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Indonesia has deactivated approximately five million underage accounts across digital platforms following implementation of new child protection regulations. The government is prioritising platform redesign over blanket age bans.
Britain's AI Minister Kanishka Narayan has indicated the government would consider imposing formal regulations on advanced artificial intelligence models should its current voluntary oversight framework prove insufficient to protect the public.
MDEC has pledged full backing for Malaysia's Digital 2030 agenda, aiming to elevate the nation's digital economy contribution to GDP from 25% to 30% and establish Malaysia as a trusted, globally competitive AI leader by 2030.
India is racing to build massive data centres to compete in artificial intelligence, but residents in Visakhapatnam fear the environmental and economic costs outweigh promised benefits, highlighting tensions between national ambitions and local welfare.