Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips
Alibaba and ByteDance shift development to south-east Asia to sidestep US curbs — Top Chinese companies are training …
Sea is nearing a $100B market cap after its stock has soared 300%+ since early 2024, driven by Shopee's in-house, community-based logistics network SPX Express
Shopee now dominates the Southeast Asian e-commerce market thanks to a cavalry of retirees, homemakers and students delivering parcels
A look at Sea-Lion, a $52M Singapore government-backed AI initiative developing LLMs attuned to the societal and cultural nuances of the Southeast Asian region
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
Indonesian ex-scammers reveal how Southeast Asian scam farms lured them via Facebook and Telegram ads; Indonesia says 6,700+ people were tricked since 2020
restofworld.org/2025/fake-jo... X: @restofworld : Rest of World interviewed seven former scammers in Indonesia to learn how they were lured into scam farms and about the technologies they used to defr...
The UN says the ~$40B cybercrime call center industry, tied to East and Southeast Asian crime syndicates, is expanding globally to regions with weak governance
UN Hannah Collymore / Cryptopolitan : UNODC fingers crypto, illegal mining and Telegram in Asian organized crime growth Patpicha Tanakasempipat / Bloomberg : Crime Syndicates in Southeast Asia Go Glob...
Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”
If so, this immigration is not good, but GREAT for Taiwan. [embedded post] Alex Lanstein / @lanstein : This is one of the top reasons why “bring chip manufacturing to the US” is not realistic. The l...
China and Southeast Asian nations pledge to deal with cybercrime centers, extending efforts that China's Global Times says has led to the arrest of 70K+ people
Bloomberg :
DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633
Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia :
Vietnam and Indonesia are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries
HANOI — Southeast Asian nations are imposing restrictions on Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein, seeing cheap imports as a threat to homegrown industries.
How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap
The super-app uses its own drivers and cameras to create hyperlocal maps in eight countries. — • JAKARTA, INDONESIA Mastodon: @sohkamyung@mstdn.io . X: @pitdesi and @anupkaphle . Forums: Hacker News...