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How agentic search is reshaping commerce
In the next phase of commerce, consumers may not arrive as visitors clicking through pages, but as instructions carried by agents. The businesses that learn to speak the language of those agents—through structured data, seamless experiences, and machine native trust—will be the ones that remain visible when it matters most.
Microsoft plans $1B investment in Thailand’s cloud and AI infrastructure
Microsoft announced a plan to invest more than $1 billion in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Thailand between 2026 and 2028, following a meeting in Bangkok between Vice Chair and President Brad Smith and Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.
Singapore’s Groundup.ai secures $10M maintenance contract
Groundup.ai, Singapore-based agentic AI for cognitive maintenance, announced Monday it has officially closed a contract exceeding $10 million — the largest in the company’s history.
Singapore-based Bitcoin mining facilitator Bitdeer to jointly develop 180 MW AI data center in Norway
Bitdeer Technologies Group, a Singapore-headquartered technology firm focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and Bitcoin mining infrastructure, will jointly develop an AI data center in Norway, with a capacity of 180 MW.
How a Russian bank is building its own language model GigaChat from scratch
Sber is Russia's largest bank and one of the country's leading technology companies, whose ecosystem of AI-powered digital, financial, and retail services reaches tens of millions of users. Anton Frolov heads the Generative AI Development division and oversees the research and development of GigaChat, Russia's own neural network. In this TNGlobal Q&A,…
Operational advantage starts with unified workflows
Operational advantage will come less from having AI in the stack than from knowing how to organize around it. The businesses that get this right are likely to be the ones that treat unified fraud and AML workflows not as a technical aspiration, but as part of the operating foundation for resilient growth.
Kenanga foresees heightened external risks for Malaysia’s technology sector
Kenanga Research has on Friday downgraded Malaysia’s technology sector rating to neutral from overweight as external risks have intensified, particularly from global memory tightness, supply-chain fragility and persistent cost pressure across the value chain.
Wiring the intelligent enterprise for the year ahead – 2026 will be a year of reckoning for AI
After two years of dazzling AI pilots, 2026 is the year businesses face a crucial reality check. It’s now very clear that enterprise-wide applications like agentic AI are in a different league from the quick vines of the burgeoning number of bottom-up one-dimensional AI point solutions. The realization is there: Businesses are already questioning whether…
BDCs, wealth managers most vulnerable to AI-driven credit risk – Fitch
Business development companies (BDCs) and wealth managers are the most vulnerable sectors to artificial intelligence (AI)-driven credit risks within financial institutions, Fitch Ratings said Monday.
Thailand’s AI firm Amity raises $100M in Series D funding, to expand across Southeast Asia
Amity, an AI and software company based in Thailand, has announced a $100 million Series D funding round, among the largest GenAI-focused investments in Southeast Asia to date.
