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Virginia Galarón Herrera of New Relic examines how AI governance is changing the build-versus-buy decision for observability tooling across Southeast Asian organizations.

New Relic says 66 percent of surveyed ASEAN organizations have deployed AI application observability and 59 percent use AI-assisted troubleshooting, while engineering teams lose a median 47 percent of capacity to system disruptions.

Al-Futtaim has selected India-headquartered payments technology company Juspay to deploy a common orchestration layer across 50 brands and 12 markets, with the rollout beginning in September 2026.

Malaysia-based pre-owned electronics platform 3cat has raised a $4 million Series A led by Foxmont Capital Partners, with participation from the Asian Development Bank and Golden Gate Ventures, as it prepares to enter the Philippines.

Sapient Intelligence Co-Founder William Chen discusses how PRAXIST explores long-horizon R&D problems, validates results, handles proprietary data and measures production value.

Taiwan's export orders reached a record $102.96 billion in August, up 71.4 percent from a year earlier, as demand for AI servers, chips and other computing products accelerated.

Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, CrowdStrike, Salesforce and other technology companies have formed the Blueprint Alliance around a shared reference architecture for securing enterprise AI agents.

Adtech company Equativ has become a technology partner for ChatGPT Ads, offering campaign activation in current markets including Japan as OpenAI expands ways for advertisers to buy ads.

IDTechEx expects supercapacitors to gain use in AI data centers for short-duration power buffering and voltage stabilization, with potential deployment at rack, aisle and UPS levels.

Philippine payments company PayMongo is targeting revenue at about four times last year's level while expanding beyond transaction fees into subscription and merchant services.