AI
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.
Granite Asia, Google AI fund to co-invest up to $2M per Asian AI startup
Singapore-based Granite Asia, a $11 billion private capital platform, and Google's AI Futures Fund will jointly back AI startups in Asia, co-investing up to $2 million in each alongside access to Google's AI models.
Lumen’s Francis Thangasamy on the infrastructure behind responsible enterprise AI [Q&A]
Lumen Technologies APAC Managing Director Francis Thangasamy discusses AI readiness, governance, federated learning, infrastructure resilience and how enterprises should measure value.
Malaysia’s Agmo reaches Select tier in Anthropic’s Claude partner network
Agmo Studio, a Malaysian software firm, has reached the "Select" tier in the partner network run by Anthropic, the creator of Claude AI models.
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.
Thinking Machines’ Niek van Veen on measuring enterprise AI beyond the pilot [Q&A]
Thinking Machines Data Science VP Niek van Veen discusses enterprise AI evaluation, legal oversight, workflow redesign, employee adoption and boundaries for autonomous agents.
PLDT says AI agents save tens of thousands of work hours annually
PLDT says its internally developed AI agents are reducing manual work across enterprise sales, knowledge retrieval and risk management.
Singapore’s OneByZero raises $20M Series A from Jungle Ventures for enterprise AI
OneByZero, a Singapore-based company that deploys and manages AI systems inside large enterprises, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Jungle Ventures, also the venture fund's first outside funding.
UST’s Rohan Chowdhary on the factory constraints behind Singapore’s semiconductor growth [Q&A]
UST's Rohan Chowdhary discusses brownfield factory integration, semiconductor AI, cybersecurity, talent and the Singapore-Malaysia manufacturing corridor.
AI cycle enters second phase as infrastructure bottlenecks shift, Kenanga says
The artificial intelligence (AI) investment cycle is entering a second phase in 2026, with demand broadening beyond GPUs to inference, AI agents and commercial applications, creating new opportunities across optical connectivity, power, advanced packaging and semiconductor equipment, Kenanga Research said on Monday.
