1. US government's human resources agency is rushing to shut down and drastically shrink entire departments.

2. South Korea's business leaders are taking action to offset the threat posed by Trump's aggressive trade policies.

3. Singaporeans lost a record S$1.1 billion ($822 million) to scams last year, with cryptocurrency schemes accounting for almost a quarter of the losses.

4. Syria's interim president said his country had a "historic opportunity" to rebuild.

5. Microsoft has invested in cloud data firm Veeam Software to build AI products.

6. DeepSeek is accelerating the launch of the successor to January's cut-price AI reasoning R1 model.

7. Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's low-cost AI models.