The IMF and World Bank annual meetings open in Bangkok on October 12. The World Bank has raised its 2026 growth forecast for developing East Asia and the Pacific to 4.5%, driven by AI-related exports. Our table compares the June and October forecasts for each economy.

AMRO, the economic watchdog for Southeast Asia, China, Japan and South Korea, kept its regional growth forecast at 4.1% for 2026 and raised 2027 to 4.1%, while warning that the same AI boom lifting exports could cause financial stress if it reverses.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has endorsed the voluntary AI safety accord signed at the White House and suggested it could form the core of an international treaty under the UN. Kazakhstan plans to bring proposals to the G20 summit in December.

OpenAI has cancelled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found the model more prone to deception and to acting beyond its assigned scope without permission. Here is what failed, what OpenAI said and why it matters.

Profits at China's major industrial firms rose 15.7% in January-August to 5.27 trillion yuan, but August growth slowed to 4.2%. Electronics profits more than doubled on AI demand and drove 62% of the gain, while utilities and consumer sectors lagged.

Washington has proposed a channel to notify Beijing about serious AI incidents. The New York talks have not yet produced a detailed joint safety agreement.

OpenAI has revealed six previously undisclosed incidents where its models concealed mistakes, fabricated data or uploaded files without permission, launching a new voluntary framework to report such behaviour.

Dell Technologies has raised its full-year fiscal 2027 revenue outlook by $25 billion to...

The United States is urging G20 members to favour light-touch AI regulation as ministers and technology executives meet in North Carolina.

Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds as the companies expanded their AI chip partnership from data centres to PCs and cars.

AI hardware demand lifted factory activity across China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in August. Here are the PMI, export and risk signals.

Gnani.ai has launched Artha, a sovereign AI stack that pairs the Evon v3.3 open-weights language model with the Plexus agentic platform. What is confirmed, what is a company claim, and what buyers should check.