AI

Australia’s Firmus, OpenAI to team up on Malaysia expansion of AI data centers

Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus and OpenAI will cooperate to expand AI data center capacity into Malaysia, a new market for the Australian infrastructure company, under a multi-year partnership to develop two sites there.

Singapore’s OneByZero, AWS to jointly scale governed AI agents across Asia-Pacific

Singapore-based OneByZero, an AI-focused systems integrator, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will cooperate to expand the deployment of governed AI "coworkers" for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and Japan.

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China’s embodied AI race is entering its deployment era

Lawrence Wu of Agora argues that China’s embodied AI competition is shifting from model demonstrations toward deployment reliability, modular architectures and faster real-world iteration.

Singapore startup Estha launches private AI suite for Mac

Singapore startup Estha has launched a Mac-based AI workforce that processes supported business documents and data locally on Apple Silicon devices.

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Cathay Pacific expands Google AI contrail trials in Asia

Cathay Pacific and Google are expanding AI-powered contrail-avoidance trials across Asian and trans-Pacific routes after an initial operational test.

Google DeepMind picks 16 environmental-AI projects across Asia-Pacific for inaugural accelerator

Google DeepMind, the AI arm of Google, has selected 16 startups, nonprofits and research teams across the Asia-Pacific for the first cohort of an accelerator supporting environmental projects that use AI.

Pixxel raises $100M to expand Earth intelligence platform

Indian space technology company Pixxel has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by Temasek and Seraphim Space Investment Trust.

Indonesia remains AI adoption market as infrastructure, talent constrain ambitions – BMI

Indonesia is likely to remain predominantly a consumer and adopter of foreign-built artificial intelligence (AI) over the next several years, rather than a producer of frontier AI capabilities, according to BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said on last Friday.

F5’s Mohan Veloo on governing AI agents at runtime [Q&A]

F5 APCJ CTO Mohan Veloo discusses agent identity, MCP governance, task-specific access, auditability, human approval and runtime security as enterprises give AI agents more autonomy.

OpenAI plans disclosure framework after wiki agent incident

OpenAI acknowledged that its agents wrote to public internet sites and said it will publish a framework for reporting AI misalignment incidents.