The Wrap
The Wrap | 7 - 13 March 2026
Editor’s Note: The frenzy around OpenClaw dominated your news feed this week. But behind the noise, several other stories were quietly unfolding in Asia.
The Wrap | 28 Feb - 6 March 2026
Editor’s Note: The world is watching China this week as the Two Sessions begin. This is where the year’s economic and industrial direction gets set, with direct consequences for trade, supply chains, and capital allocation across Asia. Beijing is using the government work report and the 15th Five-Year Plan outline to signal an unambiguous priority: tech…
The Wrap | 21 - 27 Feb 2026
Editor’s Note: Another AI heavy week. The biggest moves came from incumbents setting the terms on price, capacity, and where workloads can run. Across Asia, the questions are growing sharper: how cheap can AI get, how quickly can compute expand, and what constraints are already showing up in power, networks, and governance.
The Wrap | 14 - 20 Feb 2026
Editor’s Note: This week, Asia’s AI story was told through two showcases, one in India and one in China, and they shone a light on where the region is heading.
The Wrap | 7 - 13 Feb 2026
Editor’s Note: China is pushing AI across the full chain: technology breakthroughs, industrial growth, and wide deployment. The policy language is explicitly about commercial scale, coordination of core resources such as data, computing power and electricity, and stronger governance through standards, rules and ethical guidance. Alongside that, companie…
The Wrap | 31 Jan - 6 Feb 2026
Editor’s Note: We’re changing things around. Starting this week, the Asia Tech Lens Wrap will be more focused and more selective, highlighting a small set of moves that matter for people building, buying, or funding technology in Asia, especially in regulated and asset-heavy sectors. You’ll see fewer items and more context on why they matter. The aim is…
The Wrap | 24 – 30 Jan 2026
Editor’s Note: CNY AI race is heating up, and this year the holiday rush is doubling as a stress test for China’s consumer AI apps: can they earn a place in daily routines once the fireworks fade. At the same time, the week made one thing clearer across the region: AI momentum is now being set by infrastructure decisions. From chip approvals and memory …
The Wrap | 17 – 23 Jan 2026
Editor’s Note: This week’s stories trace a clear arc across intent, infrastructure, and impact. Around Asia, AI is being treated less as a standalone capability and more as a system that spans policy, capital, and physical assets. Governments are setting direction, investors are backing chips and compute, and companies are executing across clouds, facto…
The Wrap | 10 – 16 Jan 2026
Editor’s Note: This week’s wrap reflects a region moving at different speeds. Some players are pushing to keep models training and products shipping despite tightening constraints, while others are focused on making AI agents useful in everyday routines, not just impressive in demos. Governments, meanwhile, are moving quickly when consumer-facing tools …
The Wrap | 3 – 9 Jan 2026
Editor’s Note: This week’s mix shows Asia’s tech cycle splitting into two tracks: governance tightening on one side, and capacity building on the other. The Manus deal sits at the intersection, underscoring how cross-border AI ambition now collides with questions of regulatory jurisdiction, talent mobility, IP control, and political risk. In China and I…
The Wrap | 27 Dec 2025 – 2 Jan 2026
Editor’s Note: Happy New Year and welcome to the first Asia Tech Lens wrap of 2026! We are starting the year by looking back at the final week of 2025, which closed with a clear signal that Asian tech is entering a more operational phase.
The Wrap | 20 – 26 Dec 2025
Editor’s Note: Season’s greetings, and welcome to our last wrap of 2025. It has been an interesting year for Asian tech: less about shiny demos, more about who gets to set the defaults and the rules.
The Wrap | 13 – 19 Dec 2025
Editor’s Note: Asia woke up to a major news in the TikTok saga: the platform signed a deal on Thursday that sees its U.S. assets sold to a group of American investors. The deal ensures the social media platform can continue operating in the United States. For the rest of Asia, the takeaway is less about one blockbuster deal and more about the quiet mach…
The Wrap | 29 Nov – 5 Dec 2025
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What a week it has been for India—and for digital governance across Asia. New Delhi’s abrupt reversal on its mandatory security app showed how quickly public trust and platform pushback can redraw policy lines. Across the region, similar questions of accountability and control surfaced: South Korea faced a national reckoning after Coupang’s data leak exposed structural gaps in platform governance.
The Wrap | 22 – 28 Nov 2025
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Korea is pulling stablecoins into regulated finance, India and Malaysia are pouring billions into hyperscale AI infrastructure, and Singapore is reshaping its national AI stack by choosing Alibaba’s Qwen over Meta for local relevance. At the same time, governments are tightening platform controls and automating borders—from Singapore forcing Apple and Google to close scam loopholes to Indonesia’s biometric corridors and China’s humanoid trials. The region’s focus is shifting from apps to infrastructure, and from hype to the systems that secure identity, compute, and trust at scale.
The Wrap | 15 – 21 Nov 2025
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Nvidia’s earnings reinforced the gravitational pull the company holds over Asia’s AI ecosystem. In Tokyo, the Nikkei snapped a four-day slide on the back of AI chip optimism, even as investors worry about Japan’s fiscal trajectory and a choppy relationship with Beijing. Further south, Singapore and Taiwan doubled down on AI as strategic infrastructure: DeepMind is planting a research lab in Singapore, GlobalFoundries is buying its way deeper into silicon photonics, and Taiwan is positioning itself as an “AI island” with billions in new spend and fresh Nvidia-powered data centers.
The Wrap | 8 – 14 Nov 2025
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China is quietly rolling out more of the global AI stack than many Western headlines give it credit for. This week, Baidu open-sourced a “thinking” multimodal model it claims can match GPT-5-class systems on document and visual tasks using just a single 80GB GPU, while Huawei, China Mobile, and ZTE pushed the roadmap for 3.2T Ethernet – the plumbing that will feed the next generation of AI data centers. On factory floors, humanoid robots from Shenzhen’s UBTech are finally moving from trade-show demos to paid industrial orders.
The Wrap | 1 - 7 Nov 2025
Editor’s Note: Chip policy is industrial policy now. This week’s stories rhyme across Asia: India lines up capital and compute for deep tech; China cuts electricity bills to favor domestic AI chips; Korea’s Naver doubles down on GPUs and agents; Singapore data-center assets keep consolidating; Thailand tries to fix its IPO pipeline; and device makers li…
The Wrap | 25 - 31 Oct 2025
Editor’s Note: Asia’s tech machine didn’t idle this week, it lifted off. From NTU’s plan to hoist data centers into Low Earth Orbit to AWS doubling down on Korea, the region is re-architecting compute where land, power, and policy collide. China’s model makers pushed the pace (again), India’s IPO engine revved (again), and layoffs kept reminding everyon…
The Wrap | 18 - 24 Oct 2025
Editor’s Note: Welcome back to The Wrap by Asia Tech Lens, our weekly digest of the signals, shifts, and stories shaping Asia’s tech future.
The Wrap | 11 Oct - 17 Oct 2025
Editor’s Note: Welcome back to The Wrap by Asia Tech Lens, our weekly digest of the signals, shifts, and stories shaping Asia’s tech future.
The Wrap | 4 - 10 Oct 2025
Editor’s Note: Welcome back to The Wrap by Asia Tech Lens, our weekly digest of the signals, shifts, and stories shaping Asia’s tech future.
The Wrap | 27 Sept - 3 Oct 2025
Editor’s Note: Welcome back to The Wrap by Asia Tech Lens, our weekly digest of the signals, shifts, and stories shaping Asia’s tech future.
The Wrap | 20 – 26 Sept 2025
Editor’s Note: Welcome back to The Wrap by Asia Tech Lens, our weekly digest of the signals, shifts, and stories shaping Asia’s tech future.
The Wrap | 13 – 19 Sept 2025
Editor’s Note: Welcome back to The Wrap by Asia Tech Lens, our weekly digest of the signals, shifts, and stories shaping Asia’s tech future.
The Wrap | 30 Aug – 5 Sept 2025
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the very first edition of The Wrap by Asia Tech Lens, our new weekly digest.