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The Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) announced Monday that effective immediately, all exports, transships and transits of high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) chips of US origin are subject to a Strategic Trade Permit.

The Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (Komdigi) has officially anchored the establishment of Indonesia’s AI Center of Excellence — a national initiative aimed at accelerating the country’s AI competitiveness through a strategic collaboration with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat), Cisco, and NVIDIA.

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As artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming fundamental to drive transformation, Singtel's subsidiary NCS announced Thursday a S$130 million ($102 million) investment over three years to lead change across Asia Pacific (APAC).

Japanese multinational financial services group Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMBC Group) announced Tuesday it will appoint Ahmed Jamil Mazhari to lead transformation initiatives aimed at accelerating group-wide artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and integration.

BDx Data Centers (BDx), a carrier-neutral data center platform based in China, has launched Southeast Asia’s first hybrid quantum artificial intelligence (AI) testbed in collaboration with Anyon Technologies, a Singapore-based large-scale quantum computing systems firm.

The future holds a lot of hope for AI in sustainable agriculture as technologies like quantum computing are set to maximize AI processing capabilities, which will allow even more sophisticated modeling and real-time decision-making, consequently increasing the crop yield.

The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) said Tuesday that it is introducing two new grants totaling MYR 2.9 million ($6.84 million), aimed at accelerating digital transformation in two of Malaysia’s most strategic sectors — artificial intelligence (AI) and manufacturing.

Maybank Investment Bank said Malaysia's data center momentum may stall if the country and Thailand face chip curbs from the United States.

Tapway Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysia-based Vision artificial intelligence (AI) platform developer, announced Tuesday that it is expanding into Indonesia.