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Information technology (IT) in ASEAN

  • January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

    Singapore and Japan team up on quantum computing

    The two countries will work together to bridge the gap between quantum research and real-world commercialisation, marking Singapore’s first government-to-government pact dedicated to the technology

  • January 07, 2026 07 Jan'26

    India and Singapore outpace global peers in agentic AI adoption

    Research from Thoughtworks reveals that while 77% of global businesses are focused on generating revenue from AI initiatives, Asian markets are leading the charge in agentic AI adoption, job creation and executive confidence

  • January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

    Lenovo taps AI and digital twins to power World Cup 2026

    Technology partner for upcoming football tournament has built an artificial intelligence knowledge assistant for coaches, digital avatars to assist VAR decisions, and smart infrastructure for venue management

  • January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

    Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin architecture to power AI agents

    The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving

  • January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

    Global cloud infrastructure spending hits $102.6bn in Q3 2025

    The cloud infrastructure market grew 25% year on year, driven by enterprises moving from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, according to research from Omdia

  • January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

    Singtel trials 50Gbps fibre to support future AI and cloud workloads

    Singtel kicks off technical pilot for ultra-high-speed broadband, targeting the bandwidth requirements of immersive media, remote enterprise workflows and AI-driven systems

  • 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

  • December 08, 2025 08 Dec'25

    Amazon CTO on the dawn of the renaissance developer

    While AI is commoditising programming, it is creating a demand for modern polymath engineers who understand systems, business context and the human condition, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

  • December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

    AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent

    At AWS re:Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics

  • December 02, 2025 02 Dec'25

    ASEAN enterprises moving from ‘AI-first’ to ‘AI-native’

    Organisations across Southeast Asia are reimagining business processes, going beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption, according to AWS’s head of the region

  • November 28, 2025 28 Nov'25

    Sea-Lion powering AI tools for migrant workers, local businesses

    The inaugural Sea-Lion summit showcased real-world applications of Southeast Asia’s first homegrown large language model, which now supports multimodal inputs and can run on a standard laptop

  • November 27, 2025 27 Nov'25

    Google Cloud launches ‘PanyaThAI’ to spur AI adoption in Thailand

    The cloud supplier is offering training and its AI technology stack to unlock an estimated 730bn baht in economic value for Thai businesses such as Thai Wacoal and SE-Education

  • November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

    Organisations facing sustainability challenge amid AI ambitions

    Cisco and NTT Data executives warn that while business leaders drive AI adoption, both legacy infrastructure and rising energy costs are creating a sustainability bottleneck that requires urgent attention

  • 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