As Southeast Asia’s platforms mature, users and merchants face the cost of scale
Southeast Asia’s digital platforms have moved from growth engines to economic infrastructure. As subsidies normalize, regulation expands, and platforms invest in profitability, logistics, worker protections, and merchant tools, users and sellers are beginning to feel more of the cost of scale. The next test for the region’s platform economy will be whether…
Why online safety is becoming a product decision in Asia Pacific
As governments across Asia tighten online safety rules, founders can no longer treat trust and safety as a side function. Decisions around onboarding, age checks, recommendation systems, and user controls are becoming regulatory questions, and that is starting to reshape how startups build.
How AI search and GEO are changing the rules of digital visibility
As AI-generated answers become a more prominent layer in search, digital visibility is starting to depend on more than rankings and clicks. GEO, or Generative Engine Optimization, has emerged as one response to that shift, reflecting a new contest over which sources are selected, cited, and trusted inside AI-generated results.
Why small language models may be the greener path for applied AI
As AI infrastructure expands, the sustainability debate is moving beyond giant training runs and into a harder question of deployment. Small language models may not replace frontier systems, but they could help companies run more AI on existing devices, reduce reliance on compute-heavy cloud inference, and make applied AI more practical across…
Why Southeast Asia’s AI race is now about infrastructure
Southeast Asia’s AI momentum is no longer defined by experimentation alone. As adoption moves toward scale, the region’s next phase will depend on the infrastructure beneath AI, from compute and cloud to power, connectivity, and deployment readiness.
Google to require verification for financial ads in Malaysia
To further protect Malaysians against financial scams, Google introduced new certification requirements for financial services advertisers targeting Malaysia.
LookOut: How two vulnerabilities in Google Looker could put enterprise data at risk
As organizations rely more heavily on integrated platforms, those platforms naturally become concentrated points of failure. The more systems a tool connects to, the greater the blast radius if something goes wrong.
Sea and Google deepen partnership to deliver AI-powered innovations for consumers globally
Sea Limited, a Singapore-based technology company founded in Singapore, announced Thursday an expanded strategic partnership with Google to advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered innovations that can serve users across Sea’s core business lines of digital entertainment, e-commerce, and digital financial services.
Google expands AI investments in Singapore
Global technology firm Google has announced new investments to deepen local research and development (R&D) capabilities, help businesses innovate and build a future-ready workforce for the artificial intelligence (AI) economy in Singapore.
