Malaysia stories
The move brings computing closer to customers as firms race to localise AI workloads and meet regional data rules.
Wider use of AI agents is lifting developer productivity in Southeast Asia, but most teams still require human checks before production.
Firms in the region are moving beyond pilots, with 84% expecting AI to redefine roles and operations across their businesses.
The accreditation could help regulated firms in Asia Pacific choose a partner for deploying agentic AI on AWS with stronger governance and security.
The shift towards AI-ready liquid cooling is prompting Castrol to target new-build data centres and costly retrofits across Asia Pacific.
Engineering teams in ASEAN are losing 47% of their capacity to disruptions as AI observability adoption outpaces global peers.
Direct control of production in Malaysia is meant to help Micas cut delivery risk and bring its AI networking optics into volume 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.
Merchants across 12 Asian markets can now use a single interface to cut checkout friction and fraud exposure on card payments.
The service is aimed at easing payment delays and foreign exchange costs for exporters trading with ASEAN buyers, as regional commerce expands.
The five-day event aims to give Malaysians practical exposure to AI in phones and services, alongside promotions and prize draws at 1 Utama Shopping Centre.
Rising data centre demand is pushing Legrand to expand in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam as Singapore shifts towards retrofits.
Its data centre unit is set to top €3 billion of sales in 2026 as Legrand raises 2030 growth and margin targets.
Merchants could see simpler and more reliable QR, debit and online payments as Gkash removes an intermediary link to Malaysia's main rails.
Vietnam could gain a 300MW AI and cloud campus by 2030 if a feasibility study backs the Ho Chi Minh City project.
Rising enrolment is drawing institutional money into Malaysia's fragmented student housing market as the partners target acquisitions and new builds.
Businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia will be able to settle supplier bills inside existing finance systems, cutting manual processing.
The platform targets investors seeking deeper liquidity and comes as ASIC moves to pull more digital asset firms into licensing rules.
Manual, disconnected systems are slowing enrolment, reporting and student support as universities across the region chase faster growth.
Consumer lending across Southeast Asia will expand for Grab, which is funding a controlling stake in Atome Financial entirely from existing cash.
