Digital Transformation

PLDT says AI agents save tens of thousands of work hours annually

PLDT says its internally developed AI agents are reducing manual work across enterprise sales, knowledge retrieval and risk management.

Singapore’s digital economy reaches 19.3% of GDP as AI adoption deepens: IMDA

Singapore's Digital Economy grew to S$144.1 billion ($113 billion) in 2025, or 19.3 percent of the country's GDP, up from 18.8 percent in 2024.

UST’s Rohan Chowdhary on the factory constraints behind Singapore’s semiconductor growth [Q&A]

UST's Rohan Chowdhary discusses brownfield factory integration, semiconductor AI, cybersecurity, talent and the Singapore-Malaysia manufacturing corridor.

MDEC CEO to step down after 2 years

Anuar Fariz Fadzil, CEO of Malaysia's state agency Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), will step down when his two-year contract ends on October 2, after a tenure of drawing MYR180 billion ($44 billion) in digital investment.

Nemetschek expands Southeast Asia partnerships across Philippines and Vietnam

Nemetschek is expanding its Southeast Asia push through 10 partnerships and engagements across the Philippines and Vietnam, including industry projects and education initiatives.

Swift tests pay-by-alias cross-border payments with global banks

Swift and banks including DBS, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and IDFC FIRST Bank are exploring cross-border payments using mobile or email aliases.

Aolani chief executive Nicholas Chia and YCO Cloud chief executive Nikolas Skalomenos de Ynchausti shake hands

YCO Cloud and Aolani plan 10,000-GPU Philippines AI cluster

YCO Cloud and Aolani plan to deploy more than 10,000 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs in the Philippines, with an initial launch targeted for early 2027.

Aircall expands into Southeast Asia, targets AI voice-agent partnerships

Aircall is expanding into Southeast Asia with a partner-led strategy focused on localized AI voice agents, communications workflows and regional integrations.

CtrlS taps Ciena for 100 Tb/s India data center network

CtrlS Datacenters is deploying Ciena optical networking across five Indian metro networks linking nine data centers with up to 100 Tb/s of capacity.

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Akamai signs $11.6 billion cloud agreement with Anthropic

Akamai has signed a seven-year cloud services agreement with Anthropic carrying $11.6 billion in contractual commitments, with room to expand by $9 billion.