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Episode 412 · today

Five minutes this morning: DeepSeek V4, NVIDIA earnings, VinFast UAE

Daily Brief — 06:42 · Le Ha My
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Daily Brief

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The morning news cut for Asia tech. Drops at 06:00 ICT every weekday, with the five things that mattered while you slept. Edited by Le Ha My.

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A 45–75 minute conversation each week with a founder, operator or policy lead shaping the region. Hosted by Cheryl Ng since 2024.

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◆ Show 01 · Daily Brief · 412 episodes since Feb 2024

Daily Brief

Seven minutes. Five stories. Before you open your laptop. Edited by Le Ha My, narrated by the editorial bench in rotation.

⬢ Latest · today 06:00 ICT 06:42 Daily Brief 412 cover
Episode 412 · May 25, 2026

Five minutes this morning: DeepSeek V4, NVIDIA earnings, VinFast UAE

DeepSeek V4 tops MMLU-Pro at one-eighth the GPT-5 training cost. NVIDIA reports $42.1B in data-center revenue but warns on China. VinFast in talks with a UAE sovereign fund at a $9.4B valuation.

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№ 411 PM Brief · End-of-day: Why China is skipping HBM3ESun · CXMT's roadmap, Toyota solid-state pause, ByteDance's Doubao spin-off May 24 7:18 𝖳
№ 410 AM Brief · Anthropic opens HCMC, Krutrim's $1.2B Series CSat · Plus the EU AI Act compute threshold change, and Bun 1.3 May 24 6:55 𝖳
№ 409 PM Brief · CVE-2026-31204 — the Tomcat zero-day exploited across SEAFri · Plus Mistral open-sources Magistrate, Kubernetes 1.34 GA May 23 7:02 𝖳
№ 408 AM Brief · Naver vs Kakao — opposite bets on Korean-language AIFri · Plus Stripe / Razorpay rumour, Xendit Series D closes May 23 6:28 𝖳
№ 407 PM Brief · IBM's 1,121-qubit claim and the community's pushbackThu · Plus CATL's 230 Wh/kg LFP cell, ISRO Chandrayaan-4 May 22 7:11 𝖳
№ 406 AM Brief · Loongson's LoongArch 7000 and the x86 self-sufficiency pushThu · Plus PostgreSQL 18, Sequoia China closes $6.8B fund May 22 6:38 𝖳
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◆ Show 02 · Asia Tech Podcast · 89 episodes since 2024

Asia Tech Podcast

A long-form conversation each Thursday with a founder, operator, or policy lead shaping Asia tech. Hosted by Cheryl Ng.

⬢ Latest · Thursday 58:12 Forrest Li Sea Group interview
Episode 089 · May 22, 2026

Forrest Li (Sea) on splitting Shopee, Garena and Sea Money — and what comes next

A 58-minute exclusive with Sea Group's CEO. The strategy behind the split, the lessons from 2022–2024, and what an Asia consumer platform looks like in a post-LLM operating environment.

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№ 088 Liang Wenfeng (DeepSeek) on shipping V4 for $8.2 millionMay 15 · The MoE thesis, FP8 training, and life as a sub-200-person frontier lab in Hangzhou May 15 1:12:04 𝖳
№ 087 Tan Hooi Ling on Grab's second decade, and why she's leaving operationsMay 8 · The Grab co-founder on the playbook that no longer works, and the next one May 8 56:48 𝖳
№ 086 Akio Toyoda · Why Toyota still believes hydrogen will winMay 1 · An 84-minute interview with the Toyota chairman on the multi-fuel bet May 1 1:24:18 𝖳
№ 085 Nadiem Makarim (GoTo) on Indonesia's data-residency pushApr 24 · The GoTo founder on infrastructure, regulation, and the next 280 million users Apr 24 1:02:55 𝖳
№ 084 Park Ji-won (Naver) on the Korean-language LLM strategyApr 17 · The Naver CTO on building for one language, in a world of frontier models Apr 17 58:32 𝖳
№ 083 Anika Sharma (Krutrim) on the benchmark scandal — and the rebuildApr 10 · How India's biggest AI bet survived, and what's coming in v3 Apr 10 1:06:21 𝖳
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Voice Articles · the long-form archive, narrated

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Voice Articles is the on-demand audio version of every long-form piece DTW publishes — typically within 90 minutes of the article going live. The voice library was trained specifically for editorial reading: it handles names, acronyms, and quotation marks the way a human narrator would.

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10 min DeepSeek V4 takes the top spot on reasoning benchmarks at one-eighth the training cost of GPT-5Frontier models · narrated by Ariana · published 14:08 ICT today 11:04 𝖳
24 min Diaries: 72 hours in Huaqiangbei, where H100 GPUs are still sold inside Lenovo boxesAsia · narrated by Cassio · speaker-switched dialogue today 26:48 𝖳
7 min Why on-device AI matters more than another GPT-5 — Le Ha My's columnAI · narrated by Ariana · published yesterday May 24 8:12 𝖳
18 min Why Toyota still believes hydrogen will win — an exclusive Akio Toyoda interviewJapan · narrated by Kai (bilingual) · speaker-switched May 24 19:22 𝖳
9 min Naver vs Kakao: two Korean giants make opposite bets on Korean-language AIAsia · narrated by Ariana · published May 23 May 23 10:08 𝖳
14 min VNG, VNPay and the eight-year question: can Vietnam produce a real decacorn?Vietnam · narrated by Huong (native northern) · published May 22 May 22 15:40 𝖳
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