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DeepSeek has added two standalone tools to its API platform, one that searches the web and one that fetches a single page. Both return raw JSON and use the same Bearer authentication as the rest of the DeepSeek API, so one key covers all three. The company says they let agent and retrieval augmented generation applications reach live web content without a separate search provider.

China has proposed export bans and restrictions on 23 AI related technologies, including models, agents and chip designs, under a draft plan issued by the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology. The same document proposes controls on technologies tied to biotechnology and solar manufacturing. According to SCMP, the stated aim is to tighten Beijing's grip on a sector it treats as strategically vital.

Rokid has launched a ride hailing service on its AI glasses in partnership with Tencent Mobility, letting a wearer book a car by voice without taking out a phone at all. A user says a destination, and the glasses handle pickup points, fare comparison, booking and payment. Rokid describes it as the industry's first native ride hailing service for AI glasses, a claim the company makes itself with no outside party cited.

Tesla has unveiled a new Roadster that jumps over a line of cars and turns a slow rotation in midair. The trick relies on cold gas thrusters, engineering drawn from SpaceX and reworked to work in the atmosphere rather than the vacuum of space. TechCrunch reports that the car used a mix of high powered fans and thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin around, and settle back onto the pavement, before lifting itself over a Cybercab, a Cybertruck, a Tesla Semi, a Model Y, an

Roboticists from the Robotics and AI Institute, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have developed a new dual-armed robotic system known as AthenaZero. This robot achieved human-like agile movements, successfully performing baseball-inspired tasks. These tasks included throwing balls, catching them, and hitting them with a bat, a notable development in robot manipulation capabilities.

Epson has released an extension for Adobe Express that sends design files straight to print production. The extension, called Epson Print, opens the company's Print Automate application from inside Adobe Express and pushes a design to a printer in a few clicks, a change aimed at businesses and print professionals.

A mild displacement of jobs across the Asia Pacific region, as companies expand their use of artificial intelligence, could reduce growth in office space demand by five percentage points over the next few years. This is according to property consultancy CBRE, as detailed in a report by SCMP.

Amazon has unveiled two devices built to listen to and record a person's day and turn it into calendar reminders and other insights generated by AI. The hardware sits under the Bee brand, which Amazon acquired last year, and it comes in two forms. Frontier is a bracelet priced at $75, while Eclipse is a small block that resembles a portable magnetic charger and attaches to a smartphone at $100.

Six in ten Singapore organisations hit by ransomware in the past year said their attackers used AI, against 40% globally, a gap Semperis puts at 1.5 times the global rate. The identity security company's annual ransomware report also found that 42% had an AI agent or system inside their own organisation manipulated or exploited, which places the risk on both sides of the perimeter.

WhatsApp has introduced guest calling, which lets an account holder invite anyone to join a call even if that person does not have the app or a WhatsApp account. Calls are free, carry no time limit and use the same encryption as ordinary WhatsApp calls.