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The report said 243 million people in Southeast Asia have adopted generative AI, or 58% of the region’s working population.

With AI eating web traffic on search engines, MoneySmart faces a challenge. But the financial comparison site has new products up its sleeve.

Local languages were meant to be Asian AI labs’ edge over Big Tech, but numbers show otherwise, leaving many to rely on philanthropy and CSR efforts.

The first rollout is planned for the second half of 2027 in markets outside China and the US.

A look at Line Man Wongnai’s 2025 financials, the young startups making their mark, and Sea’s latest AI partnership with Google.

Google is also expanding news carousels in AI search features to more locations and languages.

The companies said the collaboration is the Google AI Futures Fund’s first partnership with an external AI lab.

Sparkonomy found that fewer than 1% of creators are described accurately by all major AI models, costing them vital business opportunities.

These include its Fairwind program and an on-device Android scam-detection model that analyzes conversations locally rather than in the cloud.

The company said the model’s stronger cyber and biology-related capabilities led it to add new safeguards.