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Singapore-based OneByZero, an AI-focused systems integrator, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will cooperate to expand the deployment of governed AI "coworkers" for enterprises across Asia-Pacific and Japan.

Vietnam will roll out artificial-intelligence (AI) lessons across its general education system, from grade 1 to grade 12, starting in the 2026-2027 school year, according to a decision issued by the Ministry of Education and Training.

England's Chelsea Football Club and Vietnam’s technology giant FPT have extended their technology partnership for the 2026/27 season, continuing work on the Premier League club's digital systems and fan engagement.

Techsauce Global Summit 2026, an international technology and business conference organized by Thailand's Techsauce Media, opened in Bangkok on Wednesday under the theme "The Race to the Next."

Vietnam and Singapore will deepen cooperation in technological areas, including semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technology, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and the data economy.

NVIDIA proposed four areas of AI cooperation to Vietnam, including helping the country build its own large language model and expand its computing capacity, said Vikram Rao, NVIDIA's vice-president for ASEAN.

In an interview, Ropedia Co-Founder and CTO Fangzhou Hong told TNGlobal about why Asia is emerging as a hub for Physical AI, how Singapore can take the lead, whether data or hardware will determine the winners, and how robots entering everyday life could reshape employment.

The share of Malaysian businesses that consistently use at least one AI tool rose to 38 percent from 27 percent a year earlier, according to "Unlocking Malaysia's AI Potential 2026" study commissioned by Amazon Web Services, though most remain limited to basic applications.

Chinese payments and digital-services company Alipay launched China's first full-stack agentic commerce platform, giving merchants tools to move from digital operations to services run by AI agents, at a partner conference in Hangzhou.

The share of Singapore enterprises using agentic AI tools more than doubled to 51 percent in 2026 from 22 percent a year earlier, according to an annual survey by the United States-based workflow software firm ServiceNow.