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Hyundai’s journey in the Indonesian market resembles a K-Drama script, rich with elements that have made these narratives from the automaker’s home country resonate with audiences around the globe.
Much like a classic K-Drama, Hyundai’s story features a struggling protagonist, a sudden rise, unexpected twists, and cliffhangers that set the stage for the next season. Here we delve into Hyundai’s evolving narrative in Indonesia, exploring the twists and turns that have played out so far, and give our predictions as to what surprises await us in the plot ahead.
Source: GlobalData
Act I: The Struggle
Before the pandemic, Hyundai Indonesia was a small player, with its average annual sales reaching just 1k units in 2016-19. The Staria MPV was Hyundai’s only locally produced model, manufactured under a contract with PT Handal’s facility. Although the automaker’s role was small, its ambition to expand was strong; it was already preparing to write a new chapter and expand its presence in a country with the largest population in ASEAN and the 4th largest in the world. To achieve this goal, the company announced plans to invest in its own plant in Indonesia.
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Act II: The Rise
In 2022, Hyundai’s new plant came online, starting with the production of the Creta SUV (Q1 2022) and Stargazer MPV (Q3 2022). The automaker’s sales surged, rocketing from 3.16k units in 2021 to 32.0k units in 2022 and 35.5k units in 2023. In addition, the Indonesian government’s Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) incentive policy supported Hyundai in producing the IONIQ 5 BEV, enabling the company to gain momentum and the confidence to compete against the Japanese brands that dominated the market. At the same time, Hyundai ended its partnership with PT Handal, seemingly ready to stand on its own two feet.
For additional context, it is worth noting that Hyundai’s new plant had an initial production capacity of 150k units a year, with 50% of its output intended for export. This could therefore imply that the automaker’s domestic sales target was around 75k units a year; a figure that was already halfway achieved by the end of 2023. As such, this can be seen as Hyundai’s real “glow-up” moment.
Act III: The Plot Twist
As is the case in K-Dramas, where the introduction of new characters or unfavorable situations often serve as a plot twist, Hyundai Indonesia’s sales suddenly nosedived. In 2024, its volumes fell by 37% year-on-year (YoY) to 22.4k units, before suffering a further 10% YoY decline in January-July 2025 to 12.4k units. This abrupt change in trajectory was likely due to the emergence of Chinese brands in the Indonesian market, that arrived offering both affordable models and BEVs, amidst weak overall demand in the country. The number of Chinese automakers in Indonesia rose from just 3 in 2022 to 11 in 2024, and is expected to continue to grow to around 20 by the end of 2025.
Adding to the drama, PT Handal—Hyundai’s former partner—became the contract manufacturer for many Chinese brands, including Chery, Omoda, Neta, Jaecoo, Jetour, and other forthcoming OEMs such as BAIC, Geely, Lepas, and Xpeng. Contract manufacturing could also benefit from government incentive programs to lower production costs and shorten the time to invest in new plants.
These developments mark the end of the first season of Hyundai Indonesia’s story, closing with uncertainty. The protagonist that once shone now faces fierce competition and betrayal.
Season 2: What Happens Next?
As Hyundai faces an uphill battle, striving to improve its sales and boost its presence in the Indonesian market once again, we expect that it will adopt a new strategy that focuses on expanding its Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) portfolio. The company initially announced that it would prioritize Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) and BEVs; however, the BEV segment faces high competition from Chinese brands due to the price war that has developed in their domestic market. Additionally, the market size for BEVs is relatively small compared to ICEs and HEVs, limiting the potential for growth.
Collaboration with Kia could be another solution. Similarly to Hyundai, Kia has also suffered a downturn in its sales in the country, dropping from 2.90k units in 2021, to 1k units in 2024, and just 70 units in January-July 2025. This followed a restructuring in Kia’s sales operations, where it began distributing on its own in 2020, although it does not have its own production facility in the country. Such a partnership could allow both brands to share resources, improve plant utilization, and reduce production costs.
Will Hyundai Indonesia fight back and reclaim its spotlight? Let’s see what Season 2 holds. Nevertheless, we expect to see Seasons 3, 4, and beyond.
Titikorn Lertsirirungsun, Senior Manager, Southeast Asia Forecasting
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That’s one of the first lines of Anthropic’s new Threat Intelligence report, out today, which details the wide range of cases in which Claude — and likely many other leading AI agents and chatbots — are being abused.
First up: “Vibe-hacking.” One sophisticated cybercrime ring that Anthropic says it recently disrupted used Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent, to extort data from at least 17 different organizations around the world within one month. The hacked parties included healthcare organizations, emergency services, religious institutions, and even government entities.
“If you’re a sophisticated actor, what would have otherwise required maybe a team of sophisticated actors, like the vibe-hacking case, to conduct — now, a single individual can conduct, with the assistance of agentic systems,” Jacob Klein, head of Anthropic’s threat intelligence team, told The Verge in an interview. He added that in this case, Claude was “executing the operation end-to-end.”
Anthropic wrote in the report that in cases like this, AI “serves as both a technical consultant and active operator, enabling attacks that would be more difficult and time-consuming for individual actors to execute manually.” For example, Claude was specifically used to write “psychologically targeted extortion demands.” Then the cybercriminals figured out how much the data — which included healthcare data, financial information, government credentials, and more — would be worth on the dark web and made ransom demands exceeding $500,000, per Anthropic.
“This is the most sophisticated use of agents I’ve seen … for cyber offense,” Klein said.
In another case study, Claude helped North Korean IT workers fraudulently get jobs at Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. in order to fund the country’s weapons program. Typically, in such cases, North Korea tries to leverage people who have been to college, have IT experience, or have some ability to communicate in English, per Klein — but he said that in this case, the barrier is much lower for people in North Korea to pass technical interviews at big tech companies and then keep their jobs.
With the assistance of Claude, Klein said, “we’re seeing people who don’t know how to write code, don’t know how to communicate professionally, know very little about the English language or culture, who are just asking Claude to do everything … and then once they land the job, most of the work they’re actually doing with Claude is maintaining the job.”
Another case study involved a romance scam. A Telegram bot with more than 10,000 monthly users advertised Claude as a “high EQ model” for help generating emotionally intelligent messages, ostensibly for scams. It enabled non-native English speakers to write persuasive, complimentary messages in order to gain the trust of victims in the U.S., Japan, and Korea, and ask them for money. One example in the report showed a user uploading an image of a man in a tie and asking how best to compliment him.
In the report, Anthropic itself acknowledges that although the company has “developed sophisticated safety and security measures to prevent the misuse” of its AI, and though the measures are “generally effective,” bad actors still sometimes manage to find ways around them. Anthropic says that AI has lowered the barriers for sophisticated cybercrime and that bad actors use the technology to profile victims, automate their practices, create false identities, analyze stolen data, steal credit card information, and more.
Each of the case studies in the report adds to the increasing amount of evidence that AI companies, try as they might, often can’t keep up with the societal risks associated with the tech they’re creating and putting out into the world. “While specific to Claude, the case studies presented below likely reflect consistent patterns of behaviour across all frontier AI models,” the report states.
Anthropic said that for every case study, it banned the associated accounts, created new classifiers or other detection measures, and shared information with the appropriate government agencies, like intelligence agencies or law enforcement, Klein confirmed. He also said the case studies his team saw are part of a broader change in AI risk.
“There’s this shift occurring where AI systems are not just a chatbot because they can now take multiple steps,” Klein said, adding, “They’re able to actually conduct actions or activity like we’re seeing here.”
Conservative MSP Graham Simpson has defected to Reform.
Simpson announced his move as he appeared at a press conference in Scotland with Reform leader Nigel Farage.
Simpson told journalists that many would not be surprised to see him defect, and that leaving the Conservatives was “an enormous wrench”.
He is the second MSP to leave the party’s Holyrood group in the past week.
Simpson becomes Reform’s sole current MSP.
Michelle Ballantyne sat as a Reform member at the Scottish Parliament from January to May 2021, having left the Conservatives the previous year and sitting for a short spell as an independent.
She lost her seat at the May 2021 election.
Simpson has been an MSP for the Central Scotland region since 2016. He is a former journalist with The Sun and Daily Record.
Speaking at a press conference in Broxburn, West Lothian, he said: “It’s fair to say that some of you won’t be surprised to see me here, given that the Scottish Tories have been touting my name as a potential defector for months now.
“So today, I’m giving them what they want, but perhaps not for the reasons that they think.
“Leaving the party that I first joined when I was 15 is an enormous wrench, and I’ve been through a lot of soul searching in the past few weeks.”
A new Spotify feature is letting its users slide into each other’s DMs — or direct messages — directly in the app.
Outside of the music streaming platform, users have been able to share links to songs, podcasts and audiobooks through text or social media platforms. Spotify said that changes are coming with the launch of Messages, expected later this week.
“Our goal is to give users what they want and make those moments of connection more seamless and streamlined in the Spotify app,” the company said in a news release.
Messages will allow users to share Spotify content and start a message in-app with people they have interacted with before through the music platform.
They will also be able to see suggested people to message based on those who have joined their playlists, as well as others who share a Family or Duo plan with them.
Users can access Messages when listening to a song, podcast or audiobook in the “Now Playing” view by pressing the share icon, choosing a friend to message and hitting “send” for them to get the message.
The new feature will be available for users 16 and older.
Just three years ago, in the fall of 2022, the launch of ChatGPT made a splash in the tech world. It marked the public advent of generative AI models, and AI tech has been booming ever since. More and more, companies in fields from semiconductor chip manufacturing to software to cloud computing are moving to support or adopt the new technology.
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Daniel Ives, a well-known tech analyst from Wedbush, has been watching the AI boom with deep interest. He sees clearly how we are only at the beginning of an epochal change in our technological landscape, and he explains how it will impact the stock markets. “As we have discussed often over the last few years this tech bull market in our view is being fueled by the biggest transformational tech spending cycle in the last 40 years…the AI Revolution,” Ives said. “We are still in the early days of the AI Revolution as the use cases are just starting to massively expand as more companies recognize the value creation being driven by a handful of tech companies… In our view the tech bull cycle will be well intact at least for another 2-3 years given the trillions being spent on AI infrastructure/software/chips/power/apps looking ahead. This remains our tech playbook and investor road map.”
Ives follows the general outline by suggesting specific tech stocks to buy, and his choices may surprise you – he’s picked out Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) as long-term winners. We’ve opened up the TipRanks database to see the Street’s broader view of both stocks and to see how Ives’ outlook measures up. Let’s dive in.
Tesla
We’ll look at Tesla first, the leading US electric vehicle (EV) maker. Tesla is notable for being the only US EV company to move from bootstrap start-up to profitability entirely within the 2000s; the company was founded in 2003, launched its Model S sedan in 2012, and saw its first consistently profitable year in 2020. The company currently sees annual revenues of $90-billion-plus, although the year-to-year revenue growth has been slowing down.
While Tesla’s chief business, and its primary revenue source, is electric cars, the company has its hands in plenty of other pots, including AI. Not all of these pots are revenue drivers – that title belongs to the electric generation & storage segment, as well as services & other – but Tesla’s AI work deserves a closer look.
The company is making a concerted push to develop autonomous AI technology, for use in a variety of applications. Probably the most prominent of these is Tesla’s work on self-driving vehicles. The company is working on FSD software for cars – that is, full self-driving – and has equipped its Robotaxi program with the system. The Robotaxi was launched in Austin, Texas in June of this year, using Tesla’s Model Y car as a platform. The program includes a human monitor in the front seat, while software and control problems are identified and corrected, but for the long-term the company hopes to eventually remove the human and offer a fully automated, on-call ride-share service. Tesla is actively pursuing expansion of the Robotaxi, and is testing the system in the San Francisco Bay area.
Tesla has also applied its work with autonomous AI tech to its Optimus robot program. Optimus is a bipedal humanoid robot, designed to perform manual labor that humans would find difficult or impossible – for example, boring or repetitive tasks over long periods of time, or heavy lifting in unsafe environments. In addition to AI tech, the program involves deep computer learning, motion planning, and advanced sensor systems to bring it to life, all of which are active in Tesla’s research and development departments.
Turning to Tesla’s financials, in its last quarterly release, covering 2Q25, the company’s total revenue came to $22.5 billion, for a decline of 12% year-over-year – although it beat the forecast by $360 million. The decline was driven by a 16% y/y drop in automotive revenues (that is, car sales), which came in at $16.7 billion. A 17% gain in ‘services and other revenue,’ pushing that segment to $3.05 billion for the quarter, partially compensated for the drop in auto sales. At the bottom line, Tesla reported a non-GAAP EPS of 40 cents; this figure met expectations, but was down 12 cents per share, or 23%, year-over-year.
Despite Tesla’s current difficulties – slowing car sales and lower year-over-year revenue growth – Daniel Ives still sees the stock as a solid investment in AI. He writes, “We continue to believe that TSLA will begin launching its Robotaxi capabilities across multiple cities (~25 cities over the next year) in the US & abroad over the next 12-18 months as the company goes all in on the AI vision…we believe the autonomous opportunity is worth $1 trillion alone for Tesla. As we have discussed, there are still headwinds, tariffs, and clear growth challenges for Tesla over the coming 3-6 months…but Musk now entering the picture as a wartime CEO to put TSLA on an aggressive AI-focused strategy represents the biggest and best possible news for Tesla investors. AI Future is the focus for long term investors.”
This upbeat long-term stance backs Ives’ Outperform (Buy) rating on the shares, while his $500 price target points toward a one-year upside potential of 44%. (To watch Ives’ track record, click here.)
This is the bullish take. Overall, the Street is more cautious. Shares in Tesla are currently selling for $346.6, and the $305.37 average price target implies a one-year depreciation of 12%. The recommendations on file, 36 of them currently, include 13 to Buy, 15 to Hold, and 8 to Sell, for a Hold consensus rating. (See TSLA stock forecast.)
International Business Machines
The next stock on our list is one of the nation’s venerable names in business technology, and a long-time fixture of the stock indexes. IBM was founded in 1911, making mechanical business machines such as calculators and time clocks. Later, the company moved into electronic computing and was an early innovator in the age of punch-card computers and magnetic tape memory before moving on to floppy disks. The company stayed at the leading edge of tech in the 1970s and provided some of the early PC operating systems, before staking out a place in the world of computer hardware and business software. In the early 2000s, IBM shifted toward cloud computing and high-tech consulting.
In short, IBM has exemplified two features that keep a company relevant in an ever-changing world: an ability to adapt to new conditions, and a clear view of the next frontier of technology. Today, IBM has its hands in several of the tech world’s vital segments: cloud computing, quantum computing, and AI.
IBM’s AI solutions are designed to work across the full extent of the end-use customer’s organization. The company’s platform, watsonx, provides a portfolio of AI products that are designed to drive business processes, automating such segments as regulatory compliance and data management. The platform includes generative AI models and is scalable for use by customers at any level.
IBM’s AI systems are used in everything from HR to IT, with customer service, marketing, and app development in between. The company’s management is upbeat about its AI business and reported an expansion of the ‘generative AI book’ in 2Q25, the last quarter reported.
When we look at the quarter’s financial results, we find that IBM had $17 billion in total revenues, up 7.6% year-over-year and beating the forecast by $410 million. The company reported a bottom line of $2.80 per share by non-GAAP measures, beating the forecast by 15 cents per share. IBM’s free cash flow in the quarter came to $2.85 billion, up 9% year-over-year. The company expects to generate $13.5 billion or more in free cash flow for the full year 2025.
Turning again to Daniel Ives, and the Wedbush view, the tech expert bases a bullish take on IBM mainly on the company’s rapidly growing AI business. He says of the business/tech giant, “The company continues to see strength for its software and infrastructure services despite the current shifts in the operating environment with over 10% of revenue coming from GenAI while seeing its GenAI book of business accelerate to $7.5 billion, above the prior quarter of ~$6.0 billion… We believe that IBM is well-positioned to capitalize on the current demand shift for hybrid and AI applications with more enterprises looking to implement AI for productivity gains and drive long-term profitable growth.”
Ives goes on to rate IBM shares as Outperform (Buy), along with a price target of $325 to suggest an upside of 36% in the next 12 months.
Overall, IBM gets a Moderate Buy consensus rating from the Street, based on 13 recent reviews that break down to 7 Buys, 5 Holds, and 1 Sell. The stock is selling for $239.43, and its average price target, now at $297.33, implies an upside potential of 24% by this time next year. (See IBM stock forecast.)
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A California couple is suing OpenAI over the death of their teenage son, alleging its chatbot, ChatGPT, encouraged him to take his own life.
The lawsuit was filed by Matt and Maria Raine, parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, in the Superior Court of California on Tuesday. It is the first legal action accusing OpenAI of wrongful death.
The family included chat logs between Mr Raine, who died in April, and ChatGPT that show him explaining he has suicidal thoughts. They argue the programme validated his “most harmful and self-destructive thoughts”.
In a statement, OpenAI told the BBC it was reviewing the filing.
“We extend our deepest sympathies to the Raine family during this difficult time,” the company said.
It also published a note on its website on Tuesday that said “recent heartbreaking cases of people using ChatGPT in the midst of acute crises weigh heavily on us”. It added that “ChatGPT is trained to direct people to seek professional help,” such as the 988 suicide and crisis hotline in the US or the Samaritans in the UK.
The company acknowledged, however, that “there have been moments where our systems did not behave as intended in sensitive situations”.
Warning: This story contains distressing details.
The lawsuit, obtained by the BBC, accuses OpenAI of negligence and wrongful death. It seeks damages as well as “injunctive relief to prevent anything like this from happening again”.
According to the lawsuit, Mr Raine began using ChatGPT in September 2024 as a resource to help him with school work. He was also using it to explore his interests, including music and Japanese comics, and for guidance on what to study at university.
In a few months, “ChatGPT became the teenager’s closest confidant,” the lawsuit says, and he began opening up to it about his anxiety and mental distress.
By January 2025, the family says he began discussing methods of suicide with ChatGPT.
Mr Raine also uploaded photographs of himself to ChatGPT showing signs of self harm, the lawsuit says. The programme “recognised a medical emergency but continued to engage anyway,” it adds.
According to the lawsuit, the final chat logs show that Mr Raine wrote about his plan to end his life. ChatGPT allegedly responded: “Thanks for being real about it. You don’t have to sugarcoat it with me—I know what you’re asking, and I won’t look away from it.”
That same day, Mr Raine was found dead by his mother, according to the lawsuit.
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The Raines’ lawsuit names OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder Sam Altman as a defendant, along with unnamed engineers and employees who worked on ChatGPT
The family alleges that their son’s interaction with ChatGPT and his eventual death “was a predictable result of deliberate design choices”.
They accuse OpenAI of designing the AI programme “to foster psychological dependency in users,” and of bypassing safety testing protocols to release GPT-4o, the version of ChatGPT used by their son.
The lawsuit lists OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman as a defendant, as well as unnamed employees, managers and engineers who worked on ChatGPT.
In its public note shared on Tuesday, OpenAI said the company’s goal is to be “genuinely helpful” to users rather than “hold people’s attention”.
It added that its models have been trained to steer people who express thoughts of self-harm towards help.
The Raines lawsuit is not the first time concerns have been raised about AI and mental health.
In an essay published last week in the New York Times, writer Laura Reiley outlined how her daughter, Sophie, confided in ChatGPT before taking her own life.
Ms Reiley said the programme’s “agreeability” in its conversations with users helped her daughter mask a severe mental health crisis from her family and loved ones.
“AI catered to Sophie’s impulse to hide the worst, to pretend she was doing better than she was, to shield everyone from her full agony,” Ms Reiley wrote. She called on AI companies to find ways to better connect users with the right resources.
In response to the essay, a spokeswoman for OpenAI said it was developing automated tools to more effectively detect and respond to users experiencing mental or emotional distress.
If you are suffering distress or despair and need support, you could speak to a health professional, or an organisation that offers support. Details of help available in many countries can be found at Befrienders Worldwide: www.befrienders.org.
In the UK, a list of organisations that can help is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline. Readers in the US and Canada can call the 988 suicide helpline or visit its website.
Scores of House Democrats are pressing the Trump administration to allow Palestinian children injured in the Israel-Hamas war to seek emergency medical care in the United States.
Earlier in the month, the State Department abruptly halted the issuance of visas for people from Gaza, including medical-humanitarian visas, citing a need to examine the process that allowed some of those visitors to enter the U.S. The official pause, as posted on the social platform X, came a day after the right-wing activist Laura Loomer attacked the humanitarian visas as a threat to national security.
In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, more than 140 House Democrats said the policy change was ill-conceived. They’re calling on the administration to reverse course and end the visa pause for the sake of providing injured children with “the medical care they desperately need.”
“It is wrong to prevent children who are caught in the middle of this horrific conflict from receiving lifesaving medical care,” the lawmakers wrote in the Aug. 25 letter, which was spearheaded by Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich) and Kim Schrier (D-Wash.).
“In addition, this decision ignores the fact that all Palestinians leaving Gaza for medical treatment or to accompany family members receiving medical treatment are already subject to rigorous vetting by the Israeli government, including an Israeli security clearance, identity verification, and an assessment whether they are linked to Hamas,” they added.
The letter was endorsed by more than two-thirds of the House Democratic Caucus, including prominent defenders of Israel such as Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), Brad Schneider (Ill.) and Josh Gottheimer (N.J.).
A number of Palestinians had already entered the country on medical-humanitarian visas when Loomer, who has successfully lobbied for administrative changes over the course of the year, went on social media to condemn the new arrivals. Posting a video showing Palestinians arriving in San Francisco for medical treatments — travel facilitated by an Ohio-based nonprofit group helping those injured in the Israel-Hamas war — Loomer warned that the visitors posed a threat to public safety.
“Why are any Islamic invaders coming into the US under the Trump admin? This is a national security threat,” she posted on X on Aug. 15. “We didn’t vote for more Islamic immigration into the United States.”
“All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days,” the agency wrote.
Rubio has defended the move, saying it was made after “numerous” congressional offices contacted his department with evidence “that some of the organizations bragging about, and involved in, acquiring these visas have strong links to terrorist groups like Hamas.”
“It’s not just kids. It’s a bunch of adults that are accompanying them,” Rubio said in an Aug. 17 interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” program.
House Democrats are not convinced. In their letter, they’ve asked Rubio to specify the national security concerns that led his agency to halt the visas. They also want the department to provide a timeline governing its internal review.
Meanwhile, the lawmakers are urging the administration to exempt from the pause those Palestinians most in need of emergency medical attention.
“We appeal to you to immediately reverse the State Department’s decision and resume allowing those from Gaza with approved temporary medical-humanitarian visas to enter the United States to receive the lifesaving care they need,” the Democrats wrote.
