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Participants from 60 countries, including more than 1,000 C-suite executives and 500 investors, gathered in Bangkok, with over 1,500 business-matching meetings supporting investment and collaboration across the region.

A single $4.5 billion data-center financing by Singapore's DayOne drove Southeast Asian startup funding to $7.25 billion in the first half of 2026, more than quadruple a year earlier, according to a report of Kickstart Ventures.

Meta has launched its expanded AI-glasses lineup in Singapore, including new Meta Glasses and Ray-Ban Meta models, while preparing additional rollouts across Southeast Asia.

Australia is investigating after an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to public and non-public files in a Medicare statistics portal.

UiPath used FUSION 2026 to introduce Cartographer for mapping enterprise work, new governance controls for AI agents and planned autonomous-testing capabilities in Test Cloud.

Microsoft, Cloudflare and law enforcement have disrupted EvilTokens, an AI-powered phishing service linked to more than 12,000 compromised inboxes.

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads into Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan as it broadens self-service advertising access in Asia.

Luno Malaysia, Halogen Capital, and Kenanga Investors are exploring the use of a fully reserved ringgit-pegged stablecoin as an on-chain settlement instrument for tokenized money-market funds.

Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Fudan University have established a joint AI healthcare laboratory, with Suanova providing computing infrastructure and related technical support.

Amazon Kuiper Vietnam, the local satellite unit of U.S. technology group Amazon, has received a Vietnamese licence to run a private satellite-based telecommunications network.