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US Commerce finalized solar-cell trade margins for Indonesia and Laos, with antidumping findings of 94.36% and 65.43%. Final duty orders await an October 14 injury vote.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group focused on the private sector, has launched a risk-sharing initiative to help banks, fintechs, and other financial institutions in emerging markets expand access to digital payments for consumers and small businesses.

More than a third of respondents (38 percent) say the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA) is highly important to their business, while 50 percent rated it as moderately important, a survey conducted by the EU-ASEAN business council showed on Tuesday.

The ASEAN Foundation has received endorsement of Southeast Asian education officials for an expanded program to equip more than 1.7 million students, teachers, and university staff with practical AI skills by the end of 2028.

Grab has been pursuing growth through both acquisitions and expansion of its existing businesses, according to the report. Earlier this year, Grab acquired US-based Stash Financial Inc at an enterprise value of US$425 million and bought Foodpanda’s Taiwan operations from Delivery Hero SE for $600 million.

Thailand's Krungsri renewed a five-year agreement with Kyndryl covering core infrastructure, mainframe services, automation and AI-enabled operations.

Anthropic says it disrupted AI-orchestrated cyber operations and unauthorized attempts by labs to extract capabilities from Claude.

Malaysia ranked second in Southeast Asia, behind Singapore, in ASEAN Digital Nations Index, an annual digital-development index published by the mobile-industry body GSMA.

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa are developing common checks for identifying and monitoring AI agents across payment networks.

PLDT says three UiPath-based AI systems are shortening knowledge retrieval, customer response and risk reviews across its Philippine operations.