AI
Singapore’s family development ministry allocates $11.6M to pilot AI, technology solutions for social care
Singapore's Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) has announced a S$15 million ($11.6 million) investment over three years to incubate and pilot emerging technology projects in the social care sector.
LinqAlpha raises $22M Series A to build AI layer for institutional investors
LinqAlpha, an AI company building "Alpha Intelligence Layer" for global public markets, has raised $22 million in Series A funding anchored by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures
Philippines firms accelerate AI adoption, only 17% can recruit enough AI talent: Aon
As many as 72 percent of organizations in the Philippines have already deployed or are piloting artificial intelligence (AI), yet only 17 percent say they can recruit and retain enough AI-skilled talent.
90% of IT leaders see gaps in AI threat defense: Lenovo
As many as 90 percent of IT leaders acknowledge gaps in their ability to defend against AI-driven threats, according to the "Reinforcing the Modern Workplace global: How to Identify and Combat AI Threats" report conducted by technology giant Lenovo.
Thailand’s Amity Robotics raises $7M to expand AI concierge robots across Asia
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.
Singapore’s Acti raises $5.3M seed round to build AI-powered keyboard as personal context layer
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.
India’s Tata Communications to invest $152M in subsea cables linking India’s AI, Singapore
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 build Hanoi’s R&D center into world-class AI engineering hub
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.
NVIDIA, Australia’s Firmus to jointly deploy 170,000 AI accelerators in Indonesia, targeting $30B in revenue
NVIDIA and Australia's AI facilitator Firmus Technologies will jointly provide global AI-native, enterprise, and ISV customers access to NVIDIA's AI accelerated computing stack, with the infrastructure to be deployed at Firmus' Batam campus in Indonesia.
Singapore sets 8 economic growth guides, to solve startup funding gap
Singapore has set concrete targets to support 10,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and upskill 100,000 workers in artificial intelligence (AI) over the next three years, as part of the country's Economic Strategy Review (ESR) blueprint released last week.
