Tech News

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max Debuts as Top-Ranked Chinese AI Model, Built to Run Autonomously for Dozens of Hours

Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max placed fifth globally on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at launch — the highest-ranke...

AI

AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex 2026 — 550B-Parameter Open-Weights Model Targets Enterprise Agentic AI

NVIDIA unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex 2026 in Taipei — a 550B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 55B active...

AI

AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex Reach General Availability on Amazon Bedrock

AWS customers can now run GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex inside Amazon Bedrock at OpenAI's standard per-token rates. The GA...

AI

AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

AI & ML 6 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

UAE Government 4.0: 80,000 Officials to Train in Agentic AI as Cabinet Greenlights Drafting of Federal Healthcare AI Law

The UAE Cabinet has approved the world's largest government agentic AI training programme — 80,000 federal employees acr...

PR

Priya Nair

1 Jun

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

FPT and Charoen Pokphand Foods Deploy Agentic AI Across Vietnam's Largest Agri-Food Supply Chain

FPT Corporation and Charoen Pokphand Foods signed an MoU in Bangkok on 28 May 2026 to wire agentic AI and industrial IoT...

SA

Sarah Chen

1 Jun

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

HUMAIN ONE: Saudi Arabia's PIF-Backed AI Firm Ships an Enterprise Operating System for Autonomous Agents, Built on AWS

Saudi Arabia's PIF-owned HUMAIN launched HUMAIN ONE on 4 May 2026 — a five-module platform billed as the industry's firs...

AI

AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

Finance 5 min

FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —

MAS Scraps Mandatory Financial Advice for Most Complex Product Buyers in Retail Shake-Up

Singapore retail investors buying structured notes, derivatives and investment-linked policies will no longer need manda...

DA

Daniel Koh

1 Jun

ASEAN Tech 4 min

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

Tonik Becomes First Standalone Digital Bank in the Philippines to Turn Profitable

Five years after launch and without a conglomerate backstop, Tonik Digital Bank reported positive consolidated cash net...

SA

Sarah Chen

1 Jun

Finance 6 min

FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —

SEC Rewrites Float Rules, PSE Moves to Implement Them — Clearing the Path for GCash's USD 1B Philippine IPO

The SEC lowered the public float floor for large Philippine issuers in February 2026. The PSE followed with a consultati...

DA

Daniel Koh

1 Jun

ASEAN Tech 4 min

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

Thailand's First Virtual Bank Licence Goes to CLICX — KTB, AIS, and OR Joint Venture Launches 19 June

Thailand's first virtual bank licence has been issued: CLICX — the KTB, AIS, and OR joint venture — received its operati...

SA

Sarah Chen

1 Jun

Finance 5 min

FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —

Vietnam Shortlists Five Crypto Exchanges for Q3 2026 Regulated Digital Asset Market Launch

Vietnam's Ministry of Finance has cleared five exchanges — VIXEX, SCEX, CAEX, TCEX, and Vietnam Digital Assets — for pil...

DA

Daniel Koh

1 Jun

Finance 5 min

FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —

Hong Kong's First Licensed HKD Stablecoins Are Months Away as HSBC and Anchorpoint Ready Commercial Launches

Hong Kong awarded its first stablecoin issuer licences on 10 April 2026 — HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial each received a...

DA

Daniel Koh

1 Jun