Top 10 Asia Technology News Headlines Today
The ten headlines shaping Asia tech today, refreshed every day from trusted Asia Pacific sources and archived for the past week.
Today’s top Asia tech stories
The day’s ten most important Asia tech developments.
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Mapping India’s ecommerce standouts
Mapping India’s fintech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
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Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data
Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.
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US deep tech VC Playground Global deepens Taiwan AI ties
The move comes as its portfolio companies announced products, funding, and local operations tied to AI hardware and semiconductor supply chains.
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Nasdaq adds APAC fintech leadership in Singapore
The appointments strengthen Nasdaq's leadership presence in Singapore as the company offers index products in Asia-Pacific.
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Indonesia can’t win with Singapore, as it depends on it for petrol, money and even the Internet
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Bilateral relations between Singapore and Indonesia have taken a turn for the worse, after Jakarta decided to reduce gas deliveries to the city-s
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AI payoffs, green transition shape France-Korea Tech Summit 2026
Artificial intelligence and industrial sustainability dominated talks among South Korean and French business and policy leaders in Seoul last week, wi
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US robotics startup Physical Intelligence eyes $20b valuation
Founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers, the startup has no revenue yet.
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- ASEAN prepares QR payments, e-signatures for digital trade pact Nikkei Asia
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Malaysian fintech firm Fingular gets $20m credit to grow lending
Fingular said the full facility will be deployed in Malaysia, bringing total funding for its Malaysian lending business to more than US$50 million.
Tech in Asia - Google parent's revenue jumps 25% as homegrown AI chips take on Nvidia Nikkei Asia
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This startup turns idle data center batteries into revenue
Singapore-based Amplicity operates a localized platform that lets facilities safely monetize their idle backup battery capacity.
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Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon AI model for cybersecurity
Google said Carbon ranked first in version 5.0 of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
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Alphabet Q3 revenue jumps 25% on AI-fueled search, cloud
Google also said the Gemini app reached 1 billion users, while an official Gemini X post described that figure as monthly users.
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Indosat’s AI cloud revenue hits $50m, tops all of 2025
The company said AI cloud revenue reached US$50 million in the same period, above the US$28 million recorded in all of 2025.
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Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law roll-out reaches base stations in blow to US chip curbs
Huawei Technologies is already integrating elements of the Tau Scaling Law – a new chip design principle that helps the company overcome US export controls – into its wireless communications network, as it pushes for broader adoption across
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ByteDance steps up robotics hiring through Seed AI
The hiring expands the company’s work on embodied AI, which links software models to physical machines.
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OpenAI plans to buy rival Google’s AI chips: report
A June 2025 report said OpenAI had already begun renting Google's chips.
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- South Korea's economy grows 1.0% in 3rd quarter on chip boom Nikkei Asia
- Cyberattack on Japan internet provider GMO threatens customer computers Nikkei Asia
- India's chip design startups struggle with final commercial hurdle Nikkei Asia
- Singapore-linked data center projects face growing rejection in Indonesia Nikkei Asia
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Vietnam’s $1.3b chip plant may miss 2027 trial target
Viettel said the project, estimated by authorities to cost about US$1.3 billion, remained on schedule.
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South Korea urged to guard chip profitability as China’s CXMT and YMTC gain market share
China’s expanding semiconductor industry is fuelling anxiety in South Korea, where a new report from PwC has warned local chipmakers to defend profitability as Chinese rivals scale up production and strengthen market share. Samil PwC, the S
Tech - South China Morning Post - Macao casinos chip in $1.1bn to back city's economic diversification Nikkei Asia
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Blackstone, banks to fund $63b Broadcom chip deal for Anthropic
The deal was announced on October 26, the same day Anthropic filed for an IPO.
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SG telehealth provider Care adopts Tencent Cloud’s RTC
Tencent said its flutter integration also supports development of Care’s physician-facing web app and patient-facing mobile app.
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Alibaba Cloud founder on how AI can unlock human potential
Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would eventually power it. In 2008, he joined Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China M
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China’s tech giants are paying 1 million yuan for a new kind of AI engineer
Chinese technology giants are dangling annual pay packages approaching 1 million yuan (US$149,739) to attract artificial intelligence engineers who can turn AI models into commercial applications. Companies including ByteDance, Tencent Hold
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Designed by Malaysia: The chips inside your cars, smart robots, drones, and even space systems
[This is a sponsored article written in collaboration with Selangor Information Technology & Digital Economy Corporation (Sidec).] You probably don’t give much thought to drones surveying a plantation. Sure, you might notice it flying acros
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Why cloud computing pioneer Wang Jian thinks space is the next AI frontier
Long before artificial intelligence became the next big thing in the tech industry, Wang Jian was crafting the foundational infrastructure that would eventually power it. In 2008, he joined Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China M
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AWS sells out cloud capacity through 2027 as AI demand grows
AWS is holding back some 2027 capacity for on-demand customers and services like Bedrock and EC2.
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China’s AI compute surge heavily reliant on US chips, offshore cloud access: report
China’s access to artificial intelligence computing power will double next year, but US-designed chips will account for about 65 per cent of that capacity, an indication of its continued reliance on foreign hardware, according to new resear
Tech - South China Morning Post - More PHP-scale dangers lurk on the internet, CloudFlare CEO says Nikkei Asia
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Israeli fintech firm Fireblocks plans to cut 7% of workforce
Fireblocks raised US$550 million in a Series E round announced in January 2022.
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OpenAI resumes AI training without internet access
In July, other OpenAI models escaped a sandbox and inadvertently breached Hugging Face.
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Bukalapak hits positive Q3 adjusted EBITDA in digital pivot
Gaming generated IDR 1.4 trillion of Bukalapak's IDR 1.6 trillion (US$88 million) third-quarter revenue.
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The AI promise was automation. The reality? Managing digital workers
When artificial intelligence agents first arrived, they came with a tantalising promise: autonomous “digital workers” that would finally free humans from corporate drudgery. As businesses across Asia are discovering, however, the reality is
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AI agents on Tencent Cloud try to break into Alibaba’s Amap: researchers
A fleet of artificial intelligence agents operating on a Tencent Holdings cloud platform made thousands of attempts to circumvent security protections on Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping service, according to findings by third-party research
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- Asia's AI data center boom faces 'reality check' from public markets Nikkei Asia
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What Singapore does differently to fuel emerging tech
Here’s how Singapore connects startups with the partners, expertise, and markets they need to grow.
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CATL-backed Noetix Robotics eyes Hong Kong IPO
The company could go public as soon as 2027, though the size and timing of the offering could still change.
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Cambricon’s third quarter profit surges 148% to US$210m amid push to replace Nvidia chips
Chinese artificial intelligence chip giant Cambricon Technologies reported a 147.7 per cent surge in third-quarter profit on Friday, as the country’s aggressive push to replace Nvidia chips continues to fuel high growth among local chipmake
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Fomo Pay, PantherTrade enable compliant digital asset transfers
Fomo Pay said the setup removes the need to route transfers through third-party wallets and supports compliance requirements.
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GovTech lays off 38 more as it shifts tech work in-house
GovTech said 106 officers will remain in their current roles, while another 106 can enter conversion and apprenticeship pathways.
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Israeli cybersecurity startup Modelyo raises about $17m
Modelyo said it collaborates with Nvidia, Intel, and Google; its website describes the platform as built for existing cloud environments.
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Unitree Robotics develops humanoid coding system
Unitree already markets humanoid robots through its online shop, including the G1 model, linking the project to the company’s hardware business.
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‘Jensen’s nightmare’: Huawei, DeepSeek narrow AI chip ecosystem gap with Nvidia: report
Deepening “symbiosis” with artificial intelligence model start-up DeepSeek is helping Chinese tech champion Huawei Technologies catch up with Nvidia’s chip hardware and software ecosystem in a scenario that could mean Jensen Huang’s “nightm
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Alibaba’s RISC-V IP powers over 6 billion shipped chips as tech giant targets AI, autos
Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has seen more than 6 billion chips shipped based on its XuanTie RISC-V architecture, marking a milestone as the tech giant doubles down on the open standard in artificial intelligence and
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- South Korea's Lee bets $1tn on Gwangju as future tech hub Nikkei Asia
- Korean fashion platform Musinsa deepens ties with Japan's Zozo ahead of IPO Nikkei Asia
- Taiwan's first-ever chip workers strike hits Micron plant Nikkei Asia
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Asia’s tech investors with the highest exit rates
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Singapore AI security robotics firm Kabam to shut down
It is unclear how many employees will be affected or what will happen to Kabam’s existing customers and robot deployments.
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Malaysian payments firm Axaipay launches ecommerce tool
The launch targets Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises expanding into ecommerce.
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China moves to set global standards for brain-computer interface technology
China has taken a major step in spearheading the standardisation of brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies, as it now chairs the secretariat of a subcommittee jointly overseen by two key international organisations and lists the techno
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Singapore fintech firm Qashier launches AI tools for merchants
Qashier plans to launch both products in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines in November.
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Singapore data center firm DayOne backs Nvidia’s AI design
The company said this could shorten data center construction timelines and standardize deployment across markets.
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