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Indonesia’s eFishery founder gets nine-year jail term in $300M case – report
An Indonesian court sentenced eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison on Wednesday, concluding a high-profile $300 million financial scandal that led to the collapse of one of Southeast Asia’s most celebrated startups.
Why AI orchestration is reshaping Singapore’s property industry
What ultimately changes the economics of an agent’s business is not incremental improvement within isolated tools, but coordination across them. When lead capture, client profiling, property matching, document extraction, scheduling, and follow-up occur in a single orchestrated flow, the agent’s capacity expands meaningfully: they can double or even triple…
Huawei launches AI Lab and Innovation Center in Malaysia
This center will be an important platform to support the next wave of innovation in Malaysia, where Huawei can combine its technology and global experience to work effectively with its customers and partners on industry solutions and localised AI solutions for Malaysian industries.
AI coding agent Cognition expands to Singapore as Asia-Pacific Hub
Cognition, the AI coding agent company and makers of Devin – the first AI software engineer, will expand to Singapore and establish its Asia-Pacific (APAC) hub,
Cata raises $5.3M seed funding to expand digital platform for F&B, retail
Cata, a white-label SaaS platform for enterprise-grade branded apps, has raised $5.3 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round less than a year after its launch,
Singapore’s FORMAS.AI raises $3.98M in pre-seed round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India
FORMAS.AI, the Singapore-based artificial intelligence (AI) design platform, has raised $3.98 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round, led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India.
Hong Kong’s tech hub Cyberport, Thailand’s tech park management NSTDA to strengthen innovation
Cyberport, a digital tech hub and AI accelerator of Hong Kong, and Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), also the management of Thailand Science Park, will enhance collaboration in innovation and technology between Hong Kong and Thailand.
Malaysia’s Tune Talk expands into e-commerce
Malaysia's mobile service firm Tune Talk has on Tuesday launched Tune Talk Shop, an in-app e-commerce platform powered by Presto.
Nokia, Blaize, Datacomm Diangraha team up to deliver hybrid AI inference across Southeast Asia
Blaize Holdings，a global artificial intelligence (AI) computing firm, has announced a three-way strategic collaboration with Nokia and PT Datacomm Diangraha to accelerate the deployment of hybrid AI inference infrastructure across Indonesia and the wider Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
As Southeast Asia’s platforms mature, users and merchants face the cost of scale
Southeast Asia’s digital platforms have moved from growth engines to economic infrastructure. As subsidies normalize, regulation expands, and platforms invest in profitability, logistics, worker protections, and merchant tools, users and sellers are beginning to feel more of the cost of scale. The next test for the region’s platform economy will be whether…
