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Cebu Pacific reports faster legal, engineering workflows after enterprise AI rollout

Cebu Pacific says its enterprise AI program with Thinking Machines and OpenAI has cut processing time across legal, engineering and project-intake workflows.

Anthropic to invest in Australia’s $22B data center project

Anthropic, the developer of Claude AI, will join hands in Western Downs Digital Park, a data center project in Australia worth A$31.9 billion ($22.2 billion).

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Cloudflare adds separate controls for search and AI training

Cloudflare introduced separate controls for search indexing, AI training and agents, letting customers reject model training while remaining in search results.

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Canadia Impact Fund invests in Cambodian AI startup Newwave

Canadia Impact Fund has invested in Cambodian AI and software startup Newwave’s seed round, its second disclosed startup deal since launching in 2025.

AI recorder maker Plaud opens Singapore as APAC hub, doubles investment to $16M

Plaud, a maker of AI-powered voice-recording devices, has opened its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore and pledged to invest at least S$20 million (US$16 million), doubling a commitment it made earlier this year.

Rubrik adds Claude-based code red-teaming and MCP access for AI agents

Rubrik introduced Code Guardian for Claude-based code red-teaming and Rubrik MCP for controlled AI-agent access to security workflows. Both are currently in private preview.

Sumsub adds biometric workforce verification to account recovery and access workflows

Sumsub has launched Workforce Verification, adding document, biometric and background checks to employee access and account-recovery workflows.

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Visa survey finds APAC consumers willing to trade remittance speed for stronger fraud protection

Visa's Money Travels 2026 research finds many APAC consumers would accept slower remittances for stronger fraud protection as digital transfers expand.

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AnyMind updates AnyLive with more lifelike AI avatars and cross-stream analytics

AnyMind Group updated AnyLive with more lifelike AI avatars, video-based avatar generation and analytics spanning human-led and AI-fronted live commerce.

Salesforce unveils AIforce to bring CRM workflows into Claude, Slack and other AI interfaces

Salesforce has unveiled AIforce, a live interface layer that exposes governed CRM data and workflows through Claude, Slack and Agentforce interfaces.