A top executive at the UAE national oil company said the current conflict is a warning and urged Asian countries to begin building strategic oil reserves.

Digitimes reports that as major tech firms increase spending on custom AI chips, competitive focus is shifting to network technologies that connect ever-more complex compute systems. AI infrastructure is moving toward multi-architecture deployments — GPUs alongside proprietary AI accelerators — boosting demand for advanced interconnects. The shift should create opportunities across the supply chain, from switch and interconnect-chip makers to cable, connector and optical-component suppliers, particularly within Taiwan’s hardware ecosystem.

Semafor reports the Irish Media Commission is investigating Elon Musk’s social platform X over child-safety practices, focusing on its age-verification mechanisms and parental controls. The regulator said it will assess whether X effectively implements age safeguards and whether it provides adequate protection for users under 16 where adult content is allowed; it flagged parental-control features as potentially inadequate, hard to find, and not sufficiently highlighted to new users. If found to breach Irish online-safety regulations, X could face fines of up to €20m or 10% of the company’s annual turnover.