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Artificial Intelligence
On the systems being built, and the sovereignty questions they are quietly asking of the region.
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AI Essay
OpenAI’s APAC headquarters is in Singapore. The hires are deployment engineers, not researchers.
OpenAI launched a four-billion-dollar Deployment Company on May 12 and made the Tomoro APAC office in Singapore the regional point of contact. The beachhead is in the buyer’s office, not its own.
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AI Dispatch
What a ten-person Singapore startup will pay Microsoft to govern its AI agents.
Microsoft moved Agent 365 to general availability on May 1, priced at fifteen US dollars per user per month. The governance layer is the small number. The compute it brackets is the large one.
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AI Essay
Malaysia is becoming a jurisdiction. The question is which kind.
Microsoft's $2.2 billion AI commitment to Malaysia is past the half-time mark. The certifications are the visible part of the deal. The data centres are the load-bearing part. Only one wins the strategic ledger.
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AI Reportage
The year the Singapore middle stopped working.
Beijing blocked the Meta-Manus acquisition this month. The architecture of cross-border AI deals built around Singapore neutrality is being read again, by founders who built around it.