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As many as 85 percent of affluent and high-net-worth investors in Malaysia use AI tools for finance and investment, ranking the country third among ten markets surveyed, according to HSBC.

China's technology giant Alibaba has launched a public beta of Wan3.0, an AI video generation model supporting clips of up to 30 seconds and multimodal inputs including text, image, video, audio, web pages, PDFs, and PowerPoint presentations.

Bettr, the embedded finance platform under Singapore's Ant International, has partnered with Muslim Pro, an Islamic lifestyle app with more than 190 million downloads across more than 190 markets, to launch an Umrah financing solution in Malaysia for eligible Muslim users planning the pilgrimage.

AI trading tools promise clearer signals and broader access to sophisticated analysis, yet retail traders can easily become overwhelmed by correlated outputs and automation. Paul Bratby looks at how traders can assess signal quality, understand agentic systems, and retain disciplined risk management.

Malaysia's Ministry of Digital and MyDIGITAL Corporation will co-host the AI Malaysia Takeover 2026 (AIMTO_26), a two-day event in Kuala Lumpur on August 11-12, to push Malaysia's AI readiness and digital adoption.

Indonesia's Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison has launched Zankore by Indosat, an AI infrastructure platform targeting 1 GW of NVIDIA DSX AI Factory capacity, in collaboration with Qatar's Ooredoo Group as lead investor, Finland's Nokia, and US chipmaker NVIDIA.

Malaysia could benefit from a proposed U.S. ban on imports of new Chinese optical transceiver models, as global suppliers expand production outside China to support artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, analysts said.

Australia's Firmus Grid has received full commitments for a $2 billion strategic equity investment round, bringing its total new equity raised over the past year to more than $3 billion and its post-money valuation above $10.5 billion.

Malaysia's electrical and electronics (E&E) export performance is increasingly tied to global demand for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven semiconductors rather than exchange rate movements, underscoring the country's deeper integration into the global chip supply chain, RHB Investment Bank Research said Friday.

Asia is seeing a wave of digital health announcements, from AI diagnostics to telehealth platforms. Yet the pace of actual deployment remains uneven. Amit Yadav looks at the infrastructure and market signals that can help investors, healthcare operators, and policymakers distinguish experimentation from adoption at scale.