AI
ChatGPT for beginners, Claude for experts, AI competition continues: GenAI Fund
A new study of Vietnam-based GenAI Fund shows that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude are running nearly equal in overall platform adoption, but diverge sharply when builders are segmented by experience.
July 18, 2026
AI,News,Malaysia,SEA,Vietnam,Singapore
Singaporeans use Gemini for professional tasks, Vietnamese for math-coding, Malaysian for creative: Google
Singapore leads Southeast Asia in per capita adoption of Google's Gemini AI platform and ranks first globally by the same measure, while Vietnam dominates the region in mathematical reasoning, coding, and AI-assisted education.
July 17, 2026
News,Singapore,Future of Work,AI
Singapore’s Whale raises $40M to bring Series C to $100M, targets MENA, Europe
Singapore-based enterprise AI company Whale has raised $40 million in a Series C extension, bringing its total Series C funding to $100 million, as it looks to expand operations across North America, the Middle East, and Europe.
July 17, 2026
APAC enterprises shifting AI focus from time savings to competitive advantage: LinqAlpha executive
Organisations in Asia-Pacific are moving beyond measuring artificial intelligence (AI) by time saved and are increasingly seeking differentiated insights and competitive advantages generated by AI.
July 16, 2026
Asia remains at the center of the transformational AI investment story
Asia remains at the center of the transformational artificial intelligence (AI) investment story, as it expands from a narrow focus on chips and data centers to a much larger ecosystem spanning memory, compute, power infrastructure, grid upgrades, industrial systems and advanced manufacturing, MetLife Investment Manager and PineBridge Investments said on…
July 16, 2026
Corporate Innovation,News,Singapore,Mergers and Acquisitions,AI
UK’s Winnow acquires Singapore’s Lumitics to expand AI food waste platform in Asia-Pacific
London-based Winnow, an AI-powered food waste solution provider, has acquired Singapore's Lumitics, a food waste technology company operating in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, the former said in a statement on Thursday, without any financial details.
July 16, 2026
News,Singapore,Future of Work,AI,Vietnam
Vietnam, Singapore to develop automation, AI, robotics, green manufacturing in joint research center
The Vietnam Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (VAMRC), a joint project of Vietnam and Singapore, is set to develop automation, robotics, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, factory digital transformation, green manufacturing, and supply chain resilience.
July 15, 2026
Telecommunications,News,China,Vietnam,AI
ZTE, Chinese Society of Engineers to jointly open tech training center in Vietnam
China's ZTE Corporation and the Chinese Society of Engineers (CSE) will cooperate to establish the Center for Excellence in Engineering Capacity Building (CEECB), a technology training center in Hanoi.
July 15, 2026
Tencent Cloud expands AI agent solutions to Indonesia, to accelerate enterprise AI adoption
Tencent Cloud, the cloud business under Chinese giant Tencent, has expanded its international suite of AI agent solutions to the Indonesian market.
July 15, 2026
AI may affect nearly 80 million workers in the ASEAN region – ILO
A new study by the International Labor Organization (ILO) reveals that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is set to touch the working lives of nearly 80 million people across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
July 14, 2026












