Asia

International Workplace Group signed a record 728 new locations globally in the first half of 2026, including 164 across Asia Pacific.

South Korea has selected SK Telecom, Kakao and KT to develop free national AI services backed by domestic models and government-provided computing capacity.

Hong Kong-based digital bank, Ant Bank, and its embedded-finance provider, Bettr, both under Singapore's Ant International, were selected for the liquidity-risk management track of Hong Kong regulators' GenA.I. Sandbox++.

Kioxia and Sandisk plan to invest more than $31 billion in Japan through 2032 to expand flash-memory technology and production capacity.

Nutanix has launched Enterprise AI 2.8 with a generally available MCP Gateway aimed at governing how AI agents connect to enterprise applications and data.

AppsFlyer’s APAC marketing report finds installs, long-term retention and paying-user behavior increasingly diverging across app categories and markets.

Indian direct-to-consumer (D2C) companies raised about $6 billion in equity funding across 2,000 rounds between 2021 and 2026 (year to date), Tracxn said on Wednesday.

Fujitsu has outlined a cyber defense lifecycle strategy combining enterprise monitoring, a virtual nerve center and planned AI security services.

Google Cloud has launched preview editions of Gemini Enterprise for financial services and legal teams with specialized agents and connectors.

Alibaba has opened the international edition of QwenWork, its workplace AI agent platform, in public beta through web and desktop apps.