Digital Transformation

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.

Nemetschek’s Jonathan Ng on CORENET X, AI-assisted compliance and digital delivery [Q&A]

Nemetschek Southeast Asia Managing Director Jonathan Ng discusses CORENET X, model quality, interoperability, AI-assisted compliance, accountability and digital skills in Singapore’s built environment.

[Central Asia Rising] Uzbekistan’s tech gambit: nation vies for global stage with new “Enterprise Uzbekistan” free zone

Uzbekistan is trying to position itself as a technology hub for Central Asia, combining tax incentives, sector-specific tech parks, a young workforce and closer regional ties. A key part of that push is “Enterprise Uzbekistan,” a free zone for technology companies and financial organizations that is expected to operate under English common law.

Costa Rica joins Chile, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea as DEPA’s fifth party

Chile, New Zealand, Singapore and the Republic of Korea, Parties to the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), have welcomed Costa Rica as the DEPA’s fifth Party, and the second member to accede to the agreement.

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Hong Kong puts AI governance and fintech in first five-year plan

Hong Kong's first five-year plan sets out AI governance, fintech infrastructure, startup funding and commercialization measures through 2030.

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foodpanda brings real-time restaurant discovery into ChatGPT and Claude

foodpanda has launched an AI plugin that lets users discover restaurants and meal options through ChatGPT and Claude using real-time platform availability.

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Cebu Pacific reports faster legal, engineering workflows after enterprise AI rollout

Cebu Pacific says its enterprise AI program with Thinking Machines and OpenAI has cut processing time across legal, engineering and project-intake workflows.

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Cloudflare adds separate controls for search and AI training

Cloudflare introduced separate controls for search indexing, AI training and agents, letting customers reject model training while remaining in search results.