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China’s Tencent Cloud, Malaysia’s U Mobile to cooperate in enterprise 5G, AI

Tencent Cloud, the cloud unit of Chinese technology giant Tencent, and Malaysia's U Mobile will jointly develop 5G and AI solutions for businesses in Malaysia, the companies said.

China foreign ministry labels AI-slowdown suggestion ‘fear-mongering’ after Anthropic’s founder Amodei warns

China's foreign ministry warned against "fear-mongering" over AI after U.S. executives, led by Anthropic's Dario Amodei, called for slowing the technology's development and cautioned that a Chinese lead would threaten U.S. security.

FutureChina Global Forum 2026 adds AI track as Singapore event focuses on resilience and trust

Business China’s FutureChina Global Forum returns to Singapore on Sept. 24-25 with a new AI track and discussions spanning resilience, regional cooperation and China’s economic transition.

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The AI citation gap for Southeast Asian SMEs: A seven-check visibility audit

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.

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The last-mile problem in agentic AI: Why tool-calling reliability is harder than it looks

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 plans about $5 billion in share and bond financing

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.

Grafilab bets on sovereign AI to take Malaysia’s Neo Cloud ambitions beyond its borders [interview]

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 CEO Amodei calls for slowing AI development

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

AI boom is a growth cushion for SEA amid mounting energy, tariff, and weather risks – Moody’s

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 reports $15.8M in Q2 revenue, 10.1M members

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