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Honor has officially launched its premium mid-range smartphones, the Honor 400 and Honor 400 Pro, in Malaysia — making the country one of the first markets to get the new devices. — SoyaCincau pic

Honor 400 series lands in Malaysia: AI-enhanced cameras, 200MP lens, and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Lei Jun, co-founder and CEO of Xiaomi, speaks during the launching of Xiaomi XRING O1 chipset. —  AFP pic

‘Harder than ascending to heaven’: Xiaomi drops Apple-class chip after 11 years of pain and code

Google is testing ad placements in its new ‘AI Mode’ for search as it seeks to monetise generative AI while fending off rivals like ChatGPT. — Reuters pic

Google’s AI search rewrites playbook, forcing advertisers to adapt or fall behind

Infinix has launched its latest GT series gaming smartphone, the Infinix GT 30 Pro. — SoyaCincau pic

Game on: Infinix GT 30 Pro lands in Malaysia with 144Hz display, shoulder triggers, and RM1,299 starting price

Apple also announced some improvements to Safari. — AFP pic

New iPhones twice a year? Apple reportedly mulls breaking launch schedule from 2026

‘Fortnite’ is a heavyweight of the gaming world, with Epic claiming around 500 million users in 2023. — Reuters pic

Epic Games restores ‘Fortnite’ on iPhones as Apple row over ‘junk fees’ eases

Malaysians have been snapping up the Proton e.MAS 7, making it the best-selling EV for the first four months of 2025. — SoyaCincau pic

Proton e.MAS 7 sells like hotcakes — One every hour since January

TikTok says it is hard for it to quantify the number of accounts linked to terrorist organisations that have been taken down. — Reuters pic

TikTok under fire as Boko Haram, extremists use live streams to call for violence and woo young followers

Tesla Malaysia has started deliveries for its latest EV model via its Tesla Delivery Centre in Cyberjaya, and Service Centres located in Penang and Johor. — Picture via SOYACINCAU

Tesla Model Y 2025 ‘Juniper’ deliveries has started across Malaysia

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella announces that Grok AI, by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start up xAI, will be available on Microsoft’s Foundry Models, during the Microsoft Build 2025, conference in Seattle, Washington on May 19, 2025. — AFP pic

Microsoft backs Musk’s xAI despite Grok chatbot’s ‘unauthorised’ white supremacist rant

Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers the first keynote speech of Computex 2025 at the Taipei Music Center in Taipei on May 19, 2025. — Reuters pic

Nvidia expands AI dominance with new chip-link tech, sets up Taiwan base as Computex kicks off

Microsoft is holding its Build conference in Seattle on May 19, where analysts expect the company to unveil its latest tools for developers building AI systems. — Reuters pic

Microsoft envisions ‘agentic web’ of smarter AI systems that collaborate and remember

An Instagram screenshot from Kopiforge’s South-east Asian cooking game ‘Sedap!’

‘Love letter to South-east Asia’: Singapore cooking game ‘Sedap!’ hits Steam May 22

India’s EOS-09 satellite failed during the third stage of its launch on May 17, 2025. — Picture from X/ZhanBao (战报)

‘Mission could not be accomplished’: India space agency fails 101st try, satellite lost

A space race between China and the US has led to the launch of new exploration plans in recent years. In 2024, China became the first nation to bring back samples from the moon’s far side with its Chang’e-6 lunar probe. — AFP file pic

China sets launch of asteroid probe Tianwen-2 for late May, state media reports

A screengrab of the attempted kidnapping of the daughter and grandson of Paymium’s chief executive in Paris on Tuesday.

Paris kidnap attempt puts EU crypto data laws under fire