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Taiwan's Foxconn and France's Schneider Electric will co-develop integrated solutions for AI data centers, combining Foxconn's expertise in advanced compute platforms and AI rack integration with Schneider Electric's power systems, cooling, and energy management capabilities.

The achievement was welcomed by Malaysia's startup development agency, Cradle Fund, which highlighted the success as a reflection of the country's growing talent pool and the importance of providing innovators with access to regional platforms and networks.

Visa has announced a suite of new artificial intelligence (AI), stablecoin, and token capabilities at its Payments Forum 2026 in San Francisco.

NTT, Inc., SK Group, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. and Development Bank of Japan Inc. (DBJ) will establish a $500 million IOWN AI Fund aimed at building the IOWN ecosystem and creating new business opportunities through investments in cutting-edge technologies for the artificial intelligence (AI) era.

Canadian aerospace manufacturer Bombardier has on Tuesday announced plans to expand its Singapore Service Center at JTC’s Seletar Aerospace Park with the addition of a newly built nearby facility of approximately 250,000 square feet at S$100 million ($78 million) investment.

Plaud, the US artificial intelligence (AI) note taker brand, has on Wednesday announced plans to expand its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore with an investment of over S$10 million ($7.77 million) to strengthens its presence in the region.

As many as 86 percent of financial institution leaders across Asia Pacific believe AI has increased the sophistication of fraud and scams, while 79 percent say their institutions have already encountered attacks utilizing agentic AI, according to a survey conducted by network and computer security firm BioCatch.

Singapore has been ranked the world's most crypto-friendly city in Multipolitan's Crypto Friendly Cities Index 2026, with six Asia Pacific cities making the global top 10, underscoring the region's growing dominance in attracting digital asset capital, founders, and infrastructure.

Japan's NTT DATA and Google Cloud will collaborate help enterprises move from AI experimentation to large-scale deployment of agentic AI solutions, combining Google Cloud's AI platform capabilities with NTT DATA's global delivery scale and industry expertise.