AI

Sumsub has launched an APAC Agentic AI Council focused on agent identity, delegated authority, interoperability, accountability and practical governance frameworks.

AMD will acquire World Labs, an AI model and research lab led by Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion, the company said in a statement on Monday.

South Korea's Samsung and five affiliates will invest a combined $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, an AI-infrastructure company set up by private-equity firm KKR.

Ropedia, a Singapore-based physical-AI startup spun out of Nanyang Technological University, has launched a program giving academic researchers access to its wearable data-capture device.

YCO Cloud and Aolani plan to deploy more than 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs in the Philippines, with an initial launch targeted for early 2027.

Johnson Controls has joined NUS' Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed 2.0 to study AI-ready infrastructure under real-world tropical conditions.

Ant Group's Robbyant and the Arab Federation for Digital Economy have agreed to localize and deploy embodied-AI and robotics systems across Middle Eastern markets.

Aircall is expanding into Southeast Asia with a partner-led strategy focused on localized AI voice agents, communications workflows and regional integrations.

JFrog's Yashaswi Mudumbai discusses how AI coding agents change dependency governance, where controls should sit, what actions still need human approval and what enterprises should retain for auditability.

CtrlS Datacenters is deploying Ciena optical networking across five Indian metro networks linking nine data centers with up to 100 Tb/s of capacity.