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Nobody signed a new merchant: ShopeePay plugs Singapore and Thailand into China's QR base
Tencent's TenPay Global and ShopeePay launched cross-border scan-and-pay for Singapore and Thailand users at Chinese merchants accepting Weixin Pay, with Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines to follow. TenPay Global links roughly 50 wallets across 13 countries.
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Southeast Asian travellers stop hunting for cash in China: ShopeePay rides TenPay into WeChat's merchants
Singapore and Thailand users can scan WeChat Pay codes at Chinese merchants from the ShopeePay app, with Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines to follow. TenPay Global now links about 50 wallets across 13 markets.
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Johor got the racks, now it gets the region: Tencent Cloud opens three availability zones in Malaysia
Tencent Cloud will build its first Malaysian cloud region in Johor with up to three availability zones, linked to 66 zones across 23 regions, and will train over 1,000 students with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
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Johor is becoming everyone's server room: Tencent Cloud plants its first Malaysia region there
Tencent Cloud will open up to three availability zones in Johor, wiring Malaysia into a network of 66 zones across 23 regions, and train more than 1,000 people with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
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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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Coding agents forget between sessions, and that is the bottleneck: Tencent open-sources a memory hub
Tencent Cloud released TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0 under an MIT licence, a self-hosted store that lets a team's AI coding agents share accumulated context instead of rebuilding it every session.
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Alibaba will publish Qwen3.8-Max’s weights next week. Intelligence stops being the scarce input.
Alibaba shipped a 2.4-trillion-parameter model on 3 August and promised the weights for the week of 10 August, which reprices every Southeast Asian AI project around the one input nobody can download.
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First to launch, or first to be trusted? Thailand's oldest bank delays BankX to Q4 2026
SCBX pushed the launch of its virtual bank, BankX, to the fourth quarter of 2026, prioritising system architecture and testing over speed. KakaoBank holds an initial 10% stake, rising toward 24.5%, with Tencent-backed WeBank supplying the digital infrastructure.
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A 295B reasoning model with no regional lockout: Tencent ships HunYuan 3.0 under Apache 2.0
Tencent open-sourced HunYuan 3.0, a 295-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model activating 21 billion per query with a 256K-token context, dropping the earlier preview's EU, UK, and Korea carve-outs for a clean Apache 2.0 licence.
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Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance ship rival coding agents built for local workflows
China's largest platforms launched competing agentic coding tools, Alibaba's Qoder among them, betting that localized workflows and language coverage can match Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's systems for domestic and regional developers.
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AgentScope's QwenPaw 2.0 rebuilds the personal AI assistant on an Agent OS
The Apache-2.0 personal assistant, past 22,000 stars, shipped a ground-up 2.0 rewrite with an Agent OS architecture and long-term memory, running locally across DingTalk, Lark, WeChat, Telegram, and iMessage.
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A 295B open model that beats GPT-5.5 on science: Tencent ships Hy3 under Apache 2.0
Tencent open-sourced Hy3, a 295B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activating 21B per token, under Apache 2.0 with no geographic carve-out. It processes documents with 47% fewer tokens than the far larger GLM-5.2 and tops GPT-5.5 on a scientific-research benchmark.
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What an AI agent can actually run in an SME back office right now
Two frontier models shipped in five weeks and the real product is admin, not code. The workflows an agent finishes alone are the ones that never leave the ledger; the ones that break are the ones that touch a person.
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Microsoft routes OpenAI models to China's tech giants through Singapore Azure
ByteDance, Tencent, Ant Group and Meituan now reach OpenAI's GPT models through Azure regions in Singapore and Hong Kong, since Microsoft will not host them on mainland soil. ByteDance alone is on track to spend over US$1 billion a year.
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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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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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What a ten-person Singapore startup will pay Microsoft to govern its AI agents.
Microsoft moved Agent 365 to general availability on May 1, priced at fifteen US dollars per user per month. The governance layer is the small number. The compute it brackets is the large one.
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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.