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Vietnam Bold Bid to Become Asia Next Tech Talent & Startup Powerhouse

Vietnam’s Bold Bid to Become Asia’s Next Tech Talent & Startup Powerhouse Vietnam just put its startup ambitions on full display. At TechFest Vietnam 2025 in Hanoi, Prime Minister Phạm Minh C...

KakaoBank Big Bet on Southeast Asia - Inside Its Superbank Power Play

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China’s AI Surge - Industry Set to Hit a Whopping $170 Billion in 2025

China’s AI Surge: Industry Set to Hit a Whopping $170 Billion in 2025 China’s artificial intelligence sector is racing toward a massive milestone in 2025, with projections showing that the core AI...

South Korea’s AI Law Set to Make History — and Stir Debate

South Korea’s AI Law Set to Make History — and Stir Debate South Korea is gearing up to become the world’s first country to enforce a comprehensive artificial intelligence regulatory framework, wi...

FintechNews.sg – Weekly Newsletter

FintechNews.sg – Weekly Newsletter Period: Dec 9 2025 – Dec 15 2025 📝 Executive Summary This week’s fintech landscape continued to demonstrate strong momentum across digital assets, payments, AI...

Ad Agencies Aren not Dead — They are Transforming - How AI Is Becoming Their Unexpected Ally

Ad Agencies Aren’t Dead — They’re Transforming: How AI Is Becoming Their Unexpected Ally In a market obsessed with artificial intelligence, it’s easy to assume that traditional ad agencies are yes...

China Chip Moment - Huawei Mate 80 Debuts With Upgraded Homegrown Processor

China’s Chip Moment: Huawei’s Mate 80 Debuts With Upgraded Homegrown Processor In a tech landscape defined by geopolitical friction, Huawei has released a new flagship that signals a significant m...

Qwen Weekly Insight - Consumer AI Expansion & Deep Integration with Alibaba Ecosystem

Qwen Weekly Insight: Consumer AI Expansion & Deep Integration with Alibaba Ecosystem 1) Qwen App Public Beta & Consumer Expansion Headline: Alibaba’s Qwen App Public Beta Launch Marks S...

DeepSeek V3.2 Launch — China Open-Source AI Goes Head-to-Head with GPT-5 & Gemini

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Microsoft Week in Review - AI Acceleration and Year-End Security Fortification

Microsoft Week in Review: AI Acceleration and Year-End Security Fortification, December 8–14, 2025 1) GPT-5.2 Now Available in Microsoft 365 Copilot & Copilot Studio Source: Official Micros...

Google Weekly Insight - AI & Search Advancements Driving Next‑Gen Platforms (Dec 06–12, 2025)

Google Weekly Insight: AI & Search Advancements Driving Next‑Gen Platforms (Dec 06–12, 2025) 🗞️ Report Summary: Official Google Announcements (Dec 6–12, 2025) 1) State‑of‑the‑Art Gemini Tra...

Claude Code in the Flow - Anthropic Extends AIs Reach into Team Collaboration and Education

Claude Code in the Flow: Anthropic Extends AI’s Reach into Team Collaboration and Education Report Period: Week ending December 13, 2025 📌 Headline: Claude Code Integrates Deeply with Slack — Be...

OpenAI Weekly Industry Insight — GPT‑5.2 Launch & Strategic Media Partnership (Dec 8–14, 2025)

OpenAI Weekly Industry Insight — GPT‑5.2 Launch & Strategic Media Partnership (Dec 8–14, 2025) 1. GPT‑5.2 Official Launch — New Frontier Model for Professional Work Headline: OpenAI Unveils...

Perplexity Weekly Innovation Strategy Report, December 13 2025

Perplexity Weekly Innovation & Strategy Report, December 13 2025 📰 1) Perplexity & PayPal Launch “Instant Buy” In-Chat Shopping Headline: Perplexity Debuts Seamless In-Chat AI Shopping ...

Hugging Face Momentum - Emerging Model Patterns, Research Signals, and AI Infrastructure Influence

Hugging Face Momentum: Emerging Model Patterns, Research Signals, and AI Infrastructure Influence Introduction / Hook Hugging Face remains a central hub for collaborative AI innovation, with re...

Global VC Pulse (Last 7 Days) - AI Unicorns, Capital Resilience, and Regional Divergence

Global VC Pulse (Last 7 Days): AI Unicorns, Capital Resilience, and Regional Divergence Date: December 13, 2025 Despite macro uncertainty, the global venture market showed clear signs of resilien...

Daily AI Tech Research Update — December 13, 2025

Daily AI/Tech Research Update — December 13, 2025 1. Executive Summary Date: December 13, 2025 Scope: Major AI/ML research and tech news published in the last 7 days (Dec 6–13, 2025) Foc...

Asia-Pacific Tech Deals Set to Roar into 2026 - UBS Predicts a Sustained Boom

Asia-Pacific Tech Deals Set to Roar into 2026: UBS Predicts a Sustained Boom 🚀 In a year marked by turbulent markets and shifting capital flows, Asia-Pacific’s tech investment landscape is emergin...

Coinbase Cranks Up Competition With New Prediction Market to Take On Robinhood

Coinbase Cranks Up Competition With New Prediction Market to Take On Robinhood Coinbase is gearing up to launch its own prediction markets platform, signalling a major strategic shift as the crypt...

Ai2’s Olmo 3.1 Redefines Open-Source AI With Extended Reinforcement Learning Power

Ai2’s Olmo 3.1 Redefines Open-Source AI With Extended Reinforcement Learning Power In a field where performance often comes with a closed-door price tag, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is doubli...

Google Translate Turns Your Headphones Into Real-Time Translators — Here's What That Means for Language Barriers

Google Translate Turns Your Headphones Into Real-Time Translators — Here’s What That Means for Language Barriers Imagine landing in Tokyo or Buenos Aires and slipping on your headphones — only to ...

AI’s Next Frontier - Beyond Bots and Into the Real-World Economy

AI’s Next Frontier: Beyond Bots and Into the Real-World Economy Artificial intelligence isn’t just about breathtaking chatbots anymore. In 2026, investors are broadening their sights — eyeing tran...

Inside Indonesia’s $2.7M AI Customs Play - Trade AI Aims to Supercharge Border Enforcement

Inside Indonesia’s $2.7M AI Customs Play: Trade AI Aims to Supercharge Border Enforcement Indonesia’s government is betting on artificial intelligence to modernize how goods move across its border...

Wealthfront’s Billion-Dollar Dawn - How the Robo-Advisor Raised $486M and Shook Up the Fintech IPO Landscape

Wealthfront’s Billion-Dollar Dawn: How the Robo-Advisor Raised $486M and Shook Up the Fintech IPO Landscape In a watershed moment for fintech in 2025, Palo Alto-based robo-advisor Wealthfront has ...

Banking on the Future - How BBVA and OpenAI Are Redefining AI in Finance

Banking on the Future: How BBVA and OpenAI Are Redefining AI in Finance In a move poised to reshape the digital banking landscape, Spanish banking giant BBVA has expanded its partnership with Open...

AI Showdown - Google’s Deepest Research Agent Drops as OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.2

AI Showdown: Google’s Deepest Research Agent Drops as OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.2 In a dramatic 24 hours that underlines just how ferocious the AI arms race has become, Google and OpenAI launched two o...

AI Robots Are the New Lab Assistants - Medra’s $52M Bet to Reinvent Drug Discovery

AI Robots Are the New Lab Assistants: Medra’s $52M Bet to Reinvent Drug Discovery In a watershed moment for biotech and artificial intelligence, Medra, a San Francisco-based startup, just raised $...

Cyber Tempest - Israel’s Network Under Siege as AI Tools Fuel a New Era of Attacks

Cyber Tempest: Israel’s Network Under Siege as AI Tools Fuel a New Era of Attacks In the cybersphere, a quiet storm is breaking—and Israel is right in the crosshairs. According to recent cybersec...

Japan’s Notta Scores Big - $15M Series B Fuels Global Voice AI Ambitions

Japan’s Notta Scores Big: $15M Series B Fuels Global Voice AI Ambitions In a bold move that underscores Asia’s growing footprint in the generative AI boom, Japanese voice-AI startup Notta has just...

When AI Scored 95% – But Humans Didn’t Believe It Was AI

When AI Scored 95% – But Humans Didn’t Believe It Was AI In a revealing internal experiment by SAP, an AI co-pilot delivered work judged about 95% accurate – until consultants learned the truth ab...

Reality Check - Why AI Still Can’t Break 70% Factual Accuracy — And What That Means for Enterprise AI

🧠 Reality Check: Why AI Still Can’t Break 70% Factual Accuracy — And What That Means for Enterprise AI In the whirlwind evolution of generative AI, one metric keeps tripping up even the most advan...

Neutral-Atom, Huge Ambitions - QuEra Computing Scores $230 M Backing from Google and SoftBank Vision Fund

“Neutral-Atom, Huge Ambitions”: QuEra Computing Scores $230 M Backing from Google and SoftBank Vision Fund Quantum computing may have just leapfrogged another milestone — with serious money behind...

U.S. Banks Are Bankrolling AI — but Their Employees Could Pay the Price

U.S. Banks Are Bankrolling AI — but Their Employees Could Pay the Price Major U.S. banks are doubling down on artificial intelligence (AI) — not just to stay ahead technologically, but to dramatic...

SeaTown Raises US$900 Million in Bold Second Close — What It Means for Asia's Private Credit Boom

SeaTown Raises US$900 Million in Bold Second Close — What It Means for Asia’s Private Credit Boom The Singapore‑backed investment firm SeaTown Holdings (part of Temasek Holdings’s asset‑management...

South Korea’s Bold AI Bet - Export‑Import Bank of Korea Pours US$13.6 B Into Domestic AI Push

South Korea’s Bold AI Bet: Export‑Import Bank of Korea Pours US$13.6 B Into Domestic AI Push South Korea is doubling down on its ambition to become a global AI powerhouse. On December 10, 2025, th...

When Your Groceries Become a Gamble - How AI Pricing on Instacart Could Be Costing You More

When Your Groceries Become a Gamble: How AI Pricing on Instacart Could Be Costing You More Imagine ordering the same dozen eggs as your friend — from the same store, at the same time — and discove...

Even Top AI Agents Struggle with Real‑World Enterprise Docs — OfficeQA Exposes a Major Gap

Even Top AI Agents Struggle with Real‑World Enterprise Docs — OfficeQA Exposes a Major Gap Enterprises have been banking on the promise of AI: that large language models (LLMs) and AI agents can n...

UAE Greenlights Circle Internet Group — What It Means for Digital Money in the Middle East

UAE Greenlights Circle Internet Group — What It Means for Digital Money in the Middle East A Big Leap for Digital Finance Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the financial free-zone in the United Ara...

Aspire Brings Wise-Powered Global Payments to Hong Kong — A Game Changer for SMEs

Aspire Brings Wise-Powered Global Payments to Hong Kong — A Game Changer for SMEs When it comes to cross-border business payments, speed, transparency and low cost are rare commodities — but that ...

Your Phone Can Do the Work Now - Zhipu AI’s AutoGLM Opens the Door to Fully Automated Smartphones

Your Phone Can Do the Work Now: Zhipu AI’s AutoGLM Opens the Door to Fully Automated Smartphones Imagine telling your phone, “Book me a flight to Tokyo, get me a latte at 8am, and message my frien...

GLM-4.6V - The Next-Gen Open-Source Vision-Language Model That Bridges Seeing, Reasoning — and Doing

GLM-4.6V: The Next-Gen Open-Source Vision-Language Model That Bridges Seeing, Reasoning — and Doing Imagine handing an AI a screenshot, a PDF, or even a one-hour video — and asking it not just to ...

IBM’s Bold $11B Bet - Buying Confluent to Power the Next AI Wave

IBM’s Bold $11B Bet: Buying Confluent to Power the Next AI Wave In a move signaling deep ambition in the AI era, IBM is set to acquire Confluent for roughly $11 billion, including debt — an aggres...

ChemLex Raises US$45M, Launches Autonomous AI Lab in Singapore — A New Era for Drug Discovery

ChemLex Raises US$45M, Launches Autonomous AI Lab in Singapore — A New Era for Drug Discovery In a game-changing move for pharmaceutical R&D, Singapore-based AI-for-science startup ChemLex has...

AI Winter Is Coming to the Car Industry — Why Most Automakers Are Slashing AI Spending by 2029

“AI Winter Is Coming to the Car Industry?” — Why Most Automakers Are Slashing AI Spending by 2029 The buzz around self-driving cars and smart, AI-powered vehicles has reached fever pitch — yet a n...

When a Fake Photo Shuts Down the Rails - How One Viral Image Disrupted Britain’s Train Network

When a Fake Photo Shuts Down the Rails: How One Viral Image Disrupted Britain’s Train Network A single manipulated image was enough — fake but convincing — to throw a major disruption into the hea...

ByteDance Pulls Back - Why Its Promising AI Phone Just Got Gimped

ByteDance Pulls Back: Why Its Promising AI Phone Just Got Gimped Sometimes, the future of tech looks like magic — until reality bites. That seems to be the case for ByteDance’s ambitious new AI-po...

Why Agentic Browsing Isn’t Killing Google Chrome — Yet

Why “Agentic Browsing” Isn’t Killing Google Chrome — Yet The era of “agentic browsing” is upon us — but despite the hype, it’s clear that AI-powered browsers still have a long way to go before the...

AI in Quantitative Research - Transforming the Street

AI in Quantitative Research: Transforming the Street Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping quantitative research and investment strategies across financial markets. From traditiona...

Weekly Updat - Microsoft — Key Developments (Late Nov – Early Dec 2025)

Weekly Update: Microsoft — Key Developments (Late Nov – Early Dec 2025) 📰 Major Announcements This Week Microsoft Launches Microsoft 365 Copilot Business for SMBs Executive Summary On December...

Weekly Update — Qwen (week ending Dec 6, 2025)

Weekly Update — Qwen (week ending Dec 6, 2025) 🔹 Executive Summary This week, Qwen — the AI model family from Alibaba — scored a major milestone: its consumer‑facing app registered an explosive...

DeepSeek Weekly Insight Report — December 6, 2025

DeepSeek Weekly Insight Report — December 6, 2025 📰 Headlines This Week DeepSeek releases two new AI models (V3.2 and V3.2‑Speciale), positioning them as rivals to GPT‑5 and Gemini‑3 Pro (Ve...

Weekly Report - Updates on Perplexity AI — Week of December 5, 2025

Weekly Report: Updates on Perplexity AI — Week of December 5, 2025 📰 Key Headlines This Week The New York Times (NYT) sues Perplexity for alleged copyright infringement. (Reuters) Cristian...

Anthropic — Weekly Update Report Dec 6 2025

Anthropic — Weekly Update Report Dec 6 2025 Snowflake–Anthropic $200 M Deal to Embed Claude in Enterprise Data Infrastructure Executive Summary On December 4, 2025, Anthropic announced a substant...

Weekly OpenAI Update — official announcements (Nov 30 – Dec 6, 2025)

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Accelerating Multimodal & Agentic AI - Hugging Face Highlights (Dec 29 Nov–6 Dec 2025)

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Daily AI Tech Research Update — 2025-12-06

Daily AI/Tech Research Update — 2025-12-06 1. Executive Summary Date: 2025-12-06 Scope: ML / AI-adjacent papers on arXiv from ~2025-11-29 → 2025-12-06 Focus: Advances in generative model...

Weekly Update — Google (Week ending Dec 6 2025)

Weekly Update — Google (Week ending Dec 6 2025) 📰 Highlights Gemini 3 goes live — marking a new era of AI intelligence (blog.google) Android 16 rolls out AI-powered notification summaries, i...

VC & Accelerator — last 7-day briefing (US, Europe, Asia, Global)

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Private-Market FOMO on AI Could Trigger Costly Mistakes — Says Top Deal-Maker

Private-Market “FOMO” on AI Could Trigger Costly Mistakes — Says Top Deal-Maker Investors pouring money into private AI startups may be setting themselves up for painful losses, warns veteran nego...

“AI Denial” Is the Real Enterprise Threat - Why Calling Everything “Slop” Undermines How Far AI Has Come

“AI Denial” Is the Real Enterprise Threat: Why Calling Everything “Slop” Undermines How Far AI Has Come In recent months, a striking shift has occurred: where once excitement around artificial int...