Interpreting technology, business and policy across Asia
Analysis
Public health systems across Asia-Pacific are using AI on medical images, for faster screening and fewer human reads. The chest X-ray is the clearest case of public procurement at scale.
Analysis
Shared AI hiring software can shape how candidates are assessed across employers. Southeast Asia and other APAC markets are rolling these tools out. In Singapore, a person still decides who is hired. It is still unclear whether one company's assessment is then used by the next employer.
Analysis
Industrial robots are already productive infrastructure. Humanoids are still a buyer experiment: can a general-purpose machine economically take the jobs that fixed automation cannot? The next market may be the gaps those machines leave behind.
Analysis
Across APAC, organisations are beginning to evaluate, route and replace models based on cost, capability and where inference happens. Japan, India and Hong Kong show what that looks like in practice.
Short Read
Infineon has opened Module A in Samut Prakan to test wafers and assemble power modules, and says a five-module build could make the site one of its largest backend locations.
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A US workplace study links intensive AI oversight to mental fatigue. While no public Asia-Pacific workplace count of that fatigue exists yet, what is already visible is the review itself, and a scale built by researchers in Singapore.
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ASEAN attracted USD 226 billion of FDI in 2024, with more than 60% going to Singapore. In semiconductors, ASEAN does more than 20% of global assembly, testing and packaging, and under 10% of global front-end work. The major technology decisions still tend to sit with headquarters, or with a global or regional research centre.
