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Mint's Axonex Robotics has signed a two-year OEM and licensing program with Centridex that carries a potential value of about €3 million.

Meta is donating 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to four Singapore organizations and funding accessibility training through SAVH.

Nium will provide global off-ramp infrastructure to RedotPay, which says it serves more than 9 million stablecoin payment users.

Singapore-based Granite Asia, a $11 billion private capital platform, and Google's AI Futures Fund will jointly back AI startups in Asia, co-investing up to $2 million in each alongside access to Google's AI models.

In a recent interview with TNGlobal, AEF Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Cindy Chow discussed how the fund's investment strategy has evolved over the past decade, what it looks for in founders and why it believes Hong Kong’s role could extend beyond being a gateway to becoming a launchpad for Asian companies going global.

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.