AI
Singtel Group partners Digital Industry Singapore to accelerate AI transformation
The Singtel Group has announced a strategic partnership with Digital Industry Singapore (DISG) to accelerate a multi-year AI transformation program across its businesses and strengthen its capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled operations, digital infrastructure, customer platforms and workforce development.
Nvdia, Vietnam’s tech giant FPT release open Vietnam AI dataset to advance sovereign AI development
Vietnam's technology giant FPT Corporation and global chipmaker NVIDIA have released the Nemotron-Personas-Vietnam dataset, an open-source synthetic dataset designed to help developers build AI systems
Payoneer’s SVP of APAC Nagesh Devata on the infrastructure challenge behind Asia-Pacific’s e-commerce growth [Q&A]
As Asia-Pacific’s ecommerce economy becomes more regional and borderless, businesses are facing growing complexity across payments, currencies, settlement, compliance, and reconciliation. In this Q&A, Payoneer’s Nagesh Devata discusses why financial infrastructure is becoming more strategic for SMEs and how AI could reshape cross-border operations.
Singapore’s Panthera Growth Partners to invests $30M in India’s AI security firm Innefu Labs
Singapore-based growth equity firm Panthera Growth Partners will make a $30 million investment in Innefu Labs, an Indian artificial intelligence (AI) company focused on national security, positioning the firm for an IPO and accelerating its expansion into international markets.
Singapore’s K25.ai secures additional $4M strategic investment from NewGen
K25.ai, a Singapore-based artificial intelligence (AI) livestreaming and watch-to-predict prediction market platform, announced Thursday that Nasdaq-listed NewGenIVF Group Limited has committed an additional $4 million strategic investment in the firm.
Vietnam’s FPT, Singapore’s ComfortDelGro sign AI, smart mobility partnership
Vietnam's tech giant FPT Corporation and Singapore's transport giant ComfortDelGro will collaborate in artificial intelligence (AI), smart mobility, and logistics-transport across the Asia Pacific region.
DataMasque secures $4M in funding led by Wavemaker Ventures
DataMasque, the data de-identification and synthetic data platform, announced Friday it has raised $4 million in funding led by Wavemaker Ventures, the early-stage fund of Wavemaker Partners, with existing investors OIF Ventures and Icehouse Ventures doubling down.
Smarter collections: Why empathy and AI must work together in Asia’s next chapter of debt recovery
For decades, debt collection was treated as a numbers game. More dials, more letters, more pressure. That model is breaking down, and not because banks have suddenly become sentimental about it. It is breaking down because the economics no longer work.
I.W.G’s Xiaoyan (Fiona) Zhou on how AI can help connect fragmented healthcare systems across Asia [Q&A]
As hospitals, clinics, insurers, and healthcare partners across Asia digitize their operations, the harder challenge is making medical data usable across fragmented systems and borders. In this Q&A, Xiaoyan (Fiona) Zhou of I.W.G shares her perspective on healthcare interoperability, AI-enabled referral coordination, cross-border medical data exchange, and…
Vietnam’s Hanoi police utilize homemade drones for urban surveillance
The police force in Vietnam's Hanoi capital city has launched a trial of AI-integrated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for traffic and surveillance operations, using drones developed entirely by Vietnamese companies.
