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Green GSM hosts Philippines driver festival with 1,000-EV handover

Green GSM Philippines is holding a September 12 to 14 driver partner festival expected to draw up to 5,000 people, with 1,000 EVs set for handover.

Tesla establishes $3M automobile subsidiary in Vietnam

American automobile giant Tesla has established its Vietnamese subsidiary, Tesla Motors Vietnam LLC, according to a filing with the ministry-run National Business Registration Portal.

Vietnam’s Vietjet, France’s Thales expand aviation ties in AI, cyber, aircraft maintenance

Vietnam's budget airline Vietjet and France's aerospace giant Thales will expand their cooperation in aircraft maintenance, digital aviation, artificial intelligence (AI), and cybersecurity.

Maybank holds positive view on data center expansion in Indonesia

Maybank Investment Bank has hold positive view on data center expansion in Indonesia while seeing the country’s potential as a data center hub is underpinned by three structural advantages: abundant renewable energy resources, extensive land and water availability, and a large, internet-savvy population of over 280 million.

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.

Singapore dominates Southeast Asia’s $1.1B robotics sector funding

Southeast Asia’s robotics sector has raised $1.1 billion in all-time equity funding across 51 funded companies, with Singapore leading the region with $986 million bet.

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.

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Singapore banks complete live SGD tokenized-deposit transactions

DBS, OCBC and UOB completed live domestic Singapore-dollar interbank transactions using tokenized deposits on Swift's blockchain ledger.