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Ripple has joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore‘s (MAS) BLOOM initiative, partnering with Unloq (formerly Linklogis International) to pilot a programmable settlement solution for cross-border trade finance. The pilot will demonstrate how digital settlement assets — including regulated stablecoins and tokenised bank liabilities — can streamline trade settlements, improve transparency, and reduce risk. It is…
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QuikBot Technologies, a Singapore-based Physical AI infrastructure company, has announced a strategic partnership with Embed Financial Group Holdings (EFGH) to integrate real-time insurance directly into autonomous systems — marking what the two companies describe as a new approach to managing liability in the age of physical AI. The partnership centres on embedding insurance into QuikBot’s…
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Alibaba Group has launched Wukong, an AI-native enterprise platform designed to integrate agent-based automation into business workflows. The platform allows multiple AI agents to coordinate tasks within a single interface. These include document editing, spreadsheet updates, approvals processing, meeting transcription, and research tasks. Wukong can operate across local systems, browsers, and cloud environments. The launch…
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Neema, a cross-border payments platform focused on financial institutions, said it has partnered with Alipay to enable payouts to Alipay users in China. The company said the arrangement is designed to help banks and other financial institutions make cross-border payments into China more efficiently. China has long been a difficult market for international payments because…
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Singapore businesses may be moving too quickly toward digital customer service, according to a new survey commissioned by ServiceNow. Key Takeaways The study found that 80% of customers in Singapore prefer to call a service representative when interacting with organisations, making phone support the most commonly used channel for resolving issues. However, only 9% of…
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Low-quality automated content is becoming a growing risk to brand trust in Asia-Pacific, according to a report from B2C CRM company Klaviyo. Key Takeaways: The report found that 51% of consumers in APAC frequently encounter what it describes as low-quality AI-generated content in social media feeds and brand replies. That exposure appears to be shaping…
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Meta has introduced new measures on Facebook aimed at promoting original content and reducing copied or low-effort posts across its Feed and Reels features. Key Takeaways: The company said it has updated its guidelines to clarify how content originality is assessed. Posts created and filmed directly by a creator will be considered original, while duplicated…
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Singtel Innov8 has launched a US$250 million AI Growth Fund aimed at investing in high-growth artificial intelligence startups and accelerating AI adoption across the Singtel Group. The new Singtel Innov8 AI Growth Fund will focus on growth-stage AI companies globally, particularly those developing technologies that can be deployed across the group’s connectivity, digital services and…
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Singtel’s RE:AI sovereign cloud platform has partnered with Cohesity to launch an AI-powered data security and management service, allowing enterprises to unlock insights from years of archived backup data while keeping sensitive information within Singapore. The sovereign AI data security service combines RE:AI’s sovereign AI cloud infrastructure with Cohesity’s AI-powered data protection and indexing capabilities.…
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Genie Code, a new AI agent from Databricks, aims to automate complex data engineering and analytics tasks, marking the company’s latest move to expand agent-driven development for enterprise data teams. The Genie Code AI agent can perform multi-step workflows such as building data pipelines, debugging failures, creating dashboards and maintaining production systems. Databricks said the…
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