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Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based Web 3 firm, and Cross the Ages (CTA), a Singapore-based blockchain technology firm, announced last Friday a strategic partnership.

Australian health-tech firm Annalise.ai has on Thursday announced its expansion into Singapore with major Parkway Radiology deployment.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced Thursday it will launch its second data center in South Korea by the end of June 2025 in response to the growing demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services from local businesses.

Malaysia's state-owned oil and gas firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) and Japan's power generation company JERA have agreed to expand their collaboration for sustainable energy.

Amazon announced last Thursday plans to invest a new total of AU$20 billion ($13.04 billion) from 2025 to 2029 to expand, operate, and maintain its data center infrastructure in Australia.

Family offices worldwide are accelerating their digital transformation to meet the evolving demands of wealth management in today's complex market landscape, according to Deloitte Private's survey.

India-based hospitality technology company OYO has introduced its luxury brand SUNDAY Hotels with two simultaneous openings in Kuala Lumpur and Pantai Cenang of Malaysia.

Malaysia-based largest banking group Maybank is underwriting MYR 2.5 billion ($590 million), which is one third and the largest share of the biggest syndicated Islamic financing for data centers in Asia Pacific, to support DayOne Data Centers green data centers in the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ).

Ant International and Deutsche Bank have announced their strategic partnership to provide more comprehensive payment solutions for businesses of all sizes in Europe and Asia, by combining their expertise and leveraging Ant International’s proprietary tokenization and artificial intelligence (AI)-based foreign exchange (FX) technology.

“AI won’t make me a better dad. My child needs love, attention, presence—not a smarter parent,” Kass said, adding that AI may simulate emotion or provide advice, but it cannot replicate human warmth, empathy, or moral judgment.