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ASEAN's DEFA: The Region's Bet to Harmonise Cross-Border Data Rules Heads Toward a 2026 Signing
ASEAN reached 'substantial conclusion' on its Digital Economy Framework Agreement in late 2025 and aims to sign it in 20...
ASEAN's Data-Centre Boom Is Hitting a Wall of Power and Water — and Johor Is Already Turning Projects Away
Southeast Asia has become one of the world's hottest data-centre markets, led by Johor's roughly 5.3GW pipeline. But the...
A Bipartisan US Bill Wants One Federal Rulebook for Frontier AI — and the Fight Is Already About State Laws
Two House lawmakers have released a discussion draft of the Great American AI Act, a 269-page bipartisan attempt to set...
Vietnam Calls for a Connected ASEAN Fintech Ecosystem at the AFF 2026 — but the Standards Are the Hard Part
At an ASEAN Future Forum 2026 seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam's Deputy PM Nguyen Van Thang urged the region to connect its fin...
Even Apple Reportedly Rents Its AI: What WWDC 2026's Day One Signals for ASEAN Businesses
The standout signal from Apple's WWDC 2026 day-one keynote isn't Siri AI's new tricks — it's that the most vertically in...
Singapore Refreshes Its National AI Strategy: 10 Priorities, Four Missions, and a Bet Against a Two-Speed Economy
Singapore's 20 May update to its National AI Strategy refreshes the priorities across its 10 enablers, adds four sector...
Singapore Bets on Being AI's Neutral Ground — Just as US Chip Rules Put the Middle Under Scrutiny
As Singapore AI Week and SuperAI 2026 open with a pitch to be 'neutral ground' for a fracturing AI industry, fresh US ch...
Singapore's Regulator Just Opened the GenAI Data Question — Founders Should Read That as a Signal, Not Wait for the Fine Print
On 2 June 2026 the PDPC opened a public consultation — closing 1 July 2026 — on proposed guidelines for using personal d...
CSA Flags GlobalProtect Auth-Bypass CVE-2026-0257 as Critical While Attackers Forge VPN Cookies in the Wild
Singapore's CSA rates a GlobalProtect authentication-bypass flaw critical (9.1) — sterner than Palo Alto's own HIGH rati...
Indonesia’s AI Ready ASEAN Pact Turns AI Literacy Into Regional Infrastructure
Indonesia’s new AI Ready ASEAN agreement with the ASEAN Foundation shows how AI adoption in Southeast Asia is becoming a...
Mastercard Switches On AI-Agent Payments in Singapore and Malaysia
Mastercard has taken agentic commerce live in its first two ASEAN markets, letting verified AI agents pay on a cardholde...
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