Anthropic has opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed a memorandum of understanding with the city-state's digital ministry, broadening cooperation on AI safety, security, evaluation, and adoption. The move expands the company's presence in a market where Claude use is among the highest in the world, with implications for governance.

China's precision manufacturing giant Lens Technology is expanding into AI server infrastructure through a proposed US$25 million acquisition of a controlling stake in PMG International, gaining access to server rack manufacturing and liquid-cooling technologies. The transaction marks a further diversification beyond the company's established consumer electronics and automotive components businesses.

Anthropic has signed its first data center lease in Canada, taking capacity at the Point Tupper data center campus planned by energy company EverWind Fuels in Nova Scotia. The facility will be built in two phases, with the first 95-megawatt phase scheduled to open by the end of 2027.

Taiwan-based iBase Solution is expanding from industrial computers (IPCs) and energy storage into liquid-cooled prefabricated modular data centers, targeting AI infrastructure construction and engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts. The company aims to leverage its energy storage expertise, system integration capabilities, and customer relationships to capture opportunities in power, cooling, and data center development as global AI investment grows.

China is moving to tighten oversight of technology transfers that support its companies' overseas expansion, proposing export bans and licensing requirements for artificial intelligence (AI), biomedicine, and solar manufacturing, and requiring exporters to register covered transactions immediately.

TECO Electric & Machinery is shifting from a motor-focused manufacturer to a platform-based provider of integrated power, energy, drive-system, and AI infrastructure solutions, as chairman Morris Li says artificial intelligence is accelerating demand for autonomous power, microgrids, virtual power plants, and faster data center construction worldwide.

OpenClaw is drawing renewed attention after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang endorsed the open-source AI agent framework as a foundation for future technology, especially robotics. His remarks also highlighted the security challenges of autonomous systems, including behavioral drift, and Nvidia's efforts to contain agents through sandboxing, permissions, monitoring, and hardware-based controls.

Hyundai Motor Group is accelerating plans to mass-produce and sell its Atlas humanoid robot while establishing an RX Business Strategy Team to oversee its global robotics strategy under the banner "Robotics Everything." The move signals a restructuring aimed at putting the group's robotics business on a more systematic growth path.

The European Union is strengthening its response to cybersecurity risks posed by artificial intelligence, planning to use automated measures to accelerate incident response while testing Chinese open-weight AI models to assess the capabilities and limitations of different technologies.

Artificial intelligence data-center expansion is intensifying a global race for electricity, as cloud providers increasingly prioritize how quickly power can be secured over cost and decarbonization. As grids struggle to keep pace with computing growth, companies are considering on-site generation, batteries, and direct-current systems to speed deployment while managing emissions and efficiency.

TECO Electric and Machinery chairman Morris Li said the company has entered the final stage of testing its modular data center (MDC) solution. The company is targeting opportunities in the artificial intelligence (AI) data center market and seeks to help customers complete construction projects in nine months.