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Singapore’s digital payments market is mature. The next competitive test is whether merchants can keep checkout fast, reliable, and trusted when demand peaks.

Tencent Hy3 (formerly known as Tencent Hunyuan), the latest large language model developed by China's Tencent, is now available for international access, following the model's official release on July 6.

Singapore businesses expect agentic AI to generate a return on investment of $9.8 million over the next two years, nearly double last year's estimate of $4.9 million, according to "The SAP Value of AI Report 2026" study conducted by Germany's software giant SAP and Oxford Economics.

Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KIT), managed by Singapore's Keppel Infrastructure Fund Management, has committed €34 million ($37 million) to acquire a 45 percent effective stake in a second German solar portfolio from Dutch company Enpal B.V.

For hardware startups entering new Asia-Pacific markets, distributor campaigns should produce evidence that informs listing, inventory, pricing, and expansion decisions.

By combining Jumpstart's deep roots in Hong Kong with TNGlobal and TechNode's extensive network across Greater China, Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, and global innovation hubs, the combined organization will strengthen Hong Kong's role as a gateway connecting Asia's technology ecosystem with the world.

Taiwan's Foxconn has injected an additional $62 million into its subsidiary in Quang Ninh province, northern Vietnam and added a new business activity of manufacturing electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

China's Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, the largest AI model in its Qwen large language and multimodal model family, featuring 2.4 trillion parameters and a context window of up to 1 million tokens.

Zeekr Intelligent Technology Malaysia, under China's electric vehicle (EV) brand Zeekr, has reached 5,000 cumulative vehicle deliveries in Malaysia in less than two years since launch, the firm said in a statement on Tuesday.

Tokyo-based workforce platform X Mile has raised JPY 3.17 billion ($20 million) in a Series C round led by Vertex Growth, the growth-stage platform of the Vertex global venture capital network, bringing the company's total funding to JPY6.96 billion.