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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

• May 14, 2026 14 May'26

  Singapore unveils space lab to fuel ASEAN space economy

  Supported by Deloitte, the new lab aims to spur adoption of space technologies in non-space sectors, connect space startups with potential investors and drive regional partnerships

• May 14, 2026 14 May'26

  BlackBerry doubles down on secure communications

  Having sold its Cylance endpoint security portfolio to Arctic Wolf, the former smartphone pioneer is doubling down on military-grade encryption and post-quantum cryptography to shield critical infrastructure from AI-driven threats

• May 13, 2026 13 May'26

  Southeast Asia’s space economy set for $100bn lift-off

  From predicting crop diseases to optimising bus routes, the application of AI and cloud technologies to satellite data could add $100bn to the region’s GDP by 2030

• May 12, 2026 12 May'26

  IDCA datacentres report: Global concentration and the Goldilocks zone

  International Data Center Authority report shows capacity concentrated in a few developed nations, while ‘Goldilocks index’ shows which states can benefit from rapid development

• May 12, 2026 12 May'26

  In video games of the future, your AI teammates will actually listen

  Ubisoft executives offer a glimpse into the engineering behind its generative AI middleware, including the use of small language models, prompt optimisation and on-device processing to bring virtual teammates to life

• May 11, 2026 11 May'26

  Inside the global datacentre squeeze

  A projected $800bn datacentre infrastructure investment in APAC alone is clashing with the limits of global power grids, forcing datacentre operators to rethink where and how they build the physical engines of the internet

• May 08, 2026 08 May'26

  ESET: Don’t fear the ‘AI Terminator’, but prepare for agent risks

  While fully autonomous hacking bots remain a distant reality, an ESET expert warns that AI is quietly supercharging phishing schemes and creating new vulnerabilities inside organisations

• May 07, 2026 07 May'26

  Nutanix CEO maps out agentic AI strategy, targets VMware defectors

  Rajiv Ramaswami talks up Nutanix’s agentic AI play, the growing demand for sovereign cloud capabilities, and why decoupling storage from HCI is hastening migrations from VMware

• May 06, 2026 06 May'26

  How Singapore firms are scaling AI initiatives

  At AWS Summit Singapore, Certis and Grab showed how they are embedding AI in their business, such as automating finance operations and deploying robots in public safety and security patrols

• May 06, 2026 06 May'26

  Cloud and data sovereignty caught in a paradox

  We asked the hyperscalers how they would respond to US court-ordered eavesdropping on foreign citizen data – and got responses that highlight a paradoxical situation

• May 05, 2026 05 May'26

  Google’s Agentic Data Cloud to power ‘systems of action’

  As enterprises move from reactive analytics to AI agents, Google Cloud’s data chief details new metadata, cross-cloud and database tools to help them govern and scale AI agents

• May 05, 2026 05 May'26

  CSA: Take AI cyber threats to the boardroom

  Current cyber risk assumptions may no longer be valid given the speed of advanced AI, warns the chief executive of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency

• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  AI is widening the asymmetry between attackers and defenders

  As threat actors leverage AI to launch attacks at machine speed, cyber defenders must adopt an assumed breach mindset and prioritise breach containment

• April 29, 2026 29 Apr'26

  Monday.com targets third wave of AI with OpenClaw service

  The work management software firm’s Globster service brings OpenClaw to consumers and businesses in a bid to democratise access to agentic AI capabilities

• April 28, 2026 28 Apr'26

  WhatsApp’s encryption protects servers but leaves users exposed to client-side attacks

  The use of encryption helps to secure WhatsApp’s infrastructure, but researchers at Black Hat Asia warn platform’s architecture is driving hackers to target user devices directly

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  Agentic AI speeds up mainframe modernisation, but human experts remain key

  Agentic AI tools are helping organisations overcome Cobol skills shortages and untangle legacy infrastructure, but successful modernisation still requires an expert in the loop to manage complexity

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  FairPrice to roll out AI-powered smart carts to more stores

  Shoppers can expect smart carts that slash checkout times to just 36 seconds, while supermarket staff will get an AI sidekick to automate daily operations

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

  With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows

• April 20, 2026 20 Apr'26

  Singapore pushes for global standard to test generative AI

  The proposed standard aims to ensure trustworthy AI by standardising benchmarking and red teaming methodologies, as IMDA’s chief urges faster action on global rules

• April 16, 2026 16 Apr'26

  How the AI boom is reshaping tech cost management

  FinOps practitioners are stepping up to manage AI expenses, optimise token usage and align cost-saving measures with sustainability goals to improve returns from AI investments

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline?

  Looking at datacentre development internationally, we see how the UK faces apparent relative decline, how countries are responding to the AI age, and what MW vs GDP can tell us

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  OCBC rolls out generative AI training for wealth advisors

  First programme of its kind allows wealth advisors to hone their pitches through realistic AI role play, resulting in double the client appointments and a 50% growth in revenue in three months

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  SMRT taps AI and analytics to predict rail faults and speed up maintenance

  The Singapore rail operator has developed an intelligent analytics platform to support predictive maintenance and pinpoint track issues, maximising its three-hour nightly maintenance window

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  In the AI race, a global bank bets on the human touch

  Standard Chartered’s technology and security chief, Alvaro Garrido, says AI will transform finance, but the industry’s biggest vulnerabilities lie outside its own walls

• April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26

  Moscow champions digital sovereignty and AI-driven city management

  By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister

• April 09, 2026 09 Apr'26

  Singapore Cyber Security Agency chief: Cyber stability a necessity, not a luxury

  With state-linked attacks rising and international rules unravelling, Singapore’s cyber security commissioner calls for global cooperation to prevent catastrophic conflict in cyber space

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Optical networks to bridge the AI compute-consumption gap

  With AI spurring gigawatt-scale datacentre builds across APAC, Ciena is deploying ultra-fast, energy-efficient optical networking and AI-driven automation to ensure AI services can reach consumers

• April 07, 2026 07 Apr'26

  How voice AI is transforming customer service

  After years of steering customers away from phone calls to cut costs, businesses are warming to voice AI agents capable of managing thousands of conversations simultaneously and upselling services

• April 06, 2026 06 Apr'26

  Digital Realty CTO on AI tokenomics and datacentre infrastructure

  Chris Sharp talks up the pace of AI silicon innovation, the growth of inferencing workloads, and why boasting about datacentre megawatts misses the point

• April 01, 2026 01 Apr'26

  Microsoft to invest $5.5b in Singapore’s AI and cloud infrastructure

  The tech giant is spending over $5bn through 2029 to bolster its footprint in the city-state while rolling out programmes to equip students, educators and non-profit leaders with AI skills

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  Agoda scales AI strategy, opens new APAC tech hub

  The digital travel platform has set its sights on becoming an AI-powered travel companion as it changes how it builds software and moves its tech workforce into a new facility in Bangkok

• March 29, 2026 29 Mar'26

  Advancing to the next frontier of AI

  As AI agents move faster than software made for human users, both digital tooling and silicon architecture need to be redesigned to reduce latency and power bottlenecks, according to chief scientists of Nvidia and Google

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Why AI agents are one prompt away from ransomware

  As AI adoption advances beyond chatbots, security leaders are up against rogue AI agents mirroring threat actors and a generational skills gap as security operations teams become overly dependent on AI

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Why OpenClaw agents are the next big enterprise challenge

  As users flock to deploy OpenClaw agents for everything from gig work to shopping, IT leaders warn that bringing these autonomous systems into the enterprise will require strict guardrails and a mix of AI models

• March 24, 2026 24 Mar'26

  QuikBot and EFGH bring real-time insurance to physical AI

  The two companies will embed insurance directly into the infrastructure governing autonomous robots, reducing claims processing and creating a trust layer for smart cities

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  CUDA at 20: From billion-dollar gamble to agentic AI

  As Nvidia marks two decades of CUDA, its head of high-performance computing and hyperscale reflects on the platform’s journey, the power of software optimisation, and how the fusion of GPUs and LPUs will shape the future of AI

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade

  Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  Alibaba joins AI agent race with Wukong launch

  Following the viral success of OpenClaw and product launches from Nvidia and Tencent, Alibaba has unveiled an agentic AI platform that integrates with DingTalk to orchestrate business workflows

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  What it takes to succeed with AI

  With research showing the use of AI may temporarily reduce productivity, Cloudera’s Vini Cardoso urges businesses to adopt an organisation-wide platform approach driven by measurable value and trusted data

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Neurons over silicon: Singapore plans first biological datacentre

  DayOne and Cortical Labs are bringing ‘wetware’ computing to the city-state, using living neurons grown from stem cells to support the demand for AI while addressing sustainability concerns

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Enterprises warming to AI PCs amid growing cloud costs

  While global memory shortages will pose a threat to the broader PC market, AI PCs are gaining momentum across Asia as companies look to cut cloud costs, boost productivity and secure sensitive information

• March 04, 2026 04 Mar'26

  Weighing the trade-offs of neoclouds and sovereign clouds

  Neocloud and sovereign cloud providers offer alternatives to hyperscalers for AI infrastructure and data sovereignty, but availability gaps and a lack of managed AI services can pose challenges to enterprise customers

• March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

  Scattered data, cloud transfers creating challenges in enterprise AI

  The cost, speed, and governance of moving petabytes of data across hybrid and multicloud environments is becoming a challenge for enterprises looking to harness the benefits of AI

• March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

  Emerging markets prioritise top-line growth with agentic AI

  While firms in mature markets are using AI agents to automate routine tasks, those in emerging markets where the cost of the technology is higher than that of human labour are favouring revenue-generating use cases

• March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

  AI transformation must start at the top, but boards remain divided

  While C-suite interest in AI has shifted from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’, Diligent CEO Brian Stafford warns that true enterprise transformation requires hands-on leadership from the board

• February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

  CrowdStrike touts agentic SOC to tackle security woes

  By embedding AI agents across its platform, CrowdStrike is looking to help security teams automate repetitive security tasks, enabling them to focus on complex and stealthier threats that could slip under the radar

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  NUHS and GSMA Foundry team up on 5G and AI in healthcare

  Singapore’s National University Health System is working with GSMA Foundry, Ericsson and Singtel to drive the use of 5G-enabled robotics, ambient AI and holographic surgery in healthcare

• February 24, 2026 24 Feb'26

  Singtel, Nvidia to help scale enterprise AI deployments

  Singtel and Nvidia have teamed up on a multimillion-dollar facility to help organisations scale enterprise AI deployments, tackle extreme datacentre power densities, and prepare for the era of embodied AI

• February 23, 2026 23 Feb'26

  Why crypto agility is key to quantum readiness

  With quantum computing threatening current encryption standards, experts call for organisations to achieve crypto agility by managing the lifecycle of certificates and cryptographic keys through automation