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Google I/O 2026: Search Gets Agents, Gemini Gets Smarter, and AI Glasses Are Coming
Google I/O 2026 brought the company’s biggest wave of AI product announcements yet, covering a new multimodal video model, a redesigned Gemini app with 24/7 personal agents, agentic Search, cross-merchant shopping, intelligent eyewear, and sweeping developer infrastructure — all under… Continue reading
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APAC Firms Struggle to Govern Collaboration Tools Ahead of AI Agents
Two-thirds of organisations across Asia Pacific say their employees regularly use collaboration tools that have not been approved or vetted by IT teams — and 72 per cent believe these platforms are actively introducing new security risks, according to Mimecast‘s… Continue reading
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Password Stealer Attacks on SEA Businesses Up 18% in 2025
Password stealer attacks targeting businesses in Southeast Asia surged 18 per cent year-on-year in 2025, with Kaspersky‘s business solutions detecting and blocking more than one million such attacks across the region’s corporate networks — up from approximately 901,000 in 2024,… Continue reading
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Messi Beats Ronaldo in Breached Password Data, Research Finds
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup weeks away, new research from Specops, an Outpost24 company, has found that Lionel Messi outranks Cristiano Ronaldo in real-world breached password datasets — by around 26 per cent, with 1.22 million occurrences versus 923,000… Continue reading
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ATxSummit 2026 Opens with AI-for-Good Regional Push
ATxSummit 2026 opened on 19 May with a clear regional agenda: harnessing artificial intelligence for public good, as Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam presided over the Opening Gala Dinner at Gardens by the Bay attended by government leaders, international organisations, and… Continue reading
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Akamai Pays US$205M to Secure AI Use in Enterprise Browsers
Akamai Technologies has announced its intent to acquire LayerX, a provider of browser-based AI usage control and enterprise browser security technology, for US$205 million. The deal is expected to close by Q3 2026, with LayerX’s co-founders and employees joining Akamai’s… Continue reading
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Nuvola Media’s Digital Twin Cuts Keppel Tower Energy Costs
Nuvola Media, an agentic AI solutions provider for urban planning and management, has deployed its smart analytics and digital twin platform at Keppel‘s Keppel South Central — one of Singapore’s tallest Green Mark Platinum (Super Low Energy) commercial developments. The… Continue reading
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NTT DATA Acquires WinWire to Scale Enterprise Agentic AI
NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Microsoft partner specialising in agentic AI and cloud-native development, in a move designed to help enterprises operationalise AI at scale. The announcement was made on 18 May 2026. The… Continue reading
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Singapore’s HTX Partners Adobe to Combat Deepfakes
Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) and Adobe have announced a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance content authenticity technologies that can detect manipulated media and strengthen image and document verification. The agreement was announced on 18… Continue reading
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Dell Brings Copilot+ AI and Alienware 15 to Singapore
Dell Technologies has expanded its consumer and gaming laptop range in Singapore, introducing two new Copilot+ PC models alongside the latest Alienware gaming laptop. Dell 14S and 16S: On-Device AI Without the Cloud The Dell 14S and Dell 16S are… Continue reading
