Alphabet's Google plans to invest 1 billion to build data centers in Thailand, joining global tech companies in adding cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The company will add facilities in Bangkok and Chonburi, a province southeast of the capital. The outlay could help add 4 billion to Thailand's economy by 2029 and support 14,000 jobs annually over the next five years, Google said Monday, citing a Deloitte study. The investment was unveiled by Google and Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand's recently appointed prime minister, underscoring the push by Southeast Asia's governments to attract foreign tech firms. Long seen as a tech hinterland, the region of about 675 million people is fast emerging as a growth opportunity for Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon, which are spending billions of dollars to ramp up AI data centers from Thailand and Malaysia to Singapore and Indonesia.

'AI FOR SPIES': U.S. intelligence agencies will soon be using a secretive generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform from Microsoft that will let America's spies safely use AI models in the process of analyzing sensitive data. Sheryl Crow speaks onstage during Grammys On The Hill on April 30, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) 'ACT NOW': Sheryl Crow is calling on Congress to "act now" about artificial intelligence in the music industry and beyond. CHIP RESTRICTIONS: The U.S. on Tuesday revoked some of Intel and Qualcomm's licenses to export to China over national security concerns, a move that the Chinese government complained was unnecessary and excessive. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo attends an event in Bangkok, Thailand, March 13, 2024. DOWN LOW: The use of generative artificial intelligence tools by employees in the workplace is booming, but most of the workers who are utilizing the new technology have reservations about admitting it, new data indicates.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. BANGKOK (AP) -- Myanmar's main pro-democracy resistance group said Thursday its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw, but the country's ruling military said it destroyed or seized more than a dozen drones used in the attacks. The opposition National Unity Government's "Defense Ministry" said in a statement that special units of the People's Defense Force used drones to attack the targets simultaneously. The group, known by the acronym NUG, calls itself the country's legitimate government, while the People's Defense Force is made up of many local resistance groups with a good deal of independence.

Bangkok, Thailand – Sheltering from the sun on a street corner, Kridsada Ahjed rues the day he got involved with the loan sharks who now gobble up most of his daily earnings. "I went to the loan sharks because people like me – with no assets or savings – cannot qualify to get help from legitimate banks," Ahjed, a 40-year-old motorcycle taxi driver, told Al Jazeera. "Now almost everything I make in a day goes towards paying the interest on my debt." Kridsada is far from alone. Thailand's household debt reached nearly 87 percent of gross domestic product last year, according to the Bank of Thailand, among the highest on earth.

This paper presents a novel deep learning model based on the transformer architecture to predict the load-deformation behavior of large bored piles in Bangkok subsoil. The model encodes the soil profile and pile features as tokenization input, and generates the load-deformation curve as output. The model also incorporates the previous sequential data of load-deformation curve into the decoder to improve the prediction accuracy. The model also incorporates the previous sequential data of load-deformation curve into the decoder. The model shows a satisfactory accuracy and generalization ability for the load-deformation curve prediction, with a mean absolute error of 5.72% for the test data. The model could also be used for parametric analysis and design optimization of piles under different soil and pile conditions, pile cross section, pile length and type of pile.

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson provides analysis into the corporate world forging trade deals with China amid growing tensions on'The Story.' Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday advised his national security team to prepare for the worst-case scenario amid an increase in threats -- both internally and externally -- to the nation. The comments, carried on the state-run Xinhua News Agency, came during a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's National Security Commission. FILE: China's President Xi Jinping arrives to attend the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC summit, Nov. 19, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. Xi said the "complexity and difficulty of the national security issues we now face have increased significantly." China must "adhere to bottom-line thinking and worst-case scenario thinking, and get ready to undergo the major tests of high winds and rough waves, and even perilous, storm seas," he said.

The Catholic Church in Asia recently turned to artificial intelligence to create a document for use by the wider Church in order that its members might more closely "walk together." The Vatican's official media outlet, Vatican News, published a report revealing that synod organizers in Asia had used artificial intelligence to help draft a final document, as Catholic news outlet The Pillar reported. A synod is a gathering, "traditionally of bishops," that helps the Church "to walk forward together in the same direction," notes the Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation. The word "synod" comes from the Greek syn-hodos, meaning "the same way" or "the same path," it also notes. The Asian synodal continental assembly in Bangkok, Thailand, was held on Feb. 24-26 as part of the global synodal process.

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