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Eternal’s District Plans Dedicated Venues as Temporary Sites Top $1 Million
The out-of-home platform is pursuing public-private partnerships to counter potential AI booking disruption.
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Aiko TanakaStartups
Thailand Selects 44 Medical AI Startups for Commercial Push
More than 80 firms applied to join the state-backed initiative aimed at moving clinical prototypes into hospitals and global markets.
Sarah ChenStartups
DeepSeek Releases Model V4.1 Flash Update and Opens Serving Framework
The Chinese developer cut coding task pricing to roughly $0.20 while releasing its internal DeepInfer inference tool for enterprise hardware.
Minjun ParkStartups
Southeast Asian Startups Face Capital Shortage as Investment Shifts to US and China
Rising capital costs, opaque bureaucracy, and scandals in Indonesia compounded the post-pandemic funding retreat.
Aiko TanakaStartups
OpenAI Seeks 30 Billion Dollar Round Ahead of Anthropic Public Listing
Japan’s SoftBank and Abu Dhabi’s MGX enter talks as OpenAI targets a 1.4 trillion dollar valuation before its chief rival lists.
Minjun ParkStartups
Anthropic Commits 5% Stake to New Public Benefit Fund
The Claude developer will allocate an additional 2% of shares for every 50% gain in valuation as it prepares for an IPO.
Maria SantosStartups
Pakistan Takes 20 Tech Startups to TechCrunch Disrupt in Silicon Valley
A delegation of 20 Pakistani technology companies exhibited at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco to secure US venture capital and commercial deals.
Wei ZhangStartups
AI Adoption Hits 71% Among Emerging Market Venture Firms but Core Integration Lags
An IFC survey of 1,600 private equity and venture firms reveals that while 71% use AI, only 17% have embedded the technology into their core operations.
Rajiv MenonStartups
Eztia Expands 10-Degree Cooling Fabric Trials Across Japan
Yamato Holdings and Kajima Corporation tested the water-activated material that lasts up to eight hours without batteries.
Maria SantosStartups
Nvidia Explores Buyout or Expanded Stake in Reflection AI
The chipmaker is considering an acquisition or acqui-hire structure for the startup valued at 25 billion dollars as US firms push back against Chinese open-weight models.
Aiko TanakaStartups
Universal Quantum Raises US$100 Million to Expand Research Hubs
The British start-up backed by Singapore’s EDBI and Roblox CEO David Baszucki aims to deliver a working quantum computer within the next decade.
Maria SantosStartups
Hermitage Capital Deploys over 200 Million Dollars in Physical AI Pivot
The Hong Kong private equity firm has allocated more than 200 million dollars from its 500 million dollar tech budget, shifting its focus from large language models to robotics and specialized hardware.
Sarah ChenStartups
Nippan Group Confirms Book Sales to US AI Firm Anthropic
The Japanese book wholesaler did not disclose the number of volumes sold or the total purchase amount in its letter to the Japan Book Publishers Association.
Sarah ChenStartups
DeepSeek Secures 80 Billion Yuan in Funding Ahead of 2027 IPO
Tencent Holdings and battery maker CATL commit major capital as the Chinese AI developer expands compute infrastructure with 160,000 Huawei chips.
Wei ZhangStartups
Nvidia-Backed Reflection AI Launches Beam to Challenge Chinese Open Models
The 501-billion-parameter open-weight system activates 23 billion parameters per task to compete directly with China’s GLM-5.2 and Qwen on software coding benchmarks.
Minjun ParkStartups
AI Generated over 90% of 430,000 Chinese Microdramas This Year
Six major platforms committed at least 6 billion yuan to fund live-action productions as regulators tighten rules on synthetic content.