ASEAN Fintech Is Moving From Pilot to Platform — And 99% of Regional Firms Stand to Benefit
New data from the World Economic Forum and Money20/20 Asia show ASEAN's fintech sector has reached an inflection point:...
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Cloudflare's New "Infire" Engine Runs Trillion-Parameter AI Models on Eight GPUs
Cloudflare has built a custom LLM inference engine called Infire that runs models like Kimi K2.5 — with over one trillio...
Google Renames Vertex AI and Goes All-In on Enterprise Agents at Cloud Next 2026
Google renamed Vertex AI to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next 2026. Here is everything ASEAN businesses...
IBM Granite 4.1 Matches 32B Models at 8B Parameters — The Efficiency Race Is Reshaping Enterprise AI Costs
IBM released Granite 4.1, an 8 billion parameter model matching 32B Mixture-of-Experts performance. Here is what this me...
Stripe Releases 288 New Features for AI Commerce — Including Agent Payments and Real-Time Fraud for Autonomous Transactions
Stripe's latest product release covers 288 new features and updates focused on AI-native commerce infrastructure — inclu...
AI Coding Tools Are Creating Security Debt Faster Than Developers Can Fix It — Singapore Study Finds
Cybersecurity experts in Singapore warn that AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are generating insecure...
Visa Launches "Agentic Ready" Programme in Singapore as Stablecoin Settlements Hit $7 Billion Annually
Visa has launched its Agentic Ready programme with 13 Singapore issuers to prepare banks for AI-agent payments, while it...
The SaaS Business Model Is Under Threat — And Agentic AI Is Why
IDC predicts 70% of software vendors will abandon seat-based pricing by 2028 as AI agents replace human users. Here is w...
Robinhood Gets MAS Approval for Singapore — What It Means for Retail Investors
Robinhood received in-principle approval from MAS to launch brokerage services in Singapore. Here is what this means for...
Open Source AI Is Closing the Gap — A 7B Model Now Does What a 70B Model Did One Year Ago
The latest AI trends data shows open-weight models from Meta, Mistral, and Alibaba's Qwen are matching or exceeding prop...
Claude Sonnet Leads Real-World Web Agent Benchmark — But Only Completes 1 in 3 Tasks
A new benchmark called ClawBench tests AI agents on 153 real tasks across 144 live production websites — booking appoint...
Western Union's USD Stablecoin Is Coming in May 2026 — What ASEAN Remittance Senders Need to Know
Western Union is launching a USD-backed stablecoin in May 2026 for faster, cheaper cross-border transfers. Here is what...
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