Opinion

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How we use AI to triage B2B inquiries before the first reply

Daniel Tan explains how a small business uses AI to summarize inbound leads and draft context-aware replies while keeping human approval.

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How AI is accelerating the next generation of leaders

Christian Schmitz argues that AI is compressing the experience curve for younger professionals and forcing companies to rethink how they identify, develop and promote future leaders.

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What changed when I stopped sending newsletters manually

Daniel Tan shares how moving from manual newsletter sends to a repeatable Mailchimp workflow changed list management, measurement and the way he uses ChatGPT to refine drafts.

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In Southeast Asia, corporate credibility increasingly starts with the data

PR consultant Salsabila Syifa Atma examines how fragmented business data can affect the credibility of corporate claims as Southeast Asian companies digitize and adopt AI.

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Why Singapore must prepare for the zero-minute era

Neville Vincent of Trellix argues that agentic AI is compressing cyber response windows and forcing enterprises to strengthen identity, visibility and threat intelligence.

Tokenization: Crypto’s symbolic walk on Wall Street

Yiwei Wang examines how tokenized US equities, higher interest rates and recent crypto security incidents are reshaping the relationship between crypto and Wall Street.

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Asia’s AI-first development culture is making application security harder

AI-assisted development is accelerating software production across Asia, but security teams are struggling to match machine-speed code generation with remediation, identity controls and governance.

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As Southeast Asia tightens AI governance, organizations need to rethink DIY observability

Virginia Galarón Herrera of New Relic examines how AI governance is changing the build-versus-buy decision for observability tooling across Southeast Asian organizations.

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The Hugging Face breach makes the case for controlled AI in incident response

Hugging Face's July security incident exposed a practical problem for incident response: the AI tools analysts normally use may reject malicious artifacts or send sensitive breach data outside an approved environment.

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One AI strategy, different infrastructure realities across APAC

Hitachi Vantara’s Wendy Koh examines why regional AI strategies across APAC still require local decisions on infrastructure, resilience, skills and regulation.