Tech & AI
Every major AI story has an Asia-Pacific chapter, whether Silicon Valley admits it or not. The platforms, chips, and startups building what comes next in technology, first.
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Jul- 2026 -9 July
AI hiring tools systematically reject Black and Asian applicants, Stanford finds
A Stanford study of 4 million job applications reveals that game-based assessments from a single vendor rejected candidates identically across employers, amplifying bias through what researchers call algorithmic monoculture.
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8 July
Asia’s venture chiefs just made a bet on regional AI dominance
Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea's venture capital associations convened in Taipei on July 8 for the first trilateral summit, signaling a potential shift toward coordinated cross-border investment in AI and…
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7 July
India’s AI boom is pricing itself out of the low-cost game
A 2.3-fold surge in AI job listings has pushed entry-level machine-learning salaries above senior full-stack developer pay, with job switchers commanding 40-70% raises that risk eroding India's cost advantage.
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7 July
South Korea is building the world’s largest AI data center
SK Telecom plans 15 gigawatts of capacity—10% of the nation's entire power grid—to position itself as Asia's rentable compute floor for Western AI firms avoiding China.
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7 July
A US chipmaker just moved supply chains out of China. Malaysia’s grid can’t keep up.
Vertiv opened a 236,000 sq ft factory in Johor on July 6, avoiding 45% US tariffs on Chinese-made power units, but data centre demand could consume a fifth of Malaysia's…
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6 July
China is systematically stealing AI through smuggling and model theft
Malaysian customs seized $13 million in restricted chips bound for China, while Anthropic documented 25,000 fake accounts extracting capabilities from its Claude model—evidence that US export controls are being routed…
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2 July
A Singapore AI expert just left banking for consulting. That’s the real story.
David Hardoon, who architected Singapore's FEAT governance framework, moved to Accenture in July 2026, signaling that regulatory expertise now commands higher premium than model-building skills in Southeast Asia's enterprise AI…
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2 July
Microsoft’s new undersea cable bets India’s AI future on Southeast Asia
The I-2SEA system will connect India to Malaysia and Singapore by late 2029, supporting a projected fivefold surge in data centre capacity that will reshape cloud routing across Asia.
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1 July
Asia’s AI factory boom masks a dangerous single point of failure
Manufacturing PMI hit 51.7 in June 2026, driven almost entirely by semiconductor and server demand, but the growth depends on US export rules and Beijing's regulatory whims staying stable.
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Jun- 2026 -30 June
Google and Meta are rewiring Asia’s internet to avoid China
The Apricot subsea cable system, backed by US cloud giants and scheduled for 2025–2026 service, routes data around the South China Sea through Guam and the Philippines instead of exposed…
