Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg:
Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boosted by AI-linked local companies  —  Taiwan has overtaken China as the market with the top weighting in a key emerging-markets stock index for the first time in nearly two decades …

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video  —  A whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC claims that Google breached its own ethics rules to help an Israeli contractor apply AI to drone surveillance video.

P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B+, as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy  —  Talks are at a very advanced stage, and an announcement could be made soon.  —  A KKR -led consortium is nearing a deal to buy …

Luke James / Tom's Hardware:
OpenSourceMalware: 230+ malicious OpenClaw extensions, posing as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27  —  Or is that Moltbot, or Clawdbot?  I can't keep up. … Security researchers are warning that the growing ecosystem around 'OpenClaw …

Clive Cookson / Financial Times:
A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far higher resolution than current models  —  EU-funded project to create a computer simulation of the world could also model biodiversity or pandemics