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Microsoft has on Tuesday released new Singapore findings from its 2026 Work Trend Index, showing that employees here are among the world’s most active and responsible users of artificial intelligence (AI) at work.

Microsoft has on Monday announced the appointment of Gunawan Susanto as Country General Manager for Microsoft Indonesia.

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Microsoft Corporation have on last Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to deepen collaboration on artificial intelligence (AI) safety and security.

Malaysia’s Ministry of Digital and Microsoft have on Friday announced the launch of Microsoft Elevate, an expanded national artificial intelligence (AI) capacity building initiative to strengthen Malaysia’s AI readiness, aligned with the country’s AI Nation 2030 ambitions.

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.

Microsoft has on Thursday announced the ‘MPowerHer’ collaboration in Singapore alongside SG Women in Tech, Mums@Work, and Code; Without Barriers to empower more women to build practical artificial intelligence (AI) and digital skills.

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.

Microsoft will invest $5.5 billion in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and operations in Singapore between 2025 and 2029, as part of efforts to support the country’s growing role in the global digital economy, the tech giant said in a press release on Wednesday.

Microsoft announced a plan to invest more than $1 billion in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Thailand between 2026 and 2028, following a meeting in Bangkok between Vice Chair and President Brad Smith and Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.

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…