Asia

Singapore will invest S$150 million in MARVEL-AI, an A*STAR-led platform combining artificial intelligence with automated laboratories for materials discovery.

Ant Group has begun rolling out LingGuang 2.0 in China with cross-session memory, long-running task management and connected-service controls.

Meta has launched its Muse personal AI agent in Singapore with connectors for shopping, travel, delivery, email, calendars and Instagram.

GSMA says $1.2 million from NOAA will support cell-broadcast emergency alert systems in nine Pacific Island countries.

HKT has opened an AI Exchange at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park to link AI users with computing capacity across Hong Kong data centers.

Hong Kong fintech PhotonPay has raised $40 million in a Series C led by Blockchain Capital to expand stablecoin, payment and card infrastructure.

China's Internet technology giant Tencent and American multinational payment company Visa have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore broader collaboration on payments and commerce across Tencent’s ecosystem.

Ant International CEO Peng Yang has called for a new, inclusive "re-globalization" project that harnesses AI and digital connectivity to give small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) greater access to global markets and opportunities.

Citi has received Chinese regulatory approval to establish a wholly owned Shanghai securities company offering brokerage, underwriting, research and trading.

Data centers in Johor, Sydney, Melbourne and Batam could absorb most of the additional electricity generation planned for their respective markets over the coming years, raising concerns over power availability as cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads expand, according to BMI Country Risk and Industry Research.