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Maybank Cambodia has extended a $50 million financing facility to Smart Axiata, a subsidiary of Malaysian-headquartered Axiata Group Berhad, to accelerate the strategic development of Cambodia’s digital and telecommunications infrastructure, including 5G connectivity across the country.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) could significantly reshape economies and labor markets across Asia and the Pacific, but widening disparities in readiness mean advanced economies are likely to capture most early gains, according to a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday.

Singapore fintech firm Thunes has joined forces with the Circle Payments Network (CPN) Managed Payments, to expand stablecoin settlement.

Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company Pony AI Inc. (Pony.ai) has partnered with Singapore's national transport group ComfortDelGro to launch autonomous mobility service in the city state.

Danantara Indonesia has announced the establishment of PT Daya Energi Bersih Nusantara (PT Denera), an integrated waste management company designed to serve as the holding entity for all Waste-to-Energy (WtE) or Pengolahan Sampah menjadi Energi Listrik (PSEL) project implementation across the country.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a $25 million multi-partner fund to finance critical project preparation work for cross-border energy and transmission infrastructure within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — the first such fund in the region.

India-based Nava, a cloud infrastructure company focused on GPU compute and AI data centers across the Asia-Pacific region, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round.

Governance is the mechanism that optimizes backup spend, shortens recovery, and improves AI reliability. With this, companies will stop paying premium prices to protect data they did not understand, did not need, or should not have kept in the first place.

AI is no longer a side conversation in gaming. It is becoming a fault line. Across Asia, developers and players appear more open to folding AI into how games are built and experienced, while many Western markets remain more suspicious of its effect on creative work, labor, and authenticity. That growing split could shape not just the next wave of game…

Digital Realty, the Us-based data center platform, announced Thursday it is targeting nearly S$7 billion ($5.49 billion) of total investment in Singapore, reinforcing the market's critical role as an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure hub for Asia Pacific.