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Vietnam’s Net Zero Challenge 2026 opens applications with $800,000 prize pool
Net Zero Challenge, Vietnam’s largest climate technology innovation competition, has opened applications for its fourth edition, offering a total prize pool exceeding VND21 billion ($800,000), with applications open from July 1 to August 31, 2026.
Temasek appoints Wendy Koh as Chief Financial Officer
Temasek has on Friday announced the appointment of Wendy Koh as Chief Financial Officer (CFO)-designate with effect from August 1, 2026.
Singapore’s Temasek Foundation, Vietnam’s HCMC Financial Center, Touchstone Partners to collaborate in green transition
The Vietnam International Financial Center in Ho Chi Minh City (VIFC-HCMC), Vietnam's venture capital firm Touchstone Partners, and Singapore's Temasek Foundation will jointly support Vietnam's green transition and sustainable growth.
AI agents will not just support customer journeys in Southeast Asia; they will redesign them
Southeast Asia’s customer journeys were never built like Western funnels. They are conversational, mobile, social, and trust-driven. The brands that win in the next phase will be those that recognize this reality and design AI agents around local behavior, not imported playbooks. In this region, the future of customer engagement will not simply be…
GIC, Temasek anchor Singapore’s investment in Anthropic’s $65B Series H round
Singapore's two sovereign wealth funds, GIC and Temasek, have joined a landmark $65 billion Series H funding round for Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude family of models, valuing the firm at $965 billion post-money.
Why your voice AI still feels like a bot – let’s convo!
The benchmark for voice AI is not whether it answers correctly in a controlled demo. It is whether it can survive real conditions: unstable networks, noisy environments, local accents, code-switching, interruptions, and impatient users.
Singapore unveils new AI partnerships at ATxSummit 2026
Singapore announced a series of new artificial intelligence initiatives and global partnerships at ATxSummit 2026, signaling a shift toward large-scale deployment of AI systems across public services, enterprise, manufacturing, and robotics.
Indonesia’s eFishery founder gets nine-year jail term in $300M case – report
An Indonesian court sentenced eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison on Wednesday, concluding a high-profile $300 million financial scandal that led to the collapse of one of Southeast Asia’s most celebrated startups.
As Southeast Asia’s platforms mature, users and merchants face the cost of scale
Southeast Asia’s digital platforms have moved from growth engines to economic infrastructure. As subsidies normalize, regulation expands, and platforms invest in profitability, logistics, worker protections, and merchant tools, users and sellers are beginning to feel more of the cost of scale. The next test for the region’s platform economy will be whether…
Singapore healthtech startup injewelme raises $1.2m to advance AI monitoring technology
Catalytic Capital for Climate and Health (C3H), a catalytic investment vehicle of Temasek Trust, has led a US$1.2 million funding round in Singapore-based AI healthtech startup injewelme, C3H said in a press release on Wednesday.
