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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Jun- 2026 -29 June
The freight schedule now decides who builds AI capacity first
CEVA Logistics completed the first phase of moving 45-tonne generators and cooling towers for AirTrunk's Western Sydney data centre, then shifted the same operation to Johor Bahru, signalling how logistics…
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27 June
US AI ban just handed Asia a reason to build its own models
Sakana AI's Fugu and China's 360 launched rival systems within two weeks of Anthropic's export cutoff, signaling that frontier AI is fragmenting along geopolitical lines.
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27 June
India’s chip independence bet depends on a region it cannot control
Tata Electronics' $10.9 billion fab in Gujarat needs helium from Qatar and bromine from Israel—inputs now caught in West Asia shipping disruptions that could delay production by six to twelve…
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27 June
China’s AI microdramas are already half the top shows
Forty to fifty percent of China's highest-ranked short dramas are now AI-generated or AI-assisted, according to Media Partners Asia, reshaping how platforms compete through volume rather than budget.
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24 June
One Chinese platform owns Asia’s property deals. Nobody else can copy it.
KE Holdings' Beike reported US$9.4 billion in 2025 revenues by controlling the entire transaction—not just listings—but fragmented land records across Southeast Asia and India make replication nearly impossible.
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24 June
Seven tech firms hold a third of the market. The debt underneath just cracked.
A USD 500 billion AI infrastructure spending spree funded by bonds, not earnings, triggered a 2.3% Nasdaq drop on June 21, 2026, spreading instantly to Seoul and Tokyo as investors…
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23 June
Lazada cuts staff again. Better process changed nothing.
The Alibaba-owned platform laid off 5% of its Southeast Asia workforce on June 23, 2026, this time consulting Singapore's union first—yet the outcome remained identical to the unannounced 2024 cuts.
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23 June
China is writing the rulebook for Southeast Asia’s AI data
On May 22, the Shenzhen Data Exchange signed a memorandum with Malaysian firm Zetrix AI to pilot cross-border data trading, but the real prize is setting governance standards that will…
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20 June
A Taiwanese cobot maker is betting Thailand’s factories will follow
Techman Robot shipped over 10,000 AI-vision arms globally and is now targeting mid-tier Thai suppliers through local integrators, where robot density has nearly doubled since 2017.
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20 June
An Indian software firm just moved its Asia car code to Hanoi
KPIT Technologies opened a 100-plus engineer hub in Vietnam to tap 1.3 million ICT workers and position itself closer to ASEAN carmakers, diversifying away from China-dependent research bases.
