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Campus X, a STEAM education institution created by the team from local robotics company Rice Robotics, announced Wednesday that it is partnering with leading artificial intelligence (AI) software company SenseTime’s education brand, Magic Lab, to launch "Sense AI", an innovative AI education program designed for Hong Kong students.

Singapore-based fintech firm Ant International has announced its participation in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) Project Ensemble Sandbox, focusing on “Liquidity Management”, one of its four main themes.

Singapore-based venture capital firm Hatcher+ has teamed up with Australia-based early-stage agrifood tech venture capital firm Mandalay Venture Partners to identify and support startups developing groundbreaking technology to improve how food is grown, distributed, and consumed.

Singapore-based private equity firm Mandala Capital has kicked off this year with a full exit from its investment in Edward Food Research and Analysis Centre (EFRAC), an Indian laboratory testing firm.

South Korea-based LG AI Research has on Wednesday announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help develop LG’s latest family of EXAONE 3.0 generative AI models, and its enterprise multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) agent, ChatEXAONE, trained and developed on Google Cloud's AI-optimized infrastructure.

Japanese digital currencies platform DeCurret DCP Inc. has partnered internet service provide Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ) for digital assetization of environmental value and launch of digital currency DCJPY settlement transactions.

S&P Global Ratings believes the decarbonization path for Asia Pacific firms beyond 2030 is highly uncertain, and will be shaped by emerging regulations and new technologies.

Vizzio Technologies, a Singapore-based technology company, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a subsidiary of the global technology leader Foxconn, and INGRASYS, an artificial intelligence (AI)-focused subsidiary of Foxconn, have teamed up for smart manufacturing.

Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate Singtel and Japanese multinational conglomerate Hitachi, Ltd. have expanded collaboration to next-generation data centers and graphics processing unit (GPU) cloud to accelerate enterprise digital transformation by artificial intelligence (AI) adoption.

Technology expenses for banks in South and Southeast Asia could continue to increase at 15 percent to 20 percent a year over the next two to three years following a recent tech crackdown, S&P Global Ratings said Monday.