Asia

Nearly half of consumers in the Asia-Pacific region say they are likely to use stablecoins within five years, according to Consumer 360 study, a survey conducted by payments company Visa.

BTSE Bhutan has announced its final Financial Services License for virtual asset trading and custody in Gelephu Mindfulness City.

SoundHound AI has deployed its conversational voice and generative AI technology in Kia's Sorento for India, supporting cabin control and live queries.

Seeing Machines says its Human Mesh Recovery technology can reconstruct people in 3D in real time on NVIDIA Jetson Thor, targeting robotics and Physical AI systems that operate around humans.

DeepSeek and Huawei have developed open-source compute, communication and programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips.

ThreatBook has acquired the open-source CyberStrikeAI penetration testing platform and plans an enterprise rollout across Asia-Pacific.

PSA International (PSA), a global port operator, and Granite Asia, a $11 billion private capital platform, announced Wednesday the launch of the $50 million G&P Strategic Innovation Fund.

Grid investment is accelerating across developed East Asia as power networks struggle to keep pace with rapid renewable energy deployment, while slower spending in Indonesia and Thailand risks constraining renewables growth and widening the gap with regional peers, BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said.

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.

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