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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
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The Wrap | 11 Oct - 17 Oct 2025
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The Wrap | 4 - 10 Oct 2025
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The Wrap | 27 Sept - 3 Oct 2025
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The Wrap | 20 – 26 Sept 2025
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The Wrap | 13 – 19 Sept 2025
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The Wrap | 30 Aug – 5 Sept 2025
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