We are collectively moving past the stage of speculative digital wizardry and entering a mature era of hard infrastructure and…
The Next Leap Forward may be Open Source
The digital landscape has seen a tectonic shift recently, especially because of the illogical global and regional economic or aggression…
The Pragmatist’s Pulse: Check in APAC’s AI, Robotics, and Cyber Defenses
With a daily avalanche of press releases, product launches, and technological hyperbole, we need to sift through the noise to…
From AI Scaling Pains to Robot Assembly Lines: APAC Tech’s Next Chapter
The past week showed us, from the boardrooms in Jakarta to assembly lines in Shenzhen, that AI has definitively moved…
Vietnam’s Đổi Mới 2.0 and What to Expect
Vietnam is one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia. It is aggressive and ambitious and looks set to outpace some…
Cobots, Ping-pong Aces and AI Neckbands
This past week has felt like a pivot point for the Asia-Pacific. We are moving past the “chat” phase of…
Agentic Leap and the Power of Simplicity
I have always been a geek. My journey with technology began in the 1970s, wrestling with BASIC on a Sinclair…
Silicon, Spirit, and the Agentic Shift in Asia
It seems that the recent news is all about the move from “tools” to “agents.” For years, we have treated…
More localization, more on-device, and more efficient technologies
From groundbreaking cybersecurity frameworks in ASEAN to the hardware powerhouses of Northeastern Asia, the developments over the last week are…