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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has been holding talks with founders working on embodied intelligence and is weighing whether the company should move into robotics, according to a report from Phoenix Tech. People familiar with the matter said two routes are under discussion, with one being a dedicated internal team and the other a set of stakes in companies already working in the field. DeepSeek has not commented.

About 57% of organisations in Southeast Asia are stuck in what Adobe calls the frozen middle, running AI pilots or early deployments without the coordination needed to scale them. For agentic AI, the share is 40%. The figures come from Adobe's 2026 State of AI Readiness Report, built on a survey of 5,633 senior executives across 12 industries and 11 markets, including 461 in Southeast Asia, and conducted by Incisiv for Adobe.

Character.AI has begun a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case in the United States and agreed to sell some of its assets to Walt Disney for $20 million. The filing was made in the bankruptcy court for the District of Delaware and is voluntary, the company said. Character Technologies, which owns the chatbot platform, put its estimated assets and liabilities between $50 million and $100 million in a court filing that also sets out the sale process.