Japan’s Kao is making a renewed marketing push for cosmetics brand Kate across Asia, quintupling promotional expenses there ...

InstaPay Technologies has secured USD 3 million in a Series A2 funding round, led by US family offices with renewed backing from ACA Investments. With this funding, the Malaysia-based fintech firm ...

Temu has signed a cloud hosting deal with Oracle amid ongoing US lawsuits and rising scrutiny over data privacy. The Chinese-owned app is accused of mishandling user data and is following TikTok’s ...

DeepSeek’s updated R1 model has tied Google’s Gemini 2.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 on the WebDev Arena coding leaderboard. Released in May, the enhanced R1 reportedly improves reasoning and halves ...

Splat is an app that turns arguments into entertainment, where AI judges your roasts and fighting is framed as a form of ...

Alipay has integrated in-store payment functionality into Rokid’s new AR glasses, enabling users to complete purchases using voice commands and QR scans. With over 250,000 units reportedly preordered, ...

Tencent has denied media reports that it is pursuing acquisitions of South Korean firms Nexon and Kakao Mobility. The company rejected claims of a USD 15 billion bid for Nexon and a 40% stake purchase ...

The Trump Organization's new USD 499 T1 smartphone, marketed as US-made, was likely designed and assembled in China, according to experts. The Android device uses various components from Asia, ...

China has begun its first clinical trial of wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, with a paralyzed patient reportedly controlling games by thought weeks after surgery. The implant, said ...

Ants, an urban revitalization startup, has raised USD 500,000 in pre-seed funding from Wavemaker Impact to convert Southeast Asia’s underused buildings into green, affordable hubs for SMEs. Based in ...

TikTok has launched new AI-driven tools that let marketers generate five-second video ads from product images or text prompts. Part of its Symphony product, the features aim to cut production time and ...

HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, has open-sourced two datasets from its xBench benchmark to help developers test reasoning and search skills in real-world AI tasks. The ScienceQA and DeepSearch sets ...