PodChats for FutureCIO — Agentic Flash: Autonomous innovations powering Asia’s AI scale
In 2026, CIOs across the Asia-Pacific region are navigating a perfect storm. Generative AI and emerging agentic AI workloads are accelerating rapidly, infrastructure demands are intensifying, skilled talent remains scarce, and regulatory frameworks around data sovereignty are becoming stricter by the year. Yet despite massive investments in artificial intelligence, many organisations are not ready. According […]
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-Plus to push enterprise adoption of agentic AI
Alibaba has introduced Qwen3.6-Plus, a new artificial intelligence model designed to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic AI, with enhanced capabilities in coding, multimodal reasoning, and autonomous task execution.
AI likely to create even wider gaps
The scurry to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) is creating not only potential gaps in organisations, but also likely to result in yet another global digital divide. The discovery of single-purpose and general-purpose tools have driven major industrial revolutions, including electricity and digital computing. The next significant general-purpose technology to impact global economies, undoubtedly, would be […]