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Indonesia's West Java province has ordered Singapore's BDx Data Centers to halt construction of a 640-MW AI data-center campus, just over a week after its groundbreaking.

Singapore’s adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could raise its potential economic output by 1.06 percent in the long run, offering a partial offset to the drag from an ageing population, although the transition could put pressure on some workers, particularly fresh graduates, the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) said on Wednesday.

Asia-Pacific sectors will face diverging credit prospects as concentrated growth drivers widen the gap between winners and losers under the exposure to artificial intelligence (AI), S&P Global Ratings said on Tuesday.

A joint venture between Japan's TOPPAN and U.S. chipmaker Broadcom opened Singapore's first plant for high-end FC-BGA chip substrates on Tuesday, a component in short supply as demand for AI processors surges.

Cloudflare plans to become a public certificate authority supporting conventional TLS certificates and post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates.

Moca Foundation and Moca Network have launched Moca Chain's mainnet for portable, privacy-preserving credentials and AI-agent authorization.

LS Eco Energy, under South Korean chaebol LS Group, will establish a subsidiary in Vietnam to produce rare-earth samarium metal for defense and high-tech uses.

Ant International's payments arm Antom will distribute Google's AI Plus subscription service across Asia through digital-payment and e-commerce networks, starting in Indonesia.

Anuar Fariz Fadzil, CEO of Malaysia's state agency Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), will step down when his two-year contract ends on October 2, after a tenure of drawing MYR180 billion ($44 billion) in digital investment.

Green GSM has launched an all-electric taxi service across Cagayan de Oro and nearby Northern Mindanao areas, including airport transfers.