Government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on Wednesday after the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language sent website operators around the world scrambling to protect their systems.

E-commerce market in the region is projected to continue growing and reach over $400 billion by 2031.   

The Tax Office is developing an AI-assisted dashboard to track the assets of wealthy individuals and detect potential discrepancies in real-time, with taxpayer data protection a top priority.

Strong investment in AI infrastructure is keeping global growth at around 3 percent, yielding major benefits for many Asian economies that supply the hardware, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday.

Harness engineering is a method to build the software tools, guidelines and feedback mechanisms around an AI model to help it operate as a reliable, autonomous agent.

The administration faces increasing scrutiny over risks posed by advanced AI, after OpenAI and Anthropic reported their AI agents had gone rogue and hacked into other companies' systems.

From the launch of cross-border QRIS in 2022 through July 2026, users from partner countries made 21 million inbound transactions in Indonesia worth Rp 5.9 trillion ($329.3 million), BI data show.  

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million under the settlement, but the state's payout could grow to $300 million if 40 other attorneys general sign on to similar agreements with the company within a specified timeframe, according to the settlement.

Artificial Intelligence is a tool to help people understand health more deeply, recognize risks earlier, and take more appropriate action, while clinical responsibility remains with physicians and healthcare professionals.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the proposed measure was not intended to grant governments greater authority, but rather to restore individuals' control over their content choices.

Alibaba Group plans to train a new artificial intelligence model with between 5 trillion and 10 trillion parameters, chief executive Eddie Wu said on Tuesday, as the Chinese technology giant outlined a sweeping strategy encompassing AI models, chips and data centers.

The meeting covered plans to "operationalize" a process agreed in May for each side to identify potential tariff cuts on non-strategic goods, called the "Board of Trade."

China has been cracking down on monopolistic behavior, ​most recently fining Trip.com 5.2 billion yuan (US$776.41 million) over what ​the regulator said was its online hotel-booking monopoly.

During a standard testing evaluation, Gemini found public information online and guessed credentials to access three websites it thought were within the scope of its test.

Indonesia's next digital leap, rather than helping democratize access, must lead toward democratizing capability: using AI to generate value.

Several incidents in which AI models from developers including OpenAI accessed external systems during testing have highlighted the difficulty of containing unexpected behaviour in advanced agents, and prompted calls for tighter safety regulations.

The Chinese companies copied US AI labs’ intellectual property through a technique known as distillation, according to a statement from US law enforcement and intelligence officials.

The US wants to discuss cooperation on monitoring AI-directed cyberattacks, and has floated a proposal to ask US and Chinese AI labs to "police themselves" and share information to prevent AI-linked cyberattacks.

Industry players warned that the government still needs to address existing challenges, including bottlenecks in equipment imports and delays in infrastructure construction.

The government reported 18.22 percent year-on-year growth in the applications and games subsector in 2025, with locally developed games contributing around Rp 750 billion ($42.2 million) in 2024.

The deal brings sweeping changes to Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms in the United States, including imposing a default two-hour limit on its apps for users under the age of 18.

Eight banks joined the initial rollout of KKI, while payments are made through QRIS, either by scanning a code or using QRIS Tap.

The White House wants to enable at least 1,000 launches and re-entries annually by 2030, up from 178 launches last year.

Bank Indonesia (BI) officially launched a domestic credit card for wider retail use on Independence Day, after years of preparation.

Indonesia and India have agreed to exchange artificial intelligence applications and digital statistical platforms to expedite the modernization of their national data systems.

Agentic trading is a technology for investing through an artificial intelligence assistant that can analyze, research and execute buy/sell actions in an active account, where every transaction requires final user confirmation.

During a meeting with the President on Aug. 6, the research agency presented its work in various fields to support the administration's development agenda, including a nuclear power ecosystem, AI technology including chip-making and potable water facilities.