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China’s top AI startups aren’t making much money at all

India and Indonesia save the best for last with major tech IPOs in December

India scores a hattrick of own goals with three cyber policy fails

Upbit’s up-and-down week: $10 billion acquisition and $30 million hack

Japan makes startup progress as General Atlantic makes first investment and AI startup hits record valuation

Grab races after autonomous vehicle tech after making its largest investment bet ever

India’s IPO window blows open as investors make billions from Groww, Pine Labs and Lenskart

US AI companies turn their focus to India and Southeast Asia

Chinese self-driving firms WeRide and Pony AI raise another $1B

Google puts its AI focus on India with major partnership with Reliance Jio

Singapore-based Pave, a digital bank for the crypto industry, lands $45M from big name investors

US government goes after Cambodian conglomerate for making billions from online scams

Anthropic is the latest AI giant to focus on India

India’s homegrown WhatsApp rival surges past 7.5M downloads

Southeast Asia regresses to pre-unicorn era of VC funding

Grab and ComfortDelGro are launching self-driving taxis in Southeast Asia

Youth-led protests erupt in Nepal after social media ban, shaking political establishment

Indonesia arrests Gojek founder in digital education corruption case

China sees early fruit from tech self-sufficiency investment

India bans real-money gaming, wiping out a $23B industry

Southeast Asia’s early digital bank pioneers post big losses

From IPO Dreams to Criminal Probes: A Turbulent Week for Southeast Asia’s Startups

Grab turns a profit—with billions in the bank to fuel its next move

PayPal taps Tencent and UPI in bold global shopping push

Nvidia reboots China business after US green light

Manus is moving to Singapore to get access to Nvidia tech again

Startup incubator Antler hits its biggest milestone with first unicorn

US leads the fight against North Korea crypto hacking expertise

Hong Kong sees IPO boom as tech listings stack up

WhatsApp assures Indian users everything is fine ahead of advertising rollout

Action camera firm Insta360 goes big in massive China IPO

Grab and GoTo play hardball over merger deal

Southeast Asia’s home-grown AI alternative shows promise

Nvidia may finally have a lower-spec AI chip it can sell in China

Huawei's newest development is a laptop running its own operating system

Temu and Shein face new life in US after end of import tax loophole

Apple wants to make all the iPhones it sells in the US in India as soon as possible

India’s BluSmart sinks—founders built an electric dream on deception

Trump's tariffs shake up China’s tech sector, but an exemption is granted—for now.

China’s AI giants change course after DeepSeek moment

Why DeepSeek hasn’t yet ignited a surge in AI investing in China

Food delivery shake-up keeps Foodpanda at the top in Asia

Malaysia bets big on AI and chips with $250M ARM deal

Indonesia and Apple agree deal to end iPhone sales ban

Alibaba is flying and Jack (Ma) is back

Apple picks Alibaba to bring AI to iPhones in China

China-US trade standoff hits Apple, Google and other US tech giants

Grab and Gojek are in talks again about yet another deal to unite their business

How China’s DeepSeek quietly outpaced the US in the global AI race

Trump saves TikTok from US ban… for now

China obstructs India’s manufacturing rise with Foxconn bans

WhatsApp Pay finally gets approval in India — but is it too late?