Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents

An Asia-focused roundup highlights Hyderabad’s police chief advocating digital IDs and logging for AI agents; China tightening crypto rules by banning most tokenization uses and yuan-pegged stablecoins; an Australian tribunal partly siding with retailer Bunnings over in-store facial recognition while noting privacy principle breaches; reports of talks to link Ant Group’s Alipay with India’s UPI; NTU Singapore unveiling a local full-size eVTOL demonstrator; and KKR with Singtel moving to acquire full control of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres.