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Malaysia clips Network School’s nomad ambitions

Moonshot takes the limelight as China gets political with AI

SK Hynix’s $26.5B US listing tests the AI memory boom

Singapore’s sovereign wealth funds are doubling down on AI startup investments

China’s AI firms are levelling up their strategies

Robotics startups are emerging from Southeast Asia, with Singapore at the centre

Shopee calls in friends from Instagram and YouTube to fend off TikTok

Indonesia jails Nadiem Makarim, its startup poster boy

South Korea goes all in on AI with $880B investment plan

Fintech Mynt plans to raise $1.5 billion in Philippines’ largest IPO

Airwallex dives deep into AI services and is now worth $11 billion

Zhipu, China’s breakout AI star, is raising billions despite being best known for open source software

Reliance Jio heads for record India IPO but it hasn’t earned its internet platform tag yet

Meta forks out $1 billion for a new CEO to supercharge WhatsApp in India

Indonesia’s startup malaise continues as four VCs sentenced to prison

100x100 is a freshly rebranded climate VC for Asia with $100M to spend

Respond.io puts Malaysia on the global software map with huge $62.5M investment

PatSnap IPO could lead Southeast Asian startups to listings in Hong Kong

Anthropic puts sovereign AI on Asia's agenda

Anthropic isn’t at SuperAI in Singapore but it stole the show all the same

Infrastructure specialist StepFun is China’s next AI IPO contender

DayOne and AirTrunk put Singapore in the data centre spotlight

Anthropic is missing out on Asia

Vietnam’s VinFast bets on EV taxis in Asia

MiniMax reports big growth as it plans Mainland China listing

Airwallex is upping its PR game as links to China persist

ByteDance hikes its AI spending to $70 billion in 2026

Southeast Asia is sleepwalking into a data sovereignty crisis

AI is killing the lower priced smartphone in emerging markets

Manus founders seek $1B to buy company back from Meta

Singapore lands OpenAI, Google and Nvidia as it bids to be global AI hub

Uber eyes Korea's Baemin as Asia ambitions return

Apple Pay stalls in India as Kalshi and Polymarket test the rules

India’s Rapido raises $240M more to intensify its fight with Uber

Alibaba bets on AI’s future. Tencent is cashing in now

Shopee is still growing like crazy

Amazon failed in Southeast Asia because it never even tried

China’s Wild West of cheap access to Claude, ChatGPT and more

Hong Kong fintech Reap is being bought by US crypto giant Kraken for $600 million

TikTok doubles down on Southeast Asia with $25B data centre investment

Thailand’s True Money wants to use stablecoins to ease overseas spending and investing

Grab reports profit, growth despite Southeast Asia fuel crisis

Singapore fintech Aspire takes aim at the US market

ATR Daily: eFishery founder gets 9-year jail term as Indonesia’s startup reckoning deepens

ATR Daily: GoTo scores first profitable quarter thanks to fintech growth and TikTok

ATR Daily: China wants to unwind Meta-Manus

Salmon catches $100M in fresh funding for Philippines digital banking push

ATR Daily: SK Hynix posts record profits as AI boom drives valuation toward $600B

ATR Daily: Tencent wants to give everyone access to OpenClaw

ATR Daily: Payments are boring but they’re getting more exciting in Southeast Asia

Indonesia’s startup ecosystem goes on trial (twice)

Grab launches new AI services to again push its creds as a tech company

Microsoft throws billions more into AI and cloud spending across Asia

Grab gobbles down Foodpanda to expand to Taiwan

PhonePe’s postponed listing may freeze India’s IPO pipeline

India is the world’s AI growth market, but China is where OpenClaw is taking off

China is obsessed with OpenClaw

A top VC in Thailand stole millions of dollars through a crypto investment scam

DayOne: The Singapore flip riding the AI wave to a multi-billion IPO

DeepSeek, Minimax and Moonshot once again called out for plagiarising US AI services

India bets big on AI

Grab is all grown up and acting like a public company (but investors still aren’t happy)

Thailand’s top startups forced to look overseas for IPOs

India's Peak XV sees more senior departures after recent IPO exits

Y Combinator reaps big rewards in India but its future in Asia is long over

South Korean companies are making hay in the AI boom

PhonePe prepares for billion-dollar India fintech IPO

TikTok US deal looks like a major win for ByteDance

India’s government stages an intervention over 10-minute delivery promise

Billionaire scam kingpin in Southeast Asia arrested and extradited to China

Meta’s $2.5B Manus deal is historic for Asia, but it isn’t Singapore’s win