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Akamai has signed a seven-year cloud services agreement with Anthropic carrying $11.6 billion in contractual commitments, with room to expand by $9 billion.

AnyMind's Kubo Akinori discusses how brands should compare human and AI livestream hosts, disclose AI-generated presenters, localize across Southeast Asia, and keep humans in the loop.

Thailand has approved its first national semiconductor strategy, targeting about $80 billion in cumulative investment and more than 230,000 jobs by 2050.

CBAK Energy has signed an investment agreement for a planned 12 GWh battery project in Nanjing that can produce sodium-ion or lithium-ion cells.

Singapore-headquartered payment intelligence firm iPiD has raised $16 million in a Series A led by Foundation Capital, with Citi and HSBC participating.

Nokia's Henrique Vale discusses AI-native RAN architecture, deployment paths, spectrum-efficiency gains, edge AI, multi-vendor interoperability and governance on the road to 6G.

Tacta Systems, a company that is pioneering Dexterous Intelligence for robotics, has on Thursday announced the opening of its new Singapore office and production facility in Woodlands.

TikTok's first Southeast Asia Branding Summit brought more than 150 representatives from over 60 brands together in Singapore to discuss turning cultural attention into measurable business outcomes.

Alibaba has expanded its AI hardware lineup with Qwen Book, new Qwen Glasses, AI earbuds and a portable note-taking device designed to turn voice, visual and workplace context into agentic actions.

Mynt, the parent of GCash, has secured commitments from more than 20 global and Philippine cornerstone investors for its planned IPO, with final pricing expected October 1.