Tag: AI
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Southeast Asia is in the Crossfire of a War It Didn’t Start. Here’s What Companies Must Do Now.
The U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have sent oil to near $120 a barrel early this week, paralysed Gulf air freight, and exposed the region’s dangerous dependency on a single chokepoint. Waiting for clarity is not a strategy. 14 days ago, the Middle East changed irrevocably. On February 28, U.S. and Israeli forces launched nearly 900 strikes…
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The 21st century resources war: Energy, Critical Minerals & Chips
Historically, wars were fought over natural resources. Today, a new, 21st-century iteration has emerged: a competition for the resources essential to the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). The future positioning of world powers hinges on their securing and controlling the critical minerals sources, semiconductors and energy required for AI. In the past few years the…
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2025: A Year in Review
2025 is coming to an end, and what a year it has been! The inauguration of Trump as the president of the United States for the second time in January has led to a series of drastic policies threatening to upend world affairs as we know it. In April, Trump announced sweeping tariffs that had…
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Data Centers in Southeast Asia: Go green, or go home
If data is the new oil, then data centers are the new oil rigs. Driven by the AI boom, the demand for data centers has surged exponentially. The trend is set to be on a clear upward trajectory – an April 2025 McKinsey report stated that the data centers industry will require US$7 trillion of…
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Malaysia’s AI Schrödinger’s Cat is out of the box
Three weeks ago, Malaysia’s Deputy Minister for Communications launched the country’s own sovereign, full-stack Artificial Intelligence ecosystem. The initiative, named “Strategic AI Infrastructure”, is powered by Huawei’s Ascend chips. Malaysia’s bold initiative is slated to be the first in the region and first-of-its-kind outside of China. Shockingly, the announcement was retracted a day later, followed…
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