APAC stories
More than 75 per cent of Singapore lawyers use LawNet, so the AI upgrade is set to shape legal research, sentencing queries and drafting.
Nearly 88% of Hong Kong retailers surveyed reported payment fraud in the past year, as expansion abroad brought added costs and compliance strain.
The recognition comes as nearly 92% of Asia Pacific enterprises say data governance and compliance have delayed or cancelled AI projects.
Incomplete asset inventories are leaving industrial operators exposed, with only 21% able to track every OT system despite 88% calling programmes mature.
The appointment deepens IQ-EQ's integration of its former Gordian Capital business, as Anil Ponnampalam takes charge across APAC and the Middle East.
The switch should give the state-owned carrier faster roaming fault detection and better visibility for its 30 million subscribers.
Rising cyber budgets are failing to curb APAC losses, as Asahi's outage showed the real cost is business disruption, not breach headlines.
Driven by improved tooling, finance teams are meeting higher standards as regulators and analysts scrutinise disclosures faster.
The Malaysian steel group is replacing a long-customised ERP system with a cloud platform to unify finance, stock and sales as it scales across ASEAN and APAC.
The new range aims to simplify multi-room music for households that want wireless playback without regrouping speakers each time they move rooms.
Some firms can cut server counts by 86%, freeing rack space, power and licence spend for AI and other new workloads.
Merchants across 12 Asian markets can now use a single interface to cut checkout friction and fraud exposure on card payments.
Real-time mainframe data is becoming crucial for faster lending, fraud checks and insurance quotes, as stale feeds can mislead AI systems.
APAC security teams can cut AI bills sharply by filtering routine cases before they reach costly frontier models, without weakening defences.
AI is changing how B2B buyers make decisions - but an expert warns that it is not a substitute for effective human comms strategies.
By linking customer, network and operational data, telcos can spot churn and fraud sooner, while also speeding service and support decisions.
CISOs are under pressure to answer boardroom questions on exposure in minutes, as Filigran pushes CTEM and open-source validation tools.
Students and staff will gain free access as the university pairs the rollout with AUD $1 million for research into AI's environmental impact.
Researchers and startups will gain Claude API credits as the new funding backs cancer, heart disease and rare-disease work across Australia.
Fresh capital will fund expansion across Asia Pacific as demand rises for Microsoft-based AI services and selective acquisitions are planned.
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