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Global investment firms Brookfield and GIC have on last Friday announced the financial close of their acquisition of National Storage REIT (NSR), Australia and New Zealand’s largest owner and operator of self-storage facilities.

Connectivity remains the essential foundation. But what operators choose to build on top of it will ultimately determine how relevant they remain in their customers’ daily digital lives.

Malaysia is targeting a 7 percent share of the global advanced semiconductor packaging market by 2035, as the government accelerates efforts to move the industry up the value chain under its National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS).

Accton Technology Corporation, s provider of networking and communications solutions for top-tier networking, computer, and telecommunications vendors, will invest $80 million more in its wholly owned subsidiary, Vietnam Accton Technology Company Limited.

Ultimately, Asia’s rise in AI ethics and governance represents a structural shift in global technology architecture. It is not a rejection of global standards, but an expansion of them into a more pluralistic, scalable, and context-aware model designed for large-scale human systems.

Tencent Cloud, a cloud unit of Chinese giant Tencent, has partnered with Ryt Bank, an AI-powered bank in Malaysia, to support conversational banking services for everyday payments.

Southeast Asia’s businesses are moving quickly from AI experimentation to AI delegation. The next challenge is making sure autonomous systems do not become the weakest link in enterprise security.

Intel plans to continue expanding investment in Vietnam while supporting workforce training and the development of the country’s semiconductor ecosystem, a delegation of the American semiconductor giant said to Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been involved in 84 percent of reported security breaches in Singapore over the past 12 months, enabling attackers to operate with greater speed and scale than many organizations can defend against, a survey showed Wednesday.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Van Thang called for expanded cooperation with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in digital infrastructure and training.