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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

  • January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

    AI to handle four in 10 customer queries in Singapore by 2027

    As companies turn to AI agents to solve manpower constraints, more than nine in 10 APAC consumers say they want clear explanations for AI-driven decisions

  • January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

    Woolworths to power Olive digital assistant with agentic AI

    The Australian retail giant is the first in the Asia-Pacific region to use Google’s Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience to turn its chatbot into a proactive shopping partner

  • 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 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

    Top 10 India stories of 2025

    From infrastructure expansion and sovereign AI innovation to regulatory maturity, Computer Weekly recaps the key developments that kept CIOs and technology suppliers across India busy in 2025

  • December 23, 2025 23 Dec'25

    Top 10 ANZ stories of 2025

    The 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation

  • 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 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

    Microsoft taps Indian IT giants for agentic AI rollout

    The partnership with Cognizant, Infosys, TCS and Wipro follows a $17.5bn pledge by the tech giant to bolster India’s cloud and AI infrastructure

  • 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 09, 2025 09 Dec'25

    OAIC to launch blitz on privacy compliance

    Australia’s privacy watchdog will begin the new year with a compliance sweep targeting businesses that run afoul of privacy rules, including the over-collection of personal information in-person, warning that non-compliance could trigger fines

  • 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

    Databricks predicts AI tipping point as ANZ firms fix data issues

    As AI projects move from the realm of technologists to the business environment, major organisations including Telstra and Fonterra share how they are tackling legacy data issues to prepare for agentic AI

  • 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 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

    Monday.com touts AI as cure for productivity slump

    At its Elevate conference in Sydney, the workflow management supplier showed off new artificial intelligence capabilities to tackle burnout, while showcasing customer wins from Tennis Australia, Ray White and Freedom

  • November 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

    Firstsource ditches labour arbitrage for AI-driven outcomes

    The business process services firm argues that the days of simple labour arbitrage are gone as it pushes an ‘un-BPO’ strategy led by AI and automation

  • 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

    Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion

    US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium

  • 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 16, 2025 16 Nov'25

    Australia lags regional peers in AI adoption

    Report finds governance gaps, a lack of training and fear of risks as key reasons for the nation’s slow uptake of artificial intelligence compared with regional peers

  • November 16, 2025 16 Nov'25

    AI’s hidden sting: A threat to millions of bees

    The energy demands of artificial intelligence could have a devastating impact on Australia’s honeybee population, study warns

  • 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

    Abu Dhabi accelerates autonomous mobility push with 29 commercial partnerships

    The emirate is building one of the world’s most advanced regulatory and testing ecosystems for AI-driven mobility, from high-speed racing labs to city-wide delivery pilots

  • 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