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Thailand-based Amity Robotics, a physical AI and robotics company building AI-powered experiences for the physical world, has closed a $7 million seed round combining equity and debt financing.

Acti, a Singapore-based company describing itself as the world's first agentic keyboard, has raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by the United States-based BITKRAFT Ventures.

In an increasingly digital APAC economy, communications resilience is not a technical concern. It is a strategic imperative - one that sits squarely at the intersection of revenue, trust, and competitive differentiation. The businesses that treat it that way will be the ones still standing when their competitors are not.

By bringing global innovators directly into the offices, laboratories, manufacturing facilities, and innovation centers of industry leaders, the tour highlighted the Greater Bay Area's position as a global hub for entrepreneurship, advanced manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.

India's Tata Communications will make an strategic $152 million investment in subsea cable infrastructure to expand the India-Singapore digital corridor with an additional 98 terabits per second of AI-ready capacity,

NVIDIA aims to develop its Vietnam Research and Development Center (VRDC) in Hanoi into a world-class AI engineering hub, contributing both to the company's global operations and to the innovation ecosystem in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

An Indonesian court ⁠on Tuesday ruled that Nadiem ‌Makarim, Co-Founder of tech giant Gojek and a former education minister, was ​guilty of corruption and ⁠sentenced him to ⁠10 years in prison, Reuters reported. The verdict can still be appealed by either the prosecution or the defense, according to Jakarta Globe.id.

Biobot Surgical, a Singapore-based medical technology company developing robotic-assisted systems for prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, has secured S$20 million ($15.4 million) in its latest financing round led by ClavystBio in partnership with ZIG Ventures.

Singapore-based Qashier, a unified merchant operating system for Southeast Asia, has raised $6.125 million in a Series A+ financing round comprising equity and debt.

Malaysia is stepping up efforts to create more high-value jobs in advanced industries with the launch of the BAKAT MADANI initiative, a national program aimed at strengthening talent pipelines in semiconductors, renewable energy, the digital economy and advanced manufacturing.