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BANGKOK: Microsoft Thailand is constructing three local data centres under strategic partnerships to deliver localised cloud services.

Saturday 20 September 2025 11:00 AM

More wind turbines, eco-tourism centre planned for Phromthep

PHUKET: The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) has presented plans to install new wind turbines at the football field near Phromthep Cape to be a ‘Renewable Energy Station’ in Rawai.

Saturday 20 September 2025 09:00 AM

New tool to aid safer corruption reporting

BANGKOK: Chulalongkorn University (CU) has joined hands with the Anti-Corruption Organisation of Thailand (ACT) in launching Corruption Watch, a new digital tool that allows people to safely and anonymously report suspected corruption anytime.

Thursday 18 September 2025 08:22 AM

Phuket officials tout AI ‘Pencil Robot’ launch, vague on rollout

PHUKET: Phuket Governor Sophon Suwannarat has declared the island on course to become “Thailand’s first AI prototype city” after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to use the AI robot ‘Dinsaw’ (‘Pencil Robot’) at local government hospitals.

Wednesday 17 September 2025 10:42 AM

Green light for AI traffic signals

BANGKOK: For years, Bangkok’s drivers have endured hours stuck in traffic. But a quiet revolution has been underway since February this year, when the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) partnered with Google on Project Green Light.

Monday 8 September 2025 01:11 PM

Agency upbeat on growth outlook for digital content

BANGKOK: The value of Thailand's digital content industry is projected to reach B51.2 billion in 2025, B53.7bn in 2026, and is trending towards B56.4bn in 2027.

Sunday 7 September 2025 10:30 AM

ChatGPT to get parental controls after teen’s death

Phuket News / World

Thursday 4 September 2025 10:00 AM

PARIS: American artificial intelligence firm OpenAI said Tuesday (Sept 2) it would add parental controls to its chatbot ChatGPT, a week after an American couple said the system encouraged their teenaged son to kill himself.

Push for Phuket tuk-tuks to go electric under pilot scheme

PHUKET: Phuket has been chosen as the pilot province for a national project to convert small passenger vehicles, including the island’s iconic tuk-tuks, from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles (EVs), in a move aimed at cutting pollution and easing fuel costs for operators.

Wednesday 3 September 2025 02:22 PM

BDO Phuket Enters a New Chapter

BDO, one of the world’s leading professional services firms, is entering a new chapter in Phuket with a change in leadership at its local office. With a fresh vision and renewed focus to support businesses in the region navigate an increasingly complex economic and regulatory environment.

Sunday 31 August 2025 10:00 AM

MCOT Phuket empowers youth to fight online human trafficking

PHUKET: Sixty students from five Phuket schools have taken part in a special youth network workshop aimed at strengthening media literacy and building defences against the growing threat of online human trafficking.

Saturday 30 August 2025 10:00 AM

Phuket begins AI training for government officials

PHUKET: Provincial officials have launched a training programme on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in government administration as part of efforts to drive Phuket towards becoming a Smart City.

Tuesday 26 August 2025 01:25 PM

Safe Zone: Protection agency raises alarm over internet risks to children

PHUKET: The most dangerous place for many children today is not a dark alley or an unfamiliar street ‒ it’s the screen in their hands. That is the stark warning from Mattias Bjorkqvist, Executive Director of For Freedom International (FFI), a Phuket-based foundation that has spent years working to combat human trafficking and exploitation in Thailand.

Sunday 24 August 2025 09:00 AM

Thai government issues new rules for SIM cards

BANGKOK: The government has announced stricter measures for SIM card registration to combat rising online fraud, following cases in which criminals have exploited SIM-swap scams to steal from victims.

Thursday 21 August 2025 09:57 AM

Hospital’s new AI model is a boon for diabetics

LAT BUA LUANG: Lat Bua Luang Hospital in Ayutthaya’s Lat Bua Luang district has unveiled an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) model aimed at enhancing diabetes care through real-time health data monitoring.

Monday 18 August 2025 10:00 AM

ChatGPT is Making You Stupid

Phuket Life / Technology

Sunday 17 August 2025 02:00 PM

Is AI turning you into a zombie? Does chronic use damage your thinking and creativity? New research out of MIT’s Media Lab suggests it might. ChatGPT not only makes you lazy, it found, it significantly lowers your brain activity.

Which AI assistant should you trust with your life?

Phuket Life / Technology

Sunday 20 July 2025 02:00 PM

It’s been a while since your first fling with ChatGPT. AI’s breakneck evolution has now seen the emergence of a crop of aspiring rivals – names like Llama, Grok and DeepSeek. So is it time to trade in ChatGPT for a younger model?

AI-powered ‘nudify’ apps fuel deadly wave of digital blackmail

Phuket News / World

Saturday 19 July 2025 01:00 PM

WASHINGTON: After a Kentucky teenager died by suicide this year, his parents discovered he had received threatening texts demanding US$3,000 (B97,000) to suppress an AI-generated nude image of him.

NBTC endorses eight new cybercrime measures