good old earnings. The so-called quality factor — stocks with strong profitability and balance sheets — is set to regain favor after two years of underperformance, according to Bernstein’s quant team.
Our new Markets Daily India newsletter explores what traders are looking at: https://bloom.bg/4pzl7bm
Chinese AI startup MiniMax spent its first three years largely on the sidelines of AI development. While rivals chased local ChatGPT clones, it was tackling a harder problem: building a single model capable of processing text, speech and video. Now, the $619 million IPO crystallizes a surge in wealth for its founder Yan Junjie. https://bloom.bg/3Z4mKmo
📷️: Lam Yik/Bloomberg
Illegal Bitcoin mining in Malaysia has become so prolific that authorities are deploying drones with thermal imaging to search for unusual power use. More here: https://bloom.bg/3Xz5HYZ
📷: Deputy Minister of PETRA’s Office
Hong Kong’s leader is holding a briefing as the city's deadliest fire in decades kills at least 55. Follow our live blog for the latest news and analysis: https://bloom.bg/43UuytR
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US authorities have been probing Indian companies trading chemicals used to make fentanyl but with little success. https://bloom.bg/4pw0iOd
📷: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images
🎙️ On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, Bloomberg’s James Mayger and Isabel Reynolds explore why comments on Taiwan from Japan’s new prime minister have inflamed tensions with China — and where the diplomatic standoff could go from here: https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy
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EXCLUSIVE: TikTok developer ByteDance secures a $30 billion loan in Asia’s second-largest dollar-denominated borrowing this year. Read more: https://bloom.bg/4dbLUqz
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Jaguar Land Rover's first electric Range Rover will start at $208,420, a price tag that will test wealthy buyers’ appetites for a battery-powered SUV. https://bloom.bg/4xzNQ4o
📷: Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc
Apple says that new CEO John Ternus will get a compensation package worth about $58 million in fiscal 2027, while Tim Cook’s role as executive chairman will pay around $47 million. https://bloom.bg/4668BbY
📷: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
🚨 LIVE NOW: Four-day work week and school closures - Asia is getting creative and drastic to conserve energy amid a severe fuel crunch. Is it enough to keep economies afloat? Bloomberg reporters answer your questions in a Live Q&A. https://bloom.bg/4bAw2NX
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AI demand is triggering a historic memory-chip shortage. Meeting exponential demand for chips will be expensive and maybe even impossible. Read Bloomberg's interactive explainer on how the chip squeeze affects you: https://bloom.bg/4ujFvRf
📷: Google
The saga of a contested gold mine shows how President Prabowo Subianto is putting Indonesia on a collision course with global markets. https://bloom.bg/4ryeO9a
📷: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
A new AI automation tool from Anthropic sparked a $285 billion rout in stocks across the software, financial services and asset management sectors on Tuesday as investors raced to dump shares with even the slightest exposure. https://bloom.bg/49UxtGo
📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
🎙️ From sinking Treasuries to global selloffs, the turmoil in Japan’s bond market is being felt far beyond its borders.
Find out how the crash is rattling international investors and why markets are still on tenterhooks on today’s Big Take Asia Podcast: https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy
🎙️ Amid Iran’s brutal crackdown on protesters, President Trump threatened to slap a 25% tariff on its trading partners.
Find out why the move puts China and India firmly in his trade war crosshairs, yet again, on the Big Take Asia podcast with K. Oanh Ha and Daniel Ten Kate: https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says a trade deal with India did not materialize last year because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call President Donald Trump. https://bloom.bg/49ncFHr
📷: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg
🎙️ President Trump's tariff war with China sent US firms scrambling to find new manufacturing hubs. India looked ideal, until the White House changed course.
On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, how shifting trade policies are undermining India's push to become the world’s next factory: https://link.podtrac.com/jxfy2rhy
🚨LIVE NOW: Bloomberg reporters answer your questions in a Live Q&A about RBI's intervention to stabilize the Indian rupee after its biggest drop since 2022. https://bloom.bg/43VLQH7
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An AI-enabled teddy bear sold by a Singapore-based company is back on the shelves after researchers discovered it chats unprompted about sexual fetishes and other unsuitable topics. https://bloom.bg/3M4UYmv
📷: FoloToy
Chen Tao and his wife Liu Chunlan, have become one of China’s richest AI billionaires, as their fortune soar on the world’s insatiable demand for the technology and a critical partnership with Nvidia.
Read more on their combined $9.1 billion net worth, vaulting them above the likes of Bill Ackman and Jon Gray on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. https://bloom.bg/3KfTeX9
🎙️ Indian-based workers once supported American financial services firms. Now, they’re increasingly key to their operations.
On today’s Big Take Asia podcast: How India’s government is encouraging Wall Street firms to expand their footprint in India and how President Trump’s new visa policies could speed up the push: https://link.podtrac.com/4rorpntg
