Opinion

Digital tools are moving deeper into construction operations across Asia-Pacific, but skills, fragmented systems and data quality still shape the results.

Cognition's Kevin Lee argues that as coding agents become more proactive, verification and evidence are becoming the new engineering bottleneck.

Here is a seven-check audit for Southeast Asian SMEs trying to make their public information easier for search and AI systems to access and verify.

Red Hat developer advocates Grace Ableidinger and Sawyer Bowerman explain why silent tool-calling failures can undermine multistep AI agents even when model reasoning is sound.

Adobe JAPAC President Ben Goodman argues that AI value depends on how well organizations connect data, content and workflows while maintaining trust and operational discipline.

Lawrence Wu of Agora argues that China’s embodied AI competition is shifting from model demonstrations toward deployment reliability, modular architectures and faster real-world iteration.

Ken Lin of Aires Applied Quantum Technology outlines an operational roadmap for Singapore financial institutions preparing for post-quantum migration, from cryptographic inventory and prioritization to vendor readiness, testing and governance.

Gaurav Suman of Solace argues that enterprises need an agent development lifecycle combining software engineering discipline with the governance and supervision used to manage human employees.

As AI agents gain authority to act on behalf of companies, governance must define who owns their decisions, where autonomy ends and how permissions change over time, writes Humanity founder Terence Kwok.

Kyndryl Singapore Managing Director Guat Ling Ang argues that data and technology sovereignty should be treated as a business continuity issue, with firms mapping critical dependencies and preserving practical options when access or conditions change.