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Philippines expands Google Cloud public sector AI partnership
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (1042+ words) AI & Intelligence, Asia Pacific Focus, Cloud & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Generative AI & LLMs, Government Initiatives & Policy, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam The Philippines" Department of Information and Communications Technology has widened its multi-year partnership with Google Cloud, with new work covering AI tools for…...
South Korea takes a positive spin on AI
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (681+ words) AI & Intelligence, Asia Pacific Focus, South Korea A Pew Research Center survey across 25 countries found that only 16% of South Koreans said they were more concerned than excited about AI, the lowest share in the survey. In the United States, 50% said…...
Best 5 AI Platforms to Accelerate Drug Discovery
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (542+ words) Among the emerging innovators in AI-powered drug discovery, Converge Bio has established itself as a platform focused on applying generative AI across the entire biological research lifecycle. Rather than focusing on a single stage of development, the company provides tools…...
Why enterprises need clearer accountability for AI agents
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (915+ words) AI & Intelligence, Cloud & Infrastructure, Compliance, Regulations & Governance, Data Processing & Storage, Southeast Asia Enterprises need clearer accountability before allowing AI agents to act across business systems, Matthew Hardman, APAC CTO at Hitachi Vantara, told Tech Wire Asia in a recent interview....
AI Won't Fix Broken Personalisation: Braze Report Reveals How Media and Entertainment Can Drive Real Success Across APAC
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (701+ words) As AI dominates martech investment across Asia Pacific, a new report from Braze has revealed that the biggest barrier to effective personalisation is not a lack of artificial intelligence, but a lack of unified data, measurement discipline and clear business…...
NVIDIA deals in South Korea cover AI memory, cloud and robotics
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1181+ words) AI & Intelligence, Asia Pacific Focus, Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Centres, South Korea NVIDIA has outlined new agreements with SK hynix, SK Telecom, NAVER and Doosan Group during CEO Jensen Huang's visit to South Korea. The deals cover AI infrastructure, advanced memory,…...
Alibaba Cloud's Johor region launch comes packaged with an agentic AI push in Malaysia
1+ week, 5+ day ago (592+ words) AI & Intelligence, Asia Pacific Focus, Cloud & Infrastructure, Compliance, Regulations & Governance, Data Centres, Enterprise Sector, Malaysia, Sovereignty & Privacy Alibaba Cloud Malaysia has launched a new public cloud region in Johor, bringing two new data centres online and taking its total Malaysia…...
AI's invisible metal: Why tin demand is surging, and supplies are running thin
1+ week, 6+ day ago (719+ words) AI & Intelligence, Asia Pacific Focus, Indonesia, Malaysia, Network Infrastructure, Supply Chain & Logistics Every conversation about what AI needs eventually lands on the same shortlist: GPUs, power, cooling, and land. Tin rarely makes the cut. Yet without it, the servers that…...
We Chat is opening up to AI agents, and Southeast Asia's super apps should be nervous
2+ week, 2+ day ago (558+ words) There is a quiet irony in Tencent's latest move. We Chat, the app that made the phrase "walled garden" synonymous with Chinese tech, is now unlocking its gates for AI agents. According to a report by Chinese financial news outlet…...
AI data centres could double power and water use by 2030
2+ week, 3+ day ago (708+ words) AI & Intelligence, Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Centres, Environmental Matters Data centres are projected to use almost twice as much electricity and water by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). The report…...