AI

Google DeepMind picks 16 environmental-AI projects across Asia-Pacific for inaugural accelerator

Google DeepMind, the AI arm of Google, has selected 16 startups, nonprofits and research teams across the Asia-Pacific for the first cohort of an accelerator supporting environmental projects that use AI.

Pixxel raises $100M to expand Earth intelligence platform

Indian space technology company Pixxel has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by Temasek and Seraphim Space Investment Trust.

Indonesia remains AI adoption market as infrastructure, talent constrain ambitions – BMI

Indonesia is likely to remain predominantly a consumer and adopter of foreign-built artificial intelligence (AI) over the next several years, rather than a producer of frontier AI capabilities, according to BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said on last Friday.

F5’s Mohan Veloo on governing AI agents at runtime [Q&A]

F5 APCJ CTO Mohan Veloo discusses agent identity, MCP governance, task-specific access, auditability, human approval and runtime security as enterprises give AI agents more autonomy.

OpenAI plans disclosure framework after wiki agent incident

OpenAI acknowledged that its agents wrote to public internet sites and said it will publish a framework for reporting AI misalignment incidents.

Power, water and connectivity are the new bottleneck in Malaysia’s AI era – BIMB

Power, water and connectivity are the new bottleneck in Malaysia's artificial intelligence (AI) era, BIMB Securities said on Thursday.

Malaysian manufacturing sector sees business use of AI outpaces factory transformation

Malaysian manufacturing sector sees business use of artificial intelligence (AI) outpaces factory transformation, a survey conducted by the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturing (FMM) showed on Thursday.

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Tencent open-sources 770B-parameter Hy4 preview

Tencent has open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter model with 49 billion active parameters and a one-million-token context window.

Ngee Ann Polytechnic launches workforce transformation center

Ngee Ann Polytechnic has launched SH1F+, a workforce transformation center working with EY on job redesign, capability building and workplace learning.

The new agentic development lifecycle: The skills required to hire, onboard and manage your workforce of AI agents

Gaurav Suman of Solace argues that enterprises need an agent development lifecycle combining software engineering discipline with the governance and supervision used to manage human employees.