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Leveraging CRM platform for AI-powered financial i...

By Victor Ng | Oct 17, 2025 | Features

Where data sparks innovation, trust powers decisions – and impact follows

By Victor Ng | Nov 27, 2025 | Features, Smart Cities

Organizations across South-east Asia have been leveraging data and now AI to innovate for future impact. What about governments in the region?

How AI-driven discovery and social commerce are reshaping Singles Day 2025

By Victor Ng | Nov 11, 2025 | e-Commerce, Features

Meltwater’s early 11.11 data shows conversations across Southeast Asia accelerating ahead of Singles Day, led by Shopee in reach and TikTok Shop in engagement.

How useful is synthetic research and synthetic data?

By Victor Ng | Nov 5, 2025 | Features, Newsletter

Moving beyond traditional research to faster, richer insights that fill gaps in understanding customers better, can synthetic data and AI transform how business decisions are made?

Leveraging CRM platform for AI-powered financial inclusion in Asia

By Victor Ng | Oct 17, 2025 | Features

In a world where billions remain underbanked, ADVANCE.AI is leveraging HubSpot's CRM platform to scale their AI solutions for digital KYC onboarding as well as risk and fraud management solutions across Asia.

From smart cities to strained cities?

By Victor Ng | Oct 16, 2025 | Data Centers & Interconnectivity, Features

AI isn’t just transforming technology. It’s testing the limits of national grids. What can be done before our power grids get overstrained?

Storage for AI, AI for storage

By Victor Ng | Oct 7, 2025 | Features

Amid the AI adoption momentum, a critical challenge is coming into sharper focus: how storage infrastructure can keep pace with AI’s soaring data demands across complex, hybrid environments.

When failure is not an option

By Victor Ng | Oct 7, 2025 | Features, Newsletter

How far would you trust AI in critical high-stake sectors such as defense, aerospace or cybersecurity?

Designing unmanned aerial vehicles for safety and speed

By Victor Ng | Sep 30, 2025 | Case Studies, Features

SwissDrones uses Autodesk Fusion to design and produce advanced, unmanned helicopters, and looks forward to deploying AI and data analytics seamlessly on the platform.

Addressing AI-bias governance: From technical issue to strategic board-level concern

By B Swaminathan | IMAWS | Sep 29, 2025 | Features, Newsletter

AI-bias is not just a technical problem: it requires board-level governance to manage critical risks to brand equity, argues one interviewee

Clearing away the shadows of AI

By Victor Ng | Sep 23, 2025 | Features

Shadow AI is a fast-developing offshoot of shadow IT, the longstanding challenge where employees deploy unsanctioned software, cloud services, or systems within the enterprise.