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Kuala Lumpur, 5 August 2026 – Malaysia is seeking stronger safeguards for agricultural land as rapid investment in artificial intelligence, data centres and semiconductor manufacturing intensifies competition for…
New York, 4 August 2026 – The global race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is creating a new financing market as data-centre developers seek billions of dollars in…
Singapore, 4 August 2026 – Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed new powers allowing police to require banks and telecommunications companies to share information and disable accounts…
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4 August 2026 – Malaysia’s growing representation among Asia’s leading smaller listed companies is sharpening investor attention on a segment increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence,…
Kuala Lumpur, 4 August 2026 – Malaysia has more than doubled its representation on the 2026 Best Under A Billion list, with 19 publicly traded companies recognised among…
Maybank’s RM4.83 billion move to take full control of Etiqa is more than a corporate acquisition. It shows how Malaysia’s biggest lender wants to own a bigger part…
Cupertino, 3 August 2026 – Apple’s newly redesigned Siri AI is bringing the company closer to ChatGPT in conversational capability, but the two assistants remain built around different…
Washington, 3 August 2026 – Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche has formally rescinded a US$1.776 billion fund intended to compensate people claiming politically motivated prosecution, placing fiscal…
New York, 2 August 2026 – Wall Street’s once-dominant semiconductor trade is confronting a sharp reversal as violent swings in chip stocks expose the risks created by crowded…
Malaysia wants 100,000 youths to learn AI by giving them free access to leading tools. But the bigger test is not whether young people can use AI. It…
