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•1Australian AI infrastructure firm Firmus Technologies secured $505 million in funding, including from Nvidia, to expand its GPU-dense data centres across the Asia-Pacific region.•2China's navy has equipped its Qinzhou guided-missile frigate with AI algorithms for enhanced air defence, marking a key step in its military's broader "intelligentisation" drive.•3Microsoft has committed $6.5 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure across Southeast Asia, with $5.5 billion for Singapore and over $1 billion for Thailand, positioning the region as a global AI compute hub.•1Australian AI infrastructure firm Firmus Technologies secured $505 million in funding, including from Nvidia, to expand its GPU-dense data centres across the Asia-Pacific region.•2China's navy has equipped its Qinzhou guided-missile frigate with AI algorithms for enhanced air defence, marking a key step in its military's broader "intelligentisation" drive.•3Microsoft has committed $6.5 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure across Southeast Asia, with $5.5 billion for Singapore and over $1 billion for Thailand, positioning the region as a global AI compute hub.
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