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Singapore’s Groundup.ai wins $3M PUB tender to bring AI Cognitive Maintenance to national water infrastructure

Groundup.ai, the Singapore-based industrial machine intelligence company, has been awarded a tender by Public Utilities Board (PUB), Singapore's National Water Agency, to implement and maintain a Predictive Maintenance and Reliability System for the water utility's critical assets.

U‍S blockchain firm TRM Labs appoints MAS veteran Ziqing Ang as Head of Policy, APAC

TRM Labs, the United States-based blockchain intelligence services firm, has appointed Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) veteran Ziqing Ang as Head of Policy, Asia Pacific (APAC).

Singapore’s Aura launches private equity evergreen fund

Singapore-based financial services firm Aura Group has launched the Aura PE Evergreen Income Fund, an evergreen private markets strategy designed to address the liquidity, income and capital call challenges that have historically restricted private equity allocation in advised portfolios.

Foxconn’s ShunSin to invest $65M in chip-packaging lines at Vietnam unit

ShunSin Technology Holdings, a subsidiary of Taiwan's electronic manufacturer Foxconn, will invest up to $65 million to set up bumping and redistribution-layer process production lines at its Vietnam subsidiary, funded through a capital injection of the same amount.

Southeast Asia’s data centers gather pace with 85 percent of equity raised since 2024 – Tracxn

Southeast Asia’s data center companies have raised about $11.5 billion in disclosed equity funding across 19 rounds and roughly 85 percent of that capital has arrived since the start of 2024, the period in which artificial intelligence (AI) demand reshaped the region’s infrastructure requirements, Tracxn said on Friday.

OSK Ventures partners Affin Hwang Investment to launch venture debt fund

OSK Ventures International Berhad (OSKVI) and Affin Hwang Investment Bank Berhad have on Thursday announced the launch of Pothos Fund I via Pothos GP Sdn Bhd, marking the introduction of their first venture debt fund for investors.

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Your newest employee is an agent. Who is accountable?

As organizations begin managing AI agents alongside human teams, accountability, visibility and orchestration become central to scaling a hybrid workforce, writes UiPath’s Karl Crowther.

Axiata underlying profit more than doubles in first half of 2026

Axiata said underlying first-half profit more than doubled to RM717.2 million, while constant-currency revenue and EBITDA increased across its regional portfolio.

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Building tomorrow’s rail networks starts with communications infrastructure

Asia-Pacific rail resilience increasingly depends on integrated communications infrastructure connecting signaling, operations, passenger systems and control centers.

Solace, SIOS Technology partner on real-time data platforms for agentic AI in Japan

Solace and SIOS Technology have partnered to help Japanese enterprises build real-time, AI-ready data platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.