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Cloudera and Mistral AI are partnering to let enterprises run customized AI against governed data across cloud, on-premises and sovereign environments.

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining GPT-6 Astra with premium financial data and workflows shaped by Morgan Stanley and Evercore.

The Philippines has finalized a $34.4 billion AI infrastructure roadmap targeting 1.5GW of AI data-center capacity by 2033, up from about 50MW today.

The ASEAN Foundation has received endorsement of Southeast Asian education officials for an expanded program to equip more than 1.7 million students, teachers, and university staff with practical AI skills by the end of 2028.

Enterprise Singapore has opened an office in Boston, its fifth in the United States, to help Singapore companies expand on the U.S. East Coast, and has signed its first U.S. state-level partnership, with Massachusetts.

Belgium's insurer Ageas has completed the sale of its 30.95 percent stake in Maybank Ageas Holdings, the Malaysian parent of insurer Etiqa, to its partner Maybank for about €1.1B billion ($1.3 billion), ending a 25-year joint venture.

Australia’s VVMF has secured a TGA manufacturing license for its Westmead facility to produce specified viral vectors under GMP standards.

Grab has been pursuing growth through both acquisitions and expansion of its existing businesses, according to the report. Earlier this year, Grab acquired US-based Stash Financial Inc at an enterprise value of US$425 million and bought Foodpanda’s Taiwan operations from Delivery Hero SE for $600 million.

Thailand's Krungsri renewed a five-year agreement with Kyndryl covering core infrastructure, mainframe services, automation and AI-enabled operations.

Anthropic says it disrupted AI-orchestrated cyber operations and unauthorized attempts by labs to extract capabilities from Claude.