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The alternative asset manager is backing a profitable automotive actuator maker as it seeks growth in industrial and humanoid robotics.

Jakarta has become one of 29 founding members of WAICO while two presidential regulations on AI ethics and a national roadmap await approval.

The Chinese startup’s 2.8-trillion-parameter model combines near-frontier performance with lower pricing, intensifying pressure on both domestic competitors and leading US developers.

The plan depends less on poaching billionaires than on persuading existing customers to invest more of their savings through DBS, while using higher fee income to offset pressure on lending margins.

For the 6,000-plus operators that work with SPRIBE, that coherence has practical value.

At the Sponsor Fan Experience areas, visitors can explore a range of technology-powered games inspired by Hisense’s latest innovations.

UOB and S&P Global now expect growth above the government’s 2–4% range, though disruption around the Strait of Hormuz threatens feedstock supplies, shipping costs and the electronics cycle.

Today's technology conversation is dominated by AI: bigger models, faster chips, more computing power. But Kohn argues intelligence doesn't start inside the processor.

The M31 Capital-led round will support a platform that allows specialists and product teams to build, deploy and manage AI agents without coding.

The memory-chip maker's strong debut suggests investors are not abandoning the AI trade. They are becoming more selective about which parts of it they are willing to fund.

Capital Haus is looking closely at Southeast Asia through the lens of investment management, funds management, and media, rather than positioning the region as a straightforward advisory expansion.

Tencent could emerge as the biggest individual shareholder in Manus without taking control, as Meta's $2 Bn acquisition is set to be reversed following a Beijing order, leaving the AI startup independent and based in Singapore.

The leadership of the sovereign wealth fund concedes that overvaluation in the AI market it is chasing is unavoidable, and that nobody can call when it corrects. Its own weakest stretch of returns shows what a mistimed conviction already cost it once. That's why the credit and infrastructure build-out reads less like expansion and more like insurance.

Tencent’s 10-year purchase from a Sulawesi agroforestry project marks its first carbon removal credit deal outside China, as Google and McKinsey also agree to buy credits from the same project.

The city-state's investment agency is still attracting factories, business headquarters and advanced-manufacturing commitments. But its bigger ambition now, emerging as a launchpad for world-class founders, AI labs and growth-stage firms, is the harder one to pull off.

The mining company has signed non-binding agreements with South Korea’s KIND and Hyundai Engineering, adding potential investment and engineering support to its Nevada project.

The blockchain firm signed a pact to explore public blockchain infrastructure in the Philippines, extending its government-linked digital trust push across ASEAN.

The South Korean firm makes the memory the AI boom runs on. It is coming to NASDAQ via an American depositary share sale at a market peak: record margins, a dominant position in AI memory and a trillion-dollar valuation. But the peak is also where the cracks are starting to show.

Named after his mother, the Shobha Dixit Fellowship Fund will support need-based aid for MBA students at Harvard Business School, extending a theme that began with Dixit's support for women faculty in STEM at IIT Bombay.

A new alliance with US-based Odyssey Space gives the Singapore materials startup a route into space hardware, as companies seek cheaper, faster sources of specialist carbon fibre.

SMBC’s corporate venture fund is building a Southeast Asian financial infrastructure play through startup bets and regional banking ties.

From printers to platform growth, Creality is shaping a creator ecosystem

APAC Growth Driven by AI, Deals, Energy, Pharma and Strategic Expansion

AI investment, cross-border M&A, retail divestment, digital infrastructure, renewable energy, and legal developments drive Asia-Pacific business activity.

Today’s roundup features Webull’s $100M acquisition of Pi Securities, OTP Bank’s €7B EMTN programme in Hong Kong, fresh funding for Qashier and Raytech, MINISO’s HK$2B share buyback, Uxin’s $15M investment from NIO Capital, and X Square Robot crossing a $2.8B valuation.

AI infrastructure funding, battery materials investment, specialty chemicals M&A, autonomous mining IPO activity, and proptech restructuring highlight active capital markets and industrial deal flow across Asia-Pacific.

Boosting expansion in the global chip market

ASEAN's next phase of growth will depend on how it navigates supply-chain shifts, investment flows, and superpower competition

Biotech funding, fintech growth capital, healthcare financing, asset management expansion, real estate portfolio restructuring, and hospitality acquisitions dominate deal activity across Asia-Pacific.

Funding rounds, debt issuances, strategic investments, infrastructure financing, and cross-border expansion initiatives drive activity across hospitality, insurance, aviation, critical minerals, infrastructure development, and AI-powered enterprise solutions sectors.