Indonesia Establishes $6 Billion SOE to Protect Textile Industry from Tariffs
Indonesia launched a new state-owned enterprise (SOE) to revitalize its textile and garment industry and shield it from potential fallout from U.S. tariffs, according to Fortune. The decision, announced on January 14 by Airlangga Hartato, Indonesia's coordinating minister for economic affairs, places the SOE under the control of Danantara, Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund, which will invest up to $6 billion into the firm to produce new technology and expand exports.
The move was intended to protect the industry against a surge in cheap imports and a proposed 19% U.S. tariff on Indonesian textile exports, Fortune reported. Indonesia's textile industry faced growing regional competition from countries like China and Bangladesh.
Enterprises Rethink AI System Design
Meanwhile, in the realm of artificial intelligence, enterprises are reevaluating their approach to designing AI systems, particularly regarding Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), VentureBeat reported. Many organizations that rapidly adopted RAG to ground Large Language Models (LLMs) in proprietary data are finding that retrieval has become a foundational system dependency rather than a feature bolted onto model inference.
According to VentureBeat, failures in retrieval can propagate directly into business risk when AI systems are deployed to support decision-making, automate workflows, or operate semi-autonomously. Stale context, ungoverned access paths, and poorly evaluated retrieval pipelines can undermine trust, compliance, and operational reliability. The article reframes retrieval as infrastructure rather than application logic and introduces a system-level model for designing retrieval platforms.
Mistral AI, in partnership with global industry leaders, is co-designing tailored AI solutions to address difficult problems, MIT Technology Review reported. Their methodology begins by identifying an "iconic use case" as the foundation for AI transformation, setting the blueprint for future AI solutions.
Speculation Surrounds Trump's Involvement in Cryptocurrency
In other news, speculation arose regarding former President Donald Trump's involvement in cryptocurrency, Fortune reported. Whispers circulated during an inauguration weekend in Washington, D.C., that Trump had launched his own memecoin, which reportedly crossed $1 billion around the end of a DJ set by Snoop Dogg.
The Mystery of the Equals Signs
An online discussion on Hacker News addressed the prevalence of equals signs in excerpts from old emails posted on Twitter. The consensus was that the equals signs were not a code or an artifact of scanning and OCR, but rather a result of improper conversion of emails to a readable format. The issue stemmed from the encoding of emails in the 1980s to accommodate long lines and special characters.
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