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Malaysia is intensifying efforts to strengthen its domestic technological capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, digital technology, and innovation, as the country seeks strategic control over the technologies that will underpin its future economy.

Singapore's data center operator Digital Edge has on Monday announced the successful close of a $665 million green loan to support the development of the first phase of its 500MW CGK Campus in the GIIC Industrial Estate in Bekasi – a $4.5 billion multi-phase investment and one of Indonesia’s largest artificial intelligence (AI)-ready hyperscale data center…

SAP Labs, under Germany-headquartered tech giant SAP, will collaborate with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore to hire and train artificial intelligence (AI) scientists and machine learning engineers, expanding its role as an engineering hub for enterprise AI and supporting Singapore’s AI development plans.

Global AI video generation platform PixVerse has announced the completion of its Series C funding round and the opening of a global office in Singapore as it expands its international presence.

TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance Ltd, is reportedly assembling significant computing power outside China using top Nvidia chips, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday.

Vietnam is capable of becoming a global unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturing hub, thanks to its strengths in workforce, supply chain, affordable cost, and high domestic demand, said Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung.

AI risk is no longer confined to cybersecurity teams. As geopolitical conflict disrupts both physical and digital systems, businesses are being pushed to treat AI exposure as part of continuity planning.

As AI becomes more deeply embedded in enterprise systems, cybersecurity is starting to look less like a separate layer of defense and more like part of the infrastructure story itself. In Southeast Asia, that shift could shape how securely and sustainably the next phase of AI growth unfolds.

Sovereign AI cloud platform RE:AI of Singapore-headquartered Singtel Digital InfraCo has partnered with California-based Cohesity to develop a service that enables enterprises to convert backup archives into searchable data sources for artificial intelligence applications.

Singapore-based hyperscale operator Bridge Data Centers plans to invest between S$3 billion ($2.35 billion) and S$5 billion ($3.92 billion) alongside global partners to strengthen Singapore’s role as a leading artificial intelligence (AI) hub in the Asia-Pacific region, as demand for computing capacity accelerates.