Sonja Laud, co-head of investments and real assets at UBS Asset Management, says the AI investment boom has shifted from an equity story to a balance-sheet story driven by debt, creating an interconnected web of risk that markets are dangerously underestimating. “To me, it is the web of debt across public-private debt and equity, which I think we need to be very mindful that we might not quite see the returns on these investments that we anticipated,” Laud said in an interview on Bloomberg […]

ByteDance Ltd. plans the release of a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks to augment its lead in AI video, a milestone event the company hopes will help close the gap with top US labs in as soon as three years.

Thailand held meetings with Apple Inc. officials over notifications received by politicians and others warning that they may have been targeted by mercenary spyware, part of a global alert sent to people in 99 countries.

Anthropic PBC is seeking to raise $3 billion to $3.5 billion from Japanese investors as part of its initial public offering, keeping the fundraising target in the country after the frontier artificial intelligence lab formally began marketing the IPO.

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Yamada Holdings Co., Japan’s biggest electronics retailer by sales, is considering selling a portfolio of stores for about ¥100 billion ($630 million), according to people familiar with the matter, as it seeks to boost capital efficiency and improve shareholder returns.

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., China’s biggest NAND flash memory maker, is targeting an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange as soon as the first quarter of 2027, people familiar with the matter said.

South Korea’s major battery makers are facing increased regulatory scrutiny over their operations in Hungary, a key European hub where SK On Co. and Samsung SDI Co. have invested billions of dollars.