AI

NPCI is developing a registry to verify and monitor AI agents making transactions over India’s UPI as part of a planned Unified Agentic Protocol.

Wipro says AI productivity gains have freed capacity equivalent to about 20,000 employees, with the capacity redeployed as the company shifts to a human-AI model.

Cloudera and Mistral AI are partnering to let enterprises run customized AI against governed data across cloud, on-premises and sovereign environments.

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining GPT-6 Astra with premium financial data and workflows shaped by Morgan Stanley and Evercore.

The Philippines has finalized a $34.4 billion AI infrastructure roadmap targeting 1.5GW of AI data-center capacity by 2033, up from about 50MW today.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to become a foundational capability for financial institutions as technology advances rapidly, but stronger governance and cybersecurity measures will be needed to ensure its safe and sustainable adoption, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) managing director Chia Der Jiun said.

George Kent (Malaysia) Berhad has announced its partnership with Shandong Extreme Vision Technology Co., Ltd. (Extreme Vision), an artificial intelligence (AI) technology company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, to distribute agentic AI solutions in Malaysia, ASEAN.

The ASEAN Foundation has received endorsement of Southeast Asian education officials for an expanded program to equip more than 1.7 million students, teachers, and university staff with practical AI skills by the end of 2028.

Thailand's Krungsri renewed a five-year agreement with Kyndryl covering core infrastructure, mainframe services, automation and AI-enabled operations.

Anthropic says it disrupted AI-orchestrated cyber operations and unauthorized attempts by labs to extract capabilities from Claude.