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Information technology (IT) in Asia-Pacific

  • 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

  • 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

    Inside HP’s plan to build the Middle East’s next generation of tech creators

    Through gaming labs, artificial intelligence mentorship and inclusive partnerships, HP is helping young people in the Middle East, especially women, turn digital skills into real-world careers

  • 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 09, 2025 09 Nov'25

    Nikkei data breach exposes personal data of over 17,000 staff

    Hackers used stolen login details from an employee's computer to access the Japanese media giant’s Slack messaging platform, with names, email addresses and chat histories potentially exposed

  • 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