Index Companies
The CÈ company index.
95 companies, 796 mentions across the deal ticker, market intel and the essays — most covered first. Each page is the running file on one name.
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Microsoft
The model was never the moat: DeepSeek open-sources its agent harness under MIT
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Google
Tests cannot cover what an agent will try: Google open-sources a Z3 prover for CEL policies
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Alibaba
Training cost fell to a ninth: Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next runs 125B on 6B active parameters
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Anthropic
MIT weights land half a point behind Claude Opus: GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.15 per million tokens
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Nvidia
Washington banned the chips. Chinese labs rent them in Thailand instead.
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OpenAI
The agent loop stops being the moat: OpenAI opens Codex's Harness under Apache-2.0
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Monetary Authority of Singapore
When does a business day end? Visa and Nium test seven-day stablecoin settlement under MAS BLOOM
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Temasek
Storage in days, not hours: Temasek Trust's C3H leads Certain Energy's $13.62M round
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Bank Indonesia
Extraction stops being a per-token bill: Fastino's GLiNER2.5 runs 74M params on CPU
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Meta
Singapore priced platform negligence at S$10M per breach; WhatsApp and Carousell have until January 2027
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Tencent
Nobody signed a new merchant: ShopeePay plugs Singapore and Thailand into China's QR base
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ByteDance
Singapore priced platform negligence at S$10M per breach; WhatsApp and Carousell have until January 2027
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Zhipu
MIT weights land half a point behind Claude Opus: GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.15 per million tokens
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Amazon
Adoption climbed, capability did not: 38% of Malaysian firms use AI, 67% stop at chatbots
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Moonshot AI
Washington banned the chips. Chinese labs rent them in Thailand instead.
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DeepSeek
The model was never the moat: DeepSeek open-sources its agent harness under MIT
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Hugging Face
Python was the deployment tax: NVIDIA's TensorRT Model Connect ships 76 model families to C++ under Apache-2.0
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Grab
Indonesia will set food and courier delivery fees by decree in September.
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Ant Group
Agents will grade your storefront before customers do: Vercel's free audit runs 118 checks
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UOB
Three lenders put up S$60m to buy Singapore SMEs off founders with no successor.
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AMD
The AI chip bottleneck moves to Singapore: Powertech takes 30% of a $5.66B packaging venture
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DayOne
Job insecurity raises coronary risk 19 percent. Your runway is the same exposure.
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GoTo
Buying at 23 rupiah while the market pays 50: Morgan Stanley crosses 5% of GoTo
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OCBC
Washington can cut Chinese banks off dollar clearing. Iran won’t be the reason.
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Huawei
Cost decides the stack: Huawei Cloud lands agentic infrastructure and a coding-agent beta in Thailand
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Salesforce
Salesforce ships Agentforce Commerce with agents that buy and sell inside ChatGPT
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Sea Ltd
The marketplace became the lender: Sea's Monee books an $11.1B loan portfolio as revenue grows 48%
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Atlassian
Harry Stebbings turned 2,750 podcast interviews into a US$400m fund.
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MiniMax
A five-minute song now costs a GPU, not a studio: MiniMax opens Music3's weights
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Apple
Apple's supply chain keeps voting with concrete: Foxconn adds $265M in Vietnam, $57M in Singapore
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Danantara
Jakarta's rubbish just got a 20-cent price: Danantara breaks ground on a $169M Bekasi plant
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Indosat
Who owns the road under the data centres? Indosat and Arsari open 86,000 km of fibre
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DBS
Who settles it when the buyer is an AI agent? DBS wires Stripe into its Asian rails
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Entomal
Malaysian biotech Entomal scales Black Soldier Fly waste conversion, wins Petronas climate grants
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Baidu
Kling AI sits in Beijing. Its round is 68% of Southeast Asia's AI year.
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Economic Development Board
Selling to Asia now means hiring in Asia: Klaviyo staffs a Singapore HQ toward 175
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Keppel
Twenty bidders, four winners: Singapore rations 200 MW of data-centre power on Jurong Island
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Maybank
Solar needs a lender before it needs a panel: Maybank signs Haier's ASEAN energy platform
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Meituan
Indonesia will set food and courier delivery fees by decree in September.
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Singtel
A Japanese bank buys into the paperwork layer: SMBC and Singtel Innov8 back fileAI
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SpaceX
Vietnam's connectivity gap now has a price list: Starlink opens at $43 a month
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ST Telemedia
Twenty bidders, four winners: Singapore rations 200 MW of data-centre power on Jurong Island
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Unitree
Who actually buys a humanoid? China took 97% of H1 shipments, 19,100 units
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Vingroup
Clean fleets pay best at the premium end: Green GSM puts seven-seat EV taxis into Makati
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Arm Holdings
Assembly built the ringgit, but who designs the chip? Malaysia hands Arm tokens to five firms
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Bank Negara Malaysia
The bancassurance engine was only 69% owned: Maybank pays $1.18B for the rest of Etiqa
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Mistral
Beijing weighs walling off the open weights that seeded Asia: curbs floated for Qwen, Doubao, and GLM-5.2
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AirTrunk
Malaysia's data-centre boom needed lenders, not landlords: AirTrunk raises $2.33B for 420MW in Johor
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Coinbase
Coinbase halves its AI bill by defaulting engineers to Chinese open models
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East Ventures
New money has stopped pricing Indonesian logistics up: Waresix raises $27.4M below its last mark
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Equinix
Twenty bidders, four winners: Singapore rations 200 MW of data-centre power on Jurong Island
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Granite Asia
Three sovereign funds want the same borrower: Granite Asia's private-credit fund clears $500M
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Manus
Beijing can unwind a Singapore company's exit: Manus AI leaves Meta, $2B deal reversed
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Oppstar
Assembly built the ringgit, but who designs the chip? Malaysia hands Arm tokens to five firms
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Petronas
Malaysian biotech Entomal scales Black Soldier Fly waste conversion, wins Petronas climate grants
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Sahabat-AI
Ooredoo bought 49 percent of Zankore for US$800 million. Indonesia supplies the power.
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Thinking Machines
Manila built the AI delivery bench Singapore needed: Temus takes a stake in Thinking Machines
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TSMC
Beijing Will Not Wall Off Its AI (Even Now That It Leads)
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Wavemaker
Backing startups is too slow for the climate clock: 100x100 raises $100M to build 50
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xAI
A voice agent costs eight cents a minute: Grok Think Fast 2.0 turns default today
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Airwallex
One company took 70% of the money: SEA's 12 top payment firms raised $2.7 billion
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Alphaswift
Assembly built the ringgit, but who designs the chip? Malaysia hands Arm tokens to five firms
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ASML
The export ban has a shelf life: a Shanghai firm starts mass-producing immersion DUV tools
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Ayala
Global infrastructure money is chasing Philippine cold chain: A.P. Moller takes 40% of Ayala's AC Logistics
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Bain Capital
Seven years of debt gets repaid in full: Bain buys Gong Cha's 2,000 stores for $635M
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BeLive
BeLive’s founder on the pivot, the takeover, and the number he skipped
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Blackstone
$2B at a $10.5B valuation, and some of it is earmarked for Indonesia: Firmus raises
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BYD
The taxi fleet is buying its way into private hire: Zig orders $7.9M of BYDs
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Canva
Harry Stebbings turned 2,750 podcast interviews into a US$400m fund.
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CATL
Indonesia is selling dirt, not software (which is exactly the point)
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CIMB
Malaysian banks are funding Singapore's compute overflow: STT GDC raises $1.37B for a 166MW Johor campus
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Databricks
Databricks wanted $1B, investors offered $15B; it took $5B at a $190B valuation
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Digital Realty
Twenty bidders, four winners: Singapore rations 200 MW of data-centre power on Jurong Island
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foodpanda
Sixteen markets are now run from one Kuala Lumpur floor: Delivery Hero puts MYR20M behind it
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Foxconn
Vietnam takes the volume, Singapore takes the precision: Foxconn adds $265M and $57M in one week
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GCash
A wallet becomes a blue chip: GCash parent Mynt files a record $1.5 billion Philippine IPO
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GIC
Singapore's sovereign fund becomes an AI landlord: GIC and Macquarie build Theseus for Anthropic
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Khazanah
Three sovereign funds want the same borrower: Granite Asia's private-credit fund clears $500M
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KKR
KKR wants the Philippines' geothermal fleet off the public market: First Gen valued at $2.7B
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Lightspeed
AI was supposed to replace accountants; Singapore's Multiplier raises $35M to buy their firms instead
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Nium
When does a business day end? Visa and Nium test seven-day stablecoin settlement under MAS BLOOM
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Novo Nordisk
Semaglutide slowed four epigenetic clocks in a randomised trial, and left a fifth unmoved
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Openspace Ventures
Vietnam's café boom goes venture-scale: Every Half pours an $8M Series A from Openspace and DSG
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Samsung
Phones earned $67.8B and returned almost nothing: Samsung's chip division took 97% of the profit
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Sembcorp
Who supplies the megawatts when the island runs out of land? Singapore clears 900MW from Johor
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SK Hynix
China just made a chipmaker its most valuable company. It is three years behind where the war is.
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SoftBank
Compute follows the cheap land: SoftBank, SC ZEUS and Robust HPC target four ASEAN markets
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Souper Tang
How Nevinn Leow decided what to keep when he rebranded his parents' company
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Telkom Indonesia
Nobody bought anything and $2.8B moved: Telkom carves phase-two fibre into Infranexia
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Tokopedia
Four marketplaces just became tax collectors: Indonesia withholds 0.5% of every seller's turnover
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Vertex Ventures
Acrab raised US$130m for custom AI silicon, and expects its first revenue only later this year
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VNG
A hyperscale plot becomes an e-sports campus: STT GDC exits Ho Chi Minh City for $18.3M
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Xendit
Two of SEA's payment gateways just became one: Indonesia's Xendit integrates the Philippines' Dragonpay
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Xiaomi
Video editors got good, the scoring did not: Xiaomi opens PROVE and a 180-video benchmark
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Zankore
Ooredoo bought 49 percent of Zankore for US$800 million. Indonesia supplies the power.