SOLUM SHOWCASES SMART RETAIL SOLUTIONS, PARTNERSHIPS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

SOLUM introduced its local partnership models in Singapore (Image: SOLUM)

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 (Bernama) -- SOLUM has held its "Singapore Private Show", showcasing smart retail solutions and partnership models tailored to the Southeast Asian market as it seeks to expand its regional presence.

The company said the event brought together retailers and solution providers from sectors including grocery, shopping malls, convenience stores, cosmetics and electronics to explore technologies aimed at improving monetisation, operational efficiency and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven transformation.

According to SOLUM in a statement, the showcase highlighted collaborations with five partners — Huawei APAC, Omnishelf, NStory, elTOV and Broadsign — to support retailers through digitalisation and data-driven services.

SOLUM Singapore Head, Yi Ki Chul said the company has established a collaborative framework combining its operational capabilities with the local data and infrastructure expertise of its partners.

He said proven references are an important competitive factor in the Southeast Asian market and that the company aims to convert proof-of-concept discussions from the event into practical deployments in retail operations.

In the area of monetisation, SOLUM said it is working with Broadsign to help retailers generate new revenue streams through in-store advertising, while collaboration with NStory focuses on data-driven monetisation strategies for the food and beverage and small and medium-sized business segments.

To improve operational efficiency, the company has jointly developed a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-based network environment with Huawei APAC to support Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL), and integrated its platform with Omnishelf to enable real-time shelf inventory digitisation.

SOLUM is also supplying hardware to elTOV to support the development of an AI-powered wayfinding service model for shopping malls and airports, reflecting growing adoption of AI-based visitor engagement services in Southeast Asia.

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HORIZON QUANTUM TO LOCATE SECOND QUANTUM COMPUTER IN DUBLIN

KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 (Bernama) -- Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd (Horizon Quantum), a pioneer of software infrastructure for quantum applications, announced plans to locate its second quantum computer in Dublin, Ireland.

By placing this IonQ 256-qubit system at its European headquarters, Horizon Quantum aims to benefit from Ireland’s growing quantum ecosystem, strong university network, and robust talent pool for deep-tech development across the country and the European Union (EU).

Horizon Quantum in a statement said the installation of the system is expected to represent a significant technology milestone for Ireland, strengthening the country's position in frontier quantum computing.

“Expanding our hardware testbed to Ireland with the addition of a frontier system is a significant step forward for both our company in our mission to unlock broad quantum advantage and for the country in strengthening its quantum ecosystem.

“We are excited to extend our testbed capabilities to include a trapped-ion system by deploying this state-of-the-art quantum computer in Dublin,” said Horizon Quantum Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Dr Joe Fitzsimons.

Meanwhile, Ireland's Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke said the decision reinforces Ireland's position at the forefront of advanced technologies and reflects the strength of its growing quantum ecosystem, world-class research base and highly skilled workforce.

IonQ's sixth-generation, chip-based 256-qubit trapped-ion system is expected to be among the world's most advanced commercial quantum computers and could be capable of solving complex computational problems.

By integrating this system with its software infrastructure, Horizon Quantum plans to expand support for trapped-ion systems in its integrated development environment, Triple Alpha, and to enhance the real-time runtime capabilities of its execution stack.

To support the establishment and management of the system, Horizon Quantum plans to expand its Ireland-based science and engineering teams and deepen its engagement with the country's quantum ecosystem.

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Bitget Makes Professional US Stock Market Data Free

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 12 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has introduced free Level 2 market data for US stocks, becoming one of the first trading platforms to offer professional-grade market depth information to eligible users at no additional cost.

Level 2 market data has historically been associated with professional trading desks and institutional participants due to the cost of exchange data licensing. By making these tools available to eligible users at no additional cost, Bitget is lowering one of the longstanding barriers between retail and professional market access, while providing deeper visibility into order flow and liquidity conditions.

The feature provides access to Nasdaq TotalView and Blue Ocean market data feeds, offering up to 40 levels of bid and ask depth, depth charts, and real-time trade information across US pre-market, regular trading hours, after-hours, and overnight sessions. Eligible users who qualify for VIP 1 through trading volume or VIP 3 through asset holdings can access the service free of charge, amounting to annual savings of up to $276 compared with traditional market data subscriptions.

The launch follows the announcement of Bitget's Stocks 2.0, which has expanded access to equities, ETFs, stock perpetuals, tokenized assets, and multi-asset trading tools. As the lines between crypto and traditional markets continue to blur, traders increasingly expect the same level of market intelligence and execution tools regardless of asset class.

“Crypto makes financial opportunities more open and accessible,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. “In traditional markets, data and insights come at a premium. We’re eradicating that by making professional grade stock market data available to our users, who can now access tools that were once limited to a small segment of the market.”

This further expands Bitget's Universal Exchange vision, where crypto assets and tokenized financial instruments live together, operating within a unified trading environment. By combining professional-grade market infrastructure with multi-asset access, Bitget continues building toward a trading experience where users can navigate global markets from a single platform.

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AERIS WINS CONNECTIVITY LEADER AWARD AT AUTOTECH AWARDS 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 (Bernama) -- Aeris, a global leader in wireless management platforms, security services, and connected vehicle programmes, has won the Connectivity Leader Award at the AutoTech Awards 2026.

The award recognises leaders in automotive connectivity and innovation that enhance vehicle integration and the driver experience. Aeris was honoured for advancing connected mobility through its ability to simplify management, enhance security and optimise performance at scale.

As the unifying platform for automotive ecosystems worldwide, Aeris' connectivity management platform (CMP) powers more than 30 automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) through its tier-one mobile network operator (MNO) partners, supporting more than 41 million connected vehicles across 180 countries.

“We are deeply honoured to receive this recognition from AutoTech. The connected vehicle ecosystem is complex. It is challenging to manage a sprawling global fleet across multiple carriers while keeping pace with growing applications and unseen risks.

“Aeris gives auto OEMs a single pane of glass to manage the integration of global connectivity, security, and vehicle services, enhanced with agentic AI, so they can focus on delivering exceptional experiences to their customers,” said its Chief Executive Officer, Aziz Benmalek in a statement.

Aeris said its platform helps OEMs and fleet operators improve operational observability and analytics across the connected vehicle ecosystem, while enabling earlier issue detection and faster response through proactive monitoring, cross-service correlation, over-the-air (OTA) assurance and fleet control strategies.

The platform also strengthens security across connected fleets through zero-trust policy enforcement, delivers connected experiences at scale across automotive Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, and provides next-generation connectivity through 5G Standalone (SA) communications.

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Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web

• Acquisition brings Vite, the world’s leading JavaScript build tool, and its core open source team to Cloudflare
• Cloudflare commits $1 million to an independent Vite ecosystem fund to support open source maintainers and contributors

SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it has acquired VoidZero, the open source-first company behind the next-generation JavaScript tooling ecosystem Vite. The acquisition will unify VoidZero’s high-performance tooling — including the Vite build tool, Vitest test runner, Rust-based Rolldown bundler and Oxc toolchain — natively into the Cloudflare ecosystem. By merging Cloudflare’s global edge network and Workers developer platform with the modern web's industry-standard toolchain, Cloudflare is creating a frictionless, one-click deployment stack from local code straight to Cloudflare’s global network.

Application development is undergoing a fundamental shift. The rise of autonomous AI coding agents has ushered in an era of rapid application scaffolding where speed and local-to-production predictability are paramount. VoidZero’s toolchain, anchored by Vite, has emerged as the shared substrate for the web ecosystem, capturing over 130 million weekly downloads. The Cloudflare Vite plugin has reached 13.9 million weekly downloads — equivalent to more than 10% of Vite’s entire weekly volume — proving that developers are already choosing this combined stack for AI-coded applications.

"The best engineers I know are shipping more code than ever, and writing less of it by hand. AI is doing more of the typing — so everything around it has to keep up,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. "Evan and his team built Vite from scratch with the same philosophy we used to build Cloudflare: strip out the bloat and make it fast. Bringing them on board gives millions of developers, and the AI agents working alongside them, the fastest path from local code to our global network.”

VoidZero’s team of open source creators and Rust optimization specialists, led by widely recognized Vue.js and Vite creator Evan You, will join Cloudflare’s Emerging Technology and Incubation (ETI) organization. The team will continue to advance VoidZero's open source roadmap while accelerating deep integration with the Cloudflare Workers developer platform.

"Our mission at VoidZero has always been to eliminate the fragmentation and performance bottlenecks of the modern web stack," said Evan You, founder and CEO of VoidZero. "Cloudflare shares our obsession with speed and architectural purity. Joining forces allows us to keep the Vite ecosystem neutral, open, and vendor-agnostic, while giving us the resources and global infrastructure to supercharge the developer experience for millions of engineers worldwide."

By integrating VoidZero’s hyper-performant, Rust-based tooling directly into Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform, Cloudflare will unify the entire software development lifecycle. Developers and autonomous AI agents alike will be able to move from an idea to global production instantly via a native, pluggable vite deploy ecosystem. Through this acquisition, Cloudflare plans to drive a project-centric development paradigm, focusing on three core initiatives:
Unify the Developer Pipeline: Align the Cloudflare CLI natively with the seamless Vite workflow developers already love, bringing a frictionless end-to-end experience to every creator.
Enable Intent-Based Infrastructure: Evolve toward a workflow where a single Vite deploy command handles everything. If application logic declares a need for a database or an object store, a Vite application with Cloudflare integration will automatically detect that intent and natively provision Cloudflare resources like D1 or R2 — with no manual dashboard intervention required.
Maintain Open Source Steward Neutrality: Vite, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vitest will remain open source, vendor-agnostic and community-driven. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will remain strictly open source under MIT licenses. Cloudflare is committing $1 million to a new independent Vite ecosystem fund to support community maintainers and contributors who are independent of both VoidZero and Cloudflare.

"At Lovable, we are empowering developers to build and deploy full-stack applications at unprecedented scale. An open and predictable toolchain is absolutely critical to that mission. As agents handle increasingly complex, real-time tasks, they require an underlying architecture that is performant and modular,” said Fabian Hedin, CTO and co-founder of Loveable. “By building our automated pipeline on Vite and leveraging its open ecosystem, we’ve been able to radically accelerate how AI agents generate, compile, and ship code. We have worked closely with the Cloudflare and VoidZero teams, and we’re excited to continue supporting and benefiting from the ecosystem they’ve helped create. Open-source infrastructure like Vite plays a critical role in the future of software development, and we’re encouraged to see its development remain independent and transparent.”

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Azerbaijan’s Bank ABB launches AI Conversational Banking assistants AI-nur and AI-khan

BAKU, Azerbaijan (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bank ABB, one of the leading financial institutions in the South Caucasus, has officially launched its artificial intelligence assistants AI-nur and AI-khan, making them available to all customers following a successful Beta testing phase. The new conversational AI technology represents a major step forward in the bank’s digital transformation and introduces one of the first voice-enabled AI banking solutions in Azerbaijan’s and regional banking sector.

Since becoming available to customers, AI-nur and AI-khan have demonstrated strong adoption and engagement. More than 230k users have already used the service, generating over 2.5 million interactions through the AI-powered banking assistants.

As banking continues to evolve, conversational interfaces powered by AI, including voice, are becoming an integral part of future banking models, enhancing accessibility, speed, and personalization across digital channels.

Developed as part of Bank’s strategy to build the banking ecosystem of the future, AI-nur and AI-khan enable customers to interact with banking services using natural voice commands. Customers can transfer funds between their cards and accounts or send money to others using a mobile phone number. By simply stating the recipient’s name, the AI system identifies the contact and processes the transfer, provided the number is saved in the sender’s phone contacts. Additionally, the assistants can handle essential security functions, such as blocking or reactivating cards, offering a quick response in critical situations.

According to Bank ABB, the launch of AI-nur and AI-khan demonstrates the bank’s commitment to advancing AI-driven digital banking services in Azerbaijan and the wider South Caucasus region. By integrating conversational artificial intelligence into its digital ecosystem, the bank aims to make everyday banking more intuitive, faster, and more convenient for customers.

The number of generative and predictive models applied in various directions has now reached 180, generating more than 35 million AZN in positive financial impact for the bank.

Security remains a top priority in the development of the new AI assistants. All operations performed through AI-nur and AI-khan are conducted within Bank ABB’s secure digital infrastructure, ensuring that customer data and financial transactions are protected according to the highest banking and cybersecurity standards.

Bank ABB plans to continue expanding the capabilities of AI-nur and AI-khan in the near future, introducing additional features that will allow customers to access more banking services through AI-powered interaction.

More information about Bank ABB’s modern products and services is available on the official website, and via Bank ABB’s official social media pages.

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GAMBIT CYBER UNVEILS VIZIER AI FOR AUTONOMOUS CYBERSECURITY OPERATIONS

KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- Gambit Cyber B.V., a Netherlands-headquartered cybersecurity company, has launched Vizier AI, its next-generation Agentic Security Workflow Automation platform.

According to Gambit Cyber in a statement, the platform uses coordinated artificial intelligence (AI) agents to continuously monitor threats, orchestrate incident response, and manage cyber risk without requiring manual intervention from security teams.

“The launch of Vizier AI represents a fundamental shift in how organisations approach cyber defence. We are not simply automating existing workflows; we are deploying a coordinated intelligence layer that thinks, analyses, and acts continuously on behalf of security teams.

“AI agents operating in concert can process signals, correlate threats, and orchestrate responses at a speed and scale that is simply beyond human capacity alone,” said Gambit Cyber Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Anuj Kumar.

The launch addresses a widening gap between the complexity of today’s threat landscape and the shrinking resources available to corporate security operations.

Built as a core component of the KnightGuard platform, Vizier AI acts as an autonomous Security Intelligence Workspace and leverages a coordinated network of autonomous AI agents that continuously monitor threats, analyse security data, orchestrate workflows, and deliver actionable insights for faster and more informed decision-making.

The platform enables organisations to scale security operations through AI-driven automation while maintaining visibility, governance, and control across their exposure management programmes.

Its key capabilities include threat detection through continuous AI-driven attack surface monitoring, workflow automation to reduce manual security tasks, accelerated incident response using autonomous AI agents, and intelligence generation by transforming raw security data into actionable insights.

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