The Region's Best "Sovereign" AI Model Is Built on Gemma and Licensed by Google
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In February the BSP Said 70% Was Not Doable. In July It Said It Was Likely
The Philippine central bank's outlook on its 2028 digital payments target reversed in five months. The measurement under...
Malaysia Told Firms an AI Cannot Decide Alone — In Guidance That Is Not Binding
Malaysia issued guidelines on automated decisions, impact assessments and privacy by design on 30 April. They are adviso...
Vietnam Put a Vietnamese Language Model on Its List of Strategic Technologies
Decision 21/2026/QD-TTg names ten strategic technologies and thirty strategic products. One of them is large-scale Vietn...
Indonesia's Crypto Market Now Answers to the Regulator That Supervises Banks
On 1 July the governance and reporting duties of a financial-sector business took effect for Indonesian crypto platforms...
Singapore's Cyber Command Ran Its First Scam Sweep. It Was the Third in Six Weeks
Singapore stood up a dedicated Cyber Command on 3 July. Its first islandwide scam sweep was the third such operation in...
ASEAN Tech Summit Convenes in Manila as the Region's Digital Trade Pact Heads for a November Signing
Organisers expected more than 4,000 delegates in Pasay City on 28–29 July, under the Philippine chairship. Negotiations...
Southeast Asia's Tech Funding More Than Doubled. Take Out One Data-Centre Company and It Shrank
The region raised $7.4 billion in the first half, against $3.2 billion a year earlier. One Singapore data-centre operato...
ThreatBook Puts a Number on APAC's Year: 15,205 Incidents, and Indonesia Growing Fastest
The firm's first mid-year Asia-Pacific report covers twelve months and more than nineteen markets. Singapore ranks sixth...
An AI Agent Ran Unsupervised Inside Thailand's Finance Ministry — Doing the Legwork, Not the Break-In
Researchers recovered five logs showing an open-source AI agent enumerating a ministry host without per-command approval...
Samsung's Galaxy Z8 Line-Up: the Fold8 Is Not the Fold7's Successor, and That Changes What You Pay
The Fold8 opens S$200 below last year's Fold7 — because it is a new shape, not the replacement. We put both generations...
Bank Indonesia Held at 5.75% — the Corridor and the Credit Number Say More Than the Decision
The hold was the least informative line in the release. The rate corridor is asymmetric, credit is running 0.67 points a...
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