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BRUSSELS, 20 May 2026 – Meta Platforms has offered rival artificial intelligence chatbots limited free access to WhatsApp in Europe, as the company seeks to ease European Union…
SAN FRANCISCO, 20 May 2026 – Google DeepMind has reportedly reached an agreement to hire more than 20 researchers from Contextual AI and license the startup’s technology for…
KUALA LUMPUR, 19 May 2026 – In a global economy built on hyper-interdependence, the blast radius of a single cyberattack rarely stays contained. When transport and logistics (T&C)…
KUALA LUMPUR, 19 May 2026 – Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market is expected to expand sharply over the next five years, reaching US$289.8 billion by 2029 as digital payments,…
SAN FRANCISCO, 19 May 2026 – Google and Blackstone are forming a new artificial intelligence cloud venture backed by an initial US$5 billion in equity, intensifying the global…
KUALA LUMPUR, 19 May 2026 – Malaysia’s economy could receive a stronger lift from the artificial intelligence capital expenditure boom as global technology companies expand data-centre, cloud and…
HONG KONG, 19 May 2026 – Standard Chartered is accelerating its use of artificial intelligence and automation as part of a wider plan to lift profitability, reduce corporate-function…
KUALA LUMPUR, 19 May 2026 – Asian Banking School has launched a major digital transformation initiative aimed at reshaping professional learning and workforce development for Malaysia’s banking and…
KUALA LUMPUR, 19 May 2026 – Bank Negara Malaysia Assistant Governor En Suhaimi Ali has called on Malaysia’s financial sector to move beyond conventional training models and embrace…
MENLO PARK, 18 May 2026 – Meta Platforms is preparing another major restructuring as the social media giant shifts thousands of employees into artificial intelligence-related roles ahead of…
