APAC stories
Australian businesses face growing pressure to secure fragmented data as AI adoption outpaces the infrastructure needed to support it.
Scammers are draining older adults' savings through romance, friendship and fake AI trading pitches on social media before withdrawals are blocked.
Grid congestion is adding risk and a scarcity premium to data centre deals as AI demand drives electricity needs sharply higher.
Australia's security buyers are turning to tools that link visitor processing with access control, and Gallagher drew strong interest in Sydney.
Fraud losses and customer friction are pushing operators to use entitlement servers for silent SIM-based checks instead of vulnerable SMS codes.
The hires strengthen the agency's push into AI-driven search as brands face shifting discovery habits and tougher technical demands.
The roadshow highlights rising concern that AI systems are gaining broader access than human staff inside enterprises.
Routine software purchases are still bogged down by high-touch sales processes, even though most buyers would happily check out online.
The arrangement gives the Australian neocloud a single control layer to manage AI infrastructure and support up to 150,000 GPUs.
Online gifting shoppers across six Asia-Pacific markets should see fewer checkout errors as Limitless Technology shifts to one payment provider.
The Berlin showcase signals Dreame's push to build a broader connected-home ecosystem in Australia and New Zealand beyond robot vacuums.
The hire signals Cyara's push to win more enterprise customers in APAC as firms demand tighter oversight of AI customer-service tools.
The agreement will see Fabric train its engineers as Australia becomes a proving ground for SpaceXAI's push into enterprise software teams.
The deal gives finance teams a single platform to check supplier records and bank details as fraud risks rise across payment systems.
Client demand across Asia Pacific has tripled since BitGo won its Singapore licence, prompting a bigger hub for custody and trading.
Bug hunts at the Singapore car-sharing operator are now 50 to 60 per cent faster, helping engineers spot faults before customers notice them.
Rising demand for finance automation helped Yooz hit record platform usage in H1 2026, with its customer base topping 7,000 worldwide.
Shoppers in Hong Kong are using digital wallets more than cards, as account-to-account payments gain ground and cashless habits spread across Asia.
Japan's banks face broader cyber risk as regulators begin treating data-sharing partners and AI agents as part of the attack surface.
Most of Southeast Asia's biggest firms still leave customers exposed to spoofed emails, with only 17% enforcing the strictest DMARC setting.