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SINGAPORE, June 24 -- Gravity Game Hub (GGH) is excited to announce the launch of its first-ever collaboration between the mobile idle RPG Ragnarok Idle Adventure PLUS and the legendary anime franchise Gatchaman. Running from June 24 to July 9, 2026, this limited-time crossover event brings exclusive themed content, exciting challenges, and unique rewards inspired by the iconic heroes of Gatchaman.      "We are excited to bring Gatchaman, one of the most iconic anime franchises in history, into the world of Ragnarok Idle Adventure Plus. This collaboration allows us to connect two beloved universes that have inspired generations of fans across Asia and beyond. Through exclusive characters, events, and rewards, we hope to deliver a memorable experience that celebrates both the adventurous spirit of Ragnarok and the heroic legacy of Gatchaman. We sincerely thank our players for their continued support and look forward to sharing this special journey together," said Harry Choi, President Director, Gravity Game Hub Pte. Ltd. Exclusive In-Game Content and Rewards Throughout the event period, players can participate in a variety of special activities, including Daily Log-In Events, Airship Intercept, War Territory, Daily Reward Boosts, and the Cross-Server Dojo. By completing these activities, players can collect event-exclusive currency and exchange it for premium collaboration rewards, including: Exclusive Collaboration Pet: Joe the Condor Special Collaboration Red Card Exclusive Event Title Limited Avatar Frame Phase 2: Science Ninja Team Event Starting July 2, players can enjoy an additional collaboration chapter, Science Ninja Team, featuring a themed portal exploration mini-game, cross-server leaderboard competition, and a special roulette event. Participants will have the opportunity to obtain another exclusive collaboration pet, Jinpei the Swallow, alongside various in-game rewards. Dedicated Skill Comprehension Events for the collaboration pets will also be available, providing valuable upgrade materials, Pet Item Copy, GP, Zeny, and Pet EXP to help players strengthen their companions. The Ragnarok Idle Adventure PLUS x Gatchaman collaboration update is now available on iOS and Android devices. Players can find full event details and patch notes through the game's official community channels. About Ragnarok Idle Adventure Plus Genre: Idle RPG Platform: Mobile (Android & IOS) Website: https://roidle.gnjoy.asia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ROIdleAdventure Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roidleadventureplus Discord: https://discord.gg/roidleadventureplus About Gravity Game Hub Founded in 2021, Gravity Game Hub (GGH) Pte. Ltd. is a publisher and developer of online and mobile games, committed to delivering high-quality entertainment experiences and building thriving gaming communities throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. About Tatsunoko Production Founded in 1962, Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. is a renowned Japanese animation studio and the creator of iconic franchises such as Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Casshan, Hurricane Polymar, and Tekkaman. The company continues to expand the global reach of its beloved IPs through animation, licensing, and entertainment partnerships. -- PRNewswire -- Source: Gravity Game Hub 

Gravity Game Hub Launches Exclusive Gatchaman Collaboration Across Ragnarok Idle Adventure Plus

SINGAPORE, June 24 –– Gravity Game Hub (GGH) is excited to announce the launch of its first-ever collaboration between the mobile idle RPG Ragnarok Idle Adventure PLUS and the legendary .... read more

KAWASAKI, Japan, June 24 -- Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of the GridDB Startup Program, a strategic initiative that will empower startups in building and scaling real-time industrial solutions on GridDB Cloud, Toshiba's distributed time-series database for Big Data and IoT systems. Applications are open here from June 24, 2026. In a business world driven by constantly growing flows of information, identifying and extracting value requires systems that can accurately and reliably analyze massive volumes of data in real time with no disruption to operations. GridDB, Toshiba's distributed time‑series database, addresses these challenges by delivering strengths in reliability, low latency, and horizontal scalability. The launch of GridDB Startup Program is part of Toshiba's broader effort to foster long-term partnerships with startups that advance co-development of solutions and bring new ideas to life. The program aims to combine Toshiba's expertise in data infrastructure with the creativity and agility of startups in generating new use cases and technology breakthroughs in IoT, AI and machine learning, smart infrastructure, healthcare, finance, real-time analytics, and other areas. The program provides participants with essential technology, reduces barriers to innovation, and enables collaborative experimentation. Access to GridDB Cloud and GridDB's technical expertise gives the participants ability to concentrate solely on product development rather than infrastructure management, and to rapidly prototype, validate, and scale concepts. The program also delivers resources and incentives to foster early-stage growth, supporting startups in accelerating time-to-market and taking solutions to the global level.     Key Incentives of the GridDB Startup Program: Complimentary access to GridDB Cloud Dedicated technical support from GridDB's experts Opportunities for joint marketing and promotional activities with Toshiba's GridDB team Potential connection with Toshiba Corporate Venture Capital Applications are open from June 24, 2026 for 26 countries and regions where GridDB Cloud is available. Details and application form are here. Through collaborations nurtured in the GridDB Startup Program, Toshiba will continue to contribute to the advancement of digital transformation (DX) and the realization of future cyber-physical systems.  About GridDB Cloud GridDB Cloud, is Toshiba's high-performance database offered as a fully managed cloud service, combining time-series data management, petabyte-scale scalability, and high reliability with dual NoSQL/SQL interfaces for flexible development. It is available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace, offering seamless integration with tools like Azure IoT Edge and Grafana, intuitive GUI-based cluster management, and elastic scaling—reducing setup times, infrastructure costs, and operational overheads. With global availability in 26 countries and regions, GridDB Cloud enables enterprise-scale real-time analytics with ease. GridDB Product Website https://www.global.toshiba/ww/products-solutions/ai-iot/griddb.html -- PRNewswire -- Source: Toshiba Corporation 

Toshiba Launches GridDB™ Startup Program to Collaborate with Innovators and Co-Create Future Technologies

KAWASAKI, Japan, June 24 — Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of the GridDB Startup Program, a strategic initiative that will empower startups in building and scaling real-time industrial solutions .... read more

TAIPEI, June 24, 2026-- Omnichat, the omnichannel customer experience platform, hosted its annual product launch on June  9th. Under the theme "The New Era of Agentic AI: Driving the Future of Retail and Omnichannel Revenue Growth," the company launched OmniClaw, its AI strategist, alongside Omni AI Message Flow and other Agentic AI solutions. Amid fading traffic dividends and soaring customer acquisition costs, Omnichat partnered with LINE and Meta to explore how enterprises can build sustainable retail models leveraging AI, proprietary data, and private domain operations.  As conversational commerce experiences continue to mature, Omnichat has achieved historic breakthrough milestones in 2026 in both technical capability and messaging volume, successfully routing over 8 billion messages. The platform continues to fuel revenue growth for enterprises through chat commerce and has secured dual validation as a LINE-Biz Solutions Gold Tech Partner and a Meta Certified Company in both Business Messaging Strategy and WhatsApp for Business Technical. "The true value of AI does not lie in one-way broadcasting; it lies in transforming conversations into a brand's most potent CRM and real-time social commerce engine," said Jerry Weng, General Manager of Omnichat Taiwan. "As a dual-certified partner within the LINE and Meta ecosystems, Omnichat is dedicated to helping brands leverage data-driven conversations to unlock revenue. In an era where organic traffic is dwindling, we are equipping enterprises with the ultimate retail compounding effect and a closed-loop system for data growth." The showcase featured exclusive industry keynotes from LINE and Meta leadership. Achi Tsai, Vice President of Product & Strategy Planning, Corporate Business Division for LINE Taiwan Limited, noted, "LINE's core AI roadmap has always been about 'empowerment' rather than 'control.' Moving forward, AI will evolve from a generative, passive search tool used by social editors and support reps into an active predictor that anticipates customer needs and serves up hyper-personalized recommendations before the user even asks. LINE will continue its deep collaboration with Omnichat to help enterprises translate complex interactions into seamless, attentive care, creating powerful private domain engagement and compounding value." Bell Hou, Client Solutions Director, Greater China at Meta, added, "As the Meta Business Messaging ecosystem constantly evolves, the newly introduced Marketing Messages on Messenger has become a vital tool for brands to bypass the traditional 24-hour messaging window and strengthen private domain retention. By integrating audience management with omnichannel data, brands can maximize lead generation capabilities on Messenger, drastically improving targeted communication efficiency and long-term customer lifetime value." Beyond exploring macroeconomic industry trends with LINE and Meta, Omnichat lifted the curtain on its Agentic AI product roadmap, announcing a brand-new lineup of AI solutions - OmniClaw, Omni AI Message Flow, CS Agent, and Sales Agent, designed to seamlessly inject AI capabilities directly into operational workflows and revenue-generating scenarios. The highlight of the showcase was OmniClaw, an AI-native brain and strategist embedded directly into the Omnichat platform. Unlike generic AI tools, OmniClaw is engineered for loyalty management, precision marketing, and intelligent sales. From day one, it understands a company's campaign data and organizational structure, enabling teams to run real-time analytics, plan campaigns, and access expert guidance without switching tabs. Marketers can directly ask, "Which campaign generated the highest revenue?", "Which member segment is ripe for remarketing?", or "Analyze recent support ticket trends." OmniClaw cross-references multi-module data to deliver concrete, actionable recommendations, eliminating manual reporting for rapid decision-making. "OmniClaw solves the fatal flaw of generic AI tools—their lack of business-specific understanding," said Alan Chan, Founder and CEO of Omnichat. "It aggregates multi-dimensional data into actionable business insights. As an AI-native brain built for retail, OmniClaw is more than a search tool. By analyzing historical empirical data—including conversation trends, product recommendation links, and broadcast performance—it maps out future campaigns and generates ready-to-use drafts. This empowers enterprises to make faster, data-driven decisions, turning AI into a true operational growth engine." To address the traditional bottlenecks of marketing campaigns—where moving from inspiration and copywriting to cross-department or agency alignment is incredibly time-consuming—Omnichat rolled out Omni AI Message Flow. Here, AI steps into the role of a Marketing Agent to streamline the entire creation cycle. Marketers simply input their campaign objectives and brand guidelines, and the AI automatically maps out the conversation flow, generates the copy, and designs the asset layout. This slashes campaign setup time by at least 50%, allowing brands to take ideas to launch at unprecedented speeds. In 2026, retail technology has officially entered the "Agentic Era," with AI evolving into Omni AI Agents armed with autonomous reasoning and cross-system execution capabilities. Omnichat's CS Agent natively bridges with enterprise CRM and ERP systems to autonomously handle member inquiries, order tracking, logistics, and post-purchase support—dramatically reducing manual workloads while upgrading service speed. Simultaneously, the Sales Agent acts as the ultimate conversational commerce brain, proactively recommending merchandise based on product catalogs, inventory levels, and consumer intent to drive checkouts directly within the chat window for a 24/7 autonomous shopping experience. "The CS Agent and Sales Agent we launched have completely bridged the last mile from 'understanding dialogue' to 'taking cross-system action,'" explained Ian Chan, Chief Technology Officer at Omnichat. "They don't just call system APIs to autonomously close up to 90% of support cases; they proactively pitch product recommendations like a star salesperson to close deals directly in the chatroom. Coupled with our new BYOA (Bring Your Own AI) open architecture, we are helping enterprises securely and deeply embed their proprietary AI models into daily operations, transforming AI into tangible corporate productivity." The event closed with a cross-industry panel discussion featuring Henry Lu, CEO of IMAG Marketing, Anne Chen, Director of Business Development at WENK MEDIA, and Kevin Li, Chief Marketing Officer of Buy123. The panelists unanimously agreed that AI, private domain operations, and data integration have formed the new battleground for brand competitiveness, and that the democratization of Agentic AI will drastically accelerate digital transformation and top-line revenue growth across the retail industry. Addressing the pain point of skyrocketing traffic costs, WENK MEDIA shared practical case studies on how combining AI with robust data integration successfully amplified traffic conversion. From a CRM perspective, Buy123 broke down how mid-sized brands can break away from margin-killing price wars by pivoting toward granular, data-driven customer segmentation on LINE. Finally, IMAG, a customer relationship and AI-powered engagement partner for premium retail brands, pointed out that international luxury brands have seamlessly woven AI into their omnichannel strategies—maintaining elite, high-touch hospitality while fostering high-frequency digital engagement. This signals a broader shift from competing for traffic to building long-term customer relationships, with AI helping brands determine the next best action across every customer interaction. Agentic AI is increasingly becoming a key growth engine for the next phase of retail transformation. About Omnichat Limited Omnichat is a leading AI-Native Agentic Customer Experience Platform, empowering over 5,000 global brands with an autonomous AI workforce. Through its comprehensive AI Social CRM ecosystem, the platform is designed to scale customer engagement and cultivate long-term loyalty. As an official partner of Meta and LINE, Omnichat seamlessly integrates marketing automation, sales conversion, and customer support. By unifying conversational interaction with agentic execution, Omnichat delivers seamless end-to-end customer journeys across LINE, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WeChat.  -- PRNewswire -- Source: Omnichat 

Omnichat Launches Annual Product OmniClaw, the New Agentic AI Strategist

TAIPEI, June 24, 2026— Omnichat, the omnichannel customer experience platform, hosted its annual product launch on June 9th. Under the theme “The New Era of Agentic AI: Driving the Future .... read more

SHAH ALAM, June 23 -- The Selangor state government expects solar energy usage in the state to rise following the launch of the Solar Accelerated Transition Action Programme (Solar ATAP) on Jan 1, supporting its shift towards green energy. State Environment and Public Health Committee chairman Jamaliah Jamaluddin said the outlook is also driven by an increase in companies offering no-upfront-cost installation schemes, which could attract more people to install the technology at their premises. “The Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) also maintains a list of companies offering such services on its website under the ‘Registered Solar PV Investor (RPVI) Directory. “With such methods, there will be no additional cost burden on building owners, and in fact savings can be achieved through the energy generated from the solar power system,” she said when winding up the debate on the Selangor Resilience Strengthening Package in the State Legislative Assembly today. Jamaliah said that, based on SEDA data under the Government Net Energy Metering (NEM Gomen) programme, 70 government buildings, including local authorities, are registered under the scheme. She said the figure represented a total installed capacity of 5.69 megawatts (MW), with 2.23MW generated from the State Secretary’s Building and district and land offices in Selangor. “The private sector has generated 392.97MW under the Net Energy Metering (NEM) scheme, according to SEDA Malaysia data, spanning commercial, industrial and agricultural users. “In addition, there were also private sector players generating solar electricity for self-consumption without selling it back to the TNB (Tenaga Nasional Berhad) grid,” she said. Jamaliah said the state is implementing the Government Green Energy (GGE) project in partnership with TNB Renewables Sdn. Bhd and Worldwide Holdings Berhad, aimed at increasing solar energy use in government facilities via a solar farm in Hulu Bernam. “The GGE project is expected to produce up to 100MW of capacity and is targeted to be commissioned by 2028, subject to final agreements and regulatory approvals. “The project is expected to boost renewable energy use in state government operations, reduce dependence on conventional power supply and support carbon reduction efforts under the state’s low-carbon agenda,” she added. -- BERNAMA 

Solar Technology Use Expected To Increase In Selangor – Exco

SHAH ALAM, June 23 — The Selangor state government expects solar energy usage in the state to rise following the launch of the Solar Accelerated Transition Action Programme (Solar ATAP) .... read more

ARMONK, N.Y., June  -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has joined the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, bringing advanced frontier AI capabilities into security operations to help enterprises counter machine-speed threats. Building on the recently announced Project Lightwell, as part of this effort IBM has launched a new application security service that uses the cyber capabilities of OpenAI's models to help organizations identify and validate software vulnerabilities with greater speed, and precision.     Through this program, IBM is working with OpenAI to apply advanced AI capabilities to be deployed defensively inside enterprise workflows where they can help organizations understand and reduce their exposure. The new application security service can go beyond traditional code scanning to identify and validate vulnerabilities using OpenAI cyber capabilities. AI-driven analysis assesses application code, and prioritizes areas with highest potential to contain flaws and exploitable paths. The security harness, powered by IBM Consulting Advantage – IBM's AI platform for delivering consulting services to clients – connects client application environments to advanced AI in a controlled, secured and governed way. Operating within the client's environment, with read-only access to code repositories and bounded execution, it enables large-scale exposure analysis. Delivered as a managed, enterprise-ready service, clients can begin with focused evaluations of key applications and expand to continuous monitoring to reassess risk over time as code changes and new threats emerge. Participation in the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program reflects IBM's ongoing role in shaping how frontier AI is deployed across enterprise workflows. Together with OpenAI and other partners, IBM is helping define standards for safeguards including for controlled analysis to help enterprises strengthen resilience. Project Lightwell combines an enterprise security clearinghouse with a global force of engineers to patch, validate, and manage open source code across the software supply chain. Supported by a $5 billion commitment from IBM and Red Hat, the initiative will use OpenAI's cyber capabilities alongside other frontier AI models to help with code review and remediation. "Attackers are already using AI to probe, exploit, and scale threats at machine speed. Defenders need the same advantage, with the security and control enterprises require," said Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner, Cybersecurity Services, IBM Consulting. "The OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program expands our access to a broader set of advanced AI capabilities, which we deploy within our clients' environments to help surface the most relevant risks faster and help them act with confidence." "Security is central to realizing the benefits of advanced AI," said Dane Stuckey, Chief Information Security Officer at OpenAI. "Through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, we are collaborating with AI pioneers like IBM to use frontier models to accelerate defensive security workflows and support enterprises, governments, and other organizations as they identify risks, strengthen resilience, improve security, and ultimately deploy AI with the trust, controls, and compliance their environments require." The new application security service is available today, with further integrations planned as part of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program. Statements regarding IBM's and OpenAI's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. About IBM IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain a competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of governments and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information. -- PRNewswire  -- Source: IBM 

IBM and OpenAI Bring Frontier AI to Cyber Defense–Helping Enterprises Keep Pace with Machine-Speed Threats

ARMONK, N.Y., June 23 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has joined the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, bringing advanced frontier AI capabilities into security operations to help enterprises .... read more

TAIPEI, June 22 -- Lintes Technology (TWSE: 6715), a global leader in high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced the launch of its comprehensive, modular optoelectronic interconnect solution for next-generation AI servers. Addressing the critical bottleneck of high-density data centers, the platform encompasses both Near-Packaged Copper (NPC) and Near-Packaged Optics (NPO) technologies, featuring a shared patented socket architecture.  Unlike conventional hardware designs with fixed interface configurations, this innovative architecture empowers data center operators with infrastructure flexibility. The platform enables direct selection between optical and electronic interfaces within a single system, allowing operators to configure the channel count and bandwidth allocation routed through either NPC or NPO via individual sockets based on actual data throughput requirements. This breakthrough significantly optimizes system routing agility and cost-efficiency for next-generation AI infrastructure. Bridging the CPO Market Gap As AI workloads continue to drive demand for higher computing performance, conventional transmission architectures are approaching practical limits in bandwidth, power, and system design. While Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) remains a key area of industry focus, challenges related to optical engine yield, ASIC integration, and cost efficiency are expected to delay large-scale deployment. In contrast, Lintes's near-packaged interconnect solutions have already completed design validation and are sampling with customers. This makes the platform a concrete, immediately deployable solution for high-density AI servers, effectively bridging the technological gap as the industry transitions to advanced architectures. Modular Near-Packaged Interconnect for AI Scalable Bandwidth To meet the 100T aggregate bandwidth demands of AI chips, Lintes's near-packaged interconnect solutions utilize a patented socket design that simultaneously supports both NPO and NPC. A single socket delivers a transmission bandwidth of up to 6.4T. Depending on specific server and data center infrastructures, this bandwidth can be flexibly configured as four 1.6T or eight 800G transmission paths, helping customers adapt to high-bandwidth, modular, and scalable AI system requirements. This flexible architecture supports both transmission modes based on distance, cost, and layout requirements: Intra-Server and Intra-Rack Transmission (Scale-up): Operators can deploy NPC to connect with other AI chips or PCIe signal connectors. This can be paired with rack cabling options such as DAC, AEC, AOC, and ACC, leveraging copper's cost efficiency and deployment maturity to satisfy high-speed interconnect needs within servers and racks. Cross-Rack Long-Distance Networking (Scale-out): The system can adopt NPO and be paired with high-density multi-fiber connectors like MPO, MTP, and MMC to meet the demands of cross-rack extensions, data center horizontal scaling, and high-bandwidth optical interconnects. Through this modular and platform-based design, Lintes enables AI server and data center customers to flexibly implement near-packaged interconnect solutions for varied computing demands, transmission distances, and deployment costs, while minimizing major changes to existing system architectures and cable configurations. US$84 Million Capital Expenditure Approved to Target 2027 Volume Production To support this growth, Lintes's Board of Directors approved an annual capital expenditure budget of up to approximately US$84 million (NT$2.65 billion) on June 11, 2026. This capital will be allocated toward cleanroom renovations for a new manufacturing facility and the procurement of multi-channel, multi-mode, and single-mode optical module production equipment, expanding advanced hardware manufacturing capacities. With these near-packaged interconnect solutions already sampling with customers, the company aims to align with customer deployment schedules and achieve volume production by 2027, transforming these technological breakthroughs into long-term operational momentum. About Lintes Technology Lintes Technology is a leading provider of high-speed interconnect solutions, delivering advanced cables, connectors, and optical modules for data-intensive applications. With deep expertise in signal integrity and system integration, Lintes enables scalable AI connectivity from edge devices to hyperscale data centers supporting reliable, high-bandwidth communication across next-generation infrastructure. -- PRNewswire -- Source: Lintes Technology 

Lintes Technology Unveils Shared NPC and NPO Interconnect Platform for Next-Generation AI Servers

TAIPEI, June 22 — Lintes Technology (TWSE: 6715), a global leader in high-bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced the launch of its comprehensive, modular optoelectronic interconnect solution for next-generation AI servers. .... read more

PUTRAJAYA, June 22 -- Malaysia and China are committed to strengthening cooperation in science, technology and innovation (STI) to expand technology commercialisation opportunities and ensure that innovation outcomes are translated into sustainable economic impact. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) said the commitment was reached through  Malaysia-China’s 4th Joint Committee Meeting (JCM) on Science, Technology and Innovation, co-chaired by Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Chang Lih Kang and China’s representative Lin Xin today. MOSTI said both countries also agreed to enhance cooperation in strategic areas, including artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, green technology and advanced materials technology, while strengthening talent development and research capacity. “MOSTI hopes that this collaboration will expand commercialisation opportunities to ensure that innovation is translated into sustainable economic impact in line with the National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (NSTIP),” MOSTI said in a statement. According to MOSTI, among the key agenda items discussed at the JCM were STI policy exchanges, technology transfer and research commercialisation cooperation, as well as updates on ongoing bilateral programmes. Among the key Malaysia-China bilateral initiatives is the Joint Research Programme (Second Series), which is funding eight Malaysian research projects in areas such as AI, green technology involving energy storage, biotechnology, particularly human vaccines, space technology and advanced materials technology. MOSTI said the meeting also reviewed the progress of the Malaysia-China Expertise Exchange Programme (First Series), which has involved 10 Malaysian researchers in critical technology fields, including AI, green technology (energy storage) and advanced materials technology. In addition, MOSTI said both countries discussed the implementation of the Malaysia-China Joint Laboratory on Emerging Technologies programme, which will focus on AI, blockchain technology, biotechnology, renewable energy and advanced materials technology, with the participation of academia, industry and research communities from both countries. In conjunction with the meeting, MOSTI, through the Academy of Sciences Malaysia, also announced the selection of 10 Malaysian researchers to participate in the Malaysia-China Expertise Exchange (MSE) programme, under which they will be placed for six months at selected research institutions, universities and companies in China. “The programme aims to strengthen local capabilities, enhance science diplomacy, expand bilateral research networks and build national capacity in strategic technologies in support of the country’s STI agenda,” the ministry said. It added that the JCM serves as a key platform for strengthening bilateral cooperation in STI under the Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation Agreement signed by both countries in October 2013. The meeting also follows Chinese President Xi Jinping’s official visit to Malaysia on April 15-16, 2025, which witnessed the signing of two new memoranda of understanding (MoUs) - one on mutual support for the establishment of laboratories in emerging technologies, and another on cooperation in the application of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). -- BERNAMA  

Malaysia, China Strengthen STI Cooperation To Drive Innovation Commercialisation – MOSTI

PUTRAJAYA, June 22 — Malaysia and China are committed to strengthening cooperation in science, technology and innovation (STI) to expand technology commercialisation opportunities and ensure that innovation outcomes are translated .... read more

SEOUL, South Korea, June 22 -- Korea Deep Learning, a pioneer in enterprise-grade Document AI and vision intelligence solutions, today announced that its proprietary Document AI has secured the #1 overall ranking on ParseBench, a premier global document parsing benchmark organized by LlamaIndex.     ParseBench evaluates AI models on their ability to read, structure, and extract information from approximately 2,000 pages of complex, real-world enterprise documents across finance, insurance, and government sectors. In the latest evaluation, Korea Deep Learning ranked #1 overall in the VLM category with a score of 76.4, ahead of the next-highest-scoring models (75.0 and 67.8). The company also secured the top spot in Visual Grounding with a score of 78.8, establishing a commanding 19-point lead over the next-highest-scoring model (59.8). The win was driven by KDL-Frontier-Parser-nano, a 1.2-billion-parameter single model. Despite its compact size, it delivered superior accuracy against massive Big Tech systems at a fraction of the operational cost, proving that specialized AI tailored for business workflows can outperform broad, general-purpose LLMs. Its core edge lies in Korea Deep Learning's Near-Zero Hallucination technology, which simultaneously analyzes layout, field relationships, and spatial positioning to minimize error rates and extract data with context-aware precision. Trained on over 400 million images and documents, Korea Deep Learning's solutions support secure on-premise and SaaS deployments. Validated across major enterprise and public sectors, the technology powers administrative data restructuring for the Gyeonggi Provincial Government and serves over 80 major corporations, including Hyundai Capital and LG CNS—slashing document-processing times by up to 96%. Today's ParseBench victory builds on a consecutive string of global milestones. In March 2026, the company's proprietary Vision-Language Model, KDL Frontier, clinched the #1 spot in the English category of OCRBench v2 with a score of 68.1, outperforming other leading models. In recognition of this sustained technological leadership, Forbes Asia officially named CEO Jihyun Kim to its prestigious 2026 '30 Under 30' list in the Consumer & Enterprise Technology category last month. "Our strategy has always been to build specialized AI that decodes complex document structures as intuitively as a human, rather than focusing on massive LLMs," said Jihyun Kim, CEO of Korea Deep Learning. "This milestone validates our architecture as the most practical solution for the 'AI Agent' era, enabling autonomous decision-making and total workflow automation." Backed by an $8 million (KRW 12 billion) Series A funding round secured in December 2025 and a strategic partnership with NVIDIA, Korea Deep Learning is aggressively accelerating its global expansion into international enterprise markets. About Korea Deep Learning Founded in 2019, Korea Deep Learning is a premier vision intelligence and Document AI company developing enterprise-grade AI agents that automate document-based workflows. Its proprietary DEEP Agent platform combines advanced OCR, document parsing, and vision-language models to help organizations seamlessly extract, structure, and act on information from complex documents, images, and visual data. -- PRNewswire -- Source: Korea Deep Learning    

Korea Deep Learning Secures Back-to-Back Global AI Benchmark Wins Over Big Tech

SEOUL, South Korea, June 22 — Korea Deep Learning, a pioneer in enterprise-grade Document AI and vision intelligence solutions, today announced that its proprietary Document AI has secured the #1 .... read more

DONGGUAN, China, June 19 -- At the HDC 2026 Global Eco Summit in Dongguan, Huawei convened global partners to explore how its innovative technologies are reshaping digital interaction and business growth. Huawei's ecosystem, driven by Petal Ads' AI and rich insights, helps brands navigate the China market through multi-dimensional analysis spanning user portraits, media journeys, and brand consideration. It provides precision access to premium segments, including 22 million annual outbound travelers—76% of whom are middle-to-high consumers with TGI scores over 110 for luxury goods and premium lifestyles. At the summit, a leading global luxury house—viewing China as its No.2 luxury market and a strategic hub for digital engagement—showcased how it used Petal Ads to target high-net-worth users, including foldable device owners. Through immersive splash screen visuals, the campaign generated tens of millions of impressions and high click-through rates, expanding into future in-store collaborations. Similarly, a Malaysia tourism board launched a 360-degree journey combining Petal Ads, KOLs, and offline flagship store activations. The campaign integrated customized watch faces featuring VM2026 mascots on Huawei wearables and real-time travel sharing via SkyTone, generating hundreds of millions of exposures. For cross-border growth, overseas partners are embedding services into Huawei's ecosystem. A premier Hong Kong ticketing platform for concerts and sports leveraged Huawei's hybrid architecture, Huawei Login, Petal Maps navigation, and SkyTone connectivity to transform standalone ticket sales into continuous travel experiences for outbound Chinese tourists. Meanwhile, Turkey's leading smart wallet, BonusFlaş, enabled contactless NFC payments on Huawei Watch 5 and GT 6 series across millions of POS terminals, streamlining transactions via its upgraded BonusFlaş 2.0 interface. Huawei remains committed to opening its ecosystem, turning cross-border challenges into collaborative growth opportunities. -- PRNewswire  -- Source: Huawei Mobile Services    

HDC 2026 Global Eco Summit: Huawei Ecosystem Fuels Partners’ Growth in China and Cross-Border Success

DONGGUAN, China, June 19 –– At the HDC 2026 Global Eco Summit in Dongguan, Huawei convened global partners to explore how its innovative technologies are reshaping digital interaction and business .... read more

SINGAPORE, June 19 -- CardInfoLink has deployed Agent Gateway on Agenzo, its agentic commerce platform for travel and hospitality merchants, making it what is believed to be the first commercial deployment in Asia to operate AI agents under an independent trust and governance layer. Every AI agent connecting to CardInfoLink's merchants does so through a governed, auditable channel, on open standards, without disrupting the payment infrastructure beneath it. CardInfoLink operates live merchant-acquiring infrastructure across Asia, with more than 15 years in payment processing. Affinidi is an active contributor to the Linux Foundation and the standards bodies shaping the next wave of digital trust infrastructure.     With Agenzo, consumers can instruct AI agents to book a ride, a flight, or a hotel, confirming each purchase as they go. The Agent Gateway governs agent interactions in the background, creating a cryptographically verifiable record of all interactions and allowing only authorised agents to transact, with clear accountability established across all parties. All of this happens in the background, so the experience is unchanged for both the consumer and the merchant. For the business, the agent-readiness process is simplified for merchants by enabling faster implementation through simple configuration with no complex changes to existing systems. This allows them to open their services and products to AI agents through proper governance, and with trust handled at the system boundary rather than custom-built for every integration. As AI agents begin to act inside commercial systems, the open question is not whether they can transact but who is accountable when they do. In its 2026 Future of Fraud Forecast, Experian named the inability to distinguish legitimate agents from malicious ones as the top fraud threat to businesses this year, warning that machine-to-machine transactions are being initiated without clear ownership of liability. Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects to be cancelled by the end of 2027, citing escalating costs, unclear value, and inadequate risk controls. In January 2026, Singapore's IMDA introduced the world's first governance framework for agentic AI, calling for bounded AI agent autonomy, human accountability, and technical controls as the recommended baseline. Agent Gateway, part of the Affinidi Trust Fabric Suite, is built to meet that bar. "A shipping container reorganised global trade not because it was clever but because it was standardised. Agentic commerce needs the same: one trusted, standardised way for an AI agent to interact with a merchant. We run real infrastructure with real merchants and real consequences, so we could not add agents without it. The Agent Gateway gave us that, inside the systems we already use," said Hyman Zhu, Co-Founder of CardInfoLink. "AI Governance and payment processing are distinct problems and challenges, and they need separate infrastructure. The Agent Gateway is the layer that governs how an AI agent connects to the systems it acts on, independent of how the payment is settled. That layer has been missing from production. With CardInfoLink, it is now running, and every business putting agents to work will need it," said Glenn Gore, CEO of Affinidi. This deployment is the first live proof of an approach that the wider industry has been calling for, a layer that lets AI agents act inside real systems under governance built in from the start. For Affinidi, agentic commerce for travel and hospitality is the first commercial use of a trust layer built to span industries, from payments to healthcare and beyond. Both companies see it as the start of an agent economy that is accountable by default. About Agenzo Agenzo is the AI payment brand developed by Evonet and CardInfoLink. It focuses on helping AI agents complete payments in a safe, simple, and compliant way. Agenzo connects AI agents, merchants, wallets, payment networks, and acquirers. It allows an AI agent to understand a customer's payment intent, create an order, request payment authorisation, and complete the transaction through a trusted payment infrastructure. Agenzo has worked on agentic payment use cases such as travel booking, retail, EV charging, loyalty, QR payment, and merchant checkout. Its goal is to make AI-driven commerce easier for merchants, safer for consumers, and more practical for financial institutions and payment partners. About CardInfoLink CardInfoLink is a payment technology company founded in 2010. The company provides payment infrastructure, acquiring systems, gateway solutions, wallet technology, risk management tools, and payment security services for banks, payment institutions, merchants, and technology partners. CardInfoLink has served customers across Asia and supported many types of payment services, including card acquiring, QR payment, online payment, 3D Secure, settlement, dispute handling, and fraud prevention. Over the years, CardInfoLink has built strong experience in payment system development, cross-border payment connectivity, and financial-grade technology operations. The company continues to support banks, acquirers, PSPs, and merchants with reliable and flexible payment solutions. About Agent Gateway The Agent Gateway, part of the Affinidi Trust Fabric suite, is the trust and governance layer for agentic AI. Built on open standards to avoid vendor lock-in, it gives every AI agent a cryptographic identity, enforces policy at runtime, produces tamper-evident audit trails, and secures messaging across organisational and cloud boundaries. Agent Gateway is built for production workloads that demand multiple agentic flows within and across organisations, meeting the audit requirements of strict regulatory and governance models. Agent Gateway holds AI agents and human actors accountable, traceable, and auditable at scale, enabling businesses to extend their reach to more customers, more data, and more partners without sacrificing governance or control. To learn more, visit affinidi.com/trust-fabric. About Affinidi Affinidi is a Temasek-founded technology company building trust infrastructure for AI agents and the digital economy. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, with teams in Bangalore and Berlin, Affinidi provides builders and organisations with the tools to enable verifiable, privacy-preserving interactions between people, businesses, and the systems that serve them. Its technology spans governance infrastructure for AI agents, verifiable credential management, trust registries, and developer tooling, all built on open standards for full interoperability, to avoid vendor lock-in. An active contributor to the Linux Foundation, W3C, and the Decentralized Identity Foundation. Visit www.affinidi.com for more information. -- PRNewswire -- Source: Affinidi

Affinidi and CardInfoLink Put the Missing Trust Layer for AI Agents into Production

SINGAPORE, June 19 — CardInfoLink has deployed Agent Gateway on Agenzo, its agentic commerce platform for travel and hospitality merchants, making it what is believed to be the first commercial .... read more

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