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Asia-Pacific sectors will face diverging credit prospects as concentrated growth drivers widen the gap between winners and losers under the exposure to artificial intelligence (AI), S&P Global Ratings said on Tuesday.

Asia-Pacific’s economic growth is expected to remain resilient as an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technology export boom supports the region, although weak domestic demand in China, elevated energy prices and tighter US monetary policy pose risks, S&P Global Ratings said on Tuesday.

China’s push to develop artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to benefit regions best equipped to support AI infrastructure and related services, while other parts of the country may have to wait for wider economic spillovers, S&P Global Ratings said on Thursday.

Asia-Pacific technology hardware firms are benefiting from the artificial intelligence (AI) investment boom, but material downside risks could threaten strong demand across the AI-related value chain over the next two years, S&P Global Ratings said on Thursday.

Emerging markets could be the next major driver of growth for the data center industry, with a development pipeline that is almost two times larger than current global operating capacity, S&P Globa Ratings said in a report on last Friday.

Singapore Polytechnic (SP) has on Wednesday launched the Cybersecurity Assessment and Security Operations Centre Training Lab for Enterprises (CASTLE), a new initiative by SP's School of Computing to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) strengthen their cybersecurity while giving students hands-on industry experience.

Malaysia can overcome execution challenges to become one of Southeast Asia's largest data center hubs, nearly tripling capacity by 2030, S&P Global Ratings said Monday.

Singapore organizations are building skills faster than they are redesigning work to deploy them, creating a "capability debt" or the cost of work evolving faster than the systems organizing it, according to a report released at Singapore Polytechnic's HR Learning Fest 2026.

China's acceleration of technology self-sufficiency goals under its latest five-year plan should see a flood of government support for domestic companies in this sector, and S&P Global Ratings believes tech hardware companies along the semiconductor supply chain will be key beneficiaries.

Execution challenges, intermittency of renewable power and grid shortfalls are slowing the pace of energy transition in South and Southeast Asia (SSEA), S&P Global Ratings said Wednesday.