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Power, water and connectivity are the new bottleneck in Malaysia’s AI era – BIMB
Power, water and connectivity are the new bottleneck in Malaysia's artificial intelligence (AI) era, BIMB Securities said on Thursday.
Malaysian manufacturing sector sees business use of AI outpaces factory transformation
Malaysian manufacturing sector sees business use of artificial intelligence (AI) outpaces factory transformation, a survey conducted by the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturing (FMM) showed on Thursday.
Singapore, Lao PDR sign implementation agreement on carbon credits collaboration
Singapore and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) have signed an Implementation Agreement on carbon credits collaboration under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on Friday.
Singapore-based Ant International gets Brazil payment-institution licence
Singapore’s Ant International has received a payment-institution license from Brazil's central bank, expanding its regulated presence in the country's payments market.
Ping An Digital Bank launches e-commerce financing
Ping An Digital Bank has launched receivables-backed financing of up to $5 million for eligible cross-border e-commerce merchants.
Tencent open-sources 770B-parameter Hy4 preview
Tencent has open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter model with 49 billion active parameters and a one-million-token context window.
Vietnam seeks to restrict U16 players’ daily game time at 60 minutes, require parental control
Vietnam seeks to cap the daily playing time of under-16 gamers at 60 minutes and require parents to register their accounts, according to draft rules for online games compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Ngee Ann Polytechnic launches workforce transformation center
Ngee Ann Polytechnic has launched SH1F+, a workforce transformation center working with EY on job redesign, capability building and workplace learning.
Singapore’s Hivebotics raises $6M led by Vertex to scale restroom-cleaning robots
Singapore-based autonomous robot builder Hivebotics has raised $6 million in a Series A round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, to move its restroom-cleaning robot from pilot deployments into volume production.
The new agentic development lifecycle: The skills required to hire, onboard and manage your workforce of AI agents
Gaurav Suman of Solace argues that enterprises need an agent development lifecycle combining software engineering discipline with the governance and supervision used to manage human employees.
