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Malaysia's renewable energy sector could see a stronger pipeline of corporate power purchase agreements over the coming months after the government cut the system access charge for firm supply under the Corporate Renewable Energy Supply Scheme (CRESS), with research houses expecting developers and data center operators to accelerate negotiations.

Niantic Spatial, the U.S. spatial-computing firm spun out of Pokémon Go developer Niantic, and the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) will jointly study the feasibility of building Singapore's first citywide visual positioning system,

Bonbon Mobility, a Vietnamese platform connecting car owners with garages and car-care providers, has raised $500,000 in a pre-seed round led by conglomerate Tasco, with GenAI Fund co-investing.

In May, Vietnam's Ministry of Finance said the country's official digital-asset exchange could see its first activity as early as the third quarter of 2026, with five companies making preparations.

An Experian study conducted by Forrester Consulting found 83 percent of Singapore respondents trust AI to compare loans, while 82 percent cite manipulation through fake offers or impersonation as a top concern.

Alibaba says it aims to operate more than 20GW of global data center capacity by 2032 as it expands its full-stack AI roadmap across Qwen models, proprietary processors, cloud infrastructure and agent platforms.

Billease Bank has elected former Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Deputy Governor Eduardo G. Bobier as an independent director, subject to BSP confirmation, as the lender integrates more banking products into the Billease ecosystem.

U Mobile and ZTE have completed a proof of concept for a portable solar-powered 4G and 5G site using satellite backhaul at two rural locations in Sarawak and Sabah.

The United States-based OpenAI has called for the United States to lead an international effort to set shared technical standards for the most advanced AI systems, including for so-called recursive self-improvement.

Startups in Southeast Asia's logistics-technology sector have raised $17.7 billion in equity funding to date, with investment recovering to $339 million so far in 2026, the highest annual level since 2021.