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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Bitget Rolls Out Stocks 2.0, Linking Tokenized Equities to Real U.S. Market Liquidity

VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 5 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world's leading Universal Exchange (UEX), has announced the launch of Bitget Stocks 2.0, an upgraded tokenized stock spot product designed to improve liquidity, asset transparency, and capital efficiency for tokenized equity trading.

The product is issued by Reality, a licensed RWA issuance platform, powered by Bitget's strategic support, trading access, and asset security within its ecosystem.

The upgrade is built around three product improvements: deeper stock market liquidity, 1:1 economic mapping of the underlying stock asset, and broader use of stock tokens within Bitget's margin, strategy, and yield ecosystem. Stock 2.0 is designed to connect tokenized stock trading with real equity market liquidity from global channels. This gives users a stock spot trading experience with deeper order books, lower trading friction, and faster execution directly inside the Bitget app.

The product also supports 1:1 asset mapping for eligible stock tokens. With direct stablecoin trading using USDT. Cash dividends are also converted into USDT and credited to users' accounts. Stock dividends are reflected in user balances, while corporate actions such as stock splits and reverse splits are mapped to token positions to keep economic exposure aligned with the underlying stock.

Stock 2.0 also expands the role of tokenized equities inside Bitget's ecosystem. Eligible stock tokens can be used within unified account and margin systems, and can be connected to supported tools such as spot grid, futures grid, copy trading, and selected yield products. This gives users more ways to manage capital while maintaining exposure to worldwide equity assets.

"Tokenized equities are the bridge crypto is building between global markets," said Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget. "By 2030, we could see over 10% of global financial assets to be tokenized, which will be fueled by platforms built by access, depth, and compliance. As of today, we have successfully shipped the requirements being built for that future."

As compared to existing RWA products on platforms Bitget offers the most competitive fees in the market. The base rate is 0.1%, while the Maker/Taker fees is the same as VIP, a fixed fee of 0.05% with BGB offers and zero friction costs making it the most cost-effective route to trade stocks.

The launch builds on Bitget's early lead in tokenized equity trading, from tokenized stocks and ETFs to stock futures, and pre-IPO.

Bitget ranks amongst the first major crypto exchanges to support tokenized equities, in January 2026, the platform's cumulative tokenized stock spot volume had surpassed $1 billion, while it accounted for approximately 89% of Ondo-issued tokenized stock trading volume in December 2025. Its stock futures also crossed $10 billion in cumulative trading volume, making it a pioneer in the Universal Exchange model.

The first batch of Bitget Stocks 2.0 includes 36 newly listed stock-linked assets, covering major equities and ETFs such as Apple, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Alphabet, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and QQQ. Availability is subject to user jurisdiction and applicable eligibility requirements.

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Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

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Shipping industry expo in China's Tianjin highlights AI opportunities

TIANJIN, China, June 5 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 4th Tianjin International Shipping Industry Expo (TISIE) opened in north China's Tianjin Municipality on June 2, was organized by Zhenwei International Exhibition Group, showcasing growing AI opportunities in the shipping industry.
Themed shipping to the world and navigating towards the future with AI leading new opportunities for the development of ports and shipping, the four-day expo covered fields such as green shipping, maritime equipment, logistics services and more. It aimed to promote global shipping cooperation, industry investment, and trade exchange.

Xu Kai, chief information officer of Shanghai International Shipping Institute, said that China has built the world's largest network of automated container terminals, with notable breakthroughs in unmanned shore cranes, intelligent guided vehicles and automated yards.

"Terminal equipment should not only operate efficiently but also perform regional dynamic optimization based on real-time fluctuations in vessel arrivals, sudden weather changes and instantaneous cargo flow surges," Xu said. "This requires AI to evolve from executing commands to autonomous reasoning, and from single-machine intelligence to group collaboration."

Waqas Samad, CEO of Lloyd's List Intelligence, said that with the world's largest fleet, and as the world's biggest shipbuilder and producer of shipping containers, China plays a key role in today's shipping landscape. But more importantly, China represents something significant about the future of shipping, not just scale and infrastructure, but the combination of connectivity, technology and intelligence.

"AI will reshape our industry in practical and powerful ways," said Thomas Sim, President of the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations.

He noted that AI should empower freight forwarders, not replace their professional judgment; enhance human capability, not remove accountability; and strengthen the role of freight forwarders as trusted logistics architects, not reduce them to platform users.

Feng Boming, vice president of China Merchants Group Limited, said that AI was evolving from a conversational assistant that supports decision-making and improves efficiency to an action-oriented intelligent agent capable of autonomously understanding intentions, invoking tools and executing specific tasks.

"However, greater autonomy also entails greater security responsibilities," Feng said. "We must clearly recognize that behind AI's empowerment of thousands of industries, various new types of security risks and governance challenges continue to emerge, posing entirely new challenges to the orderly development of the industry and the safe operation of the sector."

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SKHTU Obtains US SEC License, Ushering in a New Era of Crypto Compliance

DENVER, June 3 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As global crypto market regulatory systems become increasingly sophisticated, compliance has become an inevitable trend for trading platform development. SKHTU Exchange recently announced its official acquisition of an operating license from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), making it one of the few compliant trading platforms meeting US securities regulatory standards. This milestone marks a significant breakthrough in the SKHTU compliance framework and lays a solid foundation for its global strategy.

The SEC, as the most authoritative financial regulator worldwide, sets licensing standards covering asset custody, investor protection, information disclosure, and anti-money laundering (AML), among other stringent requirements. Obtaining this certification means the platform must achieve the same standards as traditional securities markets in operational transparency, fund security, and compliance governance.

With the SEC license, SKHTU Exchange can provide legitimate trading services in the US and other regulated markets, covering spot, derivatives, asset management, and RWA (real-world asset) business areas. This gives the platform higher market access qualifications and provides institutional clients and multinational investors with a secure, regulation-compliant investment environment.

The SKHTU Exchange compliance team stated: “Obtaining the SEC license is not only a breakthrough in compliance, but also represents our long-term commitment to global users. Regulatory involvement is not a restriction, but the starting point for trust. We aim to provide reliable financial services for investors with a higher-standard regulatory framework.”

Industry experts believe that the SEC license is a key sign of crypto trading platforms entering the institutional stage, enabling platforms to play a deeper role in capital markets and providing a legal foundation for RWA tokenization, compliant issuance of financial derivatives, and cross-border asset allocation. As global regulatory consensus forms, platforms with SEC qualifications will have significant advantages in future market competition.

This milestone symbolizes a critical leap in the compliance landscape of SKHTU Exchange. From the crypto ecosystem to traditional finance, SKHTU uses compliance as a bridge to build safe and sustainable digital financial infrastructure, offering global users a more robust investment environment.

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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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ARGOSVISION SHOWCASES 3D VISION SYSTEM AT ECHELON SINGAPORE 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- ArgosVision, a South Korean robotics vision startup, has announced its participation at Echelon Singapore 2026 on June 3 to 4, showcasing its panoramic 3D vision system, ArgosVue, and exploring collaboration opportunities with partners in the intelligent robotics industry.

ArgosVue is a next-generation 3D vision system designed to provide robots with a human-like wide field of view for improved spatial awareness and human interaction. The system offers a 200-degree horizontal and 140-degree vertical field of view, delivering twice the coverage of conventional 3D vision sensors.

Its Chief Executive Officer, Ki-Yeong Park said ArgosVue was inspired by the concept of giving robots human-like vision, making it suitable for physical AI applications, particularly in data collection and imitation learning.

ArgosVision in a statement said the expanded field of view enables robots to perceive surrounding obstacles as well as floor and terrain conditions simultaneously, supporting navigation in unstructured and dynamic environments.

Even when a person is positioned as close as 50 centimetres from the robot, the individual’s full body remains within the sensor’s view, while the system can also detect people approaching from side angles rather than only from the front.

By offering a panoramic, human-level perspective, ArgosVue supports more complete datasets and smoother integration into robot learning pipelines.

During the event, ArgosVision will conduct live demonstrations of ArgosVue and engage with robotics companies, potential partners, and customers across Singapore and Southeast Asia.

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EXPEREO REPORT: FIRMS RUSH INTO AI INVESTMENT AMID ROI CONCERNS

KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- Expereo, a managed Network as a Service provider, stated that enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) spending is rising rapidly as organisations race to deploy the technology faster than they can assess its effectiveness.

According to the latest IDC InfoBrief commissioned by Expereo, about 70 per cent of organisations are investing in AI, driven by its potential and concerns about falling behind competitors, although many continue to lag in disciplined return on investment (ROI) evaluation.

In a statement, Expereo said one in five organisations (20 per cent) admitted they were investing aggressively in AI with limited evaluation, largely due to fears of being left behind.

Based on a survey of 800 technology leaders across Europe, the United States and Asia Pacific (APAC), the report found that AI has become one of the world's top technology investment priorities, with 51 per cent of organisations saying they plan to prioritise AI or machine learning over the next 12 months.

However, returns have yet to match expectations. Only 19 per cent of organisations surveyed said their AI implementations had exceeded expectations, while just five per cent reported significantly exceeding them.

The most frequently cited reasons for underperformance were inadequate or poor-quality training data (51 per cent), higher-than-expected costs or failure to achieve ROI (47 per cent), and AI systems not performing as expected (46 per cent).

The report also highlighted a network and infrastructure readiness gap. Among organisations whose AI implementations failed to meet expectations, 26 per cent cited inadequate network or connectivity performance as a contributing factor. Looking ahead, 54 per cent said they would require more flexible and scalable networks to thrive in an AI-driven environment.

The pressure to invest is most pronounced in APAC, where 37 per cent of organisations admitted investing aggressively in AI due to fears of being left behind, nearly double the global average and significantly higher than the United States (10 per cent) and Europe (13 per cent).

APAC also leads in AI adoption, with 35 per cent of organisations reporting extensive AI use across their operations, compared with a global average of 25 per cent.

The survey also found growing concerns over the long-term risks of AI investment. Some 54 per cent of technology leaders cited new security risks as a significant future threat, while 39 per cent expressed concern about losing visibility over AI-related costs and ROI once the technology becomes embedded across the business.

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INSTRUQT REPORT FINDS 92 PCT FACE DEVELOPER ADOPTION CHALLENGES

KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 (Bernama) -- Instruqt has released its annual report, The State of Developer Adoption, revealing that 92 per cent of respondents face at least one significant developer adoption challenge.

According to Instruqt in a statement, the most cited causes are misalignment across teams (27 per cent), technology complexity (26 per cent), and the difficulty of keeping content accurate as products ship weekly (25 per cent).

The report is the first independent benchmark examining how marketing, sales and education teams are responding to the widening gap between the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) feature releases and the pace at which customers can adopt them.

Based on a SlashData 2026 survey involving 424 marketing, sales and developer education practitioners at North American software companies, the report found that organisations using hands-on learning experiences were approximately 50 per cent more likely to report developers reaching productivity within two months than those that did not.

The findings also point to a structural shift in how business-to-business (B2B) software companies need to operate as AI adoption accelerates.

Other notable findings include developer communities remaining the most underutilised adoption lever, high-impact pre-sales experiences being underused, differing definitions of successful hands-on experiences across teams, and growing AI adoption despite declining confidence in some applications.

For developer-focused software companies, the report suggests that customer adoption is becoming an increasingly important determinant of growth as innovation cycles accelerate.

As part of broader adoption strategies, many fast-growing software companies have invested heavily in hands-on education, self-paced labs, interactive product experiences and developer enablement programmes.

Earlier this month, Google Cloud Security selected Instruqt to launch its Agentic SOC experience at Google Cloud Next 2026, training 50 practitioners in a single workshop with a dedicated Vertex AI environment for each participant.

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Bitdeer Launches SEALMINER DL1 Hydro Achieving 52.5 GH/s and 149 J/GH Power Efficiency

SINGAPORE, June 3 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR) (“Bitdeer” or the “Company”), a world-leading technology company for AI and Bitcoin mining infrastructure, today announced the launch of its latest hydro-cooling mining machine, the SEALMINER DL1 Hydro. Designed for Scrypt algorithm mining, the DL1 Hydro integrates Bitdeer’s proprietary ASIC technology with a hydro-cooling thermal management system.

The SEALMINER DL1 Hydro is engineered to address hashrate density and energy consumption requirements for industrial-scale operations. By utilizing a hydro-cooling architecture, the machine is designed to maintain operational stability while managing the thermal demands of high-density data center environments.

Key Specifications of the SEALMINER DL1 Hydro*:Hash Rate: 52.5 GH/s
Power Efficiency: 149 J/GH
Power Consumption: 7,823 W
Supported Coins: Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Bellscoin (BELLS), Junkcoin (JKC), Luckycoin (LKY), and Pepecoin (PEP)

The DL1 Hydro features a standardized 2U form factor and a net weight of 21kg. This compact design facilitates optimal rack space utilization and streamlines installation in professional mining facilities. In addition to its compact form factor, the machine offers flexible performance modes to accommodate fluctuating power costs and network conditions.

In addition to the standard configuration, its proprietary High Hashrate Mode reaches an output of up to 55 GH/s at 157 J/GH for scenarios requiring enhanced performance, while the Low Power Mode prioritizes energy efficiency, delivering 42.5 GH/s at 132 J/GH to allow for precise operational optimization based on specific requirements.

The launch of the SEALMINER DL1 Hydro reinforces the focus on improving operational stability and hashrate density through hydro-cooling technology. Bitdeer will continue to uphold its principles of “Innovation, Efficiency, and Stability”, delivering high-quality and reliable products and services to miners worldwide.

*Note: Product performance may vary by ±5% in hashrate and power efficiency, and by ±10% in power consumption. Final specifications are based on delivered units.

About Bitdeer Technologies Group

Bitdeer is a world-leading technology company for AI and Bitcoin mining infrastructure. Bitdeer is committed to providing comprehensive Bitcoin mining solutions for its customers and building AI computational infrastructure to support the AI revolution. Bitdeer handles complex processes involved in computing such as equipment procurement, transport logistics, data center design and construction, equipment management, and daily operations. Bitdeer also offers advanced cloud capabilities to customers with high demand for artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, Bitdeer has deployed data centers across multiple countries, including the United States, Norway, Bhutan, and Ethiopia.

About SEALMINER

SEALMINER, a pioneering brand of mining machines under Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), specializes in offering efficient and sustainable mining solutions. SEALMINER integrates Bitdeer's self-developed SEAL series of mining chips manufactured using advanced process nodes. By continuously improving power efficiency ratios, SEALMINER is dedicated to providing innovative, efficient, and reliable products and services to customers worldwide. To learn more, visit https://www.bitdeer.com/ or follow Bitdeer on X @Bitdeer and LinkedIn @Bitdeer.

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VCI Global’s V Gallant Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Rights Platform Covering 241,000 Hectares of Indonesian Forestry Assets to Accelerate AI, Carbon Credit and RWA Ecosystem Strategy

Forestry Platform May Potentially Support Future Generation of Millions of Carbon Credits Over Project Lifecycle as AI, Energy, and Sustainability Economies Continue to Converge

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 3 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VCI Global Limited (NASDAQ: VCIG) (“VCI Global” or the “Company”), through its wholly owned technology and infrastructure subsidiary V Gallant Limited (“V Gallant”), today announced that V Gallant has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling stake in PT Fine Carbon Credit Indonesia (“FCCI”), an Indonesian carbon asset platform associated with approximately 241,000 hectares of forestry areas across four project sites in Indonesia.

The acquisition expands VCI Global’s AI infrastructure, carbon credit and real-world asset (RWA) ecosystem strategy, further positioning the Company at the convergence of digital infrastructure, sustainability-linked assets and tokenized real-world asset ecosystems.

Management believes the forestry platform may support the future issuance of millions of carbon credits over the project lifecycle, subject to certification, verification methodologies, regulatory approvals and commercialization processes. Voluntary carbon credit prices have recently ranged from approximately US$10 to over US$50 per credit depending on project quality, certification standards and market demand.

VCI Global believes the platform may create strategic synergies across its expanding AI infrastructure, digital infrastructure and RWA ecosystem initiatives, including carbon-linked environmental assets and gold-linked projects. The Company intends to evaluate phased certification, verification and commercialization pathways for the forestry assets in alignment with international carbon market standards.

Management reiterated that VCI Global’s operating model is focused on building scalable platforms, accelerating ecosystem growth and pursuing strategic monetization opportunities, including spin-offs, infrastructure partnerships, strategic transactions and capital market initiatives. The Company currently expects at least one strategic ecosystem spin-off initiative to advance this year as part of its broader platform monetization strategy.

VCI Global believes carbon-linked environmental assets may become an increasingly important component within future AI infrastructure ecosystems as global digital expansion drives greater focus on sustainability, energy efficiency and long-term carbon management.

“Tesla was among the early pioneers demonstrating how carbon credit ecosystems could complement high-growth technology and energy businesses. We believe a similar convergence is taking shape today across the AI infrastructure landscape,” said management of VCIG.

“Global AI infrastructure expansion is accelerating demand for sustainable and carbon-conscious digital ecosystems. We believe carbon-linked environmental assets will become an increasingly strategic component within next-generation AI infrastructure and digitally enabled RWA ecosystems,” said Audrey Liu, Chief Executive Officer of V Gallant Limited.

“With approximately 241,000 hectares of forestry assets across Indonesia, this platform strengthens our long-term AI infrastructure, carbon credit and RWA ecosystem strategy while supporting regional sustainability initiatives and the preservation of critical rainforest ecosystems.”

VCI Global believes the transaction further strengthens its long-term positioning within the emerging convergence of AI infrastructure, sustainability-linked assets and digitally enabled RWA ecosystems.

Under the definitive agreement, the transaction consideration will be satisfied through the issuance of V Gallant Class A and Class B Shares, subject to customary closing conditions, milestone-based verification procedures and shareholder protection mechanisms.

The Company will continue conducting technical, legal, and operational due diligence prior to final completion of the transaction and will provide further updates as material developments occur.

About V Gallant Limited

V Gallant Limited is a subsidiary of VCI Global Limited (NASDAQ: VCIG), is a Malaysian-based provider of AI infrastructure, GPU-as-a-Service, and cybersecurity solutions. As an integrated artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and solutions company, V Gallant is dedicated to making advanced AI usable, scalable, and accessible for individuals, startups, and enterprises. At the heart of its mission is lowering technical and cost barriers that hinder broad AI adoption and deployment.

The company's ecosystem combines privacy-first analytics with flexible compute resources and hands-on engineering services. Key offerings include Intelli-X, a scalable analytics and intelligent insights platform; Compute-X, which delivers pre-configured GPU servers with flexible rent-to-own options; and the GPU Lounge, a collaborative workspace providing on-demand access to cutting-edge compute infrastructure. In addition, V Gallant's in-house consultancy team partners with clients to design, develop, and deploy tailored AI solutions backed by local engineering support.

Serving business and community needs across Malaysia and beyond, V Gallant democratises AI adoption through integrated infrastructure, shared resources, and innovative solutions that scale with organisational ambitions.

For more information, kindly visit: https://vgallant.ai/

About VCI Global Limited

VCI Global Limited (NASDAQ: VCIG) is an AI-native operating platform designed to scale and optimize businesses through centralized intelligence, data, and capital discipline.

The Company operates a platform-based model in which subsidiaries, affiliates, and portfolio companies plug into VCI Global’s centralized AI, data, governance, and capital allocation systems, enabling faster execution, improved capital efficiency, and scalable growth across multiple industries.

VCI Global’s platform centralizes AI-enabled execution, standardized KPI frameworks, financial and governance controls, and strategic capital allocation, while operating businesses focus on revenue generation, customer relationships, and local execution.

The Company maintains exposure across advisory, AI, and digital infrastructure, digital assets, energy, automotive, and consumer sectors, and continuously evaluates opportunities to scale, spin off, divest, or discontinue businesses based on performance, scalability, and return on capital.

VCI Global’s platform-centric approach is designed to enhance productivity, improve IPO readiness, and unlock long-term value through disciplined growth and selective capital deployment.

For more information on the Company, please log on to https://v-capital.co/.

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TOSHIBA LAUNCHES MICROCONTROLLERS FOR CONSUMER, INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS

KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 (Bernama) -- Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba) has announced TXZ+ Family Entry‑Class M4H Group, standard microcontrollers featuring an Arm Cortex‑M4 core with a floating-point unit (FPU).

The new microcontrollers are designed for small-scale system control in consumer products and industrial equipment such as air conditioners, washing machines, multifunction printers and factory automation systems, with engineering samples now available.

Microcontrollers used in system control must deliver enhanced real-time performance and stability, ease of design, long-term operational versatility, and flexibility for derivative product development.

Toshiba in a statement said it has developed the TXZ+ Family Entry-Class M4H Group to address these requirements, with an emphasis on versatility.

The devices feature an Arm Cortex-M4 core with FPU and a maximum operating frequency of 120 megahertz (MHz), delivering the computing performance required for system control applications including control logic, interface processing and timing control.

The M4H Group supports a supply voltage range of 2.7 volts (V) to 5.5V and integrates a high-speed oscillator with about one per cent accuracy, helping to reduce external components and improve design flexibility. This makes them suitable for consumer and industrial equipment operating on 5V power supplies.

Toshiba supports device evaluation through engineering samples and a development environment, including starter kits, sample software, CMSIS-compliant drivers and IDE support, enabling a smooth transition from evaluation to application development.

The company said it will continue to expand its microcontroller lineup to meet diverse application requirements.

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INSTRUQT POWERS LARGE-SCALE AGENTIC AI TRAINING AT GOOGLE NEXT 2026

KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 (Bernama) -- Instruqt, the hands-on product experience platform, announced that Google Cloud Security used its platform to train more than 150 practitioners on Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities during Google Next 2026.

The session, branded the Agentic SOC Experience, was described as one of the largest hands-on Agentic AI training workshops held at a major industry conference this year, according to Instruqt in a statement.

Using Instruqt’s platform, participants created dedicated Google Cloud Vertex AI environments, enabling them to build and test AI agents in isolated sandbox settings instead of relying on slide-based demonstrations.

Instruqt Vice President of Marketing, Tyler Crumpler said companies developing AI products must focus on enabling customers to use the technologies effectively through real-world environments and practical applications.

Meanwhile, Google Cloud Security pre-sales engineer, Keith Manville said the platform enabled participants to gain practical understanding of agentic AI tools and workflows through interactive learning.

The initiative reflects broader industry efforts to narrow the gap between AI product launches and customer adoption, as enterprises seek more practical and scalable training methods.

Citing the 2026 State of Developer Adoption Report by SlashData, the company said 92 per cent of practitioners face at least one major adoption challenge, including technology complexity, team misalignment and outdated content.

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ITC Infotech, InsureMO Form Alliance To Drive Agentic AI Modernisation In Insurance

KUALA LUMPUR, May 19 (Bernama) -- ITC Infotech, a global technology services and solutions provider, and InsureMO have formed a strategic alliance to help insurers accelerate modernisation through agentic artificial intelligence (AI), initially targeting markets in the Middle East, Africa and India.

The partnership combines ITC Infotech’s K-Fabric agentic AI framework with InsureMO’s insurance infrastructure platform, which comprises more than 2,500 application programming interfaces (APIs) covering policy, claims, underwriting, distribution and product configuration.

ITC Infotech Chief Executive Officer, Manas Chakraborty in a statement said insurers in high-growth markets are seeking faster transformation with lower risk and cost.

Meanwhile, InsureMO Chief Revenue Officer, Rajat Sharma said the partnership would provide insurers with a pathway from AI strategy to production deployment without disrupting existing systems.

The alliance is aimed at helping insurers modernise operations and launch new products more quickly without replacing existing core systems. InsureMO’s API layer will operate alongside legacy systems, while ITC Infotech’s AI agents automate processes traditionally requiring extensive manual configuration and integration work.

Under the collaboration, the firms will jointly develop AI-driven insurance solutions focused on intelligent underwriting, automated product configuration and claims workflow automation.

ITC Infotech will also establish a certified InsureMO practice, with engineers trained on InsureMO’s platform architecture and API framework, while its Digital and AI Experience Centres in Bengaluru and Kolkata, together with its AI Studio in Pune, will serve as co-innovation hubs for development and client validation.

The alliance takes immediate effect, with joint go-to-market activities planned across the Middle East, India and Africa in 2026.

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