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The European Commission yesterday adopted new exemptions to its Batteries Regulation, freeing the Apple Watch and AirPods from the requirement to have user-removable and replaceable batteries.

India's first privately-developed rocket reached orbit on its debut launch Saturday, marking a historic milestone for the country's commercial space sector.

South Korea's financial authorities have investigated more than 40 cases of unfair trading, including market manipulation and fraudulent crypto trading, over the past two years since the Virtual Asset User Protection Act took effect in July 2024.

Amazon Japan supplier AZ-Com Maruwa Holdings plans to adopt the regulated yen stablecoin JPYC for payments to its network of about 2,300 business partners, including subcontractors and truck drivers.

In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face revealed that it was breached by an autonomous AI agent system.