InstaPay Technologies has secured USD 3 million in a Series A2 funding round, led by US family offices with renewed backing from ACA Investments. With this funding, the Malaysia-based fintech firm ...

Splat is an app that turns arguments into entertainment, where AI judges your roasts and fighting is framed as a form of ...

DeepSeek’s updated R1 model has tied Google’s Gemini 2.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 on the WebDev Arena coding leaderboard. Released in May, the enhanced R1 reportedly improves reasoning and halves ...

Alipay has integrated in-store payment functionality into Rokid’s new AR glasses, enabling users to complete purchases using voice commands and QR scans. With over 250,000 units reportedly preordered, ...

China has begun its first clinical trial of wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, with a paralyzed patient reportedly controlling games by thought weeks after surgery. The implant, said ...

Tencent has denied media reports that it is pursuing acquisitions of South Korean firms Nexon and Kakao Mobility. The company rejected claims of a USD 15 billion bid for Nexon and a 40% stake purchase ...

Baidu hosted a six-hour live stream using AI-driven avatars, including a digital version of live streamer Yonghao Luo, drawing over 13 million views and RMB 55 million in sales. Powered by Ernie ...

MiniMax has launched M1, an open-weight hybrid attention model built for long-context reasoning and complex tasks. With 456 billion parameters and support for one million-token inputs, MiniMax-M1 ...

Ants, an urban revitalization startup, has raised USD 500,000 in pre-seed funding from Wavemaker Impact to convert Southeast Asia’s underused buildings into green, affordable hubs for SMEs. Based in ...

China has begun its first clinical trial of wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, with a paralyzed patient reportedly controlling games by thought weeks after surgery. The implant, said ...

Southeast Asia is emerging as a key player in the global space economy, fueled by a surge in space-related deal activity, a ...

Chinese major hotelier H World Group aims to add about 9,000 hotels by 2030, mostly on its home turf, betting that demand for ...