AI
Australia’s Firmus raises $2B from Blackstone, Coatue, NVIDIA, to expand AI factories in APAC
Australia's Firmus Grid, featuring Singapore office, has received full commitments for a $2 billion strategic equity investment round, bringing its total new equity raised over the past year to more than $3 billion and its post-money valuation above $10.5 billion.
AI chip demand emerges key driver of Malaysia’s E&E exports – RHB
Malaysia's electrical and electronics (E&E) export performance is increasingly tied to global demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven semiconductors rather than exchange rate movements, underscoring the country's deeper integration into the global chip supply chain, RHB Investment Bank Research said Friday.
The widening gap between healthcare digitization announcements and actual deployment in Asia
Asia is seeing a wave of digital health announcements, from AI diagnostics to telehealth platforms. Yet the pace of actual deployment remains uneven. Amit Yadav looks at the infrastructure and market signals that can help investors, healthcare operators, and policymakers distinguish experimentation from adoption at scale.
Rethinking AI infrastructure in a power-constrained era
As grid capacity tightens and inference demand grows, enterprise AI leaders must focus on efficiency, hybrid architecture, and extracting greater value from every watt.
CoreWeave expands cloud AI platform to Indonesia, marking first move into Asia-Pacific region
US's artificial intelligence firm CoreWeave, Inc. announced Tuesday its expansion into Indonesia, the company's first data center presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
Southeast Asia’s AI startups raise $9.3B with Singapore emerges as the largest hub – Tracxn
Southeast Asia's Native AI ecosystem has raised approximately $9.3 billion across 261 disclosed equity rounds as of July 2026, with Singapore emerges as the largest hub, Tracxn said Wednesday.
Singapore’s AI company Acrab raises further $130M Series B to scale edge AI platform, after $350M funding
Acrab, a Singapore-headquartered technology company building agentic AI compute infrastructure, has raised $130 million in a Series B round led by existing investors Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth.
AI can help portfolio managers work at “superhuman” level, says LinqAlpha founder [Q&A]
TNGlobal spoke with Jin Kim, Co-founder and Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at LinqAlpha, about how AI is reshaping institutional investing, the company's regional strategy, and what an "army of AI agents" means for the analysts who use them.
AI will not just automate tasks; it will repackage responsibilities
The next stage of workplace AI is not simply faster task completion. It is the redesign of recurring responsibilities around automation, human review, accountability, and follow-through.
Vietnam’s FPT becomes OpenAI partner to deploy GPT-5.6 in cybersecurity, enterprise workflows
Vietnam's technology giant FPT has become an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, with a focus on integrating OpenAI's frontier AI capabilities into FPT's cybersecurity platforms and enterprise workflows.
