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From automation to augmentation: How AI redefines collaboration at the workplace

For Asia's organizations, the race to adopt AI and other technologies is nearly won. The next challenge—and the source of the region's true competitive advantage—will be mastering the strategic and cultural shift to build effective human-agent teams, while reimagining the enterprise to fully augment human capability.

Singlife partners Salesforce to launch AI agent for customer service executives

Singapore homegrown financial services company Singlife announced Tuesday its collaboration with Salesforce, the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship management (CRM) platform, to launch an AI agent for Singlife’s customer service executives.

AI agents are gaining momentum in Singapore, but employees want clear boundaries – Workday

Workday, Inc., the global artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has on Wednesday released new global research that shows that while AI agents are gaining ground in the workplace in Singapore, employees still want clear boundaries.

AMD unveils rack-scale platform based on ORW introduced by Meta

American technology firm AMD has showcased a static display of its “Helios”, a rack scale platform which is developed based on the new Open Rack Wide (ORW) specification, introduced by Meta.

Maxis partners Google Cloud for gen AI-powered conversational in-app assistant

Malaysian telecommunication firm Maxis has on Wednesday introduced Miya (Maxis Intelligence, Your Assistant), making it the first telco in Malaysia to launch a generative artificial intelligence (gen AI)-powered conversational in-app assistant in collaboration with Google Cloud.

Vietnam’s e-commerce sector shows highest optimism in SEA despite facing region’s toughest regulatory hurdles – Blackbox

Vietnam’s e-commerce market is demonstrating the highest growth optimism in Southeast Asia, even as it navigates the region's most significant regulatory challenges, a new report by Blackbox Research revealed on Wednesday.

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Beyond the grade: Why one founder bet her life savings to rethink education in Singapore

The next generation of leaders, educators, and parents will need to balance rigour with empathy, innovation with inclusion. The systems that once rewarded perfection must now make room for possibility.

MRC and MGTC seal strategic partnership to accelerate net zero transition in Malaysia’s rubber industry

The Malaysian Rubber Council (MRC) and the Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation (MGTC) have on Wednesday formalized a strategic partnership through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to accelerate net zero transition in Malaysia's rubber industry.

Oracle and AMD expand partnership to help customers achieve next-generation AI scale

US's technology firms Oracle and AMD have announced a major expansion of their long-standing, multi-generation collaboration to help customers significantly scale their AI capabilities and initiatives.

Visa, SCB, Soft Space team up to expand Tap to Pay in Bangkok shopping districts

Visa, a world digital payments firm, in collaboration with Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) and fintech innovator Soft Space, have announced the expansion of the Tap to Pay initiative to two of Bangkok’s most iconic and high-traffic shopping destinations Chatuchak Weekend Market and Pratunam Market.