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Kling AI sits in Beijing. Its round is 68% of Southeast Asia's AI year.
The region's AI total doubled on the strength of one Series D belonging to a Beijing company. It is the second time this year a Southeast Asian headline has described a single balance sheet.
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With Nvidia's China share collapsing and Huawei near 50%, DeepSeek designs its own AI chip
DeepSeek is designing an in-house AI chip to cut its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei silicon, joining Alibaba and Baidu as US export controls erode Nvidia's China position and lift Huawei toward half the market.
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From a Singapore HQ on a Monday: what Shopee’s cuts say about knowledge work
Sea cut roughly 8 percent of Shopee’s developers and blamed AI by name. The number that actually moved was the cost of shipping the next thing, and headcount followed it down.
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China's OpenClaw hits 20 million monthly users and 250,000 GitHub stars in first month of mainstream adoption
The open-source self-hosted AI agent reached 20 million MAU and became the fastest-growing open-source phenomenon in history, faster than Linux or React. Baidu, Tencent, and ByteDance all shipped localized versions in March; by June OpenClaw usage in China nearly doubled the US.
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Novo Nordisk handed OpenAI its full operation. Singapore's contract labs are next.
Novo Nordisk's deal with OpenAI is being read as a drug-discovery story. The part that resets Singapore's biotech cluster is the supply chain, the manufacturing schedule, and the corporate operation.