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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-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.

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

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

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.

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

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