Thailand officially launched ThaiLLM last month, a sovereign AI foundation model built from the ground up for the Thai language, trained on over 100 billion tokens of Thai-specific data, and made freely available to the public through a developer API…
When a Bangkok-founded technology company raises the largest generative AI funding round in Southeast Asian history, it’s tempting for businesses outside the capital to file it under “interesting but irrelevant” and move on. That would be a mistake. Amity, the…
On March 12, 2026, Google quietly changed something fundamental about how customers find businesses. Not with a search algorithm tweak or a ranking update — but with a feature that turns Google Maps into a conversational AI assistant serving over…
The Thai government has moved decisively to put artificial intelligence within reach of small businesses, farmers, and street vendors — and the programme comes with real money attached, a fast-approaching deadline, and Chiang Mai directly in its sights. Three state…
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI, recently published findings from a major study interviewing 80,508 people across 159 countries and 70 languages. They asked a simple question: what do you actually want from AI? The answers matter for anyone…
I always used the em dash. It was, for me, one of the most useful tools in written English — a mark that could hold a thought mid-flight, pivot without warning, or land a point with more weight than a…
There is a narrative that will not go away. It shows up on LinkedIn, at conferences, in business media. The message is roughly this: if you are over 40 and not yet using AI, you are falling behind. It sounds…
By CMBN Staff Writer OpenAI has just made one of its most powerful research tools — Deep Research — free for all users. Previously reserved for paid subscribers, this tool enables ChatGPT to perform intensive, multi-step research across the web,…