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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • December 22, 2025 22 Dec'25

    Top 10 ASEAN stories of 2025

    Southeast Asia’s 2025 tech landscape saw financial institutions, healthcare researchers and government agencies moving decisively from technology pilots to large-scale AI deployments and infrastructure modernisation

  • December 16, 2025 16 Dec'25

    Singlife taps Salesforce Agentforce to drive agentic AI strategy

    The Singapore insurer has begun rolling out Salesforce Agentforce to assist customer service teams, with plans to extend the use of the technology to financial advisers and direct customer interactions

  • December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

    Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026

    Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends

  • December 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

    Tricentis looks to agentic AI as firms risk losses from untested code

    With 42% growth in the Asia-Pacific region, the software testing firm is pushing autonomous AI agents to help enterprises balance the pressure for speed against the high cost of software failures

  • November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

    AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

    AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

  • November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

    AI Singapore taps Alibaba Cloud to power Sea-Lion model

    The fourth iteration of the regional LLM leverages Alibaba’s Qwen foundation model to improve multilingual accuracy and performance on consumer-grade hardware

  • November 25, 2025 25 Nov'25

    Interview: IBM on breaking hyperscaler lock-in

    Big Blue’s general manager for Asia-Pacific Hans Dekkers talks up why APAC enterprises are rethinking their reliance on public cloud, the resurgence of the mainframe via LinuxOne, and how it used its own AI tools to cut internal costs

  • November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

    Cisco: Network architectures must be rebuilt for agentic AI

    Rising traffic volumes, AI-powered security threats and the move to agentic workflows will require organisations to modernise their network infrastructure

  • November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

    Microsoft unveils AI agents to automate security operations

    Tech giant bakes AI agents into its security products to democratise advanced security capabilities, automate repetitive tasks and provide context-aware intelligence for cyber defenders

  • November 18, 2025 18 Nov'25

    Fintech leaders call for united front against AI-driven cyber crime

    As AI makes financial scams more personalised and convincing, fintech experts have called for deeper collaboration and the use of behavioural analytics and other technologies to protect consumers

  • November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

    Singapore Sports Hub to get Wi-Fi 7 network

    The upgrade will provide faster, more reliable connections for visitors during concerts and sporting events, and will help manage crowds and improve services

  • November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

    Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026

    Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history

  • November 12, 2025 12 Nov'25

    How Japanese banking giant MUFG is using AI

    Japan’s largest bank aims to transform into an AI-native company by using agentic AI, changing how it handles data, and inking key partnerships with OpenAI and Sakana AI

  • November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

    Most Singapore SMEs yet to start their sustainability journey

    Lack of funds, skills and time are the barriers faced by Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises in the green transition, according to a study by Gprnt and PwC

  • November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

    New high-accuracy GPS aims to end navigation woes

    Grab and its tech partners are trialling a system that promises lane-level accuracy, a first for ride-hailing in Southeast Asia

  • November 11, 2025 11 Nov'25

    Google: Don’t get distracted by AI, focus on real cyber threats

    While hackers are using artificial intelligence to optimise attacks, many of the most damaging breaches still rely on old-school methods, says a top security analyst from Google

  • November 10, 2025 10 Nov'25

    DBS enhances GenAI chatbot for business clients

    The bank’s virtual assistant, DBS Joy, has been enhanced with generative AI capabilities to provide business customers with faster and better answers to their queries

  • November 07, 2025 07 Nov'25

    How Palo Alto Networks is leveraging AI

    Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel explains how the company is using AI to sieve through 90 billion security events a day, and why security and user experience are two sides of the same coin

  • November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

    Darktrace: Developer tools under constant attack

    Attackers are using automated tools to target development environments within seconds of them going live, warns Darktrace’s global field chief information security officer

  • November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

    Most developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools

    Study finds that 95% of developers in Southeast Asia and India use AI tools, but many of their employers lack formal AI policies, leaving them to forge their own paths in upskilling and governance

  • November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

    Ryt Bank taps agentic AI for conversational banking

    Malaysia’s Ryt Bank is using its own LLM and agentic AI framework to allow customers to perform banking transactions in natural language, replacing traditional menus and buttons

  • November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

    How Zoom is approaching agentic AI

    Zoom CTO Xuedong Huang explains how AI Companion 3.0’s agentic AI capabilities can help turn conversations into completed actions using long-term memory and deep reasoning

  • October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

    Yubico bolsters APAC presence, touts device subscriptions

    Yubico is hiring local teams in Singapore and pitching its subscription service to help enterprises secure employee access to corporate networks and applications

  • October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

    Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount

    The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response

  • October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

    Monday.com eyes ASEAN growth with Singapore hub

    The work management specialist’s Collier Quay office will serve as its hub for Southeast Asia as it looks to build deeper relationships with a growing customer base

  • October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

    Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey

    Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud

  • October 27, 2025 27 Oct'25

    BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration

    Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia

  • October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

    AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

    Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

  • October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

    Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era

    Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption

  • October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

    Building security and trust in AI agents

    AI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say

  • October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

    New cyber resilience centre to help SMEs fend off cyber threats

    Spearheaded by the Singapore Business Federation, the cyber resilience centre will equip SMEs in the city-state with cyber security capabilities to mitigate and recover from cyber attacks

  • October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

    AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO

    To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns

  • October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

    F5 admits nation-state actor stole BIG-IP source code

    F5 discloses that a nation-state actor has stolen source code and unpatched vulnerability data for its widely used BIG-IP products, raising supply chain security concerns across the industry

  • October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

    Obsession with cyber breach notification fuelling costly mistakes

    The race to meet security breach notification deadlines is leading to staff burnout, destroyed evidence and a culture of blame, warns a Trend Micro risk and security strategist

  • October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

    Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI

    The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson

  • October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

    Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric

    Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres

  • October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

    Thales: Trust in AI for critical systems needs to be engineered

    Confidence in artificial intelligence capabilities that power critical systems must go beyond words and be built on a hybrid model that combines data with physics and logic to prove reliability, according to Thales’s chief scientist

  • October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

    Infor debuts AI agents to tackle industry-specific tasks

    Infor unveils role-based AI agents to automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive, as well as a new cloud migration programme to ease the transition to cloud

  • October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

    Meta to boost APAC connectivity with subsea cable

    The 8,000km Candle subsea cable is expected to bolster internet capacity for more than a billion people as tech giants continue to invest in digital infrastructure across the region

  • October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

    FairPrice deploys autonomous vehicles for supply chain operations

    The supermarket giant has teamed up with tech firm Zelos to deploy a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles to bolster supply chain efficiency and cut carbon emissions

  • October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

    SAP: AI is commoditising business applications

    Business applications are at risk of being commoditised with artificial intelligence increasingly becoming the new interface that lets businesses execute tasks across different systems, according to a senior SAP leader

  • October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

    Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment

    Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty

  • October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

    Why AI agent projects are stalling in production

    A Confluent technology strategist explains why multi-agent workflows become brittle monoliths and how access to real-time, streaming data is key to the success of agentic AI deployments

  • October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

    How AI is driving a rethink of storage architecture

    Pure Storage’s head of AI infrastructure, Par Botes, argues that the growing use of artificial intelligence will require storage systems with audit trails and versioning to ensure trust and traceability