AI

Here is a seven-check audit for Southeast Asian SMEs trying to make their public information easier for search and AI systems to access and verify.

Red Hat developer advocates Grace Ableidinger and Sawyer Bowerman explain why silent tool-calling failures can undermine multistep AI agents even when model reasoning is sound.

Z.AI proposes a Hong Kong share placement and a separate convertible-bond issue with combined gross proceeds of about $5 billion, subject to closing conditions.

Malaysia’s first local Neo Cloud startup Grafilab sees data sovereignty, affordable AI compute and close ties to the developer community as potential advantages in a market dominated by heavily funded global players.

Anthropic co-founder and chief executive Dario Amodei has called on the AI industry to "deliberately" slow the pace of developing models.

Moody's Analytics sees the artificial intelligence (AI) boom is a growth cushion for Southeast Asian region amid mounting energy, tariff, and weather risks.

MoneyHero reported second-quarter revenue of $15.8 million, down 13 percent year over year. Registered membership rose 17 percent to 10.1 million.

Nvidia and eight Australian infrastructure providers are targeting up to 2GW of AI-factory buildout by 2027, with the operators to run the facilities.

IBM and NASA released an open-source foundation model for mapping lunar ice prospects, craters and volcanic features from multimodal data.

NPCI is developing a registry to verify and monitor AI agents making transactions over India’s UPI as part of a planned Unified Agentic Protocol.