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Mobility app Setel introduces Malaysia’s first multilingual voice fueling experience
Malaysia's mobility app Setel has introduced Voice Fuelling, an AI-powered experience that lets users activate their fuel pump using voice commands.
AI trend to boost Southeast Asia’s GDP growth, Vietnam tops region at 7.4%: WB
The AI trend can help drive up the economic growth of Southeast Asia and Vietnam can top the region's GDP growth in 2026 with 7.4 percent, followed by Indonesia with 5.2 percent and Malaysia with 5.1 percent.
In Southeast Asia, corporate credibility increasingly starts with the data
PR consultant Salsabila Syifa Atma examines how fragmented business data can affect the credibility of corporate claims as Southeast Asian companies digitize and adopt AI.
Granite Asia, Google AI fund to co-invest up to $2M per Asian AI startup
Singapore-based Granite Asia, a $11 billion private capital platform, and Google's AI Futures Fund will jointly back AI startups in Asia, co-investing up to $2 million in each alongside access to Google's AI models.
Lumen’s Francis Thangasamy on the infrastructure behind responsible enterprise AI [Q&A]
Lumen Technologies APAC Managing Director Francis Thangasamy discusses AI readiness, governance, federated learning, infrastructure resilience and how enterprises should measure value.
Vietnam allows tungsten export, but only deep-processed products
Vietnam seeks to permit tungsten (wolfram) exports, but only for deep-processed product, such as ammonium paratungstate (APT) and commercial tungsten oxide.
Vietnam’s Vingroup, France’s Alstom sign deal for 200 Hanoi metro trains, with local assembly
Vietnam's conglomerate Vingroup has signed a contract with France's Alstom for 200 metro trains for Hanoi capital city, as the Vietnamese conglomerate builds out the capital city's rail network.
Axiata CEO Nik Rizal Kamil appointed to GSMA global mobile-industry board
Nik Rizal Kamil, CEO of Malaysian telecoms group Axiata, has been appointed to the board of the GSMA, the global mobile-industry association, for a two-year term starting in January.
Indonesia-based MDI Ventures refocuses on enterprise AI, digital-asset infrastructure
MDI Ventures, the corporate venture-capital arm of Indonesia's state-owned telecom group Telkom, has revamped its Southeast Asia investment strategy to focus on enterprise AI and digital-asset infrastructure.
Malaysia’s Agmo reaches Select tier in Anthropic’s Claude partner network
Agmo Studio, a Malaysian software firm, has reached the "Select" tier in the partner network run by Anthropic, the creator of Claude AI models.
