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Adoption climbed, capability did not: 38% of Malaysian firms use AI, 67% stop at chatbots
An AWS-commissioned Strand Partners study puts consistent AI use at 38 percent of Malaysian businesses, up from 27 percent. Two-thirds use it only for basic tasks, and 19 percent hold a strategy to scale it.
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Who distributes the models in Malaysia? U Mobile makes OpenAI its anchor partner
U Mobile signed OpenAI's first Malaysian telco partnership, applying its models across network operations, software development, cybersecurity and customer channels, with AWS supplying infrastructure. The carrier also names OpenAI anchor partner on its Enterprise Innovation Platform.
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A profitable coworking operator, marked down almost 18 percent on its SGX debut
JustCo runs 54 flexible-workspace centres across 12 cities and made under US$3 million last year; the Singapore Exchange marked it down almost 18 percent on debut, and it was not the only scale-first listing the market repriced this summer.
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Southeast Asia now holds 2,000 data centres. It captures almost none of the margin.
The land, power and water are local; the models, the margin and the IP are almost entirely foreign, which makes the operator question simple: own a customer, not a GPU.
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AWS signs 210MW green tariff with Indonesia's PLN, deepening SEA clean-power buildout
Amazon's AWS struck a 210-megawatt renewable energy agreement with Indonesian state utility PT PLN, described as a first-of-its-kind corporate green tariff in the country, anchoring an expanding Southeast Asian green data centre footprint.
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Google donates A2A protocol to Linux Foundation for agent interoperability
Google donated the A2A protocol to the Linux Foundation on June 23, 2025, establishing it as a vendor-neutral standard for AI agent communication across framework boundaries, with founding members including AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow.
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Google donates A2A agent-interop protocol to Linux Foundation under neutral governance
Announced at Open Source Summit North America in June 2025, the A2A protocol became vendor-neutral in 2026 with founding members including AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow. It enables agents to communicate across framework boundaries.
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AWS commits over thirty-three billion dollars to SEA cloud and AI infrastructure through 2039
Amazon Web Services consolidated regional investment pledges across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, projecting over sixty-four billion dollars in GDP contribution and 56,300 full-time-equivalent supply-chain jobs annually. AWS operates regions in all four markets and invested over three billion dollars across SEA businesses in 2025 alone.
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Apache Iceberg one-point-eleven-zero ships server-side scan planning and table encryption
Iceberg 1.11.0 adds Spark 4.1 and Flink 2.1 support, REST catalog server-side scan planning, partition statistics API, built-in envelope encryption, and Google KMS integration.
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Google donates A2A protocol to Linux Foundation, forming A2A Project with AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow
On June 23, 2025, Google officially donated the A2A protocol to the Linux Foundation at Open Source Summit North America in Denver, establishing it as a vendor-neutral standard for AI agent interoperability, with founding members including Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow.
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Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 ships server-side scan planning, Google KMS encryption, Spark 4.1 and Flink 2.1 support
Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 adds support for Apache Spark 4.1 and Apache Flink 2.1 as default build targets, while the REST catalog learns to plan scans server-side, a new partition statistics scan API gives optimizers clean access to table shape, and built-in table encryption arrives with envelope encryption and Google KMS support.
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Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 ships production-ready V3 spec with deletion vectors and table encryption
The May 19 release adds server-side scan planning in REST catalogs, native encryption with Google KMS support, and stabilizes V3 features including deletion vectors and nanosecond timestamps, while upgrading default support to Spark 4.1 and Flink 2.1.
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Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 ships server-side scan planning and Google KMS envelope encryption
Iceberg 1.11.0 launched with support for Apache Spark 4.1 and Flink 2.1 as default build targets, REST catalog server-side scan planning, a new partition statistics scan API, and built-in table encryption with envelope encryption and Google KMS support, accelerating Iceberg workloads on Google Storage Analytics library integration.
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Google donates Agent-to-Agent protocol to Linux Foundation with AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce backing
Google officially donated the A2A protocol to the Linux Foundation on June 23, 2025, establishing it as a vendor-neutral standard for AI agent interoperability. Founding members include Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow, enabling agents to communicate across framework and organizational boundaries without single-provider lock-in.
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OpenAI ships frontier models and Codex to AWS Bedrock in commercial and GovCloud regions
OpenAI's frontier capabilities are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving enterprises a deployment path through existing AWS security, governance, procurement, billing, and compliance workflows.
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GitHub Copilot shifts to usage-based billing June 1, ending flat-rate AI subscriptions
Starting June 1, all GitHub Copilot plans transition from seat-based pricing to token consumption billed via AI Credits, with Pro users receiving ten dollars in monthly credits and Enterprise teams pooling usage across developers, ending the predictable flat-rate licensing era for AI coding tools.