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Meta expands teen safety alerts across Facebook and Messenger

Meta is extending parent alerts for teen self-harm signals to Facebook and Messenger, with flagged Meta AI chats receiving human review.

Tencent Cloud, OmniOps partner to provide sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

Tencent Cloud, the cloud unit of Chinese technology giant Tencent, and OmniOps, a Saudi Arabian AI infrastructure company, will jointly build sovereign AI infrastructure for enterprises in the Kingdom

DeepSeek open-sources dsh-superagent research prototype

DeepSeek has open-sourced dsh-superagent, a research prototype that routes approved software-development requests to separate agent sessions.

Kuaishou’s Kling AI completes $2.9B financing

Kuaishou's Beijing Kling unit completed an approximately RMB19.80 billion financing while the short-video platform retained control of the AI business.

Foreign ministers of Australia, India, Japan and the United States at the Quad meeting in Atlanta

Quad pledges over $85M for trusted AI in Indo-Pacific

The Quad plans more than $85 million in trusted AI assistance and a new review of semiconductor and AI-hardware supply-chain chokepoints.

Uzbekistan’s Delever raises $380,000 for restaurant SaaS expansion

Uzbekistan-based restaurant software company Delever has raised $380,000 from AloqaVentures and Nexus Club for product development and market expansion.

EHang EH216-S pilotless passenger eVTOL aircraft

EHang opens Thailand hub for Southeast Asia eVTOL rollout

EHang has established a Thailand hub and plans an initial fleet of 25 EH216-S aircraft to support eVTOL projects across Southeast Asia.

IBS plans HK$563M acquisition of AI chip company

Hong Kong-listed IBS has agreed to acquire QuantumCompute Solutions for HK$563 million in a conditional move into AI chip design and edge computing.

OMRON Healthcare's manufacturing factory near Chennai, India

OMRON begins full-scale production at first India factory

OMRON Healthcare has started full-scale production at its first India factory near Chennai, targeting a tenfold capacity increase by 2028.

TPG closes debut Asia growth fund at $1.3B

TPG has closed its debut Asia lower-middle-market growth fund with $1.3 billion, exceeding the target for the new regional strategy.