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The venture supports Vietnam's goal to become a mid-level regional space power by 2030, shifting the local industry from state-backed projects to private capital.

The country has launched an extensive package for its semiconductor industry, driving a significant expansion of backend chip production into Vietnam.

The platform is launching agentic trading in Indonesia, using models like ChatGPT to assemble trades while requiring human approval for final execution.

The investment underscores a sharp resurgence in global AI-biotech funding, though startups still face the high-stakes clinical challenge of moving AI-discovered therapies successfully through human trials.

The attacks targeted employees, not autonomous systems. But they show why identity, authority and pre-execution controls must work together as financial institutions give AI agents more power to act.

The TikTok owner’s biggest bet could be more than three times the size of Moonshot’s Kimi K3 and approach Anthropic’s Mythos in scale.

About one-third of domestic exports to the US are subject to the 12.5% tariff, while semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and several other high-value categories remain exempt.

Manila is hard-selling itself as a production and services base for companies diversifying across Southeast Asia, but its own investment numbers have slipped.

The US-based infrastructure investor is entering Southeast Asia’s largest economy, extending a storage build-out that began in the Philippines less than two years ago.

Singapore’s largest bank raised its 2026 income forecast after fees, treasury sales and trading income offset the pressure from lower lending margins.

The festival’s curators say play is a method of enquiry rather than a diversion, while CapitaLand, the real estate group behind Singapore Science Park, is developing the precinct as a live-work-play district.

Investor meetings began last week as the fast-fashion e-retailer prepares to launch the offering as early as mid-August.

The GoGlobal programme aims to help 1,000 businesses prepare overseas expansion plans by 2030.

Semiconductor exports and a rapidly expanding data-centre pipeline are helping the economy outperform expectations and withstand the Middle East energy shock.

Qwen3.8-Max climbed global model rankings while DeepSeek’s V4-Flash emerged as the cheapest prominent AI system to run, highlighting China’s push to compete on both performance and price.

The Chinese memory-chip maker is seeking support from Beijing’s Yizhuang development zone as local governments compete to capture its production expansion.

The Siam Silica Framework pairs semiconductor production goals with a plan to develop almost 3,000 workers as Bangkok seeks higher-value roles in the regional supply chain.

The integration gives the fintech access to more than 3 Mn DuitNow QR touchpoints, deepening its push from cross-border transfers into Malaysia’s domestic payments market.

One global payments firm accounts for nearly 70% of the cumulative funding captured by Tracxn’s ranking of the region’s 12 most-funded active payments companies.

The South Korean builder is deploying its full-lifecycle ‘master developer’ model beyond Hanoi as large urban and digital infrastructure projects reshape the region’s capital pipeline.

The US semiconductor group’s secondary listing caps an eight-year evolution from venture-backed startup to regional deeptech anchor.