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National Security Adviser Eduardo SL Oban Jr. warned Tuesday that substandard steel is a growing national security risk, threatening lives, critical infrastructure and the country’s defense supply chain.

The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, voted 13-1 Wednesday to revise the voting threshold for convicting or acquitting Vice President Sara Duterte, counting only senators able to participate in the trial rather than all 24 members. Senator Francis Escudero, who presides over the proceedings, cast the lone dissenting vote, maintaining his earlier ruling that conviction requires 16 votes, or two-thirds of the full Senate. Six opposition senators declined to vote. Escudero said the new rule applies only to the current circumstances, with two senators detained, one on medical leave and another in hiding, and does not bind future impeachment courts. He added that fractions in calculating the two-thirds threshold would be rounded up. Defense lawyers reserved the right to challenge the ruling before the Supreme Court.

Philippine software firm BossLabs AI is moving beyond its home market to expand across Southeast Asia, with Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand identified as its first key destinations.

Asialink Finance Corporation has won Best Real Estate Financing Institution at the Philippine Real Estate Awards 2026, honoring its fast-growing business launched December 2025. Through August 2026, it released over ₱27.7 million in real estate financing.

Fastly, Inc., a US-based cloud computing and edge platform company, has launched three new AI-native capabilities—AI Runtime Control, AI Firewall, and enhanced API Security—delivering live visibility and command over every layer of an organization’s AI activity.