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As chips become the dominant cost in AI infrastructure, a new financing market has emerged around the hardware itself – one with its own lenders, risks, and rules.

Asia’s AI hardware bet has a financing problem

The region can build AI data centres, but the tougher question is how to pay for the GPUs inside them

BT editor Chen Huifen says the businesses that will win are the ones that understand that instability is the new operating condition.

Next advantage for Asean firms lies in ability to operate amid uncertainty: BT regional survey

The question isn’t whether to go regional, but how fast: BT editor Chen Huifen at the flagship report’s launch

Singapore also intends to deepen cross-border data flow mechanisms, says Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo.

Singapore to advance AI agenda as Asean chair, focus on cross-border data flows, smaller firms

The Republic will also seek to align regional AI governance approaches, says Josephine Teo

From left: Indonesia's Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Meutya Hafid; Singapore's Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo; and Tech in Asia's Terence Lee.

Singapore taking first steps on ‘nutrition label’ for AI apps with voluntary roll-out, Asean engagement

The key lies in what efforts are made to build trust in the technology: Josephine Teo

Mandatory frameworks range from existing data protection laws to new AI regulations, as well as industry-specific rules that you should already be familiar with.

AI rules in South-east Asia: risks, fines and everything else you need to know

Making the effort to know the difference between what is voluntary and mandatory is key for any CTO or product lead

The generative AI legal market will expand by US$2.1 billion between 2024 and 2029, says research firm Technavio.

Asia’s courts are drowning in paperwork. Can AI save them?

Firms across Asia say the bigger opportunity lies in automating the mundane tasks of local court systems

Grab chief technology officer Suthen Thomas argues that artificial intelligence makes writing code cheap while making checking code rare.

Companies & Markets

How Grab is rebuilding its engineering culture around AI speed

This change forces leaders to rebuild management, hiring and physical operations in South-east Asia before speed causes problems

Love Bonito’s store in Central Chidlom in Thailand.

Companies & Markets

Love Bonito eyes Middle East’s long-term prospects as losses trim

Driving its reduced losses in 2024 were measures to make operations more efficient

Amazon’s vibe-coding fiasco reveals the gap between AI hype and enterprise reality.

The AI talent war in Asia: Who’s winning, who’s losing, and why

Seek’s Peter Bithos explains why many tech layoffs today are more ‘performative’ than productivity-driven

DBS in Singapore, for example, has secured S$1 billion in economic value from its AI initiatives in 2025.

Banking & Finance

Banks pour billions into AI, but most see no ROI. Here’s why

Some banks are applying AI within their private banking units and making revenue gains

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