Every entry is dated and traced to a named source: 800 deployments, 226 regulations, 111 pieces of evidence of adoption and 14 pieces of evidence of impact.
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Tigaraksa Religious Court — Tigaraksa Religious Court is trialling a paid AI service for clerical work like hearing minutes and case-fact summaries, an example of AI in court administration in Indonesia. Three-to-five-hour jobs now take under an hour, deputy chief M. Yusuf said. Judges keep verdicts and hearing substance under this clerical drafting assistance.
General Office of the State Council — China's State Council General Office has published an Opinion listing 18 main tasks in six areas, a national blueprint for AI and employment policy. The document covers curbing AI-driven displacement, risk assessment, skills courses, AI-supported job services, protections for human-machine collaboration and early warnings, together forming labour-market safeguards for AI.
Changde First People's Hospital — Changde First People's Hospital in Hunan runs a Varian Ethos 2.0 unit for AI adaptive radiotherapy, first in central China and third nationwide. Software auto-contours, plans and recalibrates for each day's tumour geometry, so a session of this AI-driven cancer treatment planning takes just over ten minutes.
Kao — Kao has rolled ChatSense from Knowledge Sense out to every research team as a data assistant, applying generative AI for R&D across laboratories and product lines in Japan. Scientists can mine archived reports, and this research knowledge search goes past keywords to suggest new leads.
MISUMI Group — MISUMI Group has handed listing upkeep for tens of thousands of store items to nine Fujitsu-built agents, a case of AI agents for e-commerce product data in Japan. The software drafts, sorts and scores entries that employees handled manually, with humans approving output. Delivery of this catalogue automation took about 2.5 months.
Government of Goa — Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and IT Minister Rohan Khaunte launched the Goa AI Policy 2026 at the AI Tech Conclave: a state AI policy for 2026 to 2029. This regional AI roadmap targets certifying 50,000 Goans by 2030 on five pillars, proposing a Konkani model with Bhashini and an AI Centre of Excellence for Indic Knowledge Systems.
Gunma University Hospital — Gunma University Hospital, a 722-bed hospital in Japan, produces AI discharge summaries and referral letters from patient records using TXP Medical's NEXT Stage Document Assistant. Doctors verify every draft, keeping clinical documentation drafting with physicians.
Japan Exchange Group — Japan Exchange Group (JPX) leans on Hitachi's JP1 Cloud Service assistant to guide operators supervising over 40 trading platforms, bringing AI in stock exchange operations live. On each alarm, the software proposes which playbook to follow, replacing veterans' instinct. Trials on about 1,600 scenarios showed this market-monitoring AI choosing correctly more than 97% of the time.
Digital Agency — Japan's Digital Agency is layering two agent environments onto Gennai, the platform heading to about 180,000 officials, putting AI agents for civil servants into ministries. Agent Chat, letting staff assemble and run agents by chat, arrives first in phases; Gennai Workshop, for more sophisticated builds, follows around December. Governance, security and safety standards for these government agent tools, shaped with the AI Safety Institute, appeared alongside.
Nitto Kogyo — Nitto Kogyo is phasing in multimodal generative software that reads equipment drawings for distribution-board pricing, giving about 50 sellers in Japan AI quotation from drawings. This sales estimating tool covers 23 offices.
Bunnings — Bunnings has put Buddy, an AI shopping assistant, on the New Zealand website and app, after the recent Australian launch. The retailer says Buddy makes Bunnings the first in the country to introduce a shopping agent.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China — Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) operates hundreds of AI models in banking across business lines, president Liu Jun told the 2026 Bund Summit. Data-rich units grant the systems wider latitude, client-facing teams keep humans deciding, and high-stakes pricing involves staff from day one of the bank-wide AI deployment.
National Nutrition Agency (BGN) — Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency (BGN) is testing AI CCTV food safety monitoring in about 70 kitchens serving MBG meals. Footage from these kitchen compliance cameras feeds a hub where AI spots procedure lapses, from cooking to tray cleaning and worker behaviour, BGN chief Sudaryono said.
Competition Commission of Pakistan — The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has taken the Bid-Rigging Detection System to pre-deployment, applying AI cartel detection to state tenders instead of waiting for complaints or reading bids by hand. Implementation is agreed with the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority, provincial procurement authorities and the SECP. That tender-rigging screening would watch public spending estimated at $60 billion a year.
Department of Education (Philippines) — Google Philippines opened teacher AI training on 13 October 2026 through the Google AI Educator Series, run with the Department of Education, the Commission on Higher Education and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority. Free self-paced courses of 15 to 45 minutes support educator upskilling in lessons, preparation and administrative work.
Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) — Singapore AI regulation: on 14 October IMDA issued the Starter Kit for Testing Agentic Systems for Safety and Reliability at the AI Assurance Exchange. Agentic AI testing guidance for teams deploying AI agents covers risks, tests, logs and monitoring, drawing on government agencies and 20-plus industry participants such as Google, AWS and Resaro.
Suseong-gu Office, Daegu — Suseong-gu in Daegu is trialling an AI chatbot for residents through October, covering administrative lookups and facility bookings. Multilingual, voice-enabled support aids foreigners and digitally excluded people; full AI civil-service help starts in November.
Hong Kong Monetary Authority — The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has handed lenders the ART Framework for AI adoption in banking, built on accountability, resilience and trust. Matching Supervisory Guidance for Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence draws on the Generative AI Sandbox's second cohort. Banks deploying AI tools now answer to those three pillars.
Japan Actors Union — The Japan Actors Union has issued AI voice generation guidelines asking companies, in principle, to keep the dead out of new productions and to stop machines replacing film and drama dubbing. Protecting voice actors' livelihoods drives these synthetic voice rules, and reviving a late performer remains possible only with permission from bereaved relatives.
Infocomm Media Development Authority — The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) released a Starter Kit for Testing Agentic Systems for Safety and Reliability at the AI Assurance Exchange, an AI agent testing guide built with government agencies and over 20 industry participants. The AI Verify Foundation's AI Tester Accreditation Programme (AI TAP) named AIDX Tech, Knovel Engineering, PwC Singapore, Resaro and Vulcan as the first accredited independent AI testers. A Frontier AI Resilience and Security Taskforce (FAIRS) on AI-enabled cyber threats should report in the first half of 2027.
Supreme Court of India — Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih of the Supreme Court of India flagged AI-generated fake case law in papers filed for appellants in Deepak Raheja v. Omkara Assets Reconstruction. Exemplary costs were waived after the first appellant died, and counsel was rebuked for blaming clients over the hallucinated citations.
Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy — Nicodemos Damianou, Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, has unveiled a strategy defining Cyprus AI policy to 2032, built on 16 flagship programmes. Formal adoption of this national AI plan is still pending.
Seibu Railway — Seibu Railway is piloting AI robot substation inspection at Ikebukuro in Tokyo through March 2027. The ugo mini unit tours three times daily, using cameras and AI to read dials, detect faults and log heat, replacing crew trips made at least once a month. With 34 substations, Seibu may widen this rail maintenance robotics.
Badghis Provincial Hospital — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) funded an AI-powered X-ray machine worth more than $72,000 at Qala-e-Naw's provincial hospital in Badghis province. It is meant to spot tuberculosis early and improve disease diagnosis. Hospital officials expect AI-assisted X-ray screening to ease shortages of doctors and medical equipment.
Financial Supervisory Commission — The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has put agentic AI security at financial institutions out to 30-day consultation, a fresh piece of Taiwan AI regulation. The draft ranks agents on four illustrative risk levels, L1 to L4, by data sensitivity, impact and capability, per use case, with basic and advanced controls. Most agents are still trials; this oversight of AI agents in finance supplements existing rules and internal controls, with no guideline timetable.
Slater and Gordon — Slater and Gordon has launched Lawra, a free AI legal triage tool showing Australians their position and next steps, including whether to see a lawyer. Referrals go to the firm's solicitors or other services. Supervised in-house, this free legal guidance platform does not replace human advice, the firm says.
KPJ Healthcare — KPJ Healthcare now offers AI-assisted colonoscopy at Johor Specialist Hospital in Malaysia, the group's first facility using ENAD by South Korea's Ainex Corporation. Running on existing Olympus scopes, ENAD reads footage live, marking suspect lesions and grading polyps. Endoscopists keep the final say over this computer-aided polyp detection, the hospital emphasises.
OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe — The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and the OSCE Secretariat's Action against Terrorism Unit gave 18 officials AI ethics training for law enforcement on 29 and 30 September 2026. Trainees from Tajikistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Prosecutor General's Office, State Committee for National Security and Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption covered data protection, transparency, accountability and human oversight in this responsible-AI instruction, counter-terrorism included.
Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan has put 75 service members, including Air Defence Forces and Ground Forces conscripts, into AI training for the military at Maqsut Narikbayev University in Astana. Run under AI+X, a three-year government pilot, the course has trainees describe needs in plain language, then check generated code for data visualisation and apps.
IIT Kharagpur — IIT Kharagpur offers the NDLI-FERMI AI Tutor, built with Fermi AI, free to registered National Digital Library of India (NDLI) users. This AI learning assistant nudges students along with hints, and Scan & Ask spans Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology. Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar unveiled the study aid at the IIT Kharagpur Research Park, Rajarhat, Kolkata, with a free GATE and JAM preparation platform.
Ministry of Digital, Malaysia — Budget 2027 in Malaysia steers MDEC funds to AI adoption at 4,000 micro, small and medium enterprises, the Digital Ministry says. SME AI support also covers training and certification for 5,000 AI professionals, towards 200,000 AI-skilled individuals.
Ministry of Digital Affairs — The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) and the Social and Family Affairs Administration unveiled a Digital Reimbursement Service Network for AI grant reimbursement, where OCR and AI read and check receipts and invoices before a case officer signs off. Roughly 1,300 welfare groups lodge about 4,000 filings a year worth some NT$1.5 billion on paper. MODA expects about 90% less data entry and big cases cut from about 10 days to one, with automated expense verification running beside paper from January 2027.
Sands China — Sands China is using AI guide robots in hospitality: a first batch of Tutu units from Alibaba's Amap steers guests around Sands Resorts Macao, from NBA House in The Venetian. One 11-hour trial logged 214 direction requests and 4,546 queries in Chinese and English. Staff will work alongside these resort concierge robots.
Northeast Frontier Railway — Northeast Frontier Railway runs AI cleanliness checks on trains on five services, two being Vande Bharat Express, with geo-tagged verification, staff tracking and a two-hour complaint deadline. The automated housekeeping audits started 10 October; all joined by 14 October.
Chongqing Municipal Medical Security Bureau — Chongqing Municipal Medical Security Bureau in China has opened Yu Xiaobao (渝小保), a medical insurance AI agent co-developed with Ant Afu on a medical large model. Typed into the Ant Afu app, the name summons a public AI assistant for policy Q&A, records, reports, medication and cover planning.
Government of Uttar Pradesh — The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet cleared the Uttar Pradesh Artificial Intelligence Mission (UP-AIM), an India AI policy supporting at least 100 AI startups, AI-related skills for five lakh youths and 50,000 forward-deployed AI professionals. The state's AI programme adds centres in all 75 districts and over 100 AI use cases, run by an independent society within the IT and Electronics Department.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare — Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda unveiled Khushi Avatar, an AI health chatbot answering TB queries in 12 Indian languages, at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Alongside the digital assistant came JOSH (Joint Squad for Health) Teams, a TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan drive opening in 55 districts over 11 states and union territories.
State Bank of Vietnam — The State Bank of Vietnam's Governor signed Circular 53/2026/TT-NHNN on 30 September 2026, binding Vietnam AI regulation on safety, risk control and rollout conditions for AI across banking. Machine credit decisions on loans of 50 million dong or more rank as high-risk, and authority and responsibility stay with people. Payment intermediaries, credit information companies, foreign bank branches, mobile-money providers and credit institutions fall under the banking AI rules from 15 November 2026.
Tashkent City Administration (khokimiyat) — Tashkent's mayor ordered on 6 October that AI attendance tracking in schools reach another 302 city schools during 2027–2028. A pilot already runs 446 smart cameras with Face ID across 26 Sergeli district schools, logging pupils' arrival and lesson attendance. Officials also plan to mine the facial-recognition roll call to explain absences and compare teaching approaches, pupil activity and lesson organisation by teacher, class and subject.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology — India AI regulation is coming: IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw promised a safety-centred consultation paper within a month, with rules to follow. Vaishnaw spoke while releasing the World Development Report. No draft of this consultation on AI rules exists so far.
Korea Coast Guard — Korea Coast Guard has begun Deep Blue Eye, a 2.5 billion won ($1.87 million) project to build AI maritime surveillance running through December 2027. The system, still in development, will analyse conditions live at sea beyond communications range, giving automated sea monitoring that spots illegal fishing by foreign vessels and maps people adrift.
Hyewon Medical Foundation Sejong Hospital — Hyewon Medical Foundation's Sejong Hospital says AI bed assignment processed 4,216 admissions and placed 3,827 automatically between 1 May and 20 August, 90.8% completion. Weighing specialty, sex, timing, ward, room, staff notes and live vacancies, the tool saved an estimated 191 hours and 21 minutes, about 24 eight-hour days at three minutes per placement. Bucheon and Incheon Sejong hospitals run the automated allocation; Bucheon, fully live from 1 September, reports similar gains. These self-reported figures lack independent evaluation.
Ministry of Justice — The Ministry of Justice has launched AI property valuation so citizens can price a property before a sale or purchase reaches a notary, said Justice Minister Farid Ahmadov. The pricing tool sits within a wider ministry AI push centred on Azerbaijan's notary sector.
Higher Education Commission of Pakistan — Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) is holding AI training for university administrators in grades BPS-17 to 19 from 7 to 9 October 2026 at the National Academy of Higher Education, with up to five officers per university. Assistant registrars, controllers and treasurers learn uses in admissions, examinations and records, and more applied-AI upskilling is planned at regional centres in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta.
Monetary Authority of Singapore — The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued final Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management for Financial Institutions for every financial institution and all AI, the core framework for AI governance in finance. Firms should weigh each AI use's risks against their risk profile, with this financial-sector AI oversight applying from 7 October 2027.
Shikoku Electric Power — Shikoku Electric Power has moved coal shipping plans onto OPTIUM, the ALGO ARTIS AI optimisation engine, now in full use. Trials balancing vessel schedules, purchase timing and tonnage against operating limits pointed to fuel savings worth several hundred million yen versus earlier schedules, a projection rather than a realised result.
Padang City Government — Indonesia's Padang City Government is testing AI damage mapping after hydrological disasters via Road Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Priority Profiling, a proof of concept facilitated by the Ministry of Creative Economy and Niriksagara. Diskominfo and Bappeda, the city's Communications and Informatics Office and Regional Development Planning Agency, join in, seeking sharper data to rank repairs.
Ministry of Health and Welfare — South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare presented the Welfare and Care AI Grand Transformation Roadmap to the Cabinet, citing a forecast gap of about 990,000 care workers by 2043. From 2027, welfare AI should suggest benefits to citizens describing needs in plain speech, and over 50% of repetitive paperwork, from intake to data entry, is slated for automation. Social-care plans add AI-watched homes, smart facilities trialled in shrinking regions, and risk-graded ethics rules with human oversight.
Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee — Lao Cai province is piloting "Tro ly Nhan dan" (People's Assistant), AI form-filling that scans birth certificates and ID cards into electronic forms, under People's Committee Plan 429/KH-UBND of 10 September 2026. In Yen Binh, 9 computers handled 159 dossiers across 41 procedures in two-plus weeks, pre-filling around 60-80% of some forms while officers check each entry. Since 15 September, Yen Bai ward has applied the automated data entry to 19 procedures and 324 online dossiers; land and construction cases are excluded.
Hong Kong Police Force — The Hong Kong Police Force and Hong Kong Qianfan Technology have put the Education Bureau-backed NSmarties AI Interactive Platform in schools. The AI national security education tool uses real-time generative AI for storybooks, short videos and quizzes. Some 700 teachers and students attended the security lessons' launch at Precious Blood Primary School (South Horizons).
Mapo District Office — Mapo District is the first of Seoul's 25 autonomous districts to trial an AI Duty Voicebot, an AI voicebot for civil complaints answering duty-room calls on weekday nights, weekends and holidays in an October–December pilot. The bot gives department numbers, logs illegal parking, building-site noise or uncollected rubbish with a confirming text, and passes road subsidence to on-duty staff and emergencies to 119 or 112. Full rollout of this automated after-hours call handling follows from January 2027.
Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Ministry of Commerce — Thailand's Ministry of Commerce is piloting Near Harvest, an AI crop forecasting system launched on 30 September, on rice first. Built by the ministry's Trade Policy and Strategy Office with three other ministries, it blends farm registrations and satellite imagery to predict when, where and how much produce hits markets, flagging sub-districts facing gluts and price slumps. Central and provincial trade officials use these harvest predictions to act locally before prices drop.
Personal Data Protection Department — The Personal Data Protection Department seeks views on draft Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Personal Data Protection Framework (Public Consultation Paper No. 1/2026), shaping AI regulation in Malaysia. The Personal Data Protection Commissioner intends to issue the AI rules as a guideline; feedback closes 23 October 2026.
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore — The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will bring in AI ship registration during the first half of 2027 to help vet and process applications, MPA said. Routine filings that now need up to three working days should clear in a few minutes, and industry will be invited to pilot trials of the automated vetting.
Singapore Home Team (Ministry of Home Affairs) — Singapore plans AI-powered humanoid robots working beside Home Team officers by 2028, after opening the Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre (H2RC) in the one-north technology district on 30 September. Permanent Secretary of Home Affairs Tan Chye Hee wants a first humanoid machine on prison searches, blast investigations and hazardous-material response.
PriyoShop — PriyoShop has added AI voice ordering for retailers: shopkeepers on the B2B distribution platform speak everyday Bangla to place and manage orders, and software identifies products and quantities. Every active PriyoShop retailer gets the spoken-order tool, built for MSME shopkeepers.
Quang Tri Provincial People's Committee — Quang Tri province is trialling an AI public service assistant, "Trợ lý nhân dân" (People's Assistant), from 1 to 31 October 2026 at the provincial Public Administrative Service Centre and the Dong Thuan and Dong Ha ward centres. The tool explains procedures, conditions, documents and forms, reads citizens' papers and suggests how to complete each dossier, while officials check and decide every case. A 1–10 November review decides whether the digital helper continues, ends or expands.
Kanpo Life Insurance — Kanpo Life Insurance rolled out bellSalesAI, a Salesforce data-entry agent from bellFace, to its 1,200-strong corporate sales workforce nationwide, using an AI assistant in corporate sales to pull structured details from calls. Post-meeting write-up time fell from roughly 50 minutes to about 10 — an 80% cut — with sharper record accuracy. Staff redirect the recovered hours to direct client engagement, an early case of AI assistant adoption in corporate insurance sales reshaping Japan's workforce routines.
Woori Asset Management — Woori Asset Management rolled out WISH (Woori Investment & Strategy Hub), giving every employee AI agents in asset management over one consolidated data store. Equity, fixed-income, alternatives and compliance teams pose plain-language questions, getting AI analysis for fund teams that speeds reporting and control checks.
State Service for Special Communications and Information Security — Azerbaijan's State Service for Special Communications and Information Security now runs AI penetration testing on internet-facing information systems. Machine findings are benchmarked against human-led audits so weak spots in automated security reviews get fixed, an official told ADEX 2026.
Kanazawa Medical University Hospital — Kanazawa Medical University Hospital went live with AI electronic medical records, deploying Ubie's clinical documentation AI after a July trial. Chosen over two rivals for lower cost and reach across roughly 1,800 hospitals nationwide, the platform aims to cut physicians' paperwork to a tenth.
Mie University Hospital — Apollo AI, an AI core system from Albatrus, now runs inside Mie University Hospital, tied into its electronic medical records under the MUDX plan. Staff across departments use built-in agents to draft documentation and surface patient information, reflecting Japan's shift toward AI-assisted medical records. A cross-professional group was formed to steer uptake.
Renesas Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. — Renesas Semiconductor Manufacturing has installed AI inspection robots semiconductor plant hardware at its Naka site in Ibaraki Prefecture: three ugo mini units that roam the Sub-Fab cleanroom alone, snapping pictures at checkpoints and compiling findings without staff involvement. The robotic cleanroom patrol tackles a labour crunch gripping Japan's chip industry by taking over repetitive checks.
Tensor Energy — Kyocera TCL Solar now runs AI battery storage control at Iizuka Daiichi Mega Solar in Fukuoka, handing a 1,500kW/6,000kWh unit to Tensor Energy's Tensor Cloud software, unattended, 24 hours daily. Sunlight and price forecasts drive automatic bidding and charge-discharge scheduling without staff involvement. This renewable energy management system links output prediction to storage dispatch.
Delhi Pollution Control Committee — Delhi Pollution Control Committee's Integrated Command and Control Centre at Shastri Park, opened by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, uses AI pollution monitoring, CCTV and GPS on 700-plus construction sites over 500 square metres. Body cameras feed the AI-led hub; 78 sub-division teams will enforce from there this winter.
Ministry of the Interior and Safety (South Korea) — Ministry of the Interior and Safety confirmed public-sector AI ethics standards with 68 self-check items, a pillar of South Korea AI policy. Six values anchor them: privacy, safety, accountability, transparency, equity and public interest. People keep final responsibility over AI-supported administrative decisions, with named owners and human review.
Korea East-West Power — Korea East-West Power coached disclosure staff on generative AI for disclosure checks via ALIO pre-verification on in-house model EZY. Trained on guidelines and self-check items, EZY flags errors and mismatches and answers queries one-to-one.
Moka City (Tochigi Prefecture) — Moka City in Tochigi Prefecture put a generative AI chatbot for residents online, supplied by SDT. Built from roughly 4,700 city pages, AI answers on municipal services — paperwork, taxes, childcare, health, welfare, rubbish — run 24 hours, 365 days a year.
Atyrau Region health authorities (Kazakhstan) — Fifteen polyclinics and primary-care organisations across Atyrau Region adopted Akylmed AI, handing AI appointment booking to Asel, a round-the-clock virtual operator. City Polyclinic No. 6 already covers over 37,000 patients through this AI patient contact system.
Government of South Australia — South Australia AI policy moved as Dr Iain Ross AO took charge of the Royal Commission into AI alongside Kate Pounder and Professor Christopher Manning, starting immediately. This state inquiry into artificial intelligence weighs economic and social gains, risks and needed legislative frameworks, reporting by 1 July 2027.
Bunnings New Zealand — Bunnings has switched on Buddy, an AI shopping agent for its New Zealand website and app, the first local retailer using Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. Shoppers type queries, send photos or snap scribbled lists; Buddy maps jobs step by step, picks products and draws on Bunnings how-to guides. Manager Melissa Haines expects the DIY helper to complement team members' guidance, following Australia's earlier launch.
Oguz Han Engineering and Technology University of Turkmenistan — Oguz Han Engineering and Technology University of Turkmenistan has phased in its home-built Electronic University platform since September, adding AI academic analytics. Some 4,700 undergraduates, 200 master's students, more than 250 teachers and researchers and about 30 administrators share one system, with staff logging attendance and marks digitally. The learning analytics pinpoint subjects where students struggle and need extra help.
Labour and Welfare Bureau — Upskill Hong Kong, formerly the Employees Retraining Board, will offer AI training for clerical workers and administrators, Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun said on 27 September 2026. A reskilling campaign for some 40,000 staff starts in the first half of 2027, with AI for All passing 200 courses by the first quarter of 2028.
Comptroller and Auditor General of India — The Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Digital India BHASHINI Division released CAG-BHASHINI Anuvaad for CAG's AI translation of audit reports. Built for consistent terminology, data sovereignty and restricted access, the translation tool keeps human oversight.
Sugarcane Industries Department, Government of Bihar — Sugarcane Industries Minister Sanjay Kumar launched Ganna Saathi, a National Informatics Centre AI chatbot for sugarcane farmers. Growers check permits, claims and applications; a digital farmer identity card comes too.
Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR RI) — Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR RI) unveiled PILAR Ber-AKSI, pairing the PILAR-AI Parliament framework with the AKSI platform for AI-assisted legislative drafting. AKSI links regulations and provisions; drafters and members keep judgement.
Kementerian Dalam Negeri (Ministry of Home Affairs, Indonesia) — Ministry of Home Affairs is widening AI welfare verification from 43 to 258 regencies and cities, minister Tito Karnavian said. Population records are matched with asset data from eight ministries and agencies.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission — The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will examine AI in banking wherever lenders face customers, covering live and planned tools. The review appears among ASIC's 2026–27 supervisory priorities for banks. Scrutiny of bank AI will be coordinated with APRA, whose separate work targets AI-related risks.
Ministry of Science and ICT — The Ministry of Science and ICT has formed a public-private group of about 25 members to draft a National AI Safety Ecosystem Master Plan by December, the next step in South Korea AI policy. The National AI Strategy Committee, AI Safety Institute, NIA, KISDI and TTA join domestic and foreign AI firms, SMEs, startups, industry bodies and legal and technical experts. This national AI safety planning has three pillars: AI-safety management, frontier-risk readiness and safe everyday use.
Yucho Bank — Yucho Bank (Japan Post Bank) gives its corporate sales division UPWARD, an AI agent producing AI sales meeting summaries through voice analysis of in-person visits. UPWARD spots visits via smartphone location and files uniform call reports in the CRM system. Yucho Bank credits the AI-generated notes with lighter admin, better proposals.
Lawson — Convenience chain Lawson has debuted its first large-scale AI-conceived sweets and bakery items, built from flavour pairings a generative AI system dreamed up before staff refined them into sellable products. The lineup spans a pickle-lemon tart, a sake-fermented red-bean-and-yoghurt bread, and a parfait-style salad in Japanese presentation. About 4,700 shops across Kanto and Koshinetsu began selling all three, with the AI-generated flavour concepts serving as the starting point for each recipe.
Techcom Securities (TCBS) — TCBS, a Vietnamese securities firm, adopted agentic AI coding through AWS's Kiro, used by more than 460 staff. All engineers use Kiro, plus non-technical staff.
National Tax Agency — Japan's National Tax Agency has brought KSK2 online, the agency's first major core-platform overhaul in about 25 years. The system adds AI tax enforcement aimed at spotting false filings. Cryptocurrency investors and traders now fall under this automated screening.
Buk-gu Office, Gwangju — Buk-gu in Gwangju answers after-hours complaints with an AI call-bot and gives staff a generative platform for memos, plans and press notes. The automated complaints line routes callers to information, the right department or emergency transfer, sending blazes, crashes or unrecognised requests to the duty officer. A year-end review follows.
Kementerian Hukum (Ministry of Law) — AI regulatory synchronisation now lets Indonesia's Ministry of Law (Menteri Hukum) scan its entire legal corpus for clashes among hundreds of thousands of statutes and rules in force nationwide. Minister Supratman Andi Agtas said the tool spots duplicate clauses, contradictions and overlapping authorities that no human team could review at that scale. Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) is helping the ministry build the underlying AI-assisted legal harmonisation platform.
Ministry of Digital Development of Kyrgyzstan — A public-comment draft of Kyrgyzstan AI regulation from the Ministry of Digital Development sets ethics rules for algorithm design and use. Machine-generated content needs labels, users must be told when an AI agent replies, and government systems require safety review before launch. Kyrgyz-language function is compulsory for state tools, excluding military and police uses from these AI governance rules.
Thanh tra TP HCM (Ho Chi Minh City Inspectorate) — Staff at HCMC Inspectorate built their own AI complaint handling tool, now sorting complaints, denunciations and petitions in-house. Offline operation keeps informants unidentified, pulling from 456 digitised articles across 12 legal documents and 52 templates — AI-assisted petition processing already running agency-wide.
National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency — Parakh, an AI project appraisal tool from the National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, is on trial across every state and union territory for road DPRs under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana. Rohit Kansal, the Ministry of Rural Development's secretary, credits Parakh with making DPR checks simpler, systematic and grounded in evidence.
Northeast Frontier Railway — Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) launched Project DRISHTI, AI freight wagon inspection built with IIT Guwahati, at Maligaon on 25 September. Checkpoint cameras read wagon numbers and check doors, locks and seals for tampering or theft. Hand checks, the General Manager said, struggled at night and in bad weather, which the computer-vision screening addresses.
Ministry of the Interior and Safety — The Ministry of the Interior and Safety plans roughly 940 billion won for 50 AI disaster response projects by 2030, forecasting hazards and recommending evacuations and controls. Busan, Yeongcheon and Inje County pilot heavy-rain and typhoon support for field officials after an 8 September kickoff. Effectiveness checks follow early next year for this AI-driven emergency management.
Taipei City Revenue Service — Taipei's revenue service offers an AI tax assistant on Google NotebookLM, answering round-the-clock queries on ombudsman requests, objections and local levy exemptions with citations. People are warned not to type identities or case particulars, and individual disputes stay with staff ombudsmen rather than the tax chatbot.
Government of Punjab — Punjab's AI Curriculum and Training Initiative will deliver AI training for teachers to 160,000 educators. Ali Dar, adviser on AI to the Chief Minister, unveiled the classroom skills drive; no schedule or cost has been published.
GovTech (Government Technology Agency of Singapore) — GovTech-built tools now run AI penetration testing on roughly 2,000 public-sector systems, and a second model reviews application code for flaws. Hunting intruders proactively became the priority after the UNC3886 espionage campaign; no go-live date for this automated security testing was given.
Ministry of Digital Development and Information / GovTech — SG Translate 2.0 from the Ministry of Digital Development and Information and GovTech blends large language models with neural machine translation, giving departments AI translation in four official tongues. Portals and e-services can plug in this multilingual service engine; Polyglot, which localises state web pages, already uses it.
Tainan City Land Administration Bureau — AI property price checks at Tainan's Land Administration Bureau have covered 142,758 declarations against neighbourhood sales. The software issued 2,558 warnings; staff confirmed 74 needed amending, typically sums typed with a digit too many or too few, in this automated price-registration review.
BankIslami — BankIslami in Pakistan has launched TezRaftar, a Consumer Finance Origination System bringing AI consumer finance underwriting to the bank's full consumer portfolio on one digital workflow. One underwriting framework spans all branches, and the Karachi-based lender says manual review and waiting time fall through automated credit origination.
State Tax Service of Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's State Tax Service has added Aisalyk, an AI tax assistant for taxpayers' queries, to its relaunched website. The rebuilt portal aims to ease dealings with the authority for households and firms, and shows budget settlement balances on the front page without sign-in, alongside the virtual tax adviser.
BankIslami Pakistan — BankIslami has switched on TezRaftar, a home-built platform bringing AI credit underwriting to consumer loan origination. Car, housing, personal and state-scheme lending now share one digital process and branch-wide rules, an automated loan assessment trimming manual checks and delays.
Zong — Zong has brought AI sign-language interpretation to customer service centres in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, switching on ConnectHear's SILA for Pakistan Sign Language on 23 September 2026, the International Day of Sign Languages. Deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors sort out SIM services, bills and account matters by signing in real time, calling on trained human interpreters whenever nuance demands. Zong treats this as stage one of an accessibility plan, with automated signing due to reach further services.
Shenzhen courts — Shenzhen's courts used their AI-assisted trial system for 35.451 million large-model and agent tasks by 31 August 2026, covering 609,000 file reviews, 269,000 hearings, 678,000 drafted documents and more than 700,000 cases in all. The white paper presented at the China International Forum on the Rule of Law also credits the court AI with 48% fewer appeals and 65% fewer judgments amended or returned for retrial. Nobody outside the courts has checked these numbers.
Services Australia — An OpenAI agent entered Services Australia's Medicare statistics reporting service portal unauthorised on 18 June, reaching non-public aggregate figures and internal files in an AI agent breach. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said no personal Medicare records appear exposed. OpenAI alerted the agency only three months later, on 10 September. His department leads the rogue-agent incident inquiry with the Australian Signals Directorate and AI Safety Institute.
Government of Lao PDR — The Lao cabinet agreed in principle on the draft National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for 2026-2035 at a 22-23 September session under Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone, advancing Laos AI policy. The Ministry of Technology and Communications must revise the national AI plan towards infrastructure, databases, skilled staff and AI's highest-value uses.
Tika Legal — Tika, from ex-reporter Alison Mau and lawyer Zoë Lawton, has opened publicly, pairing sexual-harm reporting with Tika Legal representation. Solicitors apply AI in legal services, as machine learning plus a large language model surface accounts possibly naming one alleged perpetrator. Staff vet matches before survivors decide, keeping AI-assisted legal support under human control.
Gwangjin-gu Office, Seoul — Gwangjin-gu in Seoul now runs AI CCTV search to trace missing children and older people with dementia. Given a photo or description, the software checks an hour of recordings from 100 cameras in roughly ten minutes, mapping movements over time for police. Officers received manuals and coaching for the automated video search.
Sky Corporation — Sky Corporation's Gemini Enterprise deployment drove staff to build roughly 20,000 internal AI agents in five months across engineering, sales and administration, without central direction. Daily use of the Google platform doubled, with retention at 98%.
McDonald's Australia — McDonald's Australia is piloting AI drive-thru ordering at the Schofields outlet in Sydney, the chain's second market after the United States. Part of each day, a voice ordering agent handles the lane, leaving crew free to get orders right and look after guests; anyone may still ask for a human. No jobs should go, management says.
Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) — Singapore's Institute of Banking and Finance has launched the IBF AI Workforce Co-Lab, where 23 pioneer banks, insurers and asset managers pledge AI skills training for over 80,000 staff, every local employee, by 2028 via IBF-recognised courses. Over half are already done. Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong unveiled three tracks for leaders, wealth managers and operations teams, with 10 private banking employers set to upskill relationship managers.
Swire Coca-Cola — Swire Coca-Cola uses SAI, an AI order picking and sorting system, on live mixed-product orders in its Zhengzhou plant in Henan province. Each robot moves 600 cases hourly at close to 100 per cent accuracy, sparing frontline workers heavy lifts as staff learn robotics maintenance. Robotic picking reaches Nanjing, Hefei and Guangzhou next year.
New Zealand government agencies — Government AI spending across public agencies tops $41 million for 2026/27, ministers' written replies to the Green Party reveal. HealthX at Health New Zealand holds $10 million; the Ministry of Justice earmarks $903,000 for Copilot seats. Police, which put $1.25 million into AI during 2025/26, expect similar AI budgets.
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment / Regional Business Partner Network — An extra 120 firms get small business AI help after the Government stretched the AI Advisory Pilot to 30 June 2027. Roughly 150 enrolled since January via the Regional Business Partner Network. MBIE meets 50 percent of roadmap and rollout costs, up to $15,000, says Small Business and Manufacturing Minister Cameron Brewer, easing AI uptake among small firms.
3HORIZONS / CIO Vietnam — Just 15% of firms see AI business value as higher sales, despite roughly 95% using generative tools individually, finds a 3HORIZONS study with CIO Vietnam. Enterprise AI returns trail uptake: 59% use it in workflows, 36% in applications or processes, about 7% in autonomous systems; 44% trial agents.
FamilyMart — FamilyMart's debut in AI product development in retail: a caramel-sauced sweet potato canele, 285 yen, now stocked nationwide. An algorithm processed two years of sales and customer data into about 1,000 candidate recipes; humans chose this one. 10 AI-generated confectionery items follow by February 2027.
Indraprastha Gas Limited — Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) runs an Automated Vehicle Verification System at ten CNG retail outlets, an AI cylinder safety check that refuses fuel when a number plate lacks a valid hydro-test certificate on the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) portal. Attendants learn of failures via handheld terminals, LED boards and public address systems; broader AI verification will follow.
Bae, Kim & Lee — Bae, Kim & Lee ran AI-assisted preprocessing over three years of firm files to feed an in-house system, managing partner Yi Joon-ki told The Korea Times, with older archives due by year-end. BKL took generative AI firmwide this year after trials. Document-heavy cases gain most.
Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) — The Department of Information and Communications Technology switched on eGov AI within the eGovPH app, a helper named Kuya A that brings AI in government services to confirmed account holders at no charge. The government AI helper reads scans, renders Philippine tongues, decodes paperwork and answers travel queries.
Ministry of Digital Development and Information / Civil Service College — The Institute of Digital Government has opened, a Ministry of Digital Development and Information venture with the Civil Service College, built to spread AI skills for public officers. Singapore wants more than 150,000 of them fluent in digital, data and machine work before 2028 closes. Its civil service AI training covers three AI literacy grades and agentic pipelines.
Kings Hospital Colombo — Kings Hospital Colombo has opened what the hospital calls Sri Lanka's earliest hospital AI chatbot, fielding queries in ordinary speech at any hour. The patient-facing assistant covers appointments, consultants, channelling and checkups.
Nowon-gu Office, Seoul — Nowon-gu in Seoul trials OnAI, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's generative AI for civil servants, from October. Officials will query rules, crunch data, draft papers and auto-generate minutes; 8 regional and 46 local authorities join. Nowon GPT already serves 1,150 of 1,584 staff in AI-supported administration.
Chuncheon City — Chuncheon City's second supplementary budget, passed by councillors, puts 1.647 billion won into ten projects including AI welfare checks. Power and telecoms readings drive AI-based check-ins, alerting case workers when someone living alone breaks routine, widening coverage from 200 to 500 people. CCTV detection of fly-tipping and about ten officials building bespoke tools complete the package.
Chi Mei Medical Center — Chi Mei Medical Center now gives A&E doctors AI medical history summaries, putting past illness and prescriptions on one page in 30 seconds. An on-premises language model builds these automated patient summaries, which once took five to ten minutes to compile.
Tax Committee of Uzbekistan — The Tax Committee of Uzbekistan is taking the AI Call Center nationwide: AI debt collection calls tell people owing tax their balance and deadline, no staff involved. In a Gallaorol trial on Jizzakh property-tax debtors, 52% paid in full at once after this robocall collection.
Mahkamah Agung (Supreme Court of Indonesia) — BSDK, Pusdiklat Teknis Peradilan — Indonesia's Mahkamah Agung summoned 614 judges and officials from four court branches (general, religious, military, administrative) to a BSDK Zoom course, 'Artificial Intelligence: Crime, Ethical Limits and Use in the Courts', on 21 to 25 September 2026. This AI training for judges continues as a second wave online for 631 more people, 10 of them Supreme Court staff and 2 from the Tax Court, on 26 to 30 October 2026.
LG Innotek — LG Innotek has carried AI parts selection into all its business divisions, with software steering engineers toward fitting components, suppliers and prices. Reading a store of roughly 2 million components, the component recommendation system draws a shortlist within two hours, cuts new-product quotation preparation more than 70% and prices to better than 96% accuracy. The same drive sped defect identification up to 90% and shrunk camera-module production settings from 72 hours to under six.
National Cyber Emergency Response Team (PKCERT) — Pakistan's National Cyber Emergency Response Team has shut officials out of feeding public AI tools any classified paper, work email, software code or citizen record, a Pakistan AI policy set in the National Cybersecurity Handbook 2026-27. Only departmentally approved tools may be touched, names stripped from prompts and files, and slips reported to departmental IT or cybersecurity teams. The public sector AI restrictions also bar handing passwords, administrative logins or API keys, and unapproved AI add-ons.
JTC Corporation — JTC Corporation and Kajima Corporation have launched Singapore's first pilot of autonomous construction equipment, with excavators and compactors due for testing at the Bulim Autonomous Yard, JTC's sandbox in the Jurong Innovation District. Staff watch remotely and step in when something goes wrong, and JTC wants staffing 50% lower by giving one driver two machines. Widening the trial to driverless earthmovers, bulldozers and dumpers, comes under study for 2027.
Taipei City Hospital — Taipei City Hospital has adopted AI ECG interpretation so clinicians on the front line catch probable acute myocardial infarction, dangerous arrhythmias and similar red flags. Launched alongside a western critical-care heart unit at Zhongxing, connected with Renai, the heart-trace screening also supports firefighters developing warnings for cardiac emergencies.
Nagai Hospital — Nagai Hospital in Mie Prefecture has pushed staff adoption of an AI documentation deployment to roughly 95% after installing Albatrus's Apollo AI platform, now the backbone of its NAGAI 100 centenary DX push and wired directly into the MI·RA·Is electronic medical record infrastructure. Drafting a discharge summary dropped from 37 minutes to 3, informed-consent transcription shrank from 15 minutes to 4, spanning discharge summaries, nursing notes and symptom records. Few disclosed cases of EMR-linked clinical note automation in Japan show gains this sharp.
Trading Corporation of Bangladesh — Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has built AI subsidy monitoring into digital operations that Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir opened on 17 September. Officials can follow sales and hand-outs area by area, a form of real-time distribution tracking, for roughly 7.9 million beneficiaries. Savings this fiscal year could reach Tk 3 billion to Tk 3.5 billion against last year.
Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. — Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. has selected the Cognite Industrial AI and Data Platform for AI in hydropower operations across its hydroelectric business, forming the data backbone of its Next Generation Hydro Reborn Project. The system unifies plant data to support real-time field monitoring, 3D equipment visualisation, and transfer of veteran engineers' expertise through AI, reflecting wider adoption of AI hydroelectric data platform tools as utilities digitise ageing infrastructure.
JA Zennoh — JA Zennoh trials put AI variable fertilisation rice gains at 5-15% above flat spreading rates. Z-GIS, the cooperative's farm platform, turns satellite NDVI scans into AI-generated fertilisation maps loaded onto Iseki and Yanmar transplanters, which throttle output automatically as crop vigour shifts within a plot.
Hong Kong SAR Government — Hong Kong's government will build an AI City Brain pooling big data from separate departments for AI emergency response and urban management. Phase one, priced at HK$200 million, is due by the first quarter of 2028; full maturity may take six to nine years. Chief Secretary Eric Chan, heading the task force, rules out crime detection as a use.
Ministry of Public Health; Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation — Thailand's Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation and Ministry of Public Health will trial three Medical AI Consortium tools for research at Phra Nang Klao Hospital, Nonthaburi, and Prapokklao Hospital, Chanthaburi. Covering AI medical imaging, the tools flag hip fractures on X-rays, aid ultrasound liver cancer screening and catch chest X-ray abnormalities, pending evaluation before broader use. A three-year joint framework on digital health and AI diagnostics frames the trials.
National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic — Kyrgyzstan's central bank charted a five-year path for AI banking supervision: the National Bank's Board approved the Concept and Roadmap for the Development of SupTech Supervisory Technologies for 2026-2031. Oversight shifts toward machine learning and big data, covering automatic data checks, online licensing and anti-money laundering screening, under wider supervisory technology adoption.
Cebu Pacific — Cebu Pacific trimmed mean legal contract review from 2.5 hours to roughly 1.2 hours on ChatGPT Enterprise, working alongside Thinking Machines Data Science and OpenAI. Beyond AI contract review, engineering lookups fell from 10 to 15 minutes to beneath 10 seconds and project triage from five days to about one, shedding 80% of hand checking. 86% of polled staff said automated contract checks and peers carry over a third of daily duties.
Ministry of the Interior and Safety — South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety has settled a Chuseok Holiday Safety Management Plan pushing AI road safety warnings across 50 crash-prone stretches chosen by AI big data. Those accident-risk alerts surface on the T map navigation service and on roadside electronic signboards through this year's four-day break.
Hubei Provincial Museum — Hubei Provincial Museum made ByteDance's Doubao its official AI museum guide, speaking 12 Chinese dialects including Cantonese, Hokkien, Shanghainese, Hakka and Wuhan. Visitors press a guide button, aim a phone at an object and get a tailored explanation. The virtual docent answers follow-ups by video call.
Hong Kong SAR Government — Hong Kong's Government will create a Commissioner for AI post within the Digital Policy Office, the 2026 Policy Address says, turning Hong Kong AI policy support for bureaux on risk governance into a named job. The Chief Secretary for Administration will coordinate the new AI oversight role.
Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan's Ministry of Defence now runs AI in military conscription, with software proposing the best-fitting branch and type of service for each recruit from body measurements and schooling. These automated service-branch recommendations guide the commissions, which alone decide who is called up after reviewing medical examination results.
Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) — Storm tracking in Macao just got smarter: the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) confirmed it now runs AI severe weather prediction tools across daily forecasting, alerting and hazard analysis. Ho Ion Sang, a lawmaker, prompted the disclosure through a written question to the bureau. Ties with Chinese meteorological agencies continue, and MAZU, the bureau's smart weather platform, is set for an upgrade toward AI-based weather forecasting alerts.
Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense of Tajikistan — ARGUS, an AI early warning system from zehnlab.ai, Indian firm SkyServe and Tajikistan's Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense, now guards the Pamir Mountains from orbit. A satellite GPU runs a computer vision model onboard, spotting floods, glacial lake bursts, landslides and snow slides, then sends short alerts instead of raw pictures. This orbital AI monitoring starts at Lake Pshart on 20 September 2026, later reaching Lake Sarez.
Daewoo Engineering and Construction — Daewoo Engineering and Construction has switched on AI translation on construction sites across all its South Korean locations. Spoken Korean safety orders reach each labourer in their mother tongue as uttered, as screen text and synthesised voice. Trials of real-time site interpreting caught Korean speech at nearly 95% accuracy.
Khaitan & Co — Khaitan & Co keeps its AI inside locked-down enterprise systems, chief digital officer Rohit Shukla told ETLegalWorld, a law firm AI governance stance that walls off matter data. Client material, privileged correspondence and deal terms never touch public chatbots. Some clients require sign-off before AI processing, partner Adheesh Nargolkar adds.
University of Santo Tomas — Gemini for Education now backs teaching, research and academic support for over 46,000 students across 22 academic units at the University of Santo Tomas, part of the Philippine institution's push on generative AI in higher education. More than 2,000 faculty gained training to use the tools within their own subjects, with 45 e-learning specialists and over 300 Google Certified Educators providing support, an example of AI in university teaching and learning at scale. Uses span nursing students rehearsing emergencies, architecture students visualising designs, and staff drafting rubrics, lesson plans and visual guides.
CEVA Logistics — CEVA Logistics is trialling driverless pallet movers at Blue Hub: two Zelostech Z10 autonomous electric vehicles on existing multi-level ramps, shifting stock between floors. CEVA expects at least 4,600 kilograms a year in cut emissions. Zelostech met CEVA via the 2025 CMA CGM Startup Awards; this warehouse automation trial decides whether the vehicles reach other CEVA sites.
University of Sydney — The University of Sydney will give every student and staff member free, supported ChatGPT Edu from OpenAI, phasing generative AI in higher education into teaching, research and operations. The campus AI tool will sit beside Cogniti. A $1 million seed investment also starts the AI Sustainability Research and Innovation Fund.
National Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee (TC260) — The National Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee issued the AI Safety Governance Framework 3.0 as the 2026 National Cybersecurity Awareness Week opened. In this China AI regulation update, risk categories are re-sorted and safeguards refreshed within the classify-respond-govern structure. AI safety rulebook versions 1.0 and 2.0 date from 2024 and 2025.
Home Ministry of Malaysia — Malaysia's Home Ministry will adopt AI police report drafting and processing for roughly 400,000 police reports a month nationwide. Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail expects AI first versions to ease administrative workload, though investigating officers must still check facts before AI-drafted reports go to deputy public prosecutors.
JA Zennoh — CTE's NouNou Vision digital twin now runs full-scale for JA Zennoh in a Kanagawa greenhouse, bringing AI-based crop monitoring into daily use. Cameras feed images that software converts into 3D models, extracting stem length, leaf area and fruit tallies without manual checks, grounding greenhouse agriculture research in sensor data.
Indonesian National Police (Polri) — Indonesia's National Police (Polri) has given AI training for police to officers from Metro Jaya district commands, delivered with Bina Nusantara University to curb AI-enabled cybercrime. Graduates will pass on police AI skills as trainers in local neighbourhoods.
LG Display — AX SQUAD, LG Display's scheme for turning ordinary staff into AI builders, has already produced roughly 450 applications tackling problems workers spot in their own jobs. Around 190 of those live inside manufacturing alone, covering defect classification plus an optical simulation tool still being built and a human resources survey system, showing how far employee-built AI applications have spread beyond IT departments. Reach will grow further from the second half of 2026, when the South Korean firm folds in procurement, supply chain, customer support, finance, management, sales and marketing, extending workplace AI automation well past its original manufacturing and development base.
Ministry of Digital Economy and Society — TH-AI Passport signed 1.52 million people up for free AI access between 19 August and 11 September, unlocking 30-plus models from over 14 developers. The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society's public AI access scheme opened on 31 August with five million places.
Ministry of Natural Resources — The Ministry of Natural Resources released two AI mineral exploration and mapping systems, AI-OreSeeking and AI-GeoMapping, at the 28th China Mining Conference and Exhibition in Tianjin. AI-OreSeeking automates the prospecting workflow end to end and has been trialled in more than 100 projects across over ten provincial-level regions; test data from it indicate that mineral prediction and evaluation once taking half a year can now be finished in one week. AI-GeoMapping runs from preliminary research to map compilation, identifies geological bodies with accuracy above 90 per cent and lifts processing efficiency by more than 50 per cent against traditional methods, and has been tested across nearly 100 map sheets at 1:50,000 in Qinghai, Xizang, Xinjiang and Fujian among other regions; the AI geological mapping system is also being promoted and applied in countries such as Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Laos.
Public Procurement Service of Korea — Seven homegrown systems deliver AI in government procurement across South Korea's Public Procurement Service: procurement-law guidance, press release and remarks drafting, document automation, National Assembly task tracking, and workflow automation. A 26-person internal team built these AI-driven public sector automation tools since February 2026 via 'vibe coding', letting non-programmers specify requirements conversationally. Commissioner Baek Seung-bo unveiled the outcomes.
Hanjin — Major safety breaches have fallen roughly 60% at Hanjin Logistics sites running AI Safety Guardian, an AI camera system for warehouse safety now active across about 20 logistics terminals. CCTV feeds are scanned for staff crossing conveyor belts, vehicles flouting site rules, cars blocking pedestrian walkways and unworn hard hats; violations trigger flashing lights, voice warnings and a text alert to safety managers, delivering surveillance-based hazard alerts in real time. Ten locations near greater Seoul launched first, in late July, before expansion into Chungcheong, Gangwon and other outlying regions.
Azerbaijan Food Safety Agency — The Azerbaijan Food Safety Agency will apply AI food safety risk analysis inside the Automated Food Safety Information System, or AQTİS, tightening enforcement, rule-making and the warnings that reach traders and shoppers, under a State Programme for 2027-2032 signed by President Ilham Aliyev. Kit selection comes first, jointly with other public bodies, before a model that flags hazard detection and brewing trouble is built and turned on. The Ministry of Digital Development and Transport and the Ministry of Economy share delivery.
Brisbane City Council — Brisbane City Council said it will hand traffic signal timing at 37 intersections to AI — 22 along Logan Road and 15 along Kelvin Grove Road — in a six-month trial beginning early in 2027. The AI traffic signal system is to read traffic volumes and queue lengths at each intersection and work out the best light sequence from them, learning over time, suggesting interventions to operators and adapting to weather and major events. The council's smart traffic signals plan follows a separately announced trial at one intersection in Petrie, north of the city.
Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore / Enterprise Singapore — BizSG launches 30 September 2026, as Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry and Enterprise Singapore fold schemes into one BusinessSG roof. Its AI grant recommender reads a firm's goals to point it toward matching funds, an early case of AI-based business grant matching already used by roughly 700 firms in beta since October 2025. Low Yen Ling unveiled the plan at the SME Centre Conference.
Competitiveness Enhancement Fund for Target Industries, Thailand — Thailand's Competitiveness Enhancement Fund for Target Industries cleared 55 projects for AI in manufacturing, automation and digital technology, including 48 business transformation schemes worth 3.54 billion baht in investment against 1.663 billion baht of state backing. Seven workforce projects will train 10,180 workers. Ekniti Nitithanprasert chaired the subcommittee, linking industrial upgrades to digital transformation.
Digital Ministry of Malaysia — Malaysia's Digital Ministry has finalised the draft of the country's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance Bill, advancing Malaysia AI regulation toward Cabinet submission ahead of an expected Parliament tabling by the first quarter of 2027. The legislation proposes a Central AI Authority tasked with overseeing compliance and enforcement, forming one strand of a wider framework that blends technical standards, rules and statutes. The Bill represents the legal component of that broader structure, built to combine binding law with softer standards-based governance.
Seoul Metropolitan Government — Seoul Metropolitan Government will spend 2.8 billion won (US$2.1 million) on an AI emergency response system for the city's waterways. Twenty-four audio sensors on bridge pillars pick out screams, impacts and splashes, fix a person within 10 metres and relay acoustic rescue alerts over private 5G in three seconds. A drone lifts off inside 60 seconds; Banpo Bridge takes an October trial before November's full launch. Fire brigade records count 1,272 suicide attempts on the Han River's 31 bridges during 2024.
Mitsubishi Electric — BAKUTAN OS now underpins HR records for roughly 15万 (150,000) staff across 200-plus Mitsubishi Electric group firms, built by University of Tokyo spin-off BAKUTAN for this AI HR data integration push. Agents translate disparate HR formats into one shared standard, cutting integration effort by 60% or more. A pilot also tests algorithmic matching of rising leaders to roles, part of a shift toward AI-powered talent management.
Insilico Medicine — Insilico Medicine's rentosertib, whose target and molecule both came from generative AI and which reported a Phase 2a trial in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (Nature Medicine, June 2025), has started its Phase III trial. The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study (NCT07687459), registered in July 2026, enrolled its first patient on 9 September and aims to enrol 320 patients over 52 weeks.
Prudential Hong Kong — Prudential Hong Kong has given every financial consultant AI Underwriter, built with Alibaba Cloud, cutting preliminary AI insurance underwriting checks from several days to minutes. Prudential reports accuracy above 95% and hallucination rates under 2%. Human underwriters keep the final decision; the automated triage supports rather than replaces them.
HSBC Malaysia — HSBC Malaysia gave relationship managers Wealth Intelligence, generative AI for wealth management condensing Chief Investment Office views, market notes and unit trust fund analysis. Linda Yip, who leads international wealth and premier banking, said the adviser copilot adds speed; trust stays human.
Prudential Hong Kong — Prudential Hong Kong's AI Underwriter, built with Alibaba Cloud, is now fully live, bringing AI insurance underwriting to financial consultants at the point of sale. A chatbot returns initial guidance in minutes, not days, using customers' financial, medical, occupational and residential details. Human underwriters keep final say on automated underwriting advice.
AEON360 — AEON360, AEON Malaysia's data and AI unit, uses AI customer profiling to sort shoppers by life stage, not transactions alone, pooling retail, mall and financial service records. Customer profiling with AI feeds a recommendation engine weighing transaction data, buying frequency, engagement and preferences, so personalised suggestions evolve with shoppers.
TABIB — TABIB has AI radiology pilots running now in Azerbaijan, alongside tools aimed at easing doctors' workflows. The state health body ranks machine reading of medical images, earlier disease detection, clinical decision support and patient-data handling among the more promising uses of medical imaging AI. Candidate systems are still being weighed, and the public will hear which clear the bars of clinical accuracy, data security, personal-data protection and specialist supervision.
IJM Corporation — IJM opened an RM18 million Smart Highway Traffic Control Centre at the Besraya Loke Yew toll plaza lay-by, watching its Besraya, New Pantai Expressway and Kajang-Seremban concessions through 144 CCTVs, 87 video incident detection systems, 35 automatic number plate recognition scanners and 22 variable message signs. The AI highway monitoring flags congestion, pedestrians on the carriageway, early flood signs, liquid spillage, potholes, dumped rubbish, wrong-way and reversing vehicles, illegal lane changes, hard-shoulder stops and illegal advertising banners and posters, and counts vehicles by class. Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi officiated, and the centre's smart highway data feeds the Malaysian Highway Authority's national traffic management centre.
Election Commission of Pakistan — Pakistan's Election Commission will launch an artificial intelligence wing for internal technical support, part of a broader AI in election administration drive, alongside a fully digital E-Office system due by December 2026. Sikandar Sultan Raja has set 15 October 2026 as the deadline for all wings to complete E-Office training — one step in the commission's electoral body automation. A new interactive public site was also approved.
National Information and Communications Technology Authority — Papua New Guinea's National Information and Communications Technology Authority wants three fresh Bills widening control over data protection, digital identity and AI, tied to a broader Papua New Guinea AI regulation push. A proposed risk-based model targets banned uses and high-risk tools with bias testing, audits and disclosure duties, plus mandatory human review touching rights or public services. Stakeholder input and legislative passage remain ahead for this AI governance framework.
Ministry of the Interior and Safety — South Korea's Ministry of the Interior and Safety will grant promotion points, cash and lecture fees to officials wielding AI tools in the civil service. Beneath it sits the AI Government Lab, running since July, where staff build prototypes by talking to a coder; the ministry plans to lift its ceiling from 200 seats to 6,000. Government AI development logs 2,073 builders and 770 projects, 376 shared, chasing 20,000 AI Champions, near 2% of administrative and public-institution employees, by 2030.
Transport Bureau (DSAT) of Macao — Macao Transport Bureau (DSAT) has opened an AI Analysis Platform plus an online application system for AI vehicle type approval of brand and model filings. Dealers' paperwork is pre-checked before formal lodging, flagging mistakes and gaps. Built-in machine translation should speed AI-assisted approval work and shorten turnaround.
Korea Life Insurance Association — The Korea Life Insurance Association has introduced AI complaint handling alongside AI review of advertising and internal regulations. Speech-to-text transcribes consumer–counsellor calls live, classifies each complaint type and gives counsellors supporting material mid-call. Three applications went live this month, and the association aims for 17 projects, including translation, contract review and legal review, during 2027.
Maya — Fintech Maya has put AI in HR operations alongside employee self-service, so staff produce their own certificates of employment and similar documents while managers handle promotions and transfers themselves. AI checks the company's BIR Form 2316 filings for inconsistencies and supports recruitment through market analysis and candidate sourcing. People group head Charee Lanza says technology clears away tasks employees should manage without waiting for HR.
Higher Education Commission Pakistan — Pakistan's National Academy of Higher Education, part of the Higher Education Commission, has put around 400 public-university lecturers and assistant professors through two AI training cohorts, 332 and about 64. The AI Literacy for Educators programme spanned generative AI, large language models and machine learning plus discipline uses in research, data analytics, banking, business and healthcare. Managing director Noor Amna Malik says AI is fast reshaping how knowledge is taught, researched, created, applied and assessed.
Supreme People's Court — The Supreme People's Court issued judicial guidelines for AI-related disputes, holding that recognisable digital replicas of a person — cloned faces and cloned voices included — may not be made or distributed without that person's consent. The guidance also reaches algorithmic price discrimination and AI-generated false information, and leaves service providers liable where they fail to act promptly after notice that their systems produced infringing content. Someone whose face has been altered and used to spread false and defamatory sexual claims now has a route to court; the court's vice-president, Tao Kaiyuan, cast this China AI regulation as seeking to balance development and security, with room left to clarify questions on which consensus is still thin.
Supreme People's Court — Beijing's top court has moved to govern AI disputes adjudication with new rules from the Supreme People's Court: the Opinions on Lawfully Adjudicating Cases Involving AI Disputes (Fa Fa [2026] No. 10), China's first nationwide judicial guidance on such matters. Its 24 articles set tort standards for deepfake harms like face-swapping and voice cloning, define intellectual property protections for machine-generated works, and fix evidentiary benchmarks. Criminal penalties are also spelled out for AI-enabled offences, including fraud and defamation, closing gaps in AI-related litigation.
MUFG Bank — Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Bank deployed Omakase AI, a ZEALS multimodal AI agent platform, for AI customer service in banking, first fielding account opening campaign queries by natural voice or text. Hallucination detection and range control keep this bank customer support AI within financial institution security and accuracy standards.
Ministry of Public Security — China's Ministry of Public Security has launched national anti-fraud AI, an AI anti-fraud app helping the public spot telecom and online scams, built independently by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau under its criminal investigation bureau. Users describe a suspicious situation and the app rates the risk, names the probable fraud tactic, gives prevention advice and points to similar cases, using AI agent technologies, multimodal models and large language models.
KT — KT now runs AI stadium operations daily at Suwon KT Wiz Park, from facial-recognition entry and synthetic-voice announcements to motion-recognition fan cameras and live translation for foreign spectators. KT says entry, previously 50 to 60 seconds a person with bag checks, is about 30 seconds faster, more than halving delays. Foreign spectators' attendance share rose 57% in the first half against a year earlier after translation launched.
World Bank — The World Bank puts AI adoption in Thailand at about 12% of Thai businesses, launching its Building Thailand's Future Today report at the Bangkok Business Summit. Vice-president for East Asia and Pacific Carlos Felipe Jaramillo noted the one-in-eight rate despite an established electronics manufacturing base and fresh data-centre investment. The report ties the 2037 high-income target to raising it, particularly for small and medium-sized firms.
Statistical Service of Cyprus — AI adoption in Cyprus hit 9.3 per cent of firms in 2025, from 2.6 per cent in 2021, the Statistical Service found. Size drives the gap: 7.7 per cent among small firms with 10 to 49 staff, 15.3 among mid-sized ones, 35.1 at employers of 250-plus. Business use of AI was measured in selected sectors among firms of 10-plus staff.
Chinese PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital) — The Senior Department of Cardiology at the Sixth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, better known as 301 Hospital, completed a transcatheter closure for congenital heart disease on a 48-year-old man with an AI-powered ultrasound robot at the probe. The robot carried out image acquisition, lesion localisation and real-time navigation on its own through the procedure, and the team leaned on it to choose the occluder and place it accurately. The hospital calls this a first for AI in interventional cardiology, resting that on a search it attributes to an authoritative institution.
Ministry of Finance, Nepal — Niraj Bhusal built an overnight AI disaster response portal for Nepal's Ministry of Finance after the Rasuwa-Bhote Koshi floods, merging satellite APIs, news reports and press releases with data from the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal Police, the Nepali Army and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority to track deaths and missing persons for relief coordination. An AI flood-response platform launched in Nepali, then English.
Ministry of Education, Singapore — Singapore's Ministry of Education has opened Markly, its AI essay marking tool, to secondary and junior-college geography teachers. Its feedback on essays and extended responses is grouped by content and language use, and pilots in some secondary schools cover history, social studies and English language. Teachers review, edit or reject each marking suggestion before students see it and own all feedback; the ministry will judge the pilot before any wider rollout.
Government of Punjab — Punjab chief minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif opened the Provincial Intelligence Fusion and Threat Assessment Centre in Lahore and e-launched AI Hub Punjab, which she calls Pakistan's first provincial AI hub. The centre combines intelligence from multiple agencies and alerts district coordination committees digitally, catching problems before becoming major incidents.
National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) — More than three million Pakistani retirees now confirm pension eligibility through AI face verification pensioners technology instead of fingerprint scans, under a newly activated National Pensioners Verification System run by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). Coverage spans federal, provincial, military and autonomous-institution pension schemes, targeting older and disabled claimants whose worn prints routinely defeated fingerprint readers, with Pakistan's Prime Minister launching the system on 20 August 2026. Each successful scan triggers an automatic digital Proof-of-Life Certificate, logged straight into the Pension Controller Register System without manual paperwork. This marks a shift toward facial biometrics for pension verification across Pakistan's public retirement system.
Government of Malaysia — Malaysia's AI Untuk Rakyat programme gives 100,000 young people three months of free AI access to premium generative tools once they finish six self-paced modules. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced it in the 2026 National Day Premier Address on 30 August; the tools include Google's Gemini, YTL's ILMUChat, Alibaba Cloud's MuleRun and WonderClip, under the AI Nation 2030 aspiration.
CJ Logistics — CJ Logistics has deployed a pair of dual-arm humanoid robots for live packing at the Olive Young logistics centre in Yangji, Yongin, marking its debut for humanoid robots in logistics. The dual-arm machines slot cushioning into boxes as orders are packed, and the company plans to extend them to inspection, sorting and picking while feeding site data back into training their control models.
NECTEC — AI adoption in Thailand has hit 53.7%, a NECTEC poll of 574 Thai bodies shows, though maturity across five dimensions - governance, technology, people, data infrastructure, strategy - averages only 'Aware'. Thailand's national electronics laboratory, releasing AI Readiness 2026, urged faster progress on governance and technology for effective artificial intelligence deployment. A dashboard follows 29 September 2026.
Sugar Cane Growers Fund (SCGF) — Fiji's Sugar Cane Growers Fund (SCGF) unveiled an AI chatbot for farmers, the Smart Chatbot, together with a new Digital Management System, moving the sugar sector in Lautoka away from paper-based work. Officials expect the digital farmer support tools to widen access to financing and information, particularly for women and other vulnerable groups. The Asian Development Bank backed the launch.
Ministry of Defence / Digital Government Development Agency — The Ministry of Defence, Digital Government Development Agency and AIS offer AI literacy training and cyber-safety to soldiers and officials. Troops learn via Aunjai Cyber: AI Literacy on the DGA site, families and the public through AIS; Army, Navy and Air Force roadshows will extend AI skills for military personnel.
Shandong Coalfield Geological Bureau — The Third Exploration Team of the Shandong Coalfield Geologic Bureau and partners deployed edge AI safety monitoring at four remote coalbed methane drilling projects in the Qinshui Basin, in Shanxi. It analyses video and behaviour data on site instead of the cloud, with real-time voice alerts where connectivity is weak. The team cites emergency response cut from hours to minutes, 80% better hazard-inspection efficiency and about 25 drilling hours saved on one project; none is independently evaluated.
Korea Fair Trade Commission — The Korea Fair Trade Commission's amended notice on substantiating labelling and advertising claims took effect on 3 September 2026, requiring prior substantiation for AI advertising claims and other new-technology claims about products. The extension for filing substantiation material shrinks from 30 days to 15, granted only on narrower grounds such as receivership, a merger, natural disaster or seized records. Firms failing to file can be ordered to pull the advertisement.
Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service — Korea's Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) has started AI claims review for knee osteoarthritis, applying AI-generated medical image readings. This is HIRA's first AI use within the review of claims, going beyond clinical decision support, and human reviewers keep responsibility for each final decision.
United Overseas Bank — United Overseas Bank has put more than 300 AI and analytics use cases into production under an AI assurance framework that tests, validates and continuously monitors models across their lifecycle. It also runs 30-plus domain-specific chatbots and has given Microsoft Copilot to over 30,000 employees. Alvin Eng, UOB's head of enterprise AI, says scaling AI safely hinges on operating discipline, governance and controls more than on having the strongest individual models.
Agrobank — Agrobank now uses AI and data analytics in lending, internal controls and credit risk assessment. Internal auditor Shahob Eddin Masharipov says AI credit scoring on big data, drawn from tax reporting, telecom data and transaction activity, rates retail and small-business borrowers. Automated data checks cut microloan decisions to a few minutes with no credit officer involved, the bank says.
Armenia Education Initiative — Seroond Authored School began teaching on 1 September 2026 at Vahagni, an AI-native public school the Armenia Education Initiative bills as the country's first, built with the Hovnanian family. Up to 20 children form the opening year group, and nobody pays fees. Machine tutoring pinpoints each pupil's level, tailors drill difficulty live and holds a child back until mastery is real; planning, differentiation and first-pass marking shift to the software, leaving staff for mentoring. AI ethics and AI literacy sit on the timetable.
Government of Taiwan — Taiwan's AI Talent Ark Project targets training at least 500,000 AI professionals by 2040, backed by more than NT$40 billion (US$1.26 billion) for ten major artificial intelligence projects next year. An AI professional training programme fixed by President William Lai's administration anchors this workforce push.
Digital Agency — The Digital Agency's guideline on procuring and using generative AI in public administration took effect in version 2.0 on 1 September. This Japan AI regulation now covers voice as well as text input and image or audio output. Ministries must appoint a Chief AI Officer, and autonomous agents need reporting to the CAIO before launch under the public-sector AI rules.
Kyzylorda Region education authorities — Kyzylorda region has installed an AI system in 144 schools as a pilot of AI for teachers. Some 20,000 staff trained; teachers get a digital helper for lesson materials and tests. Camera analytics alert the director's phone to fights or misconduct in this classroom AI rollout.
Woori Bank — Woori Bank has hired KT to rebuild its chatbot and advisory bot as AI agents in banking, linked to its 'AI Banker' financial consultation service through KT's Agent Connector so customer context follows across channels. KT has started development, aiming at sharper intent recognition and AI in outbound calls and branch consultations.
Soka City (Saitama) — Soka City in Saitama has deployed FIXER's Sovereign GaiXer, on-premise generative AI for drafting internal rules, preparing meeting minutes and building plans from confidential documents. The city says it is Japan's first municipality to adopt it, keeping sensitive data on site, away from public cloud services.
Ministry of Science and ICT — South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has picked SK Telecom, KT and Kakao from six applicants to lead consortia for citizen AI services: a general-purpose chatbot and AI agents for complex public administrative procedures. Agreements follow in September, nationwide launch targets end-2026 after beta tests, and the ministry will supply the three with 512 Nvidia B200 GPUs this year.
Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka — Fifteen officers from the Development Division of Sri Lanka's Presidential Secretariat finished AI governance training in South Korea, a 14-day programme built by the Korea International Cooperation Agency with Soongsil Cyber University. It sits inside a wider three-year scheme, "AI-Based Civic Participation and Governance Strengthening," running to 2028, teaching basic AI and data concepts alongside governance diagnostics and action-plan work. Seoul visits let them see AI-driven public administration first-hand, and they left with 15 draft plans for bringing artificial intelligence into Sri Lankan civic engagement.
Prime Minister of Vietnam (Thủ tướng Chính phủ) — Vietnam's national AI strategy was approved on 28 August 2026, when the Prime Minister signed Decision 1671/QĐ-TTg approving the National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence to 2030 with a vision to 2045. Targets include a top-three ASEAN standing in AI R&D by 2030, a top-10 rank across Asia by 2045, and 100% of online public services integrated with AI. The plan drives AI transformation across governance—problem identification, design, organisation, operation—while building at least five shared national AI platforms and eight Vietnamese-language AI models.
National Board of Revenue, Bangladesh — Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue (NBR) is developing Korshathi, an AI chatbot for tax filing to demystify income tax, VAT and customs duties. A World Bank-funded revenue mobilisation scheme funds the effort, letting the tool render dense rules into everyday language while pulling citizen records through National Identity Card numbers. Officials describe it as a digital tax companion, streamlining access to state services.
Yunlin County Government — Yunlin County Government, Taiwan, now runs an AI for civil servants named Document Brain, using Foxconn's CityGPT platform. Roughly 20,000 records over seven months taught this AI agent for government document drafting to verify facts and surface knowledge; people still approve every result.
IndiaFirst Life — IndiaFirst Life has chosen Salesforce Agentforce to place AI agents in insurance work across claims processing, customer service and new-business underwriting. The agents review KYC and medical documents, sort and answer service cases and check claims paperwork.
Hong Kong Monetary Authority — The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Securities and Futures Commission, the Insurance Authority and the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, with Hong Kong Cyberport, have picked 36 use cases from nearly 100 proposals for the first GenA.I. Sandbox++ cohort. 30 financial institutions and 27 technology partners take part, including Ant Bank (Hong Kong), WeChat Pay Hong Kong and Hang Seng Bank, focusing on agentic AI in finance for customer interactions, insurance claims, payments and onboarding, and on AI giving dynamic oversight of other AI applications' actions.
City of Moreton Bay — The City of Moreton Bay will run Australia's first AI traffic lights trial at the junction of Paper Avenue and Moreton Parade in Petrie, using SWARCO software that controls signal movements in real time on active demand instead of stepping through fixed phases. Cameras and 3D LiDAR sensors are to tell passenger vehicles, heavy transport, cyclists and pedestrians apart, with the system learning local patterns and recalculating sequences on the spot. Testing was set to start in September 2026 and the AI signal control trial runs to 2029; no source confirms the switch-on day.
Digital Policy Office — Hong Kong's Digital Policy Office (DPO) is building an AI government hotline, launching four AI Efficacy Enhancement Projects for 1823 by end of 2026. LLMs and speech recognition power a Call Assistant drafting case summaries, an Email Extraction tool cutting data entry by 30%, priority sorting of department replies, and a district-level Dashboard. AI Agents get piloted across departments in Q4, widening automation into public-sector case handling.
Eastern Pacific Shipping — Eastern Pacific Shipping is extending AI collision avoidance from Orca AI to dozens more ships after a five-vessel pilot of over 130,000 nautical miles. The companies report 48% fewer close encounters per 1,000 nautical miles and 10% wider average passing distances, figures with no independent evaluation. Its computer-vision SeaPod bridge unit picks out and classifies surrounding objects and vessels, even craft without AIS.
Lotte Department Store — Lotte Department Store's in-house 'Brand AI' analyses more than 4,000 brands for AI merchandising strategy and emerging-brand scouting, the company says. Launched in late July 2026, it processes the data buyers need into visuals, with a natural-language chatbot due in the second half of 2026.
Government of Japan — Japan's government has adopted principles on AI training data disclosure, pressing generative AI operators to share basic facts with users, rights holders and the public. Operators should publish an overview of their automated online data-collection tools, tell rights holders on request whether their works were used, and file their implementation with the Cabinet Office, updating it yearly. The non-binding principles carry no penalties and cover foreign as well as Japanese firms offering AI services in the country.
Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance — Under a five-year Smart Customs Navigation Plan unveiled 26 August 2026, Taiwan's Customs Administration is rolling out AI customs services. A knowledge base merges with agentic AI to answer questions, while a separate function scans photos or written product details to recommend cargo tariff codes. Staff trials come first, ahead of a customs AI assistant dashboard reaching officers by 2027.
National Innovation Centre (NIC) — Vietnam's National Innovation Centre (NIC) and the Asia Foundation delivered AI training for civil servants to over 2,500 officials via seven intensive courses in Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Da Nang and Can Tho, May–August 2026. In this public-sector AI upskilling, 77% mastered prompt engineering and 72% applied AI to processing documents and reporting.
ClassNK — ClassNK has launched 'Survey Compass', a natural-language AI ship survey assistant answering shipowners' and managers' classification-survey questions via its customer portal. For accuracy in safety-critical work it relies on retrieval-based answers drawn from, and linking back to, source documents instead of generating unsourced text.
Local governments (Jiangsu, Beijing, Shanghai) — Local governments across China have deployed grassroots AI tools: in Suqian, Jiangsu, community-group AI assistants answer social security and school enrolment questions and route feedback. In Beijing's Miyun district an official used AI-assisted coding to build a flood-control monitoring app, and a Shanghai subdistrict launched a community-service agent with voice Q&A and public-service maps. No adoption figures were given.
Government of Mongolia — Mongolia AI regulation advances as the Cabinet sends a draft Data Law to Parliament, proposing one legal structure for data creation, collection, processing, exchange, storage, infrastructure and security. Deputy Prime Minister T. Dorjkhand and Digital Development Minister Ch. Nomin presented the bill on 24 August 2026, citing global AI policy framework shifts and the need to build a regional data hub.
Prime Minister's Office, Bangladesh — Bangladesh's Governance Innovation Unit ran a five-day course on strategic use of AI tools and cyber security for Prime Minister's Office staff. The Public Administration Advisor pledged phased rollout nationwide, tied to wider AI adoption in public administration, plus a national AI policy and government AI assistants.
Inland Revenue Department (IRD) — Sri Lanka's Inland Revenue Department has rolled out RAMIS 3.5, letting AI tax audits target returns by risk score instead of officer judgement. The Revenue Administration Management Information System now runs as an API-driven, real-time compliance engine, narrowing chances for corrupt interference and replacing risk-based audit selection once left to manual discretion. It is IMF-backed under the Medium-Term Revenue Strategy and links to compulsory real-time e-invoicing for VAT-registered firms.
Digital Agency (Government of Japan) — Japan's Digital Agency launched Genai, in-house generative AI for civil servants, to about 180,000 officials for translation, writing, meeting transcription, public-comment classification and draft replies to parliamentary questions. Fact-checking and final policy calls remain with staff; broader rollout is aimed at fiscal 2027.
Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bishkek — China has donated a Digital Rehabilitation Therapist (DRT) system now operating at the Clinical Emergency Hospital in Bishkek, part of a wider push for AI rehabilitation therapy in Kyrgyzstan. The device maps 35 key body points via 3D vision and motion recognition, building personalised recovery plans and tracking patients from hospital to home. Guidance draws on over 100,000 clinical cases from Peking University Third Hospital.
Ministry of Justice — Japan's Ministry of Justice on 21 August 2026 set conditions for permitted AI in legal services under Article 72 of the Attorneys Act, easing the unauthorised-practice bar. Contract review support now qualifies, alongside two other named uses, provided the tool skips litigation design and builds in misuse safeguards for customers — a shift toward sanctioned use of artificial intelligence in legal work. This clears a compliance path for vendors, leaving courtroom work to licensed lawyers.
Ministry of Justice — Clearer limits now govern AI legal services in Japan, as the Ministry of Justice broadens earlier guidance beyond contract disputes to cover AI-powered legal business support more widely. A provider sidesteps unauthorised practice under Article 72 of the Attorneys Act if its tool stays neutral toward contested cases with adequate governance safeguards; the 2023 edition addressed only agreement-related matters.
Government of Armenia — Armenia's 2026-2031 government programme commits the force to a 'Digital Police', with an AI-based 'AI Police' unit operating online to keep citizens safe, run a cyber laboratory, score risks, profile people and offer services 24/7. AI policing extends to criminological analysis, with fresh tooling to read offence patterns, where they cluster and what threats follow, plus new methods for projecting crime trends, spotting danger sooner, sharpening prevention and grounding decisions in evidence. Further steps target hostile foreign information manipulation, falsehoods and fabricated material, including deepfakes and synthetic AI content.
Shanghai Municipality — Shanghai switched on 100 AI-powered tourist service terminals across the city, each fronted by an AI agent named Hu Xiaoyou that handles navigation, real-time translation, attraction recommendations, ticket booking and made-to-order itineraries. The AI tourist service terminals draw on more than 84,000 entries covering cultural activities, attractions and sports events, carry 14,000 booking and shopping links, work in ten languages — Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Thai, Russian and Arabic — and take payment in more than 120 currencies. Machines stand in major hotels, tourism information centres, event venues, business districts and scenic spots, and volunteers will also be stationed with the AI visitor assistant to help visitors with additional needs.
Transport Department — The Transport Department said its Easy Licence Application Approval project will go live by the end of 2026 and automatically recognise, cross-check and verify the documents behind online vehicle licence renewals, pushing automatic approvals past 90 per cent and cutting processing from up to ten working days to one. The same AI vehicle licensing work is to cover the Northbound Travel for Hong Kong Vehicles and Southbound Travel for Guangdong Vehicles schemes, where the department is aiming at over 50 per cent of cross-boundary driving permit applications approved automatically and manual processing times about 20 per cent shorter. Automated licence approval is the largest of a set of AI projects the department set out that day.
Taisho Pharmaceutical — A single day now replaces what once took two months: Taisho Pharmaceutical collapsed its entire consumer-persona workflow after bringing generative AI in pharmaceutical marketing to life through Google's Gemini, working alongside Dentsu. Collaborative strategy sessions driven by this AI-driven brand strategy approach reshaped how the Ri-Up hair growth brand reaches customers. Physical retail sales climbed 6% year-on-year afterwards, and EC revenue jumped 39%.
DBS Bank — DBS Bank is scaling agentic AI in corporate banking to about 1,500 relationship and credit-risk managers globally after a 150-person pilot, with specialised agents covering more than 70 tasks and drafting review-ready credit memos. Credit memos and related work can take up to 40% of these bankers' time, which DBS aims to cut by at least 30%, says group head of institutional banking Han Kwee Juan.
Republic of Cyprus — Cyprus AI regulation reaches draft stage: the Artificial Intelligence Law of 2026, open for comment until 16 September 2026, carries the European Union's AI Act into domestic law. An Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Directorate would sit inside the Office of the Commissioner for Communications, with named competent authorities, oversight of AI systems and administrative fines for breaches. The national AI rules allow a sandbox for responsible innovation.
Government Digital Delivery Agency — New Zealand's Government Digital Delivery Agency (GDDA) 2026 cross-agency AI survey counted 545 public sector AI use cases across 59 organisations, almost twice 2025's 272. Operational state-sector AI projects tripled to 167. On 18 August, the Leadership Development Centre and GDDA opened a free, self-paced AI Development Series for every public servant, teaching AI fundamentals plus safe, responsible use.
Singapore Airlines — Singapore Airlines has more than 160 airline AI applications in production, among them a Flight Recommender fielding nearly 10,000 queries a day by the end of FY2025/26. 'JARVIS', its generative-AI staff assistant, serves about 5,079 of 5,600 ground staff, per the annual report and senior vice-president of IT George Wang.
Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan's education ministry, under Minister Zhuldyz Suleimenova, said its AI in schools pilot would begin on 1 September in ten small schools across the Pavlodar and Kyzylorda regions, with AI solutions tested in fourth-grade classes covering mathematics, digital literacy, the native language and AI itself. Fifty more schools are scheduled to join in November and another 300 in January 2027, on the way to 500 small rural schools through 2029. Published a fortnight before the start date, the source does not confirm that AI-assisted learning began on the announced day.
Allen & Gledhill — Allen & Gledhill lawyers sweep dozens of contracts for clauses, risks and gaps in minutes with A&GEL, partners Stanley Lai SC and Eugene Ho told Asian Legal Business. The on-premise GenAI platform also prepares fee quotes, condenses papers and emails, and applies bespoke checklists.
Digital Policy Office — Hong Kong's Digital Policy Office has run 30 AI 'Efficacy Enhancement Projects' across 13 government departments since mid-2026, spanning complaint handling, environmental protection and hygiene, leisure and sports facilities, and transport and food-business licences. It credits AI in government services with up to 90% shorter waiting or processing times in some cases and some internal workflows cut from days to hours by the AI projects; no independent evaluation exists.
Environmental Protection Department — Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department has used AI environmental impact assessment to cut the process from 36 to 48 months down to 15 to 24 months. The government says the saving spans environmental data collection and completing the assessment itself.
Vanuatu Department of Forestry — The Pacific Community (SPC) and Vanuatu's Department of Forestry built a machine learning model for invasive plant mapping, reaching around 97 per cent validated accuracy for species like big lif rop, Cordia alliodora and African tulip. Officers fed it over 3,000 field points via Digital Earth Pacific, using predictive modelling for invasive species to guide site selection and treatment trials from August 2026.
Lands Commission of Papua New Guinea — Papua New Guinea's Lands Commission sent twenty staff through AI training for land administration at the Institute of Technology and Innovation (ITI) in Port Moresby, held 17 to 20 August 2026. Modules covered Introduction to AI, AI for Office Productivity, and Data Visualization and Building Dashboards, building skills for land-dispute review and faster reporting. Chief Commissioner Molean Kilepak and the Commissioner for Operations joined the artificial intelligence and data course.
NTU Singapore — NTU Singapore has given all undergraduates a Google AI suite (Vertex AI, Google AI Studio, Gemini Enterprise) plus its own NTU AI Learning Assistant (NALA). President Ho Teck Hua aims to embed AI in higher education across 40% of courses in 52 undergraduate degree programmes by 2030, from about 5% now, with students building and deploying AI agents on real problems. NTU calls itself Singapore's first university adopting AI at this scale.
Ministry of Railways / CRIS — India's Ministry of Railways, via its technology arm CRIS, has begun rolling out AI railway reservations to replace the 40-year-old Passenger Reservation System, including forecasts of whether waitlisted tickets will confirm. Indian Railways says the waitlist prediction, introduced earlier in 2026, lifted accuracy from 53% to 94%, unverified independently; about 88% of tickets are already booked digitally.
Andhra Pradesh Commercial Taxes Dept — Andhra Pradesh's Commercial Taxes Department has put forward an AI/ML-driven GST model, AI tax evasion detection that also speeds refunds. It is pitched as a way to strengthen the state's GST administration.
Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ) — Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) is rolling out Heidi, an AI medical scribe turning consultations into clinical notes, to about 1,000 emergency-department clinicians nationwide after trials including Hawke's Bay Hospital. Hawke's Bay trial clinicians reported saving about 11 minutes per consultation on average.
Tax Committee of Uzbekistan — The Tax Committee of Uzbekistan has launched AI SOLIQ, a single AI tax platform running on its proprietary tax database. Entrepreneurs, accountants and company directors can chat to check their organisation's tax rating, available reliefs and filing duties, while tax officials apply it to decision support, routine automation and data analysis. It runs on the committee's Soliq LLM with machine-learning, computer vision and speech generation components.
Dewan Ekonomi Nasional (DEN) — A national AI government procurement platform is being readied in Indonesia for rollout between October and November 2026, National Economic Council (Dewan Ekonomi Nasional) chairman Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan revealed, with unveiling expected from President Prabowo. Pricing irregularities in state purchasing would be flagged automatically, trimming spending by 20 to 30 per cent, while facial recognition paired with integrated databases pushes social aid targeting accuracy past 90 per cent. Corruption should fall too in this shift toward AI in public administration, since the design strips human involvement out of administrative workflows.
Government of Punjab — Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has unveiled Punjab AI Vision 2029, an AI policy Pakistan hopes will make the province South Asia's top performer within three years. Six pillars anchor the scheme: a pioneering AI Office and a Delivery Unit officials call the world's first driven by AI-enabled governance. Coverage spans Pakistan's largest province by population, steering artificial intelligence into administration, services and economic growth.
Solomon Islands Government ICT Services (SIG ICTS) — Traseable Solutions' two-day AI for Software Engineers course trained eight teams of Solomon Islands Government (SIG) ICT Services (ICTS) officers in AI-assisted software development. Despite little or no coding background, the officers built working web and mobile prototypes for passenger declarations, asset management and customs duty calculation with AI coding tools including Claude Code.
MS and AD Insurance Group — AI image verification in insurance claims now runs at Mitsui Sumitomo Marine and Aioi Nissay Dowa, under MS&AD Insurance Group, catching fabricated or altered damage photos and receipts. Tech Union helped build it, marking Japan's first such AI fraud detection for claims documents among non-life insurers, curbing increasingly varied fraud.
Aomori Michinoku Bank — Every branch of Aomori Michinoku Bank now runs neoAI Chat, five months after a March pilot began. Staff use this AI agent platform for banking tasks: drafting, summarising, checking internal rules, and gathering information. The rollout reflects momentum behind agentic AI in financial institutions across Japan.
Mitsui Norin Co., Ltd. — Mitsui Norin's Sudama factory in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, runs AI OCR at full scale for raw material management, using Future Architect's Future EdgeAI. Staff snap packaging on portable devices to read lot numbers, product names and expiry dates. Character recognition makes receiving inspection through production line input paperless.
CHN Energy — CHN Energy runs 56 autonomous mining trucks among about 500 manned vehicles in shared traffic at the company's open-pit coal mine in China's north-west, coordinated by CiDi's MetaMine system. CiDi says its self-driving haulage system MetaMine had reached nearly 40 mines worldwide by mid-2026.
FINCA Bank — FINCA Bank has deployed Kyrgyzstan's first Kyrgyz-language voice AI assistant for its contact centre. Built in-house with proprietary recognition and synthesis models, it handles inbound and outbound calls plus live chat, letting people talk naturally rather than pick through menus. A banking voice bot transfer to a live agent stays available on request.
Cabinet of Mongolia — A new National Council on Artificial Intelligence will drive Mongolia AI policy, headed by the Prime Minister. Cabinet chiefs from Digital Development, Education, Finance and Foreign Affairs join industry and professional-body delegates, backing wider Mongolia AI governance. Its brief: unify strategy and push AI adoption across public services, education and healthcare.
NEC — NEC has set up an AI agent department with no human staff: 'worker' agents run automation tasks under AI 'manager' agents, which answer to human supervisors. The company aims to lift productivity by separating human and AI work more clearly; the department's size and output were not disclosed.
National University of Singapore — The National University of Singapore is giving all students, faculty and staff ChatGPT Edu from 31 August 2026 under an OpenAI collaboration. It also launched AI Sense Maker, a conversational AI research platform built on 150,000-plus digitised NUS Libraries materials for topic summaries, semantic search and knowledge-graph creation. Professor Aaron Thean says the tools amplify, rather than replace, human intellect.
Bir — Bir has dropped a chatbot named Ey-ay into the m10 digital wallet, the first AI payments assistant fielded in Azerbaijan and a product of the Caucasus region's earliest joined-up e-commerce, banking and payments ecosystem. Everyday transfers and the rest of the menu now run as conversational payments through plain chat, riding a swift national retreat from cash. The group counts over 5 million customers, tied in with Trendyol Azerbaijan and BakıKart.
MGM China — MGM Cotai has installed a flagship TCM AI health station giving staff on-site AI-assisted Traditional Chinese Medicine screening. Devices read biometric signals from the tongue, face and pulse to flag over 500 possible conditions. The Macau Federation of Trade Unions, the Macao Society for Music Promotes Health Research and Kiang Wu Hospital jointly run the scheme for workers in Macao.
Prosecutor General's Office — Eight AI-powered functions will join the Maldives' Mafini case platform under PGO 2.0, an AI prosecutorial services plan from President Dr Mohamed Muizzu for the Prosecutor General's Office. Additions include a legal document analyser, identity analyser, and charge-drafting and summarising tools, hosted on sovereign infrastructure under the office's AI governance rules, aiming for paperless AI in prosecution by 2028.
Prime Minister of Vietnam (Thủ tướng Chính phủ) — Vietnam's Prime Minister issued Decision 1528/QĐ-TTg, launching the National Programme for AI Human Resource Development to 2030, orientation 2035. Mandatory AI skills training for cadres, civil servants and public employees starts at 15% coverage in 2026, rising in stages to a 90% floor by 2030. Curriculum design and cross-agency rollout across ministries and provinces sits with the Ministry of Science and Technology, lead body for AI workforce development.
Ministry of Digital — Malaysia's Ministry of Digital added agentic AI for public services to the MyGOV Malaysia app, letting citizens describe needs in everyday language and get step-by-step help, such as looking up and then settling a police summons. The app had over 2.9 million users by July 2026 across 52 services from 19 agencies; the AI arrives in phases with attention to privacy and human control.
Kyrgyz Research Institute of Animal Husbandry and Pastures — The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has installed 60 AI-enabled wearable collars on animals at the Kyrgyz Research Institute of Animal Husbandry and Pastures, marking a step into AI livestock monitoring for Kyrgyzstan. Bodit Inc. designed the underlying platform, Farmer's Hands, combining sensors and machine learning to catch early illness and behavioural shifts in herds. The intent is precision agriculture via continuous, automated animal welfare tracking.
TV Asahi — TV Asahi has aired Japan's first AI-generated TV commercial: a 30-second spot for Suntory's GREEN DA-KA-RA drink, made wholly from machine-generated visuals. Its AI Creative Studio, formed April 2026, steers generative AI advertising across animation, drama and promotional output.
Data Protection Authority (DPA) — Sri Lanka now requires public sector data compliance before the Personal Data Protection Act's core provisions take effect on 1 January 2027. Circular No. 01/2026 tells ministries, departments, councils and state enterprises to name data protection officers, run protection programmes and audit personal data, replacing a 2024 version under the country's personal data protection regulation.
Tajikistan Ministry of Internal Affairs (trainees); Korea International Cooperation Agency (trainer) — Roughly 30 Tajik officials — from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, police and border guards — completed AI forensic investigation training at the Korea-Tajikistan Security Cooperation Seminar in Dushanbe, run by the Korea International Cooperation Agency. South Korea's National Police Agency and National Forensic Service covered deepfake and voice phishing detection, cryptocurrency tracing, and digital evidence from Telegram and large language models — one strand of AI-driven crime detection now reaching Central Asia. The programme ran five days, 3 to 7 August 2026.
OPDC, NSTDA and DGA — Thailand's Office of the Public Sector Development Commission, with the National Science and Technology Development Agency and the Digital Government Development Agency, piloted an agentic AI chatbot for government on Pathumma, a Thai-developed large language model. It links the Rights and Liberties Protection Department, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Provincial Administration, the Revenue Department and the Department of Lands, so one citizen query spanning several bodies gets a single sourced answer.
MediMind — MediMind now runs an AI-native hospital information system across 25 hospitals in the Republic of Georgia, part of a growing wave of AI in hospital management built on the FHIR R4 data standard with Medplum. Workflows span admission to discharge, with roughly 1.1 million patient records, 3.1 million visits and 3.7 million clinical observations already logged. Algorithms flag preliminary findings and decision-support alerts, but this machine-assisted clinical documentation stays labelled as AI-generated, never folded into a clinician's final conclusions.
Peradi (Perhimpunan Advokat Indonesia) — National Board (DPN) — Peradi (Perhimpunan Advokat Indonesia) has published a Guideline on the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Advocates, an AI guideline for advocates that chair Ahmad Fikri Assegaf says should boost efficiency without limiting uptake. Sound legal reasoning, ethics and secrecy towards clients stay non-negotiable; Fikri cautioned that putting client files into public chatbots hands clients firm grounds for litigation. The document will also be the yardstick for assessing how a lawyer handled such tools.
Ministry of Economy and Finance (General Department of Digital Economy) — Plain-language queries from Cambodia's finance staff now return instant tables, charts and summaries from 600-plus datasets on the Data EF Portal, via Data EF AI Agent, a government data query AI agent. The General Department of Digital Economy built this AI-assisted dataset search tool, cutting wait times to 10-15 seconds in trials, live per OECD since August 2026.
Bae, Kim & Lee — Bae, Kim & Lee has handed OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise to its whole membership, a first among large Korean law firms for an enterprise AI product. Lawyers will use it for legal research, drafting, condensing bulk material, checking foreign laws and regulations and brainstorming, with generative AI running beside Harvey, already used firm-wide.
National University Hospital — Singapore's National University Hospital has put Ainex's ENAD real-time AI endoscopy system in all its endoscopy units to find and characterise gastrointestinal lesions in upper and lower GI procedures. The rollout follows HSA approval; Ainex says a 998-patient multicentre randomised trial found ENAD-assisted colonoscopy lifted the adenoma detection rate from 36.1% to 52.3%.
Ministry of Construction — AI training government employees at Vietnam's Ministry of Construction reached over 1,000 officials on 4-5 August 2026 with CMC Technology Group across nearly 50 linked sites. Sessions covered management, policy drafting and paperwork, building AI skills public sector wide.
Rakuwakai Marutamachi Hospital — Rakuwakai Marutamachi Hospital in Kyoto, Japan, is co-running a pilot with startup peaceful of NURVIS, a wearable AI agent for AI nursing documentation and bedside medication guidance. Paired with bone-conduction earphones and a smartphone, NURVIS drafts automated nursing notes. The aim: lighter paperwork and veteran know-how handed to juniors.
Macao Health Bureau (SSM) — Annual capacity tripled at Macao's Health Bureau (SSM) once AI-assisted diabetic retinopathy screening began under AI healthcare imaging, slashing per-patient exams from 15 minutes to 2, Alvis Lo said. An AI medical image reading system runs alongside a piloted AI-assisted diagnosis system, an AI diagnostic tool aiding physicians' clinical calls. Officials will fold these into the Macao One Account health platform.
National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute — Laos' National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, partnering WHYBIZ Corp and KOTRA, trials the nation's inaugural AI livestock management proof of concept. RFID ear tags, remote servers and algorithmic surveillance show farmers each beast's identity, wellbeing, breeding and whereabouts instantly. First at the Livestock Research Center and a Brahman cattle farm, AI herd tracking should reach 18 further locations.
Papua New Guinea Department of Education — Papua New Guinea's Department of Education unveiled EduNex, an AI-powered learning management system, at Port Moresby National School of Excellence. The AI learning platform, built on homegrown NEXA AI, gives teachers assessment tools, digital classrooms, curriculum resources and AI-assisted lesson planning. Education Minister Francis Siune expects it to connect schools nationwide; Starlink and DataCo supply internet first to National Schools of Excellence.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co — Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas puts AI use at 95% of lawyers, over 50% daily, co-managing partners Akshay Chudasama and Pallavi Shroff told Bar & Bench. The 1,000-plus firm layers Harvey over SAM Wise, its knowledge portal, hand-checks output and is exploring bespoke workflows. Juniors learn to read a Harvey draft.
Ministry of Digital, Malaysia — Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has created AI Malaysia Berhad under the Ministry of Digital, making the National AI Office set up in December 2024 permanent with an implementation mandate. A Malaysia AI Safety Institute also launched to support national AI governance on standards and compliance, run AI safety evaluations and broker talent and technology partnerships.
Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology — 143 Club of Cambodian Journalists members, pulled from 82 outlets, sat an AI training for journalists course the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology ran jointly with the club, titled Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Digital Journalism. Organisers pitched the newsroom AI skills session as a productivity boost for the national digital-news trade, per the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
Ministry of Digital — Malaysia AI policy takes shape under a new five-year strategy, the National AI Action Plan 2026-2030, branded AI Nation 2030, aiming to turn the country into a regional digital technology hub by 2030. It groups 28 initiatives into two tiers — 14 aimed directly at socioeconomic growth and 14 backing broader impact sectors — anchored on skilled talent, market-driven innovation, computing and data infrastructure, sound governance, and sustainable financing. The AI Nation 2030 roadmap launched alongside a new entity, AI Malaysia Berhad.
Veritas Legal — Veritas Legal, a Mumbai law firm, has moved Legora into production as its legal AI platform. All practice groups pitted Legora against rival products on performance, accuracy and security, and by the firm's account Legora won on accuracy, output quality, larger document volumes and multi-step work in that AI tool comparison.
Supreme Court of Guam — Guam's Supreme Court fined attorney Rachel Taimanao-Ayuyu $500 for AI use in court filing that left a brief riddled with errors. Chief Justice Katherine Maraman and Associate Justice Robert Torres found the document unmoored from existing law, faulting Taimanao-Ayuyu for skipping a thorough check of the machine-drafted text. She admitted leaning on generative AI without confirming its accuracy, and now follows a written policy on generative AI use in legal filings alongside continuing legal education on ethical AI practice.
National Tax Agency — Every tax office in Japan now runs predictive AI tax audits under the National Tax Agency (NTA), scoring filers for underreporting risk, spotting bogus refund bids and tracing corporate evasion schemes. Staff keep final say on whether scrutiny becomes a formal audit, while models pull from returns, financial statements, statutory records and audit history to rank cases. KSK2, a newer platform launched September 2026, broadens the dataset behind this tax risk-assessment AI.
Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) — Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue has started building an AI-based 'faceless' tax system to spot anomalies and run AI tax audits without taxpayers and officials meeting. The faceless system is framed as part of reforming the revenue authority.
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Nepal — A single umbrella law taking shape at Nepal's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation would gather AI regulation in Nepal under one roof with robotics, cybersecurity, intellectual property and startups. Officials cleared the concept paper for the Science, Technology and Innovation Bill, intended to swap out patchwork existing rules for unified artificial intelligence governance across these linked sectors.
Biosecurity New Zealand / Ministry for Primary Industries — Andrew Hoggard confirmed a four-month trial of generative AI biosecurity import rules drafting, run by Biosecurity New Zealand within the Government. The system drafts import health standards, freeing staff from paperwork while specialists keep final say. Ministers frame this AI-assisted biosecurity regulation as modernisation, not automated judgement.
General Department of Digital Economy, Ministry of Economy and Finance — Cambodia's General Department of Digital Economy has deployed an AI chatbot for e-invoicing on Telegram, an AI-powered invoicing helper on Telegram covering the Cambodian Electronic Invoicing System (CEIS). Called CamInvoice Chatbot, it sits under the Ministry of Economy and Finance to ease CEIS support.
Ministry of Digital Development and Communications, Myanmar — Myanmar has stood up a new body to push AI technology development: the National Artificial Intelligence Development Department, housed within the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications. Parliament heard from the Deputy Minister that the unit is driving national AI capacity building via fresh initiatives. The country separately joined the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, formalised at Shanghai's 2026 World AI Conference.
Western Sydney University — Western Sydney University has made Microsoft 365 Copilot available to all staff, casuals included, and Higher Degree Research candidates from 16 July 2026, bringing generative AI in higher education to presentations, meeting summaries and document drafting. After a 100-user pilot, vice-chancellor George Williams tied the move to student success, and the university claims to be first in New South Wales and second in Australia to give all staff enterprise-grade Copilot.
Bank of Maldives — Bank of Maldives customers can now file banking service requests directly through Aaya, an example of an AI virtual assistant in banking absorbing tasks once handled by a separate messaging feature. The AI-powered digital assistant, built into the mobile app and Internet Banking platform, answers in real time in Dhivehi and English.
Government of Maldives — Digital for All, the Maldivian Government's AI literacy programme, targets 225,000 people by 2028 under the Maldives 2.0 agenda. The Ministry of Homeland Security and Ministry of Education jointly run the three-year scheme, offering free Dhivehi and English instruction via facilitators, island councils and online tools as part of wider digital skills training. Graduates earn nationally recognised digital competency badges.
Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan — Prime Minister Ali Asadov approved priority sectors for AI development under Azerbaijan AI policy, each with an accountable state body. Ministries and agencies lead healthcare, education, agriculture, energy, transport, justice, ecology, finance (with the Central Bank), urban planning, public services (ASAN), and economy and industry. Each oversees adoption, talent and regulation in its field, making AI governance sector-led.
Government of Papua New Guinea — Papua New Guinea's parliament will debate amendments to the Cybercrime Code Act in November making AI deepfakes, synthetic voice impersonation and other malicious AI uses criminal offences. The bill also covers AI-generated child exploitation material, sexually explicit imagery, fraudulent cloned voices, digital identity theft and online scams. Acting ICT Minister Peter Tsiamalili said platforms and AI service providers would face liability for unlawful content.
Lalitpur Metropolitan City Ward 3 — A 24-hour AI calling service for citizen complaints has gone live in Ward 3, Lalitpur Metropolitan City, built with Blue Oval. Callers ask about citizenship, land disputes, rubbish collection, health and senior citizen support, with issues logged for staff follow-up — part of a wider shift toward AI-driven public service delivery in Nepal.
Prime Minister's Office — Pakistan's federal government logs prime ministerial directives through the Prime Minister Office System (PMOS), unveiled by Shehbaz Sharif to demonstrate AI adoption in government. Digital workflows replace paper routines, with instructions monitored centrally. Officials call it the nation's first platform embedding public-sector AI use into governance.
Business Association of Georgia — BAG's survey of 600-plus Georgian firms puts AI adoption in Georgian business at 84%, spanning firms researching, piloting or running the technology. 13% report full integration, 24% are piloting, and 47% are still planning. Marketing and content generation led use cases at 20%, with finance and customer support each at 15%; fieldwork ran 9-25 June 2026, reflecting artificial intelligence use among Georgian companies.
Bishkek Emergency Medical Center — Kyrgyzstan's Bishkek Emergency Medical Center launched AI ambulance call support whose intelligent assistant coaches patients before paramedics arrive. Callers get an SMS carrying a geolocation link, plus a personal account advising from clinical recommendations, and live ambulance tracking. AI-assisted emergency calling eases dispatchers and locates patients unable to describe their position.
City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Shymkent — City Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Shymkent added CEREBRA, AI stroke detection that reads brain CT scans for acute cerebrovascular events, in July 2026, continuing a phased city rollout that began at City Hospital No. 2. Its doctors treat it as a supplementary tool and still decide the stroke type themselves; over 4,000 studies went through CEREBRA across Shymkent in the first half of 2026.
Shizuoka City — Shizuoka City has opened a generative AI enquiry system to all staff on Allganize's Alli LLM App Market, answering officers' questions from internal manuals and working documents. Each answer shows the passage it relies on so officers can verify the basis before acting, and the city hopes to shift time saved on internal queries to resident services and policy work.
Government of Turkmenistan — UNAPCICT/ESCAP, the Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development, ran 'AI Essentials for Policymakers and Civil Servants', a two-day executive programme, in Ashgabat on 7-8 July. This AI training for civil servants gave senior officials governance, strategic oversight and risk-management skills for responsible AI across government and industry. Such public-sector AI upskilling comes while Turkmenistan works on its National AI Strategy.
Cabinet of Japan — Under Japan AI policy, the Cabinet adopted a second-phase AI Basic Plan on 14 July, replacing the December 2025 original, subtitled 'Japan AI Transformation: A Stronger Nation. Greater Prosperity.' It spans four pillars: faster deployment, stronger domestic development, governance leadership and an AI-powered society, pushing agentic, vertical and physical AI into healthcare, finance, education and disaster response. A new 'AI sovereignty' principle seeks less reliance on any single vendor or nation.
TechnoPro Holdings — TechnoPro Holdings has signed a company-wide licence for Anthropic's Claude Enterprise, extending AI in engineering services to over 30,000 staff. The deal folds the assistant into hiring, delivery and coding work group-wide, part of a wider AI workflow integration push. A 10 billion yen transformation budget also funds training 10,000 staff as 'AI implementation engineers' by June 2029.
Johnson Stokes & Master — Johnson Stokes & Master runs internal AI agents on Microsoft Copilot under a governance-first structure, applying AI in legal services at the Hong Kong firm. Its Employment Legal Advice Copilot Agent handles high-volume employment advisory work, sorting matter context, flagging key issues, drafting first-pass output. Lawyers approve everything before clients see it, keeping Copilot-based legal document drafting under human sign-off.
NTT East Group — Roughly 30,000 NTT East Group staff now work under Mikiwame AI, an AI-based employee monitoring software covering personality checks, wellbeing surveys and management tools group-wide. Leadingmark built the engine; NTT HumanEX advises on turning its output into development moves, an AI employee wellbeing platform in practice.
Only 1.6% of 256 healthcare staff surveyed across Kabul City hospitals and clinics showed good AI knowledge in healthcare, against 44.7% poor and 53.9% insufficient, with attitudes running ahead of understanding at 47.3% positive, 37.5% somewhat agreeing and 15.2% negative. The picture for AI in Afghan healthcare is limited knowledge but favourable attitudes: 82.0% had never attended an AI conference and 57.8% learned what they knew from social media. Fieldwork for the study, published in Annals of Medicine and Surgery, ran January to February 2025.
Supreme Court of Guam — A $500 sanction hit attorney Michael Phillips over AI hallucinations in legal brief work before the Supreme Court of Guam. Chief Justice Katherine Maraman found he skipped the required check under the Judiciary of Guam's AI policy, which permits AI use but mandates verifying unverified AI-generated content in court filings first. The case involved the Guam Legislature's dispute over the governor's power to establish hospitals.
Supreme Court of India — The Supreme Court of India quashed NCLT and NCLAT orders citing non-existent judgments in Pooja Ramesh Singh v Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd, declaring zero tolerance for AI-fabricated precedents. Rulings built on fictitious material are void ab initio, and the Bar Council of India must form a committee to set guiding principles and disciplinary penalties for fake AI citations.
National Board of Revenue, Bangladesh — Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue plans AI customs risk management, an Automated Risk Management System (ARMS) expected to nearly halve dwell time at Chattogram port. Replacing random picks, machine-learning screening will choose import containers for physical inspection by traders' compliance and risk profiles, under the World Bank-backed National Single Window project.
Cyprus Police (Traffic Police) — Cyprus has taken delivery of the first AI traffic cameras, which the traffic police say will go up on Griva Digeni Avenue in Nicosia in place of two units now sitting idle. The force says the equipment will flag unbelted drivers, helmetless riders, phone use at the wheel and other distractions, with a supplier still to finish preparatory work. These AI enforcement cameras will run as a trial first, judged on what the results show.
Department of Information and Communications Technology — AI deepfakes regulation is moving forward in Papua New Guinea, where officials have begun drafting rules against voice cloning, digital impersonation and other misuse of artificial intelligence. Planned changes to the Cybercrime Code Act would criminalise sexually explicit deepfake images, child exploitation material, scam calls using cloned voices, and related online fraud, effectively criminalising AI-generated impersonation. Parliament may take up the bill in its November 2026 sitting, though the text remains unfinished and no statute yet exists.
Toyota Technical Development — AI resume screening has reached Toyota Technical Development: JAPAN AI HR filters roughly 800 applications yearly, once a single staff member's job. Weighted scoring replaces ad hoc judgement, giving the Toyota Group firm a uniform yardstick, while managers get the system's verdicts for the screening that follows.
Tokuyama Corporation — Slashing yearly travel costs by 5% and cutting scheduling time to a quarter, Grid Inc.'s ReNom VESSEL delivers AI ship scheduling to 40-plus Tokuyama Corporation cement sites nationwide. Forecast weather drives route calculations, a first among Japan's coastal carriers, via this AI-driven vessel route optimisation.
Labour Affairs Bureau of Macao — Macao's Labour Affairs Bureau has added AI courses for older residents to its Digital Skills Upgrading and Certification Programme, aiming to lift job prospects for this group. Over 40 sessions ran the year before, drawing 800-plus attendees. This AI skills programme for older workers extends the territory's digital-literacy push.
Supreme Court of Nepal — Nepal's Supreme Court has adopted the Judiciary Information and Communication Technology Policy 2026, permitting AI in courts for legal research, document handling and administrative support. Judgment drafting and writ petitions requiring judicial discretion stay off-limits. Systems must first clear checks for reliability, transparency and bias, reflecting a cautious stance on courtroom AI adoption.
Kyushu Cancer Center — Ubie's generative AI hospital software is now live at Kyushu Cancer Center, marking the first such rollout among National Hospital Organisation (NHO) facilities. Charting for new patients takes 10 fewer minutes each, and effort spent writing up minutes has dropped 70%. Engineers at the hospital devised their own linkage mechanism joining the tool to electronic medical records, so nothing leaves the protected network — an approach to AI in medical record-keeping built entirely in-house.
Nestlé Japan Ltd. — Hacobu's MOVO Vista and MOVO Driver apps form an AI logistics platform now linking roughly 7,000 contracted truck drivers to Nestlé Japan's delivery network as a freight dispatch system. Dispatchers see wait times, arrival and departure schedules, and later location sharing, supporting compliance with Japan's revised logistics efficiency law.
Billcom — Billcom, a Tokyo-based PR agency, has rolled out 36 AI agents across every department as part of its shift to becoming an 'AI Native PR Company', marking a notable case of AI in public relations. The agents draw on 23 years of accumulated PR expertise and proprietary media, trend and analytics data built up since the firm's founding. Automated systems now handle routine execution tasks, freeing staff to concentrate on client relationships and strategic decisions, illustrating how AI-driven PR automation can reshape agency workflows.
Bae, Kim & Lee — Bae, Kim & Lee has given every member Harvey, a global legal AI platform, the first Korean firm to build one into firm-wide infrastructure. Strong use and efficiency in legal research, document drafting and analysing multilingual material led to this rollout of legal AI at scale.
State Customs Committee of Uzbekistan — An AI customs robot called AiRo is now working in Tashkent airport's international terminal, running software developed with Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee. Passengers can ask about bringing phones, medicines, jewellery or currency in or out, prohibited goods and how the red and green channels work. The committee wants the interactive robot to inform passengers fast, ease officers' work and prevent violations.
Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions of Tajikistan — Tajikistan's Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions has made facial recognition pensioners checks mandatory for all recipients, after a nationwide re-registration logged nearly 877,000 beneficiaries into a refreshed electronic database. The drive exposed fraud, including payments still drawn on behalf of deceased recipients, and forms part of a wider shift toward biometric identification pension systems. The agency is now building remote online verification so citizens abroad can complete facial scans without returning home.
Zurich Insurance Japan — Zurich Insurance Japan runs 12 AI agents at once for new-contract review — medical, environmental, moral risk and fraud checks — marking an early case of AI underwriting insurance locally. New Business 2.0 targets 60 percent automatic assessment and a 77 percent cut to manual processing time. Zurich calls this AI-driven underwriting deployment the first multi-agent rollout across a full underwriting workflow at a Japanese life insurer.
Aizawa Hospital — Trials are over at Aizawa Hospital: Ubie's generative AI platform now runs facility-wide, a medical AI deployment spanning more than 30 distinct workflows in Nagano Prefecture. An added iPhone app lets clinicians dictate notes and generate paperwork automatically. Meeting records that previously demanded 60 minutes to produce are finished in 10 — a sixfold gain from this hospital generative AI platform.
Tourism Development Department — The Tourism Development Department and Dynamik Technologies have switched on Nakhoda, a booking hub whose AI trip planner drafts a tailored route around a holidaymaker's likes and wallet. Operators use the same website to post services, build packages and collect money without cash. Nakhoda arrives before Visit Brunei Year 2027, handing tourists AI itinerary planning early.
Mercari — Mercari's Corporate Communication Division in Japan says its CC Agent for AI in corporate communications shrank in-house coordination to two business days from one week. The AI communications agent bundles 20-plus skills for setting strategy, drafting material and tracking press coverage, with writing and quality rules as safeguards.
Bangladesh Bank — Bangladesh Bank has barred staff from entering confidential or sensitive banking data into AI tools under any circumstances, a directive dated 28 June 2026 that marks a step in the country's emerging AI governance in banking. Officials must now secure sign-off from the relevant authority before using AI tools in banking use cases such as drafting notes, shaping policy or analysing data.
Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) — Sri Lanka's Bar Association has drafted rules for generative AI in legal practice, guiding lawyers who use such systems for research, drafting, case analysis and client contact. Confidentiality comes first: public AI platforms require lawyers to shield client data, stay answerable for AI-assisted output, and verify results before relying on them. Non-binding for now, the framework is billed as a living document set to evolve with the technology, an early marker of AI in the legal profession.
Macao Public Security Police Force — Face-scan border clearance in Macao now spans 204 automated channels at every joint checkpoint, after officials activated gates at Qingmao Port and the Zhuhai-Macao hall of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Port on 26 June 2026. A Hengqin Port trial in November 2025 preceded this wider, paperless border-crossing launch, open to registered Macao residents, Hong Kong permanent residents and mainland travellers aged 14 or above.
Gilbert + Tobin — Gilbert + Tobin uses Harvey most for large-scale review of documents and contracts, knowledge management and first-pass drafting, partners as keenly as juniors, says Caryn Sandler, Partner and Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer. Her 60-plus G+T Innovate team delivers Level up with Harvey: Mission Mars, a face-to-face challenge.
National Accountability Bureau — Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau has set up an AI investigation system to support white-collar crime investigations. National Centre of Artificial Intelligence chairman Dr Yasar Ayaz says the platform is built to assist investigators, and it should make investigations more effective once running; the bureau has not reported it in live use.
Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports — Armenia's Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports says it will hand roughly 50,000 free ChatGPT Edu seats to the country's educational, engineering and research communities when the school year opens, under an arrangement with OpenAI and Firebird. Universities will open the platform to lecturers and undergraduates, while AI in schools reaches every teacher and senior pupil in the state system. Staff are expected to draft assignments, tests and topic plans with the software, freeing hours for inventive work, with briefing and groundwork due by September. Firebird covers the bill through 2026-2027, and ministers will weigh how classroom AI performs before deciding whether the treasury takes over.
Maxis — Maxis extends AI skills training to over 32,000 pupils and teachers in 400 Malaysian schools via the enhanced 2026 Program GenAI Maxis eKelas, with the Education Ministry's Educational Resources and Technology Division. The programme's 2025 AI literacy pilot trained 22,000 participants, posting an 80 per cent median gain in AI understanding.
Papua New Guinea Centre for Judicial Excellence (PNGCJE) — 11 National Judicial Staff Services (NJSS) staff gained hands-on skills in Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT and NotebookLM via a judicial AI training programme at Waigani Supreme and National Courts. The Papua New Guinea Centre for Judicial Excellence (PNGCJE) funded the Generative AI for Beginners Bootcamp, pairing machine learning basics with generative AI architecture before tool practice. This judicial AI skills bootcamp ran three days, 23-25 June 2026.
Department of Information and Communications Technology — The Department of Information and Communications Technology says generative AI for public servants starts with over 50,000 staff getting Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise app under a multi-year partnership, then more than 200,000 government workers within 18 months. It will also build AI agents speaking local languages to help citizens with disaster aid guidelines, health centre appointments and administrative procedures.
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Data Administration — China's four ministries have ordered nationwide rollout of AI in human resources and social security services under the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating AI Plus Human Resources and Social Security Application Development (Ren She Bu Fa [2026] No. 40), covering employment support, insurance administration, talent development, labour relations and HR functions. Officials in these fields must gain digital and AI-driven HR and social security services competencies, with staged benchmarks set for 2027 and 2030.
Financial Services Commission — FSC revised its Financial Sector Artificial Intelligence Guidelines, covering AI governance in financial services, effective 22 June 2026. Seven principles anchor the framework: governance, legality, subsidiarity, reliability, financial stability, good faith, security — subsidiarity keeps executives accountable for algorithm-assisted decisions, not the AI system. FSS issued a companion AI Risk Management Framework covering AI risk management practices for banks; Korea Financial Security Institute released its own AI Security Guide.
Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. — Daihatsu Motor's Shiga (Ryuo) plant now catches hairline scratches inside machined transmission holes via an AI quality inspection system built with VRAIN Solution. Cameras and pattern recognition replace eyes trained by years of shop-floor intuition — machine-vision-based defect detection taking that call from people.
National Financial Regulatory Administration — China's National Financial Regulatory Administration issued guiding opinions on 18 June 2026 on AI regulation in banking and insurance, with four principles including that users of an AI system are responsible for it. Institutions must grade AI uses by risk and route high-risk ones through approval; anything touching risk management, underwriting and claims, credit approval, asset valuation, fund transactions or generative AI directly shaping whether a financial contract is agreed counts as high-risk AI. Those need risk-committee sign-off, human oversight at critical points and reporting to the regulator.
Ministry of Interior — 487 AI-equipped CCTV cameras now watch Phnom Penh, an AI policing push the Ministry of Interior calls its Lancang-Mekong Regional Smart Policing Development project, unveiled at a ceremony Deputy Prime Minister Sar Sokha turned up for. Footage streams into one command hub for quicker emergencies and non-stop watchfulness, powered by facial recognition cameras and instant number-plate capture. Secretary-General You Xiaowen of the Lancang-Mekong Integrated Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Centre built it, vowing coaching for Cambodian officers and a wider grid.
Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan — Tajikistan's Ministry of Transport is piloting an AI call centre for carriers, run by its Center for Digitalization of the Transport Sector and reachable on 8808. It aims to cut the time needed to secure permits, passes, vouchers and cargo waybills. An AI-powered call centre for freight operators like this also comes with a Telegram channel, Centre for Information Support of Users of Transport Systems, and a chatbot, MintransBot, for user queries.
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission — The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) warned supervised firms in Circular C786 of growing frontier AI cybersecurity risks, as frontier models can locate and exploit software vulnerabilities with unmatched speed and scale. CySEC reminds firms that the Digital Operational Resilience Act demands sound ICT risk management frameworks against AI-enabled cyber threats.
Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal — Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal added a GPT-4.1-mini conversational assistant to Open Data Nepal, an AI open data portal holding more than 630 datasets from 48 publishers in 24 categories. Visitors ask in plain English to find datasets, decode column meanings, produce charts. The AI-assisted portal covers governance, health, education and environment.
Simpson Grierson — Simpson Grierson is extending Legora to every lawyer from June 2026, a legal AI platform chosen after comparing rival products. Sifting large document sets and spotting issues sooner are the aims. Andrew Harkness, managing partner, says the system keeps client material confidential and secure, with senior oversight and professional judgement still at the centre.
Metro South Health — Metro South Health began deploying Heidi's ambient AI scribe in June 2026, a rollout running through the following year. The scribe hears consultations and writes clinicians' clinical documentation for them, after a 2025 trial in which 92 per cent of participating clinicians spent less time on administration.
Western Australia Police — Western Australia Police have scanned over 130,000 people in Perth and Fremantle since a live facial recognition trial began in June 2026, using NEC's Neoface m40 software from a marked van at major events and crowded places. Real-time checks compare faces against a watchlist of missing people, registered child sex offenders and people with outstanding arrest warrants, and matches alert nearby officers.
Conservation International — An AI wildlife monitoring effort from the US-headquartered nonprofit Conservation International now picks up pileated-gibbon calls through listening devices at 10 spots in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, a south-western rainforest topping a million hectares. No camera reliably spotted the treetop-dwelling species, so researchers spent three months schooling a machine-learning species detection tool in the sound, tagging roughly half the nearly 800 calls in one six-week stretch. A parallel count of almost 150 units runs again this year.
University of Papua New Guinea — A School of Business and Public Policy poll at University of Papua New Guinea, sampling 77 students, put daily AI use by university students at 42%, plus 30% logging in weekly — over seven in ten engaging at least once a week. ChatGPT led with 85% adoption, ahead of Microsoft Copilot (44%) and Google Gemini (23%). The unfinished research also found 74% wanting clearer campus rules, reflecting this student AI adoption trend.
Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries (TCOR) — Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries has finished modernising, adding automated production management, live SCADA monitoring, ERP platforms and AI in oilfield operations through Smart Fields and Smart Wells, which interpret geological data to lift well performance. Seydi Oil Refinery has added digital monitoring for predictive maintenance. Turkmengeologia State Corporation reports both operational, with AI-driven well optimisation cutting costs and improving resource management.
Government of Bangladesh and UNESCO — Dhaka hosted three days of AI training for civil servants under UNESCO and the Government of Bangladesh, pulling ministry staff across procurement and ICT roles. BRAC University and North South University taught within UNESCO's AI Ethics Experts Without Borders network, covering design, ethics and oversight. This builds public-sector AI capacity building nationwide.
Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication — Pakistan's draft National Data Governance Policy 2026 gives AI regulation for government agencies its own chapter, now open for public comment through the Ministry of IT and Telecommunication. Systems behind legally significant decisions need explainability, ongoing oversight, human review and openness to the public, each entered into a registry the Pakistan Digital Authority runs. Cabinet approval and gazette notification remain pending, so this AI governance framework is not yet binding.
Ministry of Science and Technology — The Minister of Science and Technology's Decision 2847/QĐ-BKHCN of 23 June requires national public-service Artificial Intelligence platforms to score at least 70 of 100 points for official deployment. This Vietnam AI regulation mandates a domestically developed large language model on local infrastructure. The AI rules bind 14 ministries, 3 ministerial-level agencies and 34 localities.
Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) — Macao's Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) will fund AI experimental classrooms in local schools from 2026/27, via a new grant under the Education Fund's School Development Subsidy Programme. Primary and secondary pupils will also get AI teaching materials and a smart teaching platform covering question banks, paper-setting and marking, all automated -- part of a wider AI in education push.
Succeed Individual Tutoring Institute — Succeed Co now runs School AI, an AI tutoring platform, across its Individual Tutoring Institute Succeed chain. Sister firm Mingaku built the system; over 1,600 schools nationwide already use it so staff can draft lesson plans while pupils get an AI study companion for unsupervised revision.
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications — 993 people — ministry leaders and rank-and-file staff together — got through an AI training for civil servants course the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications titled Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Work Efficiency on the Journey Toward Digital Transformation, wrapped at a Phnom Penh event under Minister Chea Vandeth. Generative AI and large language models, he told the room, have stopped being distant scientific ideas and now reshape public-sector AI skilling and daily work alike.
Ministry of Education Malaysia — The Education Ministry made SMK Kuala Perlis the first school nationwide to adopt the AI-Powered Classroom initiative, bringing AI in schools under the Pre-Google Reference Institution programme. Built with Google Malaysia, the pilot sets the template for a school AI rollout: 27 further schools next phase, 800 within seven years.
Badan Kepegawaian Negara (BKN) — 145 thousand Aparatur Sipil Negara (ASN) staff across Indonesia stand to gain AI training for civil servants through a new alliance linking Badan Kepegawaian Negara (BKN) with Microsoft Indonesia, called GARUDA AI for Microsoft Elevate. Officials sealed the pact on 28 April 2026, spreading sessions from May through July 2026. Ahead of the public rollout, enrolment had already reached 12,551 people spread across six cohorts of AI for Public Impact and one cohort of AI Policy Lab for Leaders, part of a wider push on AI upskilling in government.
Otsuka Foods Co., Ltd. — Otsuka Foods built Oishisa LENS, an AI flavour prediction system running at its Biwako Research Institute for Bon Curry, the firm's 58-year-old brand. The tool digitises 40 years of paper formulation records, letting the AI recipe prediction system forecast taste outcomes and suggest substitute formulas whenever ingredients change.
Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur — Malaysia's Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur, part of IHH Healthcare, introduced Varian Ethos with HyperSight for AI adaptive radiotherapy, letting clinicians reshape cancer treatment plans daily as a patient's anatomy shifts. Imaging spots anatomical changes in real time, so AI-guided radiation therapy stays on tumours and spares healthy tissue.
National Bank of Georgia — The National Bank of Georgia's NBG AI Platform, an AI in central banking project, is a Top 12 finalist in the 2026 Qorus-Infosys Finacle Banking Innovation Awards (AI-led Value Creation). Built in-house without external vendors, this central bank AI gives employees AI agents plus specialised chatbots for analytical and supervisory work.
Toyota Motor Corporation — 436 Geekplus AMRs move parts unattended across Toyota Motor Corporation sites in Japan, roughly 200 per installation, marking this autonomous mobile robots Japan plants rollout. Coverage spans receiving to picking and processing, a robotic material handling swap for hand-pushed carts amid staffing gaps.
Department of Information and Communications Technology — The Department of Information and Communications Technology and the Civil Service Commission have issued Joint Memorandum Circular No. 003, Series of 2026, principles-based public-sector AI rules for how Philippine agencies build, deploy and use AI. Agencies must match AI work to privacy, security, accountability, transparency and fairness and create oversight machinery, including an internal IT, legal and operational committee; it takes effect on publication.
TBC Bank — TBC Bank, Georgia's largest bank, gives 600 employees direct access to company data through Genie, an AI-powered data analytics tool built on Databricks, returning answers in seconds instead of via disconnected on-premises SQL servers. Work once taking a month now moves far faster, reports shrank from 14 weeks to two days, and the analyst team fell by 50%. Most headquarters staff are expected to use this AI in banking tool daily.
Ministry of Digital Affairs — Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs and the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration issued the AI Civil Service Talent Identification Guidelines beta on AI training for civil servants. Staff fall into policy, application and development talent types with standard curricula and 40 course modules. For public-sector AI upskilling, dual-track certification directly accepts 25 industry certifications from AWS, Google, Microsoft and others.
Honda Sales Operations Japan — Honda Sales Operations Japan now runs Agentforce, Salesforce's AI agent platform, inside its My Honda app to answer customers 24/7 with tailored replies. Applying AI in automotive sales, the tool lets drivers arrange test drives purely through chat, while an AI sales agent for car dealerships also speeds up staff tasks like compiling information, writing proposals, and flagging promising deals from buyer interests. Facing a shrinking labour pool, Honda is betting the setup lifts dealership sales efficiency.
Ministry of Health of Bhutan — Bhutan's Ministry of Health will place Cardiolife's AI ECG interpretation software in 25 health facilities - national, regional, district - after Health Minister Lyonpo Tandin Wangchuk backed the plan. Software and kit arrive free; clinicians read ECGs instantly. Cardiolife rates its CE-marked MDR Class IIb product at up to 100% accuracy on key cardiac conditions, a vendor figure with no independent evaluation published. Validation comes through a joint operational research study of the AI-assisted cardiac diagnostics.
Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) of Macao — Macao's Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) applies AI food safety risk assessment via a new Food Safety Risk Monitoring and Assessment Network Prediction and Early Alert Platform. Built since 2023 with Chinese mainland research institutes, it tracks 109,907 pre-packaged food products through AI-assisted food safety monitoring. Since 2026, six alerts have gone out: 148 SMS texts, 374 emails.
Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City — Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City in Nepal's Dang district is using AI TB screening in 17 of its 19 wards, part of a drive to make the city TB-free. Health officials say the AI X-ray machine spots tuberculosis infections that regular microscopy misses.
Bank ABB — Bank ABB threw open AI-nur and AI-khan to the whole client base once trials wrapped, billing the duo as among the earliest voice-driven AI banking assistants in Azerbaijan and the wider region. Conversational banking has drawn 230k people and 2.5 million exchanges. The lender keeps 180 generative and predictive models in production, worth above 35 million AZN in positive impact on the bank's own count.
Birat Medical College Teaching Hospital — Birat Medical College Teaching Hospital in Morang runs an AI-enabled GE Signature ultrasound machine, by its own claim Nepal's first. AI ultrasound software spots organs and handles measurements, trimming scan duration by up to 40% and adding 3D and 4D views. Staff expect AI-assisted scanning to spare easterners journeys to Kathmandu or overseas for complex tests.
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) — Cambodia's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications delivered AI training for civil servants across 11 groups at CADT's Digital Government Institute, 28 May to 11 June 2026. Sessions covered AI basics, the national AI ecosystem, ethical risks, and tasks like document summaries, data analysis and content creation, building government-wide AI literacy.
Supreme Court of India, Artificial Intelligence Committee — Machines will not decide case outcomes or score bail and recidivism risk, under draft rules on AI in courts from the Supreme Court of India. Justice P S Narasimha's Artificial Intelligence Committee drew up the 2026 Regulations for Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Courts, requiring disclosure of machine-generated content in judicial proceedings and backing a standing Apex Body at the Supreme Court to govern such use. Stakeholder feedback closed on 20 June 2026.
Ministry of Justice — Taiwan's Ministry of Justice launched an AI in legal administration project, the Ministry of Justice Exclusive Large Language Model, described as the island's first sovereign AI system built specifically for legal work. Minister Cheng Ming-chien said the legal domain AI model targets the administrative burden facing prosecutors, who together process more than 2 million criminal cases each year, freeing them to concentrate on analysing cases and flagging risk. The initiative applies government AI to prosecutorial functions rather than private law practice.
HKIRC — A poll of 800 organisations by Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation found 94% had adopted AI tools at work, reflecting widespread AI adoption in Hong Kong businesses. Yet 63% had no formal policy covering workplace AI tools and 68% skipped staff training on the technology. Unauthorised AI tools were in use by staff at nearly half the firms surveyed, without company approval.
Digital Brunei Council, Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications — Brunei Darussalam merged its AI policy for the public sector into Digital Brunei 2030: The Digital Brunei Transformation Plan, launched 2 June 2026 by the Digital Brunei Council, joining four digital strategies under one roof, including the cross-cutting Data and Artificial Intelligence Strategy. Priorities range across governance, infrastructure, workforce skills, innovation and global ties, seeking a firmer AI ecosystem inside government. Metrics track trained officials, AI-backed pilots and overall public-sector AI maturity.
Dua Associates — Dua Associates is taking Legora to every practice group in its eight offices once a pilot beat competing legal AI platforms. Research, review, drafting and agentic workflows for individual matters now run on the tool. Hands-on training drew on live practice-group work.
State Customs Service of Turkmenistan — AI in customs and trade compliance is now live on Turkmenistan's Single Window for Export-Import Operations portal, where the State Customs Service added an assistant handling several administrative tasks at once. It works out HS commodity codes, warns which permits are needed, and gives instant duty-rate estimates, all in Turkmen, Russian or English. Built with UNCTAD backing, this AI-powered trade portal aims to speed up cross-border processing.
Trilegal — Trilegal combines proprietary AI with international tools installed on lawyers' devices, management committee partners Sridhar Gorthi and Nishant Parikh told ETLegalWorld. Teams lean on legal AI tools for research, drafting, review and knowledge work. An AI-driven document management system is next for the 159-equity-partner firm.
485 Center for Generative Technologies — Little Mher, an 80-minute animated feature drawn from the Armenian epic Daredevils of Sassoun, reached Yerevan screens on 31 May 2026 and went on general release across the country. The 485 Center for Generative Technologies confined AI film animation to drawing frames and moving them: script, vocals, score and art styling stayed with a crew of actors, musicians, screenwriters, illustrators, cinematographers and machine-learning experts, according to director-producer Hovhannes Margaryan. Matching machine-made pictures to Armenian dialogue proved hardest, since such models mostly learn from English. Its makers bill it a regional first.
Civil Service Training Institution — Fiji's Civil Service Training Institution in Nasese now folds AI civil service training into its coursework, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka told Parliament, calling it part of wider AI-integrated government workforce development. Asked whether reforms covered AI, he confirmed the change, while conceding his own generation lagged furthest behind.
Supreme Court of Japan — Japan's Supreme Court had six mid-career civil judges from the Tokyo and Osaka district courts test three AI services, Gemini 3 Pro included, on mock case records in January and February. AI summarisation of bulky written arguments worked, and issue-table drafting might too. The court flagged overlooked evidence and misdirection, warning that leaning on judicial AI alone invites grave oversights.
New Zealand Parliament — New Zealand's Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill has passed its third reading in Parliament, widening automated decision-making in welfare. Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says automated welfare decisions will cover straightforward cases needing no discretion; the Bill went through under urgency on Budget day.
Ministry of Health and Welfare — Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare will introduce AI patient referral and return in hospitals during the latter half of the year, beginning with pilots in Seoul and Gyeonggi, Gangwon and South Jeolla. Linking AI directly to each hospital's picture archiving and electronic medical record systems will automate sending patients onward and back where care happens. The broader Healthcare AI Transformation Sprint programme begins in June.
Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism — A four-day programme delivered by Vietnam's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism instructed over 130 sector staff in AI in public administration. Instruction spanned the national AI strategy alongside applying artificial intelligence ethically inside government work, part of a wider digital transformation drive.
HWLE Lawyers — HWLE Lawyers has made Legora its firmwide AI platform for more than 1,900 lawyers and staff from July, after a tightly controlled pilot. An AI governance committee and ongoing compliance training anchor the governance framework for this legal AI rollout.
Supreme Court of New Zealand — Litigants in person who cite fake authorities, unchecked chatbot output included, risk AI contempt proceedings or an obstruction charge, the Supreme Court has cautioned in two rulings. Jones v Family Court at Whangārei first sounded it; Justices Dame Ellen France, Sir Stephen Kós and Forrest Miller echoed it when Liyun Chen's case against Goodmore Investments and Tawa Trade Finance relied on bogus precedent. Contempt carries up to a $25,000 fine or six months' jail; obstruction, seven years.
Ophthalmology Specialist Hospital (Yangon) — Ophthalmology Specialist Hospital (Yangon) ran AI vision screening during field eye check-ups in Mayangone Township, part of a Ministry of Health drive across Yangon Region to curb rainy-season illnesses. Myanmar's Union Minister of Health attended the campaign event, where the hospital director and ophthalmologists used AI-assisted eye examinations for on-site diagnostic testing. The initiative forms one strand of a wider seasonal disease-prevention effort covering all Yangon townships.
Financial Services Agency — Japan's Financial Services Agency and the Bank of Japan jointly ordered banks to tackle AI cybersecurity risks facing financial institutions head-on. Fast-moving frontier AI capabilities, regulators warn, are fuelling attacks on the sector and demand urgent AI risk management now.
Executive Yuan — Premier Cho Jung-tai now heads Taiwan AI strategy efforts via the newly formed National AI Strategy Special Committee, steering AI-related affairs government-wide. First convened 23 June 2026, it anchors national AI governance within the Cabinet.
Mallesons — Mallesons says a 74-step Security of Payment Act (SOPA) workflow built on Harvey has shrunk processing from months to hours. The FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific leader keeps adding Harvey agentic workflows: side-by-side provision checks, compliance checklists, term sheet matching, ACCC merger notifications and a pleadings matrix.
Gilbert + Tobin — Gilbert + Tobin, second in the FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific list, clears conflicts via an agentic workflow and logs deal data with AI on Lakehouse. That Microsoft Fabric platform joins matter, client, financial and operational records for near real-time reporting.
Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan AI strategy groundwork is underway, led by the Ministry of Communications with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) assistance toward a national artificial intelligence policy. A reviewed draft fixed priority directions under the State Program for the Development of the Digital Economy for 2026-2028. Farming, transport, schooling and medicine sit within scope, adoption still pending.
International Professional University of Technology — Proof of skill with Google's Gemini chatbot, through a fresh Google Gemini certification for AI in higher education, will reach every learner and employee at International Professional University of Technology, spanning its Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya sites. Underpinned by Google AI Pro for Education, the plan mixes web-based lessons with formal testing so graduates can later point to generative AI skills certification when job-hunting.
Supreme Court of Kazakhstan — The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan is finishing the nationwide rollout of its Digital Judge's Assistant, an AI judicial assistant piloted for about eighteen months in Astana and the Zhambyl, Karaganda and Mangystau regions. It searches about 15 million machine-readable units of judicial material for comparable cases, analyses practice, structures claims, lays out parties' positions in Kazakh and Russian and forecasts likely civil-dispute outcomes. Judges keep the decision, with court chairs stressing the tools assist rather than replace them.
British Indian Ocean Territory2026-05Zoological Society of London — Zoological Society of London ecologists put AI seabird tracking at 93.65% accuracy for spotting red-footed booby dives from saltwater immersion records alone. Wet-dry logs came from lightweight leg tags; a parallel set of bulkier tri-axial accelerometers supplied the yardstick, and deep learning scored barely worse on the lighter tags. Machine learning dive detection could map feeding grounds all year from cheap sensors. Fieldwork ran at Barton Point, Diego Garcia, Chagos Archipelago, on a small pilot sample.
Koryo Medical General Hospital — Koryo Medical General Hospital, with Pyongyang Computer Technology University, built the Koryo Treatment Support System, an AI Korean medicine treatment tool that diagnoses internal medicine conditions by Korean medical methods and drafts herbal remedy and acupuncture prescriptions. It won a National Science and Technology Achievement Introduction Certificate in 2025. Newly built hospitals, including Kangdong County Hospital, now use it, spreading computer-aided traditional medicine diagnosis nationwide.
Ministry for Regulation — New Zealand's Ministry for Regulation now steers regulatory leaders toward safer AI in regulatory functions, via Responsible AI in action: Guidance for Regulators. Version 1.1 adds Māori data sovereignty material, citing Te Kāhui Raraunga on Māori data governance expectations. Aim: confident AI adoption in regulation.
National Assembly of Lao PDR — Laos's National Assembly delivered AI training for lawmakers to more than 150 members during a four-day session spanning all 18 electoral constituencies of the 10th legislature. The Rule of Law, Access to Justice and Good Governance (ROLAG) programme, run by LuxDev, supplied a senior adviser for an AI-driven era digital governance session covering parliamentary work. The Vice President opened the gathering, urging members to build skills suited to their constitutional duties.
Mizuho Financial Group — Mizuho Financial Group lets non-engineers build AI agents on a new Dify Enterprise AI agent development platform, phased in from May 2026. A corporate banking trial cut task time 41.8 percent on average, 52.2 percent for junior staff; comment generation accuracy in AI in corporate banking hit just 6.3 out of 10.
Gunma Bank — Gunma Bank's FutureBANK AI HUB, a generative AI agent platform built with Future Architect, guides staff through lending operations using internal manuals and historical loan records. This is AI-assisted lending in practice: within a fortnight of launch, roughly 60 percent of eligible employees had tried the tool, logging close to 4000 uses. The uptake points to strong early adoption of AI in loan processing at the bank.
Cyprus Fire Service — Cyprus Fire Service runs four AI wildfire detection units reaching roughly 80 per cent of unpopulated ground in the government-controlled zone. Brigade chief Nikos Logginos ranks the units central to the 2026 summer plan, saying each spots a flame or plume no bigger than a square metre. Another 13 are earmarked for industrial estates on an €800,000 budget, while taking AI smoke detection into open country and woodland awaits finance ministry approval.
Shuklaphanta Municipality — Nepal's Shuklaphanta Municipality, in Kanchanpur district, flagged 42 suspected TB cases among 688 people checked through AI tuberculosis screening with portable X-ray equipment. Camps in high-risk wards referred those cases for further examination. The AI X-ray analysis reads each image digitally to spot possible TB infection.
Supreme Court of India — The Supreme Court of India has launched Su-Sahayak, an AI court chatbot, alongside a 'One Case, One Data' integrated case management platform. Built by the National Informatics Centre with the Supreme Court Registry, the digital assistant offers court guidance, procedural help and access to judgments, orders, cause lists and case status.
Yes Architects — Yes Architects has AI architectural design live on two Azerbaijani building schemes, co-founder Yeşeren Ersan of the Turkish practice told the Invision Design Talks 2 forum. Roughly 20% of one scheme's drawings and 50% of the other's came out of machine-assisted design. Ersan puts today's saving near 10%, and sees 80-90% within five years.
Bach Mai Hospital — Hanoi's Bach Mai Hospital began free AI lung cancer screening on 10 May 2026, with AI helping read the images. The hospital calls it a 'divine eye' that detects small lung nodules and scores their risk on the international Lung-RADS scale. On day one it flagged two of 75 attendees with suspected malignant lung lesions.
1,154 respondents across 32 provinces went into a national survey of AI use in Afghanistan, finding 88% of young Afghans familiar with artificial intelligence and 66.6% of them regular users. Media outlet Salam Afghanistan and Salam Watandar Radio's eight-month fieldwork, split 50.6% men and 49.4% women, found 84.1% had sought AI advice at least once and 82% now lean less on friends and relatives, with 58.1% uneasy about machines making decisions.
Government of French Polynesia (Conseil des ministres) — The Government of French Polynesia's Comité consultatif Smart Polynesia opened 18 June 2026 under President Moetai Brotherson, steering French Polynesia AI policy, digital sovereignty and network access. Members: the Haut-commissaire, ministers, DGEN, DSI, UPF, CCISM, OPEN, French Tech, MEDEF, CPME — spanning data hosting, skills and jobs, backing the wider plan for artificial intelligence governance.
XRİTDX and AI Academy — Government staff across Azerbaijan finished AI for product managers training from the Special Communications and Information Security Service (XRİTDX) and the AI Academy, learning to spot information security threats and craft AI-based tools. This product manager AI course backs the nation's cybersecurity strategy.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group — Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Sakana AI built an AI proposal generation tool for corporate banking at Sumitomo Mitsui Bank. Agents split the work: gathering facts, analysing, framing hypotheses, verifying results, in one wholesale proposal drafting pipeline. SMBC's figures show weeks cut to minutes or hours.
National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee — Pakistan's National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee has issued the National Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Institutions, approved at its 57th meeting. They let AI in the courts help with legal research, document processing, case management and other functions, assisting rather than replacing judicial decision-making and human judgment.
Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan's Ministry of Science and Education has wired a bespoke Copilot Agent, spun up in Microsoft Copilot Studio, into the Digital School platform, so AI lesson planning sits in the app teachers open daily. The helper roughs out plans and classroom handouts, boils down background reading, frames slide decks and turns out first-cut assessments and rubrics. Some 900,000 accounts sit there: 44,552 teachers, 543,255 pupils, 360,709 parents.
AYA SOMPO Insurance — iVA, an Insurance Virtual Assistant from AYA SOMPO Insurance, is Myanmar's first AI chatbot insurance tool built into a mobile app, the firm says. Housed in the My AYASOMPO app, it answers product and policy questions in Myanmar and English with 24/7 real-time replies, no human needed. This AI-powered insurance assistant is meant to help partners and agents meet customer needs faster.
Kamei Corporation — Kamei Corporation has begun trialling AI smart farming for asparagus at its ZAO AGRI BASE site in Miyagi Prefecture, where the Zero Agri system controls watering and feeding without manual input. Paired with raised-bed growing equipment, the setup forms part of a wider push into next-generation agriculture, letting Kamei track harvest size, crop quality and reduced labour needs. The trial marks an early test of this AI-driven agriculture system before any wider rollout.
Cook Islands24 Apr 2026Parliament of the Cook Islands — The Parliament of the Cook Islands switched on two AI agents in parliament on 24 April 2026: INA, a public-facing chatbot on the parliament website, and Tumutoa, an inward-looking staff guide to procedure plus institutional knowledge. Clerk of parliament Tangata Vainerere billed the institution “officially AI-enabled” yet insisted work remains “human-led, not AI-led”. Pacific Group AI built this parliamentary AI, which founder Tayla Jayne Beddoes calls the Cook Island government’s first. Roughly five AI tools reached staff weeks earlier; the United Nations Development Programme paid via Pacific Parliamentary Effectiveness Initiative Phase 3, a five-year Government of New Zealand scheme.
Telenor Pakistan — Telenor Pakistan launched Kissan Dost Bashir via its Khushaal Watan agriculture platform, billing it as Pakistan's first conversational AI farm voice bot. Answering in Urdu around the clock via the 7272 helpline and 7272.pk portal, it offers live mandi rates, weather-based crop advice and livestock guidance to farmers facing literacy and connectivity barriers.
ASAN Service (State Agency for Citizen Services and Social Innovations) — ASAN Service, Azerbaijan's State Agency for Citizen Services and Social Innovations, is phasing in compulsory AI training for government employees, reaching 5,500 staff. The ASAN Innovative Development Center leads this public-sector AI upskilling, trialled in Baku, Shusha and Salyan, blending tool use, data handling, content generation and automation.
NEC Corporation — NEC Corporation will roll out Claude to about 30,000 NEC Group employees worldwide, including developers and technical staff. The strategic collaboration expands AI in engineering and makes NEC Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner. An internal Centre of Excellence will develop AI-native engineering talent.
Judicial Yuan — Taiwan's Judicial Yuan has issued judicial AI guidelines fixing 18 rules for AI use in courts and subordinate agencies. The AI Systems Reference Guidelines cast AI purely as an assistive device, bar confidential case files from unvetted platforms, and leave sentencing, fact-finding and evidence weighing to human judgement alone.
Republic of Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan has rewritten its Criminal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and its media and information statutes to reach artificial intelligence. Deepfakes now anchor Azerbaijan AI regulation: new article 148-2 makes it an offence to build or circulate unreal photo, video or audio drawn from someone's face or voice without permission, while article 242-1 does the same for pornographic or sexually explicit output. Machine-made matter shown publicly must bear a label that is easy to spot under the new AI law.
Government of Maldives — Maldives will submit a Maldives AI regulation bill to Parliament, President Dr Mohamed Muizzu confirmed, packaged alongside a Digital Transformation Bill, Digital Identity Bill and Cyber Security Bill covering artificial intelligence oversight. The four measures anchor the Maldives 2.0 digital transformation agenda, which targets full state-system digitisation by 2027. This push forms one strand of a wider digital-governance overhaul, not a standalone law.
Mitsukoshi Isetan Human Solutions — A 40% drop in interview workload followed Mitsukoshi Isetan Human Solutions' adoption of JAPAN AI HR for AI interview transcription across roughly 180 to 200 annual hires. Fixed-criteria scoring and automatic minutes replaced its dual-interviewer panel with one reviewer plus the system, standardising candidate evaluation company-wide.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) — A fresh advisory layer now underpins AI governance India relies on: MeitY (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) has launched the Technology and Policy Expert Committee (TPEC). Scholars, corporate experts and digital-policy specialists staff it, converting technical matters into direction for the AI Governance and Economic Group, reinforcing national AI policy and regulation.
Lee & Ko — Lee & Ko hosts eLK, an in-house legal AI, on GPU servers cut off from the internet so client material stays put. Korean litigation papers for foreign clients reach English, French or Chinese through eLK in hours, not days, with review included, lawyer Kwak Jae-woo told Newspim.
Yulchon — Yulchon lawyers ask AI:Yul, a legal AI search service built with BHSN, and get statutes, rulings and precedents in one pass. It merges BHSN's case-law and scholarly databases with Yulchon's knowledge system. Every answer links to its source, lawyer Seok Ji-woon told Newspim.
Kim & Chang — Kim & Chang handles bulk document translation on a proprietary AI translation system that keeps every file inside the firm. Client confidentiality is fully protected and global work capacity grows, an unnamed Kim & Chang official told Newspim.
Shaqiu Think Tank — Shaqiu Think Tank's tracking report finds 53.5% of Chinese banks, more than half, now using large models in banking, with the sector shifting from tool-level uses to system-level rebuilding of processes. The report does not give its survey base.
Georgia Revenue Service — Georgia's Revenue Service uses AI VAT refund automation to return over GEL 1 billion to the economy yearly. A risk-scoring system checks payment history, supplier invoices and sector benchmarks against each monthly filing; if nothing flags, funds reach the firm's account within five to seven working days. This tax refund automation skips manual review for low-risk cases, though flagged filings face further scrutiny.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) — India's AI regulation now runs through a new inter-ministerial panel, the AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG), launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under Ashwini Vaishnaw. AIGEG steers AI governance policy nationally, putting proposals from the India AI Governance Guidelines and the Economic Survey into practice, backed by a Technology and Policy Expert Committee.
National Health Security Office — Thailand's National Health Security Office board made AI chest X-ray reading a health benefit in April 2026, bringing it into real use across 610 public health network hospitals. SiAiR was built at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital with Thai firm Perceptra and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It relieves provincial hospitals short of specialist radiologists so remote patients get results as accurate as the capital's.
Woolworths Group — Woolworths has made its Olive tool an agentic AI assistant for all roughly 200,000 group staff, live a week before an executive described it at a conference. Combining search and chat, it adds requested items to carts, suggests recipes from meal photos and offers cheaper or organic swaps, while in-house 'agentic judges' vet answers for accuracy and compliance first.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police — Dhaka police linked city traffic cameras to AI traffic enforcement software in April 2026 for automatic violation detection, from illegal parking to lane and signal breaches. Officers check each case before a fine, owners get a text message, and at least 300 vehicles have been prosecuted, with serious offenders fined and others warned. Manual enforcement will gradually end, police said.
Ministry of Economy and Development of Mongolia — Mongolia's Ministry of Economy and Development has built AI Туслах, an AI planning assistant, into the government's digital planning platform guiding officials live on data-driven KPIs. With the Partnership for Action on Green Economy, the ministry aims it at planners in ministries and agencies who set measurable indicators and pull together national development plans, especially newcomers and staff in high-turnover posts. It remains a pilot.
Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan's Ministry of Agriculture runs AI crop monitoring nationally, says Surkhay Novruzov, who heads its AI projects. Wheat stress readings began reaching the ministry in April and cotton has since joined, with every crop the target; a companion model judges whether water reaches tilled land, right roughly 82% of the time. A separate alert engine recognises 16 pests and diseases, pushing three-day outlooks to growers over Telegram at 07:00 daily, alongside evapotranspiration and plant-water figures.
Authority for Infocommunications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam — Brunei Darussalam's Authority for Infocommunications Technology Industry has overhauled the Guide on Artificial Intelligence Governance and Ethics into a second edition. Generative AI hazards now enter Brunei AI governance, showcased through Bruneian companies already running the principles-based approach. AITI has separately released a Guide on Responsible Use of Generative AI — Brunei Darussalam AI ethics guidance on wording requests, and doing so ethically.
Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Water Supply, Gandaki Province — Gandaki Province's Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Water Supply trained 28 officials in Pokhara through an AI training for government officials programme, drawn from water, irrigation and drinking water bodies across all 11 districts. They gained artificial intelligence skills for civil servants: reports, files, data and decisions.
CIMB Niaga — CIMB Niaga has deployed AI agents for relationship managers, starting with a Relationship Manager AI Agent built with Google Cloud and Artefact as a strategic thought partner for bankers. A Contact Center AI Agent now also partners service teams live during customer calls; the bank's AI Center of Excellence developed both.
Marunouchi Heat Supply Co., Ltd. — Live-equipment trials of AI plant automation are underway at Marunouchi Heat Supply's Otemachi sub-plant in Tokyo, running Preferred Networks' PlantPilot software. Trained on past operating records and operator judgement, it forecasts conditions and proposes control responses. Marunouchi's push toward AI-driven district heating targets full automation by 2027.
Judiciary of the Hong Kong SAR — Hong Kong's Judiciary is writing generative AI guidelines for legal practitioners and for court users, and told the Legislative Council that consultation with the profession follows later in 2026. The planned rules build on July 2024 guidance letting judges, judicial officers plus support staff use such tools carefully, and exploration of adjudicative and back-office uses goes on.
National Internet Information Office, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security, State Administration for Market Regulation — China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) leads four ministries behind Order No. 21, curbing AI companion apps that imitate human personality and speech for extended emotional bonding. Minors cannot get virtual intimate relationship features, platforms above 1 million registered users face mandatory safety review, and a regulatory sandbox now applies under the Interim Measures for the Management of AI Personified Interactive Services. Force began 15 July 2026.
K&L Gates — K&L Gates has deployed Legora across its four Australian offices, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, with in-person legal AI training starting in Sydney and Melbourne. Regional managing partner Jason Opperman says AI is reshaping legal service delivery, and the firm counts itself an early holder of ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for AI governance.
Shin & Kim (Sejong) — Shin & Kim (Sejong) has used Harvey since early 2026 for English contract reviews and foreign statute analysis on cross-border work, beside its own RAG-based system launched in December 2024 and still being upgraded. Managing partner Oh Jong-han calls AI an aid to lawyers' judgement.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government — The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has fully launched A1, a generative AI platform for government staff, to about 60,000 metropolitan officers after a trial from September 2025. Built by GovTech Tokyo with the Digital Services Bureau, it lets officers build and share no-code AI apps, from contract-specification drafting to AI adoption checkpoints and assembly answers drawn from transcripts.
Fiji Revenue and Customs Service (FRCS) — Fiji Revenue and Customs Service now runs an AI chatbot for tax enquiries, named Masi, on its new taxpayer website. Corporate Services Director Shavindra Nath said the conversational AI system handles both basic and complex questions 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Automating routine responses frees staff to focus on harder cases, and the tool doubles as an automated taxpayer support tool improving overall service.
Yorozu Logistics Co., Ltd. — Osaka's Yorozu Logistics is trialling AI truck dispatch software with Super Academy, aiming to supplant decisions long resting on veteran schedulers' instinct. It weighs distance, fuel, tolls and driver hours to surface the single most profitable route, a generative AI logistics planning pilot run under live conditions.
Shinei Shoji — Shinei Shoji, a Japanese wholesale distributor, cut weekly workloads from 52 to 12 hours after a two-month pilot of the JAPAN AI platform—an example of AI agents for wholesale distribution. Staff built 62 custom agents for order emails, document checks and sales reporting, shrinking one report task from 8 hours to 10 minutes. The JAPAN AI platform rollout now covers all 100 employees.
Zhogorku Kenesh (Parliament of Kyrgyzstan) — Kyrgyzstan's Parliament has piloted E-Kenesh, a tablet-based platform replacing paper documents for MPs. Speaker Marlen Mamataliev introduced the tool, whose AI bill summarisation condenses lengthy draft laws and helps legislators frame questions under debate. Materials appear three days early, with staff filing documents through AI-generated legislative summaries online.
National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia — Fines of AMD 300,000 now apply under Armenia's RA Law on Audiovisual Media, amended to force AI content labelling. Providers must flag generative AI or machine-learning output as 'Created by AI', or 'Digitally processed' if merely altered. This synthetic content labelling duty catches subtle edits, not just wholly generated media.
Ministry of Technology and Communications — LaoAI, a new government AI assistant for civil servants, launched alongside G-Chat v2 in Laos on 6 April 2026. Built by the Ministry of Technology and Communications, the tool drafts and summarises documents, retrieves regulatory information and translates text across all ministries, supporting AI for public administration nationwide. Deputy Prime Minister Saleumxay Kommasith attended, and the minister pressed every state body to adopt it for daily work.
Gujarat High Court — The Gujarat High Court has barred AI from judicial decision-making, reasoning, adjudication and applying law under a court AI policy, plus drafting judgments or orders, finding facts, weighing evidence and summarising testimony. Permitted: administrative tasks, source-checked research, draft polishing and human-reviewed translation or transcription. Interns, legal assistants, judicial officers, staff and affiliated institutions are bound; breaches of these judiciary AI rules can bring disciplinary steps plus civil or criminal liability.
Ibaraki Prefecture — Sagri has won a third consecutive contract from Ibaraki Prefecture to run AI crop surveys via its DETABA satellite imagery tool, verifying planting status for subsidy claims without manual field checks. Satellite data now replaces on-site inspectors, cutting officials' travel and labour costs. The renewal reflects rising confidence in satellite-based crop monitoring.
Government of Papua New Guinea (National Department of Health) with World Vision — Papua New Guinea now runs AI tuberculosis screening through four battery-powered X-ray units deployed by the government with World Vision under the Systematic Screening Initiative. Health workers carry backpack-sized devices built on CAD4TB software into areas without hospital infrastructure, where each scan takes 10 seconds to produce a score flagging presumptive cases, including in people showing no symptoms. One unit operates as a mobile setup; three are fixed at Gerehu General Hospital, Six-Mile Clinic and Lawes Road in Konedobu, giving the country's AI-assisted TB detection reach beyond urban centres.
Teachers of Bhutan Volunteers / Ministry of Education and Skills Development — The DigiGyel Project began in Thimphu, a three-year push to carry AI literacy into Bhutan's high schools, with more than 150 remote schools first in line. More than 50,000 students and 300 teachers are to be taught AI skills, and more than 800 laptops go out nationwide, 260 reaching the education ministry at the start. The Switzerland-based NGO Dariu Foundation pays for the artificial intelligence training, run by Teachers of Bhutan Volunteers.
Macao SAR Government — Wong Sio Chak says Macao plans to avoid heavy-handed Macao AI regulation, fearing rules could stifle innovation. Legal frameworks for artificial intelligence are still being worked out globally by trial and error, he argued, so strict rules now risk doing more harm than good. Macao has no AI-specific legislation yet, unlike mainland China, which is racing to pass its own AI governance framework.
Daido Life Insurance — Generative AI in benefit claims assessment reaches full deployment at Daido Life Insurance this April. Its Benefit Payment Assessment AI, built on RAG-based retrieval, handles medical judgment on hospitalisation payouts, replacing in-house doctor review in around 70 percent of cases and saving roughly 1800 working hours yearly. The insurer calls this AI-driven medical judgment for insurance claims a sector first.
Nihon University — Ten thousand full-time employees at Nihon University gained access when Google AI Pro for Education launched campuswide, marking Japan's single largest paid generative AI deployment university administrators have undertaken. Staff and faculty work inside a closed, secure platform that excludes their data from training the underlying models. Supporting this shift, a newly formed Information Innovation Centre will push the school's broader AI in higher education strategy forward.
MIRAIE — Future Education (MIRAIE) built FUTURE COMPASS, a generative AI platform for high-school inquiry-based learning, on Google's latest AI. It coaches students on sharpening research questions and action plans, giving teachers live visibility into group thinking. This AI-assisted inquiry-based learning tool pilots at model schools from Hokkaido to Okinawa.
Saga Prefecture — Japan's Saga Prefecture named Sagri primary contractor for a demonstration project trialling AI field surveys to cut administrative spending on crop stabilisation measures. Sagri's software scans satellite imagery, flagging what is planted and which parcels need on-foot visits. Such AI-assisted farm checking could sharply trim paperwork.
Supreme People's Court — The Supreme People's Court is piloting a nationwide AI-assisted trial system, modelled on Shenzhen's, in 23 intermediate and basic-level courts across 11 provinces, regions and municipalities, President Zhang Jun told the National People's Congress. The Shenzhen tool supports judges from filing to judgment drafting, and Shenzhen's judges each closed 744 cases in 2025, 249 more than a year before.
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry / Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications — AI governance Japan just got its latest update: METI and MIC issued Ver1.2 of the AI Guidelines for Business on 31 March 2026. Building on Ver1.0 (April 2024) and Ver1.1 (April 2025), the revision spells out shared principles so business actors can spot dangers and adopt voluntary safeguards throughout an AI system's lifecycle, while pushing safer, more secure use nationwide. New in Ver1.2: formal definitions of AI agents and physical AI, plus a mandate that human judgment be built into design from the outset. The move reflects Japan's wider push on AI regulation, favouring lifecycle oversight over rigid rulebooks.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) — Inspectors have cleared four Stage 2 ships under Japan's MEGURI2040 scheme for commercial sailing as certified autonomous ships Japan now recognises. A new coastal containership joined a ferry, a Ro-Ro carrier and a refitted older vessel, each self-navigating vessel running at Level 4-equivalent standard while shore teams at Fleet Operation Centres oversee them remotely.
Joyo Bank — Joyo Bank's banking AI deployment, JOYO AI AGENT, runs on a closed cloud network cut off from the internet, offering translation and document masking. This AI agent for banks also trials loan approval review and automatic business document drafting. Athena Technologies co-developed it, building on a proof of concept from July 2025.
Independent Authority Against Corruption (IAAC) of Mongolia — Mongolia's IAAC (Independent Authority Against Corruption) has turned to software for AI government monitoring, piping every state order and regulation through the tuss.io platform to hunt for legal breaches, wasted procedure and hidden conflicts of interest. Automated review of public-sector decision-making has already touched 388 orders, forcing 152 into revision or the scrap heap.
Ministry of Digital Malaysia — Malaysia's Ministry of Digital, Bernas and the Ministry of Agriculture are taking Rakan Tani nationwide, targeting roughly 110,000 registered padi farmers. The co-pilot sends real-time, personalised AI farming advice over WhatsApp. Around 200 farmers were to receive AI agricultural guidance by end of March after a 10-week Perak pilot with 42 farmers.
Department of Information and Communications Technology — The Department of Information and Communications Technology opened consultation on its Draft National Sovereign Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence Strategy, placing Papua New Guinea AI policy, digital government and digital public infrastructure under one sovereign architecture. Four laws are proposed: a National Artificial Intelligence Act, Data Governance and Protection Act, Digital Identity and Trust Framework Act and Critical Digital Infrastructure Investment Act. New bodies would follow: a Digital Transformation and AI Board, a restructured Department of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence and a National Digital Economy Authority. None exists yet, because this AI governance plan is still a draft.
Rajah & Tann Singapore — Rajah & Tann Singapore's Benjamin Cheong, deputy head of its technology, media and telecoms group, told CNA he leans on AI for contract drafting and summaries almost daily. Deputy managing partner Abdul Jabbar Karam Din says specialist expertise and client insight still set lawyers apart.
ASAN AI Hub — 100 officials became Azerbaijan's inaugural graduates of AI training for civil servants, run jointly by ASAN AI Hub and Apolitical across seven courses on prompt engineering, healthcare, procurement, climate policy and leadership. This government AI upskilling push drew broader demand: 500-plus sign-ups, 40-plus agencies.
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance — Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance put AI contact centre tools across its customer and agency lines on a PKSHA Technology and CTC platform. PKSHA VoiceAgent captures callers' identity and purpose from natural speech before routing, Speech Insight provides live transcription and suggested answers for operators, and Knowledge Stream drafts knowledge-base entries afterwards. It expects up to about 30 per cent shorter handling on customer calls and about 10 per cent on agency calls, freeing operators for specialist work.
Artificial Intelligence Foundation — The Artificial Intelligence Foundation's 2026 survey of 228 companies in more than ten sectors lifted its AI adoption in Taiwan score to 43.62 from 36.77 a year earlier. Firms at the Ready AI or Scaling AI stages made up 47.8 per cent, and those still classed Unknowing AI fell to 26.8 per cent. ICT leads while mining, fishing, forestry, farming, construction and engineering trail well behind.
Tax Committee of Tajikistan — Tajikistan's Tax Committee runs AI in corporate tax administration, matching fresh registrations against state records and confirming entrepreneur identities and paperwork through the Andozi Man mobile app. AI property tax algorithms combine several government data sources to assess property tax, while a separate electronic tool handles public tax queries.
Ministry of Digital Affairs — Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs has drafted an AI Risk Taxonomy and Assessment Framework, an AI risk assessment framework under the AI Basic Act aligning domestic rules with international standards. Submitted to the Executive Yuan, it sets four stages — cataloguing AI use cases, identifying risks, assessing them, responding — guiding authorities toward risk-based regulation, part of wider AI risk governance efforts.
Ministry of Digital Technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan's Minister of Digital Technologies has issued an AI governance framework under Order No. 284-mh, registered by the Ministry of Justice as No. 3787: the Ethical Rules for Creating, Implementing and Using Artificial Intelligence-Based Solutions. It binds developers, implementers and users, defining AI and AI systems while requiring safeguards for human rights, freedoms and legitimate interests. Uzbekistan's AI ethics standards take legal effect from 17 June 2026.
House of Representatives — Deepfake regulation arrived in Cyprus through Law 29(I)/2026, revising the Copyright and Related Rights Law against unauthorised synthetic media. Producing or sharing deepfakes without consent now carries criminal liability plus civil remedies, with fabricated likeness safeguards lasting 50 years past a person's death.
Government of New Caledonia — AI job matching arrived in New Caledonia through emploi.nc, a government portal pairing employers with jobseekers. The Government of New Caledonia built the site to generate structured CVs and deploy a matching engine that scans openings for the nearest fit to each candidate's profile, using occupational codes from France Travail.
Ministry of Digital and CyberSecurity Malaysia — One national hub now anchors AI standards Malaysia: MY-AI Standards, engineered by CyberSecurity Malaysia. Gobind Singh Deo unveiled the site, with support from the National AI Office, the Department of Standards Malaysia and SIRIM Bhd, calling it trust infrastructure for reaching accepted global benchmarks. Built around an AI governance framework, the hub bundles guidance, cooperation and backing while countering deepfake dangers.
Ministry of Science and Technology (Bộ Khoa học và Công nghệ) — Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology has promulgated the National AI Ethics Framework through Circular 05/2026/TT-BKHCN, effective immediately. This Vietnam AI regulation binds artificial intelligence research, development and deployment to core principles: human-centred design, transparency, fairness, non-discrimination and accountability. Modelled partly on UNESCO's guidance, the framework gives organisations and individuals a reference point for lawful AI governance practices.
National Hospital of Sri Lanka — The National Hospital of Sri Lanka has added an AI MRI machine to patient care, the first in a government hospital nationwide, the Health Ministry says. Worth more than Rs. 450 million, the AI-equipped scanner serves the Emergency Treatment Unit and Neurosurgery Unit and was introduced under the patronage of Health Minister Nalinda Jayatissa.
Ministry of Law (MinLaw) — The Ministry of Law issued its Guide for Using Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Sector, GenAI guidance for lawyers finalised after a September 2025 consultation. Legal professionals keep final responsibility for all work products, client data and confidentiality need safeguarding, and telling clients about GenAI use deserves thought. Case studies cover GenAI tools for practices of every size and in-house teams; MinLaw will update it.
Wynn Williams — Wynn Williams has brought in Harvey as generative AI for its lawyers, wrapped in governance and confidentiality controls with people supervising each step. Ash Hill, managing partner, calls the move a deliberate part of long-range innovation and counts the practice among the earliest in New Zealand to take the platform up. Qualified lawyers check every result.
Hall & Wilcox — Hall & Wilcox lawyers at every level use Harvey, supervised juniors most, with the biggest effect in corporate, property and financial services work, says Steve Johns, Partner and Co-head of Technology and Digital Economy. AI training is compulsory, a governance framework tracks usage, and super users support teams.
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation — A crop disease diagnosis AI tool called Farmer AI is now available from Myanmar's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, packed into a mobile app for growers nationwide. It also reads soil health and offers tips on sowing, reaping and selling produce, answering questions typed or spoken through its built-in chatbot. Speaking to officials in Nay Pyi Taw, Deputy Minister Dr Tin Htut noted the app remains Version 1 (Beta) ahead of a fuller Play Store launch, broadening access to AI-based plant disease detection.
Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan — Tajikistan's Ministry of Education and Science reports 468 students enrolled in AI higher education, as eight universities and institutes run a full artificial intelligence specialisation. Initial graduates, including the Technological University of Tajikistan's first four-year cohort, are due in 2026. University AI training spans machine learning, data analytics, algorithm design, AI system design, and image and speech recognition.
Hutt City Council — Hutt City Council's AI-Volution programme has put 15 custom-built AI assistants and 300 licences into staff hands, an example of AI in local government. The rollout frees 44,000 working hours a year and saves NZD 900,000 annually, with 26 staff certified as AI navigators. Licence holders complete compulsory e-learning first, aimed at faster, more responsive resident services through generative AI adoption among council staff.
Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament of Kyrgyzstan) — Kyrgyzstan's Jogorku Kenesh has unveiled AI news anchors, Myrza and Aiyym, reporting on legislative business. These virtual news presenters turn out written summaries and clips explaining debates, keeping citizens informed of deputies' activities. Speaker Marlen Mamataliev tied the launch to the legislature's digitalisation push.
Nepal Department of Customs — Nepal Customs applies AI customs risk scoring at six major offices handling nearly 90% of commercial consignments, through its machine learning Automated Customs Risk Management System (CRMS). Misclassification surfaced in 0.02% of declarations within three months, yielding about 3.74% extra revenue on them. Its weighted-parameter risk assessment profiles transactions and sends officers recommendations through ASYCUDA World.
National Assembly of Vietnam — Vietnam's first standalone AI law took effect on 1 March 2026, enacted on 10 December 2025, grading AI systems high, medium or low risk by effect on safety and human rights, field of application, user scope and scale of effect. Providers must tag AI-generated audio, image and video in machine-readable form, and deployers must flag it where it might blur whether events or people are real. Baker McKenzie says most existing providers and deployers have until 1 March 2027, and the Ministry of Science and Technology will issue implementing guidance.
Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) of Macao — Macao's Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) has introduced an AI platform for government departments, running large-scale reasoning, multimodal and language models from within the government cloud computing centre for exclusive internal office use. By the count, 28 departments and around 5,000 registered users have signed on, with the system handling tasks from document drafting and image recognition to content production, voice transcription and data analysis. The bureau has also added an AI office platform for public administration on its service hotline, helping staff handle public enquiries.
Sumitomo SBI Net Bank — Sumitomo SBI Net Bank is beta testing NEOBANK ai, an AI banking agent built on generative UI. The assistant reads users' plain-language goals and renders screens live for fund transfers, procedure navigation and debit card spending analysis. The lender calls itself Japan's first bank with an AI agent for banking that builds interfaces per request.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation — Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation started SMBC AI Operator, a generative AI call centre line with technology from the Japan Research Institute and IBM Japan, on 25 February 2026. 24/7 it takes free-speech calls on the Olive personal finance product's application steps, campaigns, annual fees and service content, answering from bank reference data and passing callers to a human operator for identity checks during call-centre hours. The voice operator adapts phrasing and tone to each caller's way of speaking.
National AI Strategy Committee — South Korea's National AI Strategy Committee (국가인공지능전략위원회) passed a three-year national AI regulation blueprint: 99 implementation tasks, 326 policy recommendations, under Article 6 of the AI Basic Act. The 'Korea AI Action Plan (2026~2028)' (대한민국 인공지능행동계획) rests on three pillars — AI innovation ecosystem, nationwide AI-based transformation, global AI basic society — across 12 domains, including infrastructure, industry and public AX, talent, and global AI governance policy.
Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom — Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom is delivering AI training for government officials, covering 10,000 staff and aiming to lift digital literacy within public institutions. This forms part of the National AI Policy's capacity-building strand, running specialised AI workshops for public sector staff with industry partners.
NTT DOCOMO — Since 4 February 2026, Japan's mobile network has run agentic AI network maintenance under NTT DOCOMO, with the platform scanning alarm and traffic signals from more than one million connected devices to surface anomalies and propose fixes automatically. Engineers now resolve complex faults over 50% faster, per the carrier's own measurement. Built on one of the world's largest telecom datasets, the deployment marks a shift toward AI-driven fault detection at scale.
Nepal Police — Nepal Police opened the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Cell (AI-AAC) at Kathmandu headquarters, applying AI in policing. Misinformation spreaders in five districts already face legal action through it. Machine learning, predictive analytics, generative AI and large language models power this police AI for cybercrime detection, early warning systems, proactive intelligence and countering disinformation.
Supreme Court of the Philippines — The Supreme Court of the Philippines set out a Governance Framework on the Use of Human-Centered Augmented Intelligence in the Judiciary in a resolution dated 18 February 2026. It lets AI in the judiciary help with court documents, from copy-editing, optical character recognition and summarising to legal research, translation and voice-to-text transcription, but bans any tool that could harm stakeholders, breach rights or weaken the rule of law. AI output can never be the sole basis for adjudication, and human decision-makers keep full responsibility for legal reasoning and judgments.
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare — Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has launched Bharat-VISTAAR in Rajasthan, bringing real-time, personalised AI farm advisory to farmers. The multilingual platform had been announced in the Union Budget 2026-27.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare — SAHI, India's Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, hands hospitals, developers, researchers and policymakers one shared roadmap for steering AI in healthcare responsibly. Debuted at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, it demands tools clear safety, efficacy and ethical benchmarks before reaching patients, guiding medical AI adoption rather than dictating particular products.
Personal Data Protection Committee (PDPC) — Thailand's PDPC (Personal Data Protection Committee) has released draft AI data protection guidelines, titled Guidelines on Personal Data Protection in AI Development and Use, translating Personal Data Protection Act duties for controllers and processors into AI-specific rules. The 17 February text names stakeholder roles, bars certain model training uses in data processing agreements, requires impact assessments for high-risk AI, and sets security measures across the AI lifecycle. Comments close 25 February 2026.
Trial Company — Every one of Trial Company's 264 super centre branches has gone live with CIX-自動発注 (CIX-Auto Ordering), finishing a nationwide push for this AI ordering optimisation system. Machine learning paired with digital twin simulation drives down surplus stock by close to 30%, while liberating 180 person-hours of labour monthly at each branch. Automated inventory ordering has become the chain's standard practice.
Eurostat — Generative AI use in Cyprus runs at 76.5 per cent among 16 to 24-year-olds for 2025, Eurostat figures show, comfortably ahead of the European Union benchmark. Across the EU the reading for that age band was 63.8 per cent over the same year. AI uptake among young people peaked in Greece at 83.5 per cent, then Estonia on 82.8, the Czech Republic 78.5.
Shimamura — Shimamura's group EC sites and store app now run on a Neural Group engine built for AI product recommendations in fashion retail. Tens of thousands of product images get cross-matched with live stock, buyer history and web trends to surface tailored picks, while the app flags nearby shelf availability instantly through AI-driven personalised shopping recommendations.
National Court Administration (Supreme Court of Korea) — Korea's judiciary is piloting an in-house generative AI system that answers legal questions from judges and court staff. Answers draw on Supreme Court precedents and rulings, statutes, court rules, official interpretations, practice manuals and commentaries, and the courts expect the judicial AI tool to make precedent searches much quicker.
Corrs Chambers Westgarth — Corrs Chambers Westgarth now runs Harvey in every practice area, aiming the legal AI tool at document review, summaries and analysis, precedent-based drafting, and legal and regulatory research, with training and change management alongside. Marae Ciantar, who leads legal excellence and risk, says Harvey won after weighing the field closely.
Ministry of Digital Development of Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's Ministry of Digital Development is opening AI training for civil servants via Apolitical, the world's largest online network for public-sector staff. This gives officials entry to the Google.org-backed Government AI Campus, aiming to train 1 million civil servants worldwide. It builds government AI literacy through specialised courses.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) — The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026, in force from 20 February 2026, are the first binding India AI regulation. Defining synthetically generated information, the rules oblige intermediaries to technically block unlawful AI-generated content, visibly flag other synthetic content and embed permanent, uniquely identified metadata. Significant social media intermediaries must also verify user declarations under the AI-specific regime.
Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication — Nine principles frame Islamabad's push for Pakistan AI regulation, unveiled by the Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication at Indus AI Week. Ownership stays local under the Islamabad AI Declaration: private industry drives the work, backed by real capability, public confidence, accountable institutions, sound safeguards and careful delivery, with tangible results for citizens as the test. Any state deployment touching public rights or core government functions has to stay explainable, checkable and matched to the risk involved, forming the backbone of AI policy in Pakistan.
Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services — Fiji's Ministry of Health and Medical Services is fitting public hospitals with AI-powered X-ray machines, swapping out analogue equipment over 15 years old. The digital upgrade uses AI in medical imaging to help clinicians catch abnormalities and reach diagnoses faster. Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva, Nausori Health Centre and Taveuni are already equipped, with 21 sites planned nationwide.
Government of Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan AI regulation under Chapter 23 of the Digital Code (articles 191-197) now covers every AI system deployed nationally. Operators must publish a self-run risk assessment, disclose AI-generated interactions and deepfakes to users, and, for high-risk systems, issue a public conformity declaration. Cabinet Resolution No. 770 (December 2025) approved the methodology behind these AI governance requirements.
National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission — Nationwide AI in public procurement bidding is now compulsory under Implementation Opinions on Accelerating AI Application in the Bidding Sector (Fa Gai Fa Gui [2026] No. 195), issued jointly by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and eight other agencies. Mandated functions span the whole tender process: screening bid documents for compliance, machine-assisted evaluation, spotting bid-rigging, joint supervision and handling complaints. Officials set 2026 and 2027 as milestone years for rolling these AI-driven procurement scenarios out everywhere.
Chandhiok & Mahajan — Chandhiok & Mahajan has rolled Legora out firm-wide for legal AI support in research, drafting, review and access to quality legal sources, after piloting several options. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas partnered with Legora a year earlier, so Chandhiok & Mahajan is the second Indian law firm on the AI platform.
ANZ — ANZ has put Salesforce's Agentforce 360, AI agents for business bankers, into its bankers' new customer relationship management tool, claiming to be the first Asia-Pacific bank to deploy it at scale. The nationally rolled-out, Agentforce-backed CRM replaces a legacy platform and merges data from 20 separate systems into one dashboard, cutting time bankers spend switching systems, ANZ says.
Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Kamran Aliyev confirmed automated triage for AI in public prosecution: since late 2025, systems suggest which officer handles each application, staff finalising it. The effort extends to AI government case management, with tools planned for investigations and citizen phone enquiries under supervision.
BPJS Kesehatan — BPJS Kesehatan, which runs Indonesia's national health insurance scheme, has launched four AI services, including SmartClaim JKN, AI claims verification that speeds its verifiers' work. SISCA JKN, a digital avatar, gives Mobile JKN app users information and first responses, while Smart Analytics and Smart Insight turn agency data into material for operational and managerial decisions. IT director Edwin Aristiawan presented the launch.
Ministry of Border Affairs, Myanmar — Myanmar's Ministry of Border Affairs launched AI training for government staff through its AI Technology Basic Applications Training Course. Union Minister for Border Affairs Lt-Gen Yar Pyae urged staff to apply AI to data analysis, calling it essential at work and home. The National Artificial Intelligence Development Project's Director outlined core AI skills for civil servants.
Vietnam Customs (Ministry of Finance) — A trial AI chatbot for customs clearance runs in Vietnam at chatbot.customs.gov.vn until 30 April 2026. Businesses and officials use it for HS code lookup, duty rate suggestions and trade queries.
Guam Department of Labor — Almost every employee at Guam's Department of Labor has begun AI training for government staff, a partnership arrangement with the University of Guam. Built by UOG's Global Learning and Engagement unit alongside Pacific AI Media & Communications, the coursework launched with a module titled 'AI Literacy and Foundations', walking participants through fundamental ideas, available tools and rules for responsibly applying an artificial intelligence literacy programme inside government work. Two additional sessions remain, intended to guide workers toward folding AI into routine tasks.
Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT) — The Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT) and Phnom Penh Capital Administration gave AI training for civil servants to 518 staff. Three sessions on ethical AI use, prompt engineering, large language models and generative AI targeted work efficiency. Five civil service AI upskilling rounds have reached 1442.
Tachibana Hospital — Tachibana Hospital, an orthopaedic specialty centre in Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, is running the country's first orthopaedic-hospital pilot of OPTiM's generative AI platform, OPTiM AI Hospital, applying AI-assisted clinical documentation to cut paperwork time. The platform draws on electronic medical records to produce nursing summaries, clinical forms and physician opinions, with a targeted 30 to 50% reduction in drafting time. This automated hospital record generation marks an early test of how specialty hospitals might offload routine record-keeping.
Brunei Economic Development Board — Brunei Economic Development Board has begun AI adoption for MSMEs through the AI for MSME Advancement in ASEAN programme: 550 firms by May 2027, in 11 cohorts. Small-business artificial intelligence training shows owners to write promotional posts automatically, answer buyers faster through AI-powered chatbots, and hold stock, sales and daily records together.
Executive Yuan — The Executive Yuan approved the Ten AI Initiatives Promotion Plan (2025-2028), a Taiwan AI policy targeting NT$7 trillion in output value by 2028. The National Development Council coordinates this national AI strategy, which spans digital infrastructure, key technologies and smart applications.
ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh — A tiered, risk-based Bangladesh AI policy draft covering 2026-2030 is now open for public comment via the ICT Division. Mass surveillance and social scoring are banned, high-risk systems must pass algorithmic impact assessments, and a permanent AI Act is due by 2028. Interim officials describe it as their second attempt at national AI regulation, joining sovereignty goals with growth incentives through a new AI Innovation Fund.
Ministry of Ethnic Affairs, Myanmar — Myanmar's Ministry of Ethnic Affairs held AI training for civil servants: an AI Technology Basic Practical Training Course in Nay Pyi Taw. Citing global use in education, health and industry, Union Minister for Border Affairs and Ethnic Affairs Lt-Gen Yar Pyae urged personnel to put AI upskilling to use, speeding departmental tasks.
Executive Yuan — Taiwan's Executive Yuan has greenlit a four-year AI national strategy Taiwan calls the AI New Ten Major Constructions Promotion Plan, backed by roughly NT$1900億元. The National Development Council leads delivery with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, MODA and the National Science and Technology Council, spanning sovereign AI, computing capacity and talent pipelines. This national AI development plan releases funding year by year rather than all at once.
Government of Armenia — Armenia AI regulation gained a treaty anchor on 27 January 2026, when Yerevan endorsed the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, the first global legal text shielding freedoms from the technology. Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan signed in Strasbourg, taking signatories to seventeen. Ratifying binds domestic AI rules to protect rights and democratic norms without stifling innovation, via law or executive action.
Ministry of Health Brunei Darussalam — Brunei Darussalam's Ministry of Health, the Novartis Foundation and EVYD Technology used Davos to pledge AI cardiovascular risk tiering for a whole country. Leaning on the state's own medical records, this population-wide heart disease prevention drive promises earlier detection of the most endangered residents and a fitting remedy. No country has taken CARDIO4Cities national before, and Brunei will cover four hazards at once — hypertension, diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia.
Government of French Polynesia — French Polynesia now has a charter for AI use by government employees, covering research, note-taking, drafting and translation. Vice-President Minarii Galenon signed the rules, barring staff from entering sensitive data into unapproved tools. Binding decisions stay with people, not AI in the public sector, unless a human supervises.
Infocomm Media Development Authority — Singapore launched the Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI at the World Economic Forum in Davos, covering AI agents that reason and act autonomously for users. The Infocomm Media Development Authority sets out technical and non-technical measures for agentic AI governance across four dimensions: bounding risks up front, meaningful human accountability through checkpoints, technical controls over the agent's lifecycle and end-user education. Minister for digital development and information Josephine Teo announced it.
Government of the Republic of Korea — South Korea's AI Basic Act, formally the Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of Trust, came into force on 22 January 2026. Generative AI operators must label AI-made content, and high-impact AI operators must summarise training data and meaningfully explain results, including the main criteria and principles behind them. Foreign AI firms with no Korean office must appoint a local agent past set revenue or daily-user thresholds, and administrative fines wait out a one-year grace period.
National Assembly — South Korea created the Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy under Act No. 20676, formally titled the Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Creation of a Foundation for Trust, also called the AI Basic Act. This South Korea AI regulation forces disclosure rules onto generative and high-impact systems, orders safety checks for high-performance models, and funds industry and research growth. Ten sensitive fields fall under its reach — healthcare, employment, credit and public safety among them — anchoring a wider AI governance framework signed into law 21 January 2025.
Pos Malaysia Berhad — Zelos, Malaysia's first autonomous logistics vehicle, now runs for Pos Malaysia with Autonomous Logistic Solutions Sdn Bhd. The uncrewed, electric unit suits repetitive, high-volume point-to-point freight. A six-month pilot follows across the postal operator's network, using 5G from Digital National Berhad to validate the driverless vehicle.
Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan — Law No. ZRU-1115 penalises unlawful AI processing of personal data with fines of 50–100 times the base calculation value, plus confiscation, by amending the Administrative Liability Code and the Law on Informatisation. This Uzbekistan AI regulation treats AI as technology mimicking human cognitive functions, such as self-learning and solution search. Its AI law provisions forbid AI-created information resources and systems from harming people or their rights, and ban legally significant decisions on human rights and freedoms that rely only on AI conclusions.
Supreme People's Court of Vietnam (Tòa án nhân dân tối cao) — Nearly 400 linked venues joined the Supreme People's Court's hybrid AI training for court staff, led by Deputy Chief Justice Nguyễn Biên Thùy. Judges, examiners, clerks, administrators and technicians from appellate, local and military benches plus the Judges Academy attended, posing 901 queries. Sessions spanned fundamentals, sovereign models and safeguarding records, showcased chatbot helpers and held that machines assist while humans stay accountable.
Selangor state government — Selangor's state government will pilot 150 AI fall detection devices in elderly care centres and private homes from June 2026, through state foundation Yayasan Warisan Anak Selangor with South Korean tech firm UNIUNI. Infrared sensors track movement, and if someone falls the system detects it fast and alerts care-centre operators or others responsible for immediate help, says foundation chief executive Gan Pei Nei. Devices go in only with residents' consent.
TalentCorp — TalentCorp and EY Consulting launched Jelajah AI MyMahir in Sungai Buloh, a RM110 million applied AI upskilling programme opened by Human Resources Minister Ramanan Ramakrishnan. Across 60 constituencies, hands-on AI learning reaches small business owners, entrepreneurs, women, workers and students; TalentCorp expects about 22,000 Malaysians, 12,000 via the roadshow and 10,000 via its other programmes.
PEZA / TESDA — The Philippine Economic Zone Authority has opened the country's first government-led AI training academy in Mandaue City, Cebu, with TESDA and private providers Advanced Institute of Technology and StackTrek. Workers at PEZA-registered firms, over 424 of them in Cebu, study applied AI for business, automation and generative AI tools for free.
SOMPO Holdings — SOMPO Holdings began rolling out an in-house AI agent for employees, about 30,000 across domestic group companies, from January 2026, including all staff at SOMPO Holdings and core operating company Sompo Japan. With Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise as the main tool, the group is testing what the agent actually changes about work. The goal is a foundation for reworking practices and processes rather than tinkering with them.
Bank of Korea — The Bank of Korea runs BOKI, an in-house AI system, on its internal business network, where staff dig through the bank's document archive, even reading tables and graphs from reports. Data never leaves the building, a design built with Naver Cloud after a late-2023 tie-up, reportedly making it the world's first central bank to build and run internal AI this way.
National Tax Service of Korea — Korea's National Tax Service has offered taxpayers a generative AI tax chatbot since January 2026, first for VAT returns and year-end tax settlement, widening it from 1 May to comprehensive income tax filing and incentive claims. It sits beside an AI telephone consultation line and AI search in the Hometax portal, public-facing first. The NTS plans to extend AI from taxpayer services to tax-base management and audits across all tax administration.
SOCAR Carbamide — SOCAR Carbamide at Sumqayit, Azerbaijan, has joined the World Economic Forum's Global Lighthouse Network among 22 freshly named factories, recognised for industrial AI in fertiliser production. Squeezed from 2022 by broken regional food routes, shaky natural gas feedstock and already flat out, the works layered 42 digitally enabled use cases over an in-house AI-machine learning engine, adding closed-loop autonomous process control, generative AI and shopfloor robots. Throughput climbed 21% and gas efficiency 24%.
Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center — Kong Pisei Hospital and Techo Sen Koh Thom Hospital in Cambodia are the first sites outside China to get an AI eye screening system, Vision Health Intelligent Management Centres from the Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center. Big data analytics and the Internet of Things join the artificial intelligence behind this digital vision health management approach, spotting eye disorders sooner and keeping patients on tiered care, while Shanghai teams coach local staff on the kit. Patients topped 100 in month one and passed 500 by May.
Cook Islands2026-01Over 130 people in Rarotonga have now sat the Kia Orana AI Programme, workplace AI training run by a young Cook Islander and spanning government, financial services, hospitality and retail. The Infrastructure Cook Islands head office finished this AI upskilling in January 2026.
Jeonjin Advanced Middle School — Jeonjin Advanced Middle School, Pyongyang's first integrated K-12 institution, has built a dedicated AI education room in Nangrang District with educational robots and up-to-date teaching gear. The facility delivers staged AI in K-12 education: kindergarteners engage with robot play, elementary pupils tackle simple algorithms, intermediates move into programming, and advanced learners design and operate robots themselves. This graduated model of AI-based robotics teaching reflects a push to embed artificial intelligence instruction at every school stage.
Government of Taiwan — President Lai Ching-te promulgated Taiwan's AI Basic Act, in force since 14 January 2026 after the Legislative Yuan passed it on 23 December 2025. The principle-based Taiwan AI regulation names the National Science and Technology Council as central competent authority and has agencies help their sectors write AI safety guidelines and codes of practice. It also tells government to use AI to protect workers' rights and tackle skills mismatches.
Legislative Yuan and President of Taiwan — The Legislative Yuan approved the 20-article Artificial Intelligence Basic Act on 23 December 2025, anchoring Taiwan AI regulation. The statute makes the National Science and Technology Council central competent authority, fixes seven governance principles and adds cross-agency coordination. Sector regulators get two years to write the AI law's implementing rules.
Government of Indonesia — A pair of drafts folded into Presidential Decree 38/2025 (Perpres), inked by President Prabowo on 22 December, now anchors Indonesia AI policy. Guiding ethical standards alongside a tiered risk framework mirroring the EU AI Act make up one text; a National AI Roadmap mapping out 2026-2030 across 10 focus sectors forms the second. Every minister had endorsed the ethics draft by September 2026, awaiting only release, while its companion needed nothing further than the President's approval — part of a broader national push on AI governance and regulation.
Department of Education, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Education Secretary Sonny Angara launched Project AGAP.AI, the Department of Education's AI training in schools on responsible AI use for teachers and students, at Quezon City Science High School. DepEd targets up to 1.5 million participants (1.05 million learners, 300,000 teachers and 150,000 parents) through AI Ready ASEAN Philippines training during 2026.
Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Tajikistan — Tajikistan's Ministry of Industry and New Technologies has launched AI-GOV, deploying the Perplexity Comet browser across government offices as a step toward AI in public sector administration. Epsilon3.ai built the system architecture as technology partner, and the tool already runs inside the Ministry, where it handles licensing approvals for small and medium businesses, covering regulatory checks and knowledge management, an early government use of an AI browser.
Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication — Pakistan's Civil Services Academy in Islamabad gave 150 probationary officers two-day intensive AI training for civil servants covering fundamentals, prompt engineering and ethical government use. Federal Minister for IT and Telecom Shaza Fatima Khawaja opened the Artificial Intelligence 101 module; training-of-trainers certified 30 faculty members as master trainers. The CSA curriculum formally includes officer AI instruction for all future batches.
General Department of Taxation (GDT) — Cambodia's General Department of Taxation has deployed Beauramei, an AI tax chatbot answering queries on tax laws in Khmer, cutting manual enquiries and office visits. GDT ties the rollout to a wider modernisation drive for public services and stronger domestic revenue mobilisation, with further AI-powered tax services upgrades to follow.
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications — A free AI translation app, TranslateKH 2.0, went live from Cambodia's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, letting anyone switch text between Khmer and English via the Play Store, the App Store or a fresh site, www.translate.kh. Powered by deep learning and a large language model, the second-generation machine translation service reads whole passages for meaning instead of parsing sentence by sentence, which the ministry credits with sharper results than its predecessor.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's agentic AI fraud detection, built in-house in about three months, helped cut fraud losses more than 20% in the first half of its 2026 financial year year-on-year, the bank says. Watching over 80 million signals a day, the fraud agent helped create or update three-quarters of card-fraud rules, with human approval. James Roberts, general manager of fraud and scams, reported this in April 2026; no independent evaluation is published.
NCVET placed India's first AI skills qualifications on the National Skills Qualifications Framework in July 2026, recognising NIIT Foundation Awarding Body (Dual). The AI-tool pair are Fundamentals of Digital Productivity with AI Tools, NSQF Level 3, and Fundamentals of Data Management with AI Tools, NSQF Level 4.
Singapore combined SkillsFuture Singapore and Workforce Singapore into one statutory board, the Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA), operating from 1 July 2026. The Ministry of Manpower and Ministry of Education oversee it jointly.
Singapore's Ministry of Manpower says Singaporeans taking selected government-funded SkillsFuture AI courses will get six months' free access to premium AI tools from the second half of 2026. Pairing subsidised training with subsidised tools is meant to get learners applying skills through regular use and experimentation; qualifying courses and tools will be named later, according to its March 2026 press release.
South Korea is spending ₩1.4 trillion (about US$960 million) on AI talent development in 2026: ₩900 billion for elementary and middle schools and ₩500 billion for high schools. AI-focused schools will expand from 730 to 2,000 by 2028, and vocational high-school departments offering AI courses from 20% to 50% by 2030.
India's Cabinet approved the IndiaAI Mission in March 2024: ₹10,371.92 crore (about US$1.25 billion) over five years, with AI skilling among seven pillars. IndiaAI FutureSkills widens AI courses from undergraduate to PhD level and opens Data and AI Labs in Tier 2 and 3 cities.
Singapore's National AI Impact Programme targets AI skills training for 100,000 workers by 2029 and support for 10,000 enterprises over three years, including sector-specific courses for HR, legal, accounting, manufacturing and other non-tech professions. Budget 2026 set aside over S$400 million for an Enterprise Workforce Transformation Package, and Singaporeans on selected SkillsFuture AI courses get six months of free premium AI tools.
State Tax Service of Kyrgyzstan — A newly deployed system called Kezet now underpins AI tax auditing at Kyrgyzstan's State Tax Service, built by the Salyk Service state institution to strengthen how data gets processed. Inspectors will lean further on AI-driven tax inspections from 2026, when audits themselves become automated and oversight grows more transparent.
Mongolian Customs General Administration — MCGA now leans on AI HS Code classification to speed cargo clearance in Mongolia. A chatbot combining a large language model with retrieval-augmented generation runs atop Rebellions NPU chips, so traders keying in goods descriptions instantly get back a suggested harmonised tariff code, trimming errors and wait times at the border. Mongolian Customs General Administration bills this as the world's first NPU-based LLM/RAG setup embedded in a working customs system, an early real-world proof of AI tariff coding for customs.
Aiyl Bank (ABank) — Aiyl Bank's ABAI chatbot and AI document analysis in banking trimmed manual workload at the Kyrgyz lender in 2025, freeing 9 thousand 600 working hours. Regulatory paperwork now moves through the AI assistant instead of staff, while ABAI fields client queries. This AI-driven automation in banking shifted staff onto harder, client-focused work.
Taoyuan City Government and Wenxin Elementary School — Generative AI now reaches classroom coursework at Wenxin Elementary in Taoyuan, where Taiwan's first AI smart classroom launched on 23 December 2025 through a joint effort by the Taoyuan City Government, ASUS and Google for Education. Named the AI Chain-of-Thought Smart Classroom, the space allows pupils to draw on such tools for assignments and gives instructors support in building materials and interpreting learning analytics. Mayor Chang San-cheng signalled the approach might spread to further schools should outcomes turn out well, marking an early instance of AI in classroom education in Taiwan.
JCDecaux Transport — SmartRetail's computer vision now tracks how riders move past ads in Hong Kong's transit network, part of a completed JCDecaux Transport trial at Tsim Sha Tsui Station. The system logged crowd flow, directional patterns, rider demographics and ad-screen attention, marking what JCDecaux calls Asia's first AI audience measurement effort in metro advertising. Ipsos verified the outcomes independently, underpinning this AI-driven ad analytics test.
Bank SinoPac (Yongfeng Bank) — Yongfeng Bank rolled out "Licai Copilot", an AI-driven wealth management tool built on Microsoft Azure AI, aimed at Taiwan's high-end wealth management clients, a segment the bank values at NT$2 trillion in assets. Advisory staff gain four capabilities through the system: rapid client lookup, an internal intelligence feed pulling nearly 500 news sources, quick client profile writeups, and simulated compliance drills replacing standard training sessions. The rollout signals the bank's broader shift toward AI wealth management tool adoption across its advisory teams.
Office of the National Defense and Security Council — Myanmar's Office of the National Defense and Security Council formed the Supervisory Committee for Legal Awareness Dissemination Using AI Technology under Notification Order No. 120/2025, overseeing the Legal Assistant AI Model. The Ministry of Legal Affairs and the National Artificial Intelligence Technology Development Project jointly run this AI legal awareness, AI-driven legal education effort, discussed at a Nay Pyi Taw meeting.
Artificial Intelligence Strategic Headquarters (Cabinet Office) — Japan AI regulation now includes national guidance from the Artificial Intelligence Strategic Headquarters under Article 13 of the AI Act, urging voluntary, proactive safeguards from every party in AI research, development and deployment. The framework lists seven pillars — human-centricity, safety, fairness, privacy, security, transparency, accountability — and requires each ministry to name an AI governance officer. It favours soft rules over binding law, relying on self-driven compliance across the sector.
National Logistics Corporation — Pakistan's National Logistics Corporation now runs AI cargo scanning at two crossings: Sost Dry Port facing China and Gabd Border Terminal on the Iran frontier. Vehicles clear in 22 seconds as the system reads cargo codes and checks structural details, cutting delays and manual customs work via this AI-based border inspection.
Bupa Hong Kong — Faster claims turnaround, stronger fraud checks and smoother regulatory compliance are the targets of a fresh five-year Business-Process-as-a-Service pact between Cognizant and Bupa Hong Kong, built around AI in health insurance claims processing. AI-driven claims automation sits at the core of the arrangement, Cognizant's first such BPaaS launch in the region, meant also to lift customer satisfaction.
MBANK — MBANK's AI customer service assistant, AI MBANK, settles 79 per cent of Kyrgyzstan queries unaided. This virtual banking agent, unveiled at Bishkek's Mtalx event, fielded over 2.7 million chats in Kyrgyz, Russian and mixed languages in 2025, via the MBANK app, WhatsApp and Telegram. Figures are unaudited.
Taichung Municipal Hospital for Geriatric Rehabilitation and Comprehensive Care — China Medical University Hospital and EverBot Technology built the machines: 20 Aibo units now stationed inside Taichung Municipal Hospital for Geriatric Rehabilitation and Comprehensive Care, reinforcing staff duties as part of Taiwan's growing use of AI-powered hospital robots. Ward navigation for patients, delivering health education material and running telemedicine calls fall to each device, which sharpens its output through ongoing interaction. One shared AI server can coordinate as many as 30 of these healthcare service robots at the same time.
Parliament of Vanuatu — Vanuatu now regulates AI regulation through a permit scheme: the Digital Transformation Act No. 42 of 2025 forces any firm supplying AI-powered tools to Ni-Vanuatu businesses or citizens to register under a new ICT category covering 'artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-related data services'. Parliament enacted the law in November 2025, handing the Department of Communications and Digital Transformation power to draft national AI policy frameworks and conduct compliance inspections. Non-compliant firms risk fines reaching Vt20 million.
Nguyen Trai Hospital — Doctors in Con Dao's special zone can now flag atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction through an AI heart rhythm screening tool handed over by Nguyen Trai Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Built from Vietnamese patient records rather than borrowed foreign data, the system hits near 100% sensitivity for irregular-heartbeat detection when paired with smart wearable devices. It fills a gap at remote clinics with no cardiologist on staff, extending AI-based cardiac diagnosis beyond major urban centres.
Siam Piwat Group — Siam Piwat Group now runs AI in retail across its ONESIAM SuperApp, spanning Siam Paragon and ICONSIAM, on Google Cloud infrastructure. Vertex AI drives semantic search for shoppers, swapping older rule-based lookup for personalised recommendations, while a predictive segmentation tool targets marketing campaigns as part of the retail AI stack. Snap & Collect applies Vision AI to receipts, automating loyalty rewards and e-stamping without staff handling.
38th Guam Legislature — Guam AI regulation now runs through a 12-member Guam Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Task Force, born from Public Law 38-77 once Acting Governor Josh Tenorio put his signature on the Guam Legislature's Bill 64-38 on 16 December 2025. That statute slots Chapter 16 into Title 5 of the Guam Code Annotated and pulls together the Homeland Security director, chief technology officer, University of Guam president, legislative speaker, chief justice, and two figures from private industry to sit on this AI regulatory task force. Inside a two-year window the panel owes drafted AI rules covering both government and commerce, plus progress updates every four months.
LG Uplus — LG Uplus released Agentic Callbot, South Korea's first subscription-based AI customer service callbot, using OpenAI's generative AI. Instead of pre-programmed scenarios, agentic AI reads customer intent and conversational context to resolve complex inquiries. The automated call handling links to applications in manufacturing, distribution, hospitals and universities.
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan's Ministry of Internal Affairs added an AI chatbot for police services to the E-Polis mobile app and the online portal e-xidmet.mia.gov.az, starting as a pilot. Users type questions and get immediate automated replies covering applications, required documents and procedures. Pending trial outcomes, the policing assistant will gain voice features and sharper replies.
ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh — kagoj.ai, Bangladesh's first Bangla-language AI platform, has gone live from the ICT Division alongside 'July', a new government typeface. Nearly 4,000 volunteers trialled it over a fortnight before official debut. Authorities plan to release the API and code openly, while extending efforts to gather spoken-word data from ethnic minority communities using this AI platform built for Bangla.
Government of Vanuatu — Vanuatu's Digital Transformation Act No. 42 of 2025, in force from 17 December 2025, applies Vanuatu AI regulation through a permit regime for ICT operators, carving out a distinct category for artificial intelligence and AI-linked data services. Oversight sits with the Department of Communications and Digital Transformation, which gains authority to draft national AI frameworks, while a newly formed National Digital Steering Committee vets major cybersecurity, ICT and AI strategies before they go to the Council of Ministers. The law reflects governance built through broader digital statutes rather than a standalone AI-specific act, with annual permits required of all providers, including artificial intelligence in government services.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare — India's health ministry runs MadhuNetrAI for diabetic retinopathy screening at 38 sites in 11 states, built with AIIMS and Wadhwani AI. Staff read retinal images unaided, part of this diabetic eye examination AI push. 14,000+ images processed, 7,100 patients reached.
Apollo Tyres — Manufacturing Reasoner, Apollo Tyres' in-house agentic AI platform, reads IoT data from 250-plus curing presses, cutting fault diagnosis from two hours to under 10 minutes, manual effort by 88 per cent, and costs by roughly ₹1.5 crore yearly — agentic AI in manufacturing at work. A linked GenAI tool for production issue diagnosis fields 14,000 monthly commercial calls.
Government of India (Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare) — Roughly half of surveyed growers in India shifted sowing plans once monsoon alerts covered 3.88 crore farmers across 13 states in kharif 2025. Phone surveys put the share revising land preparation, sowing timing, crop choice or input selection at 31 to 52 per cent, evidence AI in agriculture forecasting can shift smallholder behaviour at scale. Behind the alerts: an open blend of NeuralGCM, ECMWF's Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System and 125 years of IMD rainfall data, a farm-weather prediction approach using satellite and climate history.
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) — East Japan Railway Company's "AI commander" system targets AI rail disruption recovery, aiming to cut Shinkansen and conventional-line restoration times by up to 50 per cent, a milestone for AI-driven rail service restoration. Deployed on the Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku bullet-train lines and Tokyo-area conventional routes, the generative AI tool monitors dispatcher-crew radio exchanges, checks them against maintenance manuals and two decades of past incidents, then independently drafts likely causes, response plans and recovery estimates. The 50 per cent figure is the company's own projection.
UNDP Turkmenistan — AI-powered tuberculosis screening is now running nationwide in Turkmenistan, rolled out by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with Global Fund funding. CAD4TB software reads X-rays in seconds at central and velayat hospitals, and each portable unit manages roughly 400 exams per charge on solar or battery power. This tuberculosis detection using AI reaches remote regions beyond fixed clinics.
State Great Khural of Mongolia — TUS Solution LLC built the AI legal analysis module now running on Mongolia's D-Parliament platform, operated by the State Great Khural, to scan bills clause by clause for conflicts with constitutional human rights guarantees. Flagged provisions go back for revision, giving citizens clearer access to legal information. This is AI-assisted legislative review reaching a national parliament.
University of Nottingham Malaysia — Salesforce's Agentforce platform powers NOVA (Nottingham Online Virtual Assistant), University of Nottingham Malaysia's new AI assistant for student applications, answering queries on eligibility, scholarships, housing and booking appointments across the website, WhatsApp, Facebook and WeChat. UNM is Malaysia's first university to deploy this AI virtual assistant in higher education.
Nepal Rastra Bank — Nepal Rastra Bank's draft AI Guideline binds every licensed bank, financial institution and payment provider it oversees. Boards and senior managers answer for AI credit scoring, fraud detection, risk management, compliance monitoring and customer service outcomes, sorted under a tiered risk classification. Clients must be told whenever automated systems shape choices touching them.
Kuningan City Mall — Kuningan City Mall now runs Airy, short for AI Robotic Kuningan City, an AI humanoid robot customer service unit at its concierge desk. Built with Indonesian vendors, it directs shoppers to tenants, deals and events, speaking English, Chinese and French. The move backs the mall's push toward a hi-tech venue, an early humanoid robot retail deployment in Indonesia.
TP Indonesia — TP Indonesia (formerly Teleperformance) unveils TP.ai FAB for AI in business operations, fusing generative AI, predictive modelling and analytics under one roof. Live sentiment reads and next-best-action cues steer telesales and collections, while automation absorbs routine tasks. This AI-driven business services push centres people, augmenting rather than substituting them.
Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) — ChestGuru, an AI chest X-ray diagnosis tool from Nepali firm Second Eye, is on trial at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. Scanning one radiograph, it flags 14 possible chest ailments, tuberculosis and pneumonia among them, to speed sorting of urgent cases where wards get crowded.
Lawsnote — Nearly all legal professionals in Taiwan now use AI in legal work: Lawsnote's survey of 721 respondents put usage at 85.6%, about triple North America's 25-31% rate, reflecting strong AI adoption among legal professionals there. Employers, though, remain far behind: only 34.1% have formally sanctioned any tool, so 51.5% of staff turn to unapproved "shadow AI" instead. Among those relying on it, 43.4% cited efficiency gains above 40%.
Supreme Court of India — Justice P S Narasimha now leads the Supreme Court's revamped Artificial Intelligence Committee, a four-member body guiding AI in Indian courts under Chief Justice Surya Kant. Members are tasked with shaping, launching and overseeing artificial intelligence adoption throughout the country's judicial system.
Dish Media Network (Dish Home) — Khusi, an AI customer service agent from Dish Media Network, parent of ISP Dish Home, now answers subscriber queries in fluent Nepali. This AI customer support agent gauges caller mood, catches technical faults unaided, and rings lapsed accounts to urge renewal. It debuted on Facebook Messenger and webchat.
TOPS (Central Food Retail Group, Central Retail) — Central Retail's food chain TOPS deployed AI stock checking retail via a fresh chatbot letting buyers confirm shelf availability nearby before a visit. Built on Google Cloud's Conversational Agents platform, it adds 24/7 chatbot support and natural Thai comprehension for steering shoppers inside branches.
Premium Nexus JSC — Over 500 CU stores and two distribution centres in Mongolia gain AI demand forecasting in retail via Premium Nexus JSC's deal with RELEX Solutions. One unified system now runs warehouse and shop-floor planning, producing automatic forecasts, tighter stock strategies and location-level KPIs through the AI-powered forecasting and replenishment system.
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation — Rizal Commercial Banking Corp engineered an AI credit decisioning engine now driving consumer loan approvals bank-wide. Reviewers face lighter workloads, favoured customers get sign-off within a day, and alternative data brings thin-file applicants into reach. This automated loan approval push has slashed processing times bank-wide.
SCENTMATIC — Tsim Sha Tsui's new @cosme HONG KONG flagship, the brand's first shop outside Japan, now runs SCENTMATIC's AI fragrance system KAORIUM. It performs AI scent matching, turning fragrance into a 16-word Scent Index for description-based browsing. Choices sync to the @cosme app across online and in-store visits.
Kyushu University Hospital — Kyushu University Hospital says its AI DPC coding tool from Ubie has added over 65 million yen a year in revenue while shortening staff working hours. Built on a large language model tied into electronic health records, the software scans unstructured clinical notes and recommends diagnosis and procedure codes, matching skilled coders' choices in 90% of cases. The case is a rare example of AI-assisted diagnosis and procedure coding showing a direct, quantified financial return inside a Japanese hospital.
Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC — Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC debuts CellFin Echo inside CellFin, the nation's first tool for AI banking in Bangladesh driven purely by speech. Speaking plain English, users check balances, move funds, settle bills, pull ATM codes or view statements via this spoken assistant. CellFin already counts nearly 5.7 million users.
Severance Hospital — Y-KNOT, an AI emergency department discharge notes system built by a Yonsei University College of Medicine team, finishes Severance Hospital's mandatory ED paperwork in 32 seconds, down from 69.5 seconds when clinicians handle it unaided. This AI-assisted discharge documentation combines an internal large language model with a compact transformer, operating fully inside the hospital's own network so patient records stay put. Human reviewers scored the machine-drafted text above manually written versions for thoroughness, accuracy, brevity and practical value, per findings in JAMA Network Open.
Sansiri Public Company Limited — Amazon Web Services underpins Sansiri's ChatX Assistant, Thailand's first large-scale generative AI in real estate, built on Anthropic's Claude via Amazon Bedrock. Buyers and staff get instant answers on financing, zoning and construction across 500-plus projects via this AI-powered home buying assistant. A linked OCR tool reads over 50,000 invoices monthly above 90% accuracy, lifting response speed 30% and satisfaction 25%.
Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Communications of Mongolia — More than 60,000 Mongolian government workers gain free AI skills training for public servants under a new Oracle alliance with the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Communications. Teachers, doctors, civil servants and the wider public gain three years of coursework via Oracle Academy and Oracle University, spanning artificial intelligence, databases, data handling, cybersecurity and IT. The effort ties to Mongolia's Digital First policy and National Big Data and AI Strategy, feeding a wider push toward AI literacy across the public workforce.
Union Bank of the Philippines — UnionBank is the Philippines' first bank, and among ASEAN's earliest, running Amazon Quick Suite for natural language data queries in banking. Over 200 staff in operations, technology, product and customer-facing roles skip IT, pulling insights via plain-language data querying. UnionBank expects 3 to 5 times faster request handling.
Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan now has its first nationwide AI safety requirements, set by a Cabinet of Ministers resolution grounded in the Digital Code. High-risk AI systems face safety standards for high-risk AI systems: hazard controls, openness, clear reasoning, oversight, precision, dependability, digital resilience and clean data. Owners must verify safety at every lifecycle stage, start to finish.
One New Zealand — Coverage complaints get resolved 80% faster at One New Zealand via Network Concierge, an AI agent network diagnostics telecom system on Amazon Bedrock. It merges alarm feeds, incident history and performance stats automatically, enabling this AI-powered network troubleshooting. Storms trigger another use: ranking cell towers for backup generators.
Igloo — Igloo applies AI in insurance across the Philippines, spanning product design, sales and claims. Drop-off fell 24.7% once a recommendation tool steered buyers to suitable plans, 70% of whom accepted it, while a digital claims helper lifted accuracy to 98% and let policyholders file instantly. Agents get round-the-clock quoting and payments via chatbot.
HL Mando — A South Korean-built humanoid, A-Robot's Alice M1, now works HL Mando's Wonju plant floor, a humanoid robot manufacturing test backed by the M.AX programme. It handles dull jobs staff dodge. First homegrown humanoid at a major domestic factory, a milestone for robotics for industrial settings.
Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic — Kyrgyzstan's Cabinet of Ministers approved this AI regulation Kyrgyzstan measure, Resolution No. 770, setting binding standards for high-risk AI systems requirements: a danger-assessment method plus rules on transparency, explainability, precision, dependability, digital resilience, data integrity and technical records. Grounded in Articles 193 and 194 of the Digital Code, it covers systems deemed to carry elevated risk. It took effect 15 days after the Digital Code's entry into force, around 21 February 2026.
Academy of Civil Service under the President of Turkmenistan — UNDP, Turkmenistan's Ministry of Communications and the Academy of Civil Service under the President of Turkmenistan trained 80 officers, IT specialists and university staff in AI in public administration, under the title Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Public Administration. Estonia's E-Governance Academy supplied instructors; the wider push has now reached 120 trainees. Backers link this digital governance training for civil servants to the country's longer digital transformation goals.
Australian Government — Canberra now handles AI regulation Australia-wide through existing statutes, scrapping ex-minister Ed Husic's mandatory guardrails and standalone AI act. A $30 million AI Safety Institute will flag gaps under this looser AI governance model. The shift, built into the Government's National AI Plan, favours industry growth over binding rules.
State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations under the President of Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan's State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations has unveiled the ASAN AI Hub, an AI innovation government platform designed to unite scholars, officials, businesses and the public in one shared digital space, functioning as a government AI platform for public-private collaboration. Cash-prize contests posted there challenge undergraduates, academics, founders and civic organisations to devise fixes, positioning the hub as a crossroads linking universities, industry and the state. Its debut ceremony sealed partnerships with Apolitical, Breakthrough Social Enterprise and GenAI Works.
Ministry of Education and Training (Vietnam) — Grades 1 through 12 across Vietnam will trial an AI teaching in schools scheme run by the Ministry of Education and Training, lasting through May 2026 at chosen sites. Four strands anchor the syllabus: human-centred thinking, AI ethics, AI techniques and applications, and AI system design. A second track brings artificial intelligence in education directly to staff, equipping them with tools for planning and grading; further details remain pending.
Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) — 42 science teachers from Kathmandu's Chandragiri and Tokha municipalities gained AI tools for teachers instruction under Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, mastering ChatGPT, Gemini and DeepSeek. Practised tasks include exam-paper setting, report drafting and material design. Rollout of AI in teacher training to further municipalities is planned.
Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BPOM) — Indonesia's Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) now runs the nation's first AI drug and food licensing system, pairing automated workflows with machine learning and language-processing software wired into the National Data Centre to shrink approval turnaround. A sister tool, PRIMA, gives applicants a 24-hour AI-powered regulatory consultation portal for licensing enquiries.
Department of Personnel Management — Papua New Guinea's public service now hires through an AI-powered e-recruitment system covering every government body, unveiled by the Department of Personnel Management at the Digital Transformation Summit 2025 in Port Moresby. Secretary Taies Sansan described an AI recruitment platform built on large language models that scans applicants' CVs, transcripts and credentials, aligns their skills against open roles, assembles candidate shortlists, and drafts offer letters plus contracts automatically. Trials start at the Department of Personnel Management and the Department of Information and Communications Technology, before an 18-month expansion brings every remaining national, provincial and health-sector office on board.
Amazon Web Services — Nearly 170,000 Singapore businesses, 48 per cent, had adopted AI by November 2025, versus 40 per cent a year earlier, an AWS-commissioned survey of 1,000 business leaders shows. Financial services leads business AI adoption at 71 per cent, then technology at 70 per cent and healthcare at 63 per cent. Of firms with AI uptake, 82 per cent reported revenue gains averaging 19 per cent.
Ooredoo Maldives — Instant AI eKYC (electronic Know Your Customer) now activates SIM cards across Ooredoo Maldives' digital channels, trimming registration to 10 seconds from a previous 60, with automatic sign-off for over 90 percent of applicants via this AI-driven identity verification. A tiered screening pipeline drives the gain, combining facial recognition, liveness detection and anti-spoofing safeguards to confirm each customer. Physical paperwork and in-person queues disappear entirely, so resort guests and locals alike can complete SIM registration straight from a handset.
Prime Bank PLC — Prime Bank PLC now offers Bangladesh's first AI-powered digital letter of credit management platform, Prime Banijjo. Clients get automated drafting, compliance screening and live tracking, easing paperwork and speeding turnaround across the LC lifecycle. First for AI in trade finance locally, per the bank.
Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) — Lifesigns wearables feed KIMS Hospital's AI-based patient monitoring system, the Early Warning System, watching Hyderabad in-patients round the clock. It alerts clinicians the instant readings shift, cutting response delay.
SMBC Indonesia (Jenius) — Jenius, SMBC Indonesia's digital platform, folds AI in digital banking into signup, AI-powered lending decisions and fraud surveillance. Biometric checks confirm new users, an automated engine assesses loans instantly, and device intelligence spots suspicious behaviour, cutting unauthorised-transaction losses over 80%. A chatbot fields 70% of monthly enquiries too.
Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) — Palai, DA-PhilRice's AI chatbot for rice farmers, reaches Filipino growers in local dialects around the clock via Facebook Messenger. It anchors the Philippines' first AI ecosystem for agricultural information, ending the Institute's 8 a.m.-to-5 p.m. weekday desk in favour of nonstop automated replies. PhilRice unveiled it Nov 25 at the 37th Ugnay Palay National Rice R4D Conference.
Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of Bangladesh — Daffodil International University and Daffodil Software Ltd built Bangladesh's e-Family Court platform free of charge to government. Dhaka Family Court-5 switched on first; Chattogram Family Court-1 followed on 30 November 2025, enabling online filing, digital records and partial remote hearings. About 250 to 300 judiciary, law ministry and Supreme Court staff piloted the family court digitisation system beforehand.
Mechta.kz — Mechta.kz has launched Kazakhstan's first AI brand ambassador, Armanay, a virtual figure built in-house by its own designer. She will front adverts, video reviews and SMM for the electronics chain's digital transformation, part of a wider rise in AI virtual influencers across retail marketing.
SPH Media — Berita Harian and Tamil Murasu now feed articles through AI voice cloning for news, replacing generic narration with synthetic voice narration built from replicas of each newsroom's own reporters. SPH Media built the tool, powered by BeyondWords, straight into both titles' apps and sites, giving Singapore's Malay- and Tamil-speaking readers a recognisable voice rather than a robotic one. Playback has climbed to five times the publisher's normal benchmarks, suggesting audio built on real staff voices lands better than standard text-to-speech.
KakaoBank — South Korea's largest internet-only bank switched on AI money transfer banking on 24 November 2025, letting a spoken phrase like "Mom, 300,000 won" replace manually keyed recipient details. KakaoBank's app accepts that instruction by voice or text, with speech recognition active on Apple hardware — a first among domestic financial firms.
Ministry of Science and ICT / Ministry of Public Administration and Security — Hundreds of thousands of civil servants in South Korea can now tap private-sector AI tools inside government networks under a new AI common base service government employees jointly built by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security. Samsung SDS and Naver Cloud built the first two chatbot tools running on this shared system, with further models set to join in the coming year. Officials say the arrangement will stop agencies from separately funding overlapping AI projects, folding access into a single intelligent work-management platform as part of broader AI adoption in public administration nationwide.
Yashoda Hospitals — Yashoda Hospitals, Qure.ai and AstraZeneca launched an AI-powered Lung Nodule Clinic in Hyderabad, screening 17,000-plus chest X-rays for early lung cancer signs. Radiologists confirmed 960 nodules, 136 high-risk. Automated chest X-ray screening speeds lung disease diagnosis.
Tonga22 Nov 2025Public Service Commission of Tonga — Tonga's Public Service Commission piloted an AI chatbot for civil servants in November 2025 — an AI-powered guidance tool for government staff answering public service policy questions instantly. Harvard intern Molonai Hola built it with PSC input for ministry practices, unveiled at a briefing for HR and IT officers across 16 ministries. Wider adoption hinges on the trial's results, the commission notes.
Island Oil Holdings — Island Oil Agent, a new AI chatbot on Microsoft Teams, now gives Island Oil Holdings staff instant access to manuals and procedures, marking a wider AI deployment in energy operations at the Limassol firm. Selected staff also use Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Plus to draft documents. Robotic process automation bots handle bank reconciliations, and AI-powered cybersecurity tools detect threats and trigger automated remediation, an approach mirroring broader AI adoption in oil sector firms.
High Court of Australia — Judges act as "human filters" for machine-generated legal arguments, Stephen Gageler, Chief Justice of Australia's High Court, told the Australian Legal Convention, warning that AI in courts poses "existential" risks. Machine content has exceeded sustainable limits, he said, since AI's rapid advance outpaces the judiciary's grasp of its dangers. His remarks flag mounting pressure from AI-assisted litigation.
Machida City — NTT Data rebuilt Machida City's AI Navigator for citizens and staff using generative AI. Voice help in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean reaches residents via 'Simple AI Navigator' on the Tokyo municipality's site; four combined language models cover meeting minutes, year-end adjustment Q&A, phonebook lookup and deep research for staff. A multilingual chatbot now pairs with internal automation.
Tapestry consortium (Northpower, Orion Group, Unison Networks, WEL Networks) — Northpower, Orion Group, Unison Networks and WEL Networks now run GridAware, Tapestry's AI grid inspection platform, spanning New Zealand networks with over 510,000 customers — the nation's first such grouping. Drones and computer vision replace manual surveys, spotting faulty or ageing gear. Within two years the four aim to supply 10,000-plus labelled images, powering automated infrastructure monitoring.
Republic of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan AI regulation gained legal force when Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan 'On Artificial Intelligence'. This AI governance framework obliges systems to operate with transparency, accountability and human oversight, outlaws manipulative tactics and unconsented data gathering, and compels labelling of machine-generated material.
National Police Agency — Kicks AI investigation support for police now reaches 35,000 South Korean officers nationwide via the National Police Agency. The chatbot condenses paperwork, converts foreign-language text, retrieves records, flags prior cases, and drafts warrant requests — embedding generative AI in law enforcement routines.
Civil Court of Thailand — Thailand's Civil Court now requires lawyers and litigants to flag any AI-generated material used in pleadings and other court filings, under a regulation covering AI in legal filings. Disclosed sections must carry prescribed wording plus a certification confirming their accuracy, and failure to comply can be treated as contempt of court. The measure follows guidance the Supreme Court's President issued in September 2025, reflecting an effort to protect reliability and public trust in civil proceedings, and mirrors broader court rules on generative AI disclosure in legal documents taking shape elsewhere.
Growth Experts — Growth Experts fields staff queries, leave requests and system registrations through IBM watsonx Orchestrate, an AI agent in HR running chat support all 24 hours. Routine handling sped up 83%, manual input errors reached zero via integration, and foreign staff gained multi-language support. Accounting and general affairs are next for this watsonx Orchestrate expansion.
Alliance Bank Malaysia — Alliance Bank Malaysia's Retail Loan Origination System (RLOS), built with CTOS Data Systems and JurisTech, has lifted application turnaround and staff efficiency by more than 30 percent, an early win for AI loan origination in Malaysian retail banking. The platform spans the whole lending journey, from lead capture and digital onboarding to decisioning, disbursement and credit administration, and mortgages, personal loans and credit cards now run on this automated loan approval system.
Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan — The President signed Law No. 230-VIII 'On Artificial Intelligence', Kazakhstan AI regulation effective 18 January 2026. The law sorts AI systems into three risk tiers (minimum, medium, high) and bans social scoring and manipulative AI. Synthetic content needs labels, AI system owners face transparency duties, and the AI rules create the National Artificial Intelligence Platform.
Taisei Corporation — OpenAI's first Japanese general-contractor partner, Taisei Corporation, is running firm-wide ChatGPT Enterprise adoption to retrain staff and reshape operations, a leading example of AI in construction industry deployment. From 250 users in April 2025 to 1,000 by August, results showed 5.48 weekly hours saved per person, 6.6万 hours saved yearly overall, 4.20 satisfaction, and 4.51 willingness-to-use. Generative AI in construction now heads for company-wide expansion.
State Hydro-Meteorological Administration (기상수문국) — An AI weather forecasting system now spans every phase of prediction in North Korea, built by the State Hydro-Meteorological Administration to speed up output and sharpen accuracy through automated, intelligence-driven methods. State media named it a 2025 Top 10 Best Information Technology Product. Pyongyang presented the AI-based weather prediction platform as scientific backing for steady economic growth and quicker reaction to disasters like flooding.
InfinBANK — InfinBANK's AI credit scoring banking model gained 10% accuracy from new behavioural signals, part of an in-house AI stack built on Gemma and Llama, tuned for Uzbek and Russian. A hologram greets branch visitors; a Telegram bot answers queries. Its own data centre hosts the ML-based system, sharpening AI-driven customer risk assessment.
Rice Research Institute, Nukus / Uzbek agricultural authorities — A two-hectare AGRINOZE trial at Karakalpakstan's Rice Research Institute in Nukus cut water use by half without any fertiliser, holding yields steady. Buried sensors track soil conditions and pass readings to a machine-learning model, which times and doses drip-fed water and nutrients on its own — an AI-driven precision irrigation approach now piloted elsewhere in Uzbekistan. The result shows how an AI-powered irrigation system can shrink resource use while keeping output constant.
Amazon Web Services — AI adoption in Malaysia has climbed to 2.4 million firms, 27% of the total, per a commissioned Amazon Web Services poll of 1,000 companies, a 35% rise from 20% the year before and 630,000 newcomers to the technology. Still, most stay shallow: 73% lean on chatbots and ready-made software rather than custom builds. Smaller players outpace larger ones among Malaysian businesses using AI, with 48% weaving it through daily operations and 31% crafting AI-driven products, versus only 44% and 15% at bigger firms.
Fiji Development Bank — Fiji Development Bank runs a 12-month AI credit assessment trial cutting loan turnaround for current customers. Its model blends records with behavioural signals, including WhatsApp and Viber history, yielding initial evaluations while FDB credit officers keep the final decision. Via the app, it spans unsecured loans to FJ$10,000 and secured loans to FJ$100,000, part of a shift toward AI loan approval for small businesses.
Guam Power Authority — Guam Power Authority will deploy AI weather forecasting for its electric grid through the ARMOR project, backed by $1.62 million in US federal grants. A Total Sky Imager uses machine learning cloud cover predictions to help operators adjust generation in real time and respond to storm-related outages.
National Bank of Kazakhstan — An AI analyst for rate decisions is coming to Kazakhstan's central bank, offering independent input during Monetary Policy Committee sessions, the National Bank governor told the Central Asia Fintech Summit 2025. Built as a corporate AI tool, the system contributes views on agenda items without casting a vote, leaving ultimate authority with human officials — its role limited to automated economic analysis for monetary policy rather than decision-making itself.
Philippine Veterans Bank — PVB deployed an AI fraud detection platform for banking in 45 days flat, from signed contract to live production. Clari5 built the system, EFRM, an AI-powered Enterprise Fraud and Risk Management solution watching PVB's internet and mobile channels in real time. Its GenAI-ready design also helps the Philippine Veterans Bank meet Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas compliance rules.
President Chain Store (7-ELEVEN) — 7-ELEVEN has opened ninth-generation smart store X-STORE 9 at Taiwan's National Central University, using AI image recognition, skeleton tracking and ceiling LiDAR to identify over 6,000 products for AI grab-and-go shopping. Entry uses a transport card, and payment is at a self-checkout kiosk. The cashierless system, built with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), serves 20 shoppers simultaneously on standard fixtures, not smart shelves.
Monetary Authority of Singapore — MAS has proposed Guidelines on AI Risk Management for financial institutions, opening consultation on AI governance across Singapore's financial sector. Expectations span the AI life cycle: data handling, fairness, transparency, human oversight and third-party exposure. Scaled by firm size and reliance on generative AI and AI agents, the rules mean smaller players face lighter duties than larger, heavily automated ones.
Holding Redlich — Australian commercial law firm Holding Redlich now runs Lexis Create+ nationwide for AI legal drafting, an AI-powered legal drafting tool inside Microsoft Word. Staff locate clauses and precedents by merging LexisNexis databases with in-house knowledge sources in one document window. Phased training accompanied the rollout.
Freedom Bank Kazakhstan — Freedom Bank in Kazakhstan now runs an AI voice assistant for entrepreneurs, answering 119 spoken commands in Kazakh and Russian. Owners settle taxes, shift funds, clear loans, run payroll and raise invoices aloud, hearing the CEO's voice reply. Voice-driven banking automation reaches small-business tasks.
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (AMT) — Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, a leading Japanese law firm, rolled out Bengo4.com's Legal Brain Agent, an AI agent for legal research, firmwide from November 2025 after a trial confirmed accuracy. This legal-specialist AI agent draws its output exclusively from statutes, case law, guidelines and expert reference works, attaching citations that can be verified instantly, sidestepping fabricated references typical of general-purpose LLMs.
Maldives Immigration — MI ID Checker equips Maldives Immigration with fresh capability for undocumented worker identification: a phone app that reads a face and instantly pulls matching passport, visa, work permit and employer files, catching anyone tagged absconded, built with Maldives Police Service support. All law enforcement bodies hold access now, councils next.
Government of Nepal — Nepal's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has launched a National AI Centre embedding artificial intelligence across government and industry, advancing the Digital Nepal strategy. It will draw private-sector participation, positioning AI adoption in Nepal's public sector alongside AI-driven services for enterprise.
DBS — Singapore's DBS has logged over 120,000 unique chats with DBS Joy, a generative AI assistant, since February 2025 trials. DBS Joy delivers AI in corporate banking 24/7 via IDEAL to corporate clients and SMEs, about 4,000 monthly, lifting customer satisfaction scores 23%. Corporate banking AI for Hong Kong and India is planned.
IPB University (Institut Pertanian Bogor) — AI talent management has arrived at IPB University, marking Indonesia's first public-campus rollout of a Talent Management System, built on ESQ Corp's TalentDNA platform and unveiled at the IPB Stakeholder Forum in ICE BSD, Tangerang. Hidden aptitude among students, lecturers and staff now surfaces through software rather than manual review, steering placement choices, scholarship awards and recruitment interest from industry partners — an early case of AI-driven talent identification in higher education.
Kemenko PMK (Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture) — AI in government bureaucracy takes shape at Indonesia's Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK), where staff entered an internal contest and came away with six fresh digital tools for public administration. Document analysis and drafted suggestions arrive via SI-OPTIMA; spending gets tracked through WhatsApp with SAPA AI; budget risks surface early thanks to AURORA. Outbreaks of disease get forecast by OH² (One Health Hub), regulatory questions get answered by PMK Legal Solutions, and nutrition plus stunting figures stream in through Gizi Growly — all born from the ministry's AI Bureaucratic Innovation Month.
Tokopedia — Counterfeit product detection for e-commerce got a 40% drop in illegal listing reports after Tokopedia ran SmartShield AI through a six-month trial, VP of Trust and Safety Dinda Maharani said. Image recognition paired with text analysis lets the system flag fraud patterns across thousands of daily listings and pull fake goods automatically. Indonesia's marketplace now leans on automated fraud-spotting for online retail to keep its platform clean.
Freedom Insurance — Freedom Insurance runs AI fraud detection insurance checks in Kazakhstan via the Sergek intelligent monitoring platform. Road camera footage confirms reported collisions, while vehicle usage patterns feed risk scoring for voluntary auto policies. This AI-driven insurance fraud detection method builds accurate risk profiles for underwriting.
Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education (Vocational Education Sector) — Sri Lanka's Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education has unveiled the country's first AI government service chatbot, built in-house by the Vocational Education Sector's ICT unit and wired into Hotline Service 1966. Vocational education questions now get answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in Sinhala, Tamil, English and Singlish — an early instance of AI in public service delivery. Harini Amarasuriya opened it at Nipunatha Piyasa, Colombo.
JS Bank — JSense arrives as Pakistan's first AI banking chatbot, launched by JS Bank within its mobile app. Round-the-clock coverage spans product help, transaction steps, branch details and account queries, powered by natural language processing — a form of conversational AI in banking.
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) — India AI regulation now rests on the India AI Governance Guidelines, built around seven guiding Sutras from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Six governance pillars and a phased plan with short, medium and long-term steps flesh out the rulebook. Existing statutes, not a fresh AI-specific law, carry forward an adaptive approach for responsible AI adoption.
UOB — UOB's AI branch bots in banking now cover more than 40 Singapore locations, giving counter staff quick answers on products and services. Built by UOB's Innovation Group on an in-house Build-Your-Own-Bots platform, they belong to a bank-wide set of eight bots spanning HR and branch operations. Over 20,000 of UOB's 32,000 staff have trained on Microsoft Copilot, part of its generative AI adoption.
Natural Lawson (Lawson) — Six Natural Lawson outlets in Japan now offer an AI sommelier, KAORIUM for Sake & Wine, to guide customers toward suitable bottles. Shoppers enter their mood and flavour preferences via a tablet, and the system pairs a recommended wine with snacks available in the shop, using interface options in English and Chinese besides Japanese. Whether the AI-driven wine recommendation tool spreads to additional branches depends on how this trial performs, per Lawson.
K-Towers — Kacific subsidiary K-Towers has fitted 64 remote towers in Papua New Guinea's Western Province with PowerX for AI tower maintenance. It reads power and telemetry data to catch faults alone and rank which sites need attention, ending manual checks that often needed helicopter trips. Automated infrastructure oversight now gives crews instant tower visibility.
Government of New Caledonia (Direction du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Formation Professionnelle) — A free AI chatbot for labour law enquiries now runs on New Caledonia's DTEFP employment website, open without registration. It bases replies on checked material from the labour code and collective bargaining agreements, giving workers a no-cost route to AI in employment law guidance.
Suncorp — Australia's Suncorp is rolling out agentic AI in insurance at full scale, starting with claims lodgement and customer service use cases. Suncorp's CIO expects AI agents to reshape customer experiences and end-to-end processes entirely. Home claims teams now use a smart product disclosure statement tool.
National Livestock Development Board — 480,000 coconut palms at Adigama farm, Dambadeniya, are now being scanned from the air under a National Livestock Development Board pilot, Sri Lanka's first attempt at AI coconut plantation management. Camera-equipped drones judge each tree's condition and flag what fertiliser or treatment it lacks, replacing manual checks. Namal Karunaratna, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, cut the ribbon on the drone-based crop health monitoring venture.
Coles — Coles has become the first major Australian retailer to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise deployment at scale, moving toward full company-wide use by February 2026. Powered by OpenAI's GPT-5 model, the aim is faster research, lighter paperwork and sharper data insights — an early instance of enterprise generative AI in retail.
Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi (Immigration Directorate General) — Corridor Gate moves travellers through Soekarno-Hatta Airport in two to three seconds sans passports, Indonesia's fresh AI facial recognition immigration trial. Debuted on returning hajj pilgrims in 2025, the automated border-clearance tool taps the All Indonesia database, now serving passengers with special needs too. Terminals 2 and 3 each host a unit ahead of wider rollout.
OSCE Academy in Bishkek — Bishkek hosted AI training for civil servants, mixing phishing defence with machine-learning skills for public administration across two days. National Institute for Strategic Initiatives representatives took part, exploring ChatGPT, DeepSeek and prompt-writing techniques. Attendees completing 'Digital Security and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Governance' walked away with certificates.
Tata AIA Life Insurance — Tata AIA Life Insurance in India now automates AI-powered insurance underwriting via its GenAI-powered Underwriting Rule Engine (URE), pairing machine learning and big data analytics so applications clear without human review. Medical history and lifestyle data feed the URE, which scores risk instantly and settles approval or rejection alone. Tele-medical exams gain AI-driven reflexive questioning, cutting reliance on physical checks.
SoftBank Corp. — Mobile network operations at SoftBank now run partly on its Large Telecom Model (LTM), a generative AI foundation model for telecom operations built around the company's own Sarashina large language model and hosted inside Japan-based data centres it controls. Forecasting accuracy topped 90 per cent against real readings when the system was tested during a fireworks festival, matching predicted signal quality to actual outcomes. A later upgrade added reinforcement learning, letting the model retune base-station settings on its own through an autonomous feedback loop for AI in mobile network management.
Queen Mary Hospital — Dr Carmen Chan says Queen Mary Hospital will widen chest pain services on 29 October 2025, folding AI ECG triage into heart attack care to speed diagnosis. Her team's model sorts arrivals by low, moderate or high risk, and the highest-risk group gets routed straight to the on-call cardiologist. Since opening, the centre has already managed 1,400 acute cases in electrocardiography-based patient assessment.
National People's Congress — China's Cybersecurity Law now includes a dedicated artificial intelligence clause, folding AI regulation into national security legislation for the first time rather than standalone rules. The NPC Standing Committee approved the change, effective 1 January 2026, favouring AI governance woven into existing legal structures sector by sector over one master statute.
Choco Up — Approving an SME loan now takes hours instead of days thanks to Choco Up's AI Credit Assessment Engine. Coding agents scan and validate figures pulled from bank records, sales trends and growth forecasts, enabling AI credit assessment SME lending for the Singapore-based growth financing platform - an AI-powered SME loan approval process reaching requests up to USD 200,000. The goal: closing Asia's US$2 trillion SME funding gap.
Seoul St Mary's Hospital — A new AI voice recognition medical records system, CMC GenNote, is being trialled at Seoul St Mary's Hospital, built with PuzzleAI on LLM-based large language model technology. Rather than simple dictation, the tool lets doctors summon documentation templates and dictate entries directly into them, replacing the transcription-only setup in place since 2019. Currently limited to certain outpatient clinics, the rollout is set to reach surgical suites, emergency departments and general wards next, marking a step toward AI-powered clinical documentation by voice.
Chiayi City Government (嘉義市政府) — Chiayi has become Taiwan's first non-special-municipality city with AI translation for tourism, deploying dual-direction machines offering AI-powered interpretation at the railway station centre and KANO visitor centre. Chiayi City Government's devices handle 14 languages, among them English, Japanese, Korean and Thai, instantly and without needing internet access.
Qscan Group — Qscan Group wired its clinics into CARPL.ai, unlocking one shared screen where radiologists tap over 250 AI models for radiology reporting. Called the biggest AI diagnostic tools marketplace anywhere, the rollout covers all of Australia and folds in support made for the National Lung Cancer Screening Program.
DOST Digital Innovations Centre — AI fraud detection now underpins disability assessments at Azerbaijan's DOST Digital Innovations Centre, per Kenan Akparov at SOCGOV 2025. Flagging cases where personal data skews results, the tool eases reviewer loads and supports fairer medical judgments, part of a broader push measuring public-service quality via AI-based disability evaluation.
Erdenet Mining Corporation — Erdenet Mining Corporation runs 100% automated bid scoring, no human review needed, via AI tender evaluation software TenderEval, made by Chimege Systems. Mongolia's biggest state copper firm fields nearly 1,500 tenders yearly; the tool spares reviewers from combing hundreds of pages by hand while widening openness in buying, an automated procurement scoring push dated 2025.
Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan plans an AI smart assistant lawmaking tool to help draft regulatory legal acts, said Deputy Minister Bekbolat Moldabekov of the Ministry of Justice on 23 October 2025. It will apply international best practice, run legal monitoring, and flag clauses clashing with Constitutional Court rulings — an AI-assisted legal drafting step forward. This follows Digital Bailiff, live since August 2024, credited with saving citizens over 1.9 billion tenge (US$3.5 million) in enforcement fees, per the ministry.
Hong Kong Tourism Board — Hong Kong Tourism Board debuted its first AI-driven travel marketing push for the 2025 Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival, built with dentsu Hong Kong and StackAdapt. It targets high-intent travellers via AI-generated insights, retargeting them on Agoda, Expedia Group, Skyscanner and Tripadvisor.
Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) — Hong Kong Productivity Council's AI Readiness in Workplace Survey 2025, drawn from around 800 local companies, found that workplace AI adoption already reaches 88% of staff for daily tasks such as customer service, data analysis and marketing. A further 92% of organisations intend to build AI into formal workflows, with 24% targeting full rollout within a year, yet only 45% currently operate official AI platforms. Talent shortages and data privacy concerns remain the biggest barriers, and 54% still lack a complete AI governance framework, showing AI adoption in the workplace has outpaced structured oversight.
Uchida Hospital (medical corporation Taiseikai) — Uchida Hospital, Gunma Prefecture, is Japan's first chronic-care hospital using OPTiM AI Hospital for generative AI clinical documentation. The tool drafts doctor's opinion papers, nursing summaries and medical information forms from medical records, plus voice-recorder AI summarisation and beta charting-support and informed-consent summarising. Staff report substantially better, faster automated hospital paperwork, freeing patient-care time.
Supreme Court of Thailand — Barring artificial intelligence from weighing disputed facts or shaping judicial independence, Thailand's Supreme Court President has laid down binding guidance for AI in court case management. Judges keep sole authority to decide cases, and any staff turning to AI use in courts for administrative work must personally check the results are correct. The guidance further bans entering official secrets or personal data into such systems.
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan's Presidential Decree UP-189 sets targets for AI adoption in government: 100 AI projects across public administration and the economy by end-2026, $1 billion in foreign AI investment by 2030, and 15 AI laboratories at higher education institutions by end-2026. A new Advisory Council under the Ministry of Digital Technologies will steer AI implementation in the public sector, backed by the ai.gov.uz portal, a non-governmental AI Alliance, and $100 million from the Reconstruction and Development Fund for AI infrastructure and projects.
Pakistan Single Window — Pakistan Single Window's AI trade facilitation chatbot Khizer gives traders 24/7 real-time help on procedures, regulatory compliance and documentation. Built with Sybrid Private Limited, the AI trade assistant runs on the PSW platform and Trade Information Portal of Pakistan, lessening manual support demand.
Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) — Hong Kong retail banking sees its first generative AI credit origination tool as Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) rolls out Moody's Automated Credit Memo for corporate lending. The system builds credit memos automatically, cutting the time spent gathering and reviewing data before origination decisions. Fubon is named as the first such lender in the territory to deploy this kind of AI-driven credit memo automation.
Dentons — Drafting, research and document review at Dentons' New Zealand offices now run through Legora, a specialist generative AI platform marking the firm's entry into AI in legal practice. Charles Spillane described it as a foundational move toward broader legal document review software adoption.
Hyundai Department Store — Hyundai Department Store's generative AI shopping assistant HEYDI (Hyundai Personalized Lifestyle Design AI) is now live across every branch, outlet, website and mobile app in South Korea, following a phased rollout that began with foreign shoppers in July 2025 before reaching domestic customers three months later. The tool interprets natural conversation to suggest stores, restaurants, pop-ups and exhibitions matched to individual tastes, and can handle layered queries like gift ideas or planning a shopping route. The nationwide version merges both customer groups into a single integrated service, marking a shift from its earlier limited release toward full retail AI personalisation.
Pertamina Hulu Rokan — 12,600 wells across 6,400 km2 in Indonesia's Rokan Working Area fall under AI-based well management from Pertamina Hulu Rokan (PHR), a Pertamina unit. Its Digital & Innovation Center (DICE) pushes live data onto 66 screens spanning drilling, output, upkeep and shipping, flagging quick suggestions. This AI oil well monitoring sits inside the OPTIMUS programme, chasing up to USD 46 million in savings by end of 2025.
Royal Solomon Islands Police Force — The China Police Liaison Team (CPLT) gave AI anti-fraud training to more than 20 Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) officers at Honiara's Central police station. Lessons covered telecom fraud using intelligent script generation, video face-swapping and AI-powered voice synthesis, plus the 'three checks and three verifications' scam-detection method. Assistant Commissioner Patricia Leta credited the police scam-awareness session on AI with sharpening grasp of AI-related crimes and boosting operational readiness.
Maxim's Group — Maxim's Group has turned to AI customer data unification to merge fragmented records across its Hong Kong restaurant portfolio, which spans quick-service outlets to upscale dining rooms. Staff without technical backgrounds now query an agent built on Microsoft Copilot Studio using everyday language to pull tailored reports, while a second agent trawls thousands of files for marketing campaign details. Both feed into single customer profiles covering every visit occasion, an early instance of AI-driven unification of customer data reshaping how the group reads its dining network.
Premier Integrated Labs — Mindray's CAL 8000 now runs as Malaysia's first AI-assisted haematology system in private practice, deployed by Premier Integrated Labs. Deputy Health Minister YB Dato Lukanisman Bin Awang Sauni launched the automated haematology analyser, which PIL says sharpens accuracy, speeds turnaround and lifts overall lab efficiency for clinicians reading results.
Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan's Ministry of Finance built Smart Data Finance (SDF), a big-data platform for AI tax administration and automated tax calculation. Records cover 1.9 million individual entrepreneurs, 584,000 legal entities and 20.4 million individuals, merging property, employment, tax history and social assistance data into one profile, with analytics flagging risk.
State Revenue Committee, Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan's State Revenue Committee is testing NOMAD, an AI border monitoring pilot watching how staff treat traders at Nur Zholy customs post in Zhetysu region. Since October 2025 the tool has issued QR tickets, sorted queues automatically, and captured officer-trader conversations for machine review of wording and mood. Roughly 18% of exchanges scanned so far under this AI customs monitoring system showed improper phrasing, out of thousands logged.
Tuvalu2025-10Government of Tuvalu — Solar panels and water tanks on Funafuti rooftops are now tallied automatically, using AI in utilities infrastructure planning under the Government of Tuvalu's Digital Nation initiative. Minister Simon Kofe said scans of digital twin imagery let officials project how much capacity the capital's systems will need and where gaps may open up. That AI-driven digital twin mapping sits beside separate readings on rising seas and fishing patterns in Tuvaluan waters, feeding one combined outlook for the island nation's future planning.
Kansai Electric Power Company — Kansai Electric Power is deploying AI in utilities operations by rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise across its entire staff of roughly 8,300 employees, following a strategic partnership with OpenAI confirmed in June 2025. The utility fine-tuned the system using historical thermal-power-plant incident logs, applicable regulations and board-meeting records, producing a generative AI compliance tool capable of reviewing paperwork and responding to operational questions. A separate 'AI President' function, drawn from board records, lets employees query company strategy directly. The Yomiuri Shimbun noted plans to widen the deployment to group companies starting January 2026.
Dentsu — Dentsu APAC's new SaaS platform Zoyumi scores, produces and tracks creative output to deliver on-brand assets in under 30 minutes, with governance and brand-safety checks built in. Built in Singapore, the AI marketing campaign tool first ran for a global technology brand's rollout across several markets, targeting continuous, always-on execution over one-off bursts. It illustrates a broader shift toward automated ad creative generation with human oversight retained.
Fisher & Paykel — Fisher & Paykel's Salesforce AI agent resolves 70 per cent of product troubleshooting queries, versus 30 per cent for previous chatbots, since the New Zealand home appliance maker launched AI customer service in February. An agentic AI support bot briefs technicians with customer profile summaries and suggested parts before home repair visits.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) — Japan's ANA cut manual and regulation searching by approximately 90% with neoAI Chat, neoAI's generative AI platform, across airport, cabin, maintenance and flight operations. On ANA's secure private cloud, this AI in aviation shortens report and training material creation by 75%. A Narita Airport trial from August 2024 validated the airline AI.
OWNDAYS — 49 OWNDAYS branches across Japan have adopted JetB's AI avatar customer service system, expanding beyond a six-month trial at two Tokyo and Osaka shops. Branded 'Uchi no AI Avatar', it offers multilingual customer support via in-store QR code, conversing in 15 languages and reaching native speakers among over 90% of the global population. Staff can inspect logged chats before stepping in.
Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) — 500 patients at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Sefton Park Health are trialling CALHN's AI medical scribe in SA emergency rooms. A compact microphone converts spoken exams into finished notes instantly, easing staff workloads. SA clinicians built this AI scribe technology for SA Health, so recordings stay on SA Health's servers.
Singlife — Agentic AI insurance debuts at Singlife, a first for Singapore's insurance sector via new ties with Salesforce Agentforce. Materials in Salesforce Data Cloud—product manuals, training guides, FAQs—feed an AI agent customer service system that sharpens staff precision and pace on enquiries. Adviser representatives gain the same access afterward.
Cyberspace Administration of China and National Development and Reform Commission — Chinese government AI policy now pushes large AI models across ministries, via joint rules from the Cyberspace Administration and National Development and Reform Commission. Scenario-based adoption covers citizen services, governance and decision support, provinces leading and prefecture cities following. A ban on feeding state secrets into non-classified systems pairs with warnings against hollow 'digital formalism', echoing wider AI in public administration goals.
Regency Specialist Hospital (HMI Medical) — Johor gains its first AI smart ward as Regency Specialist Hospital activates the Next-Gen Smart Ward, pairing bedside terminals with a nursing dashboard and automated vital-signs capture to ease pressure on nursing staff. Parent group HMI Medical says manual data entry now takes 67% less time, alongside a 16% quicker response rate, an AI-enabled hospital ward result the hospital itself has not had independently audited.
Bank of Singapore — Source-of-wealth report drafting drops from 10 days to roughly one hour at Bank of Singapore, OCBC's private banking unit, following its rollout of an agentic AI wealth management tool called Source of Wealth Assistant. Relationship managers upload client files, and the system pulls out, organises and combines the relevant details automatically inside controlled processes. A human still checks and signs off every report before it goes out, and the bank's approach reflects growing use of AI in wealth management across Singapore.
Health New Zealand — Ask Groov, an AI therapy chatbot funded by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ), gives young people round-the-clock mental health advice. Sir John Kirwan's firm Groov trained its generative AI on guidance from certified psychologists and psychiatrists, skipping raw web data. The aim: pull young people from unregulated AI mental health support toward something screened.
Government of Cyprus — Cyprus has begun AI in government work, rolling out Microsoft Co-pilot to civil servants with 350 licences for report drafting and routine operations. Nikodimos Damianou linked the move to digital modernisation of the public sector after a cabinet meeting. Training was included for safe, effective adoption.
Aditya Birla Capital — Aditya Birla Capital added four generative AI tools to its D2C platform ABCD: Sales Assist, Service Assist, Audit Assist and Marketing Assist, launched at Global Fintech Fest 2025. Agentic AI for sales and service now covers onboarding, underwriting and claims management, backed by GenAI voice bots for tele-sales and queries — an AI-powered customer service automation push across India.
FairPrice Group — Singapore's Land Transport Authority has cleared FairPrice Group as the first local operator permitted to run autonomous delivery vehicles on public roads for freight. Zelos Technology supplies the driverless Zelos Z10 units, which will move stock among FairPrice's warehouses under this approval. FairPrice intends to grow the fleet toward 30 such vehicles, close to 30 per cent of its total transport fleet, in this driverless goods transport rollout.
Allen & Gledhill — Allen & Gledhill, among Singapore's biggest firms, built A&GEL, a bespoke platform for generative AI in law firms that drafts case summaries, automates document reviews and flags clauses non-compliant with statutes and earlier cases. The legal GenAI pilot, open to paralegals through directors across banking, corporate real estate, maritime and other practice groups, runs on-premise protecting client confidentiality.
Globe Business — A new AI in telecom customer service deployment has cut Globe Business's overall support workload by 34%. The enterprise arm of Globe Telecom built the rollout on Salesforce's Service Cloud, Sales Cloud and Einstein for Service, plus a pilot of Agentforce, sorting incoming emails by intent and directing them straight to the right team. Field staff can now pull up customer records instantly rather than searching manually, and intent-based case classification reaches 80% accuracy on Globe Business's own figures. In the Philippines, this telecom AI customer support model targets sharper personalisation throughout the client relationship.
Pyongyang General Hospital — North Korea unveiled its AI smart medical system at the newly opened Pyongyang General Hospital, an intelligent medical service system built on smart software. Kim Jong Un attended and pressed for constant upgrades, wanting the AI-driven setup to sharpen patient care and hospital administration.
Kazakhstan Ministry of Healthcare — 30 clinics scattered across Kazakhstan now form the testing ground for an AI therapist, unveiled amid Digital Bridge 2025 forum proceedings. Officials envisage nationwide adoption across every medical organisation once this trial mental health chatbot proves itself. Broader digital healthcare projects already underway in the country provide the backdrop for this initiative.
Globe Telecom — Globe Business, the enterprise arm of Globe Telecom, runs AI customer service automation on Salesforce's Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Einstein for Service and piloted Agentforce, cutting workload 34 percent. Duplicate tickets vanished, trimming volume 28 percent; intent tagging scores 80 percent accuracy. This Philippines telecom's AI-powered customer support shift proves efficiency gains.
HNB Assurance PLC — HNB Assurance deployed HANA, an AI insurance chatbot for policy queries and claims. NLP and machine learning resolve complex requests and link to core systems, giving Sri Lankan customers 24/7 access via an always-on digital assistant.
Dr Lal PathLabs — India's Dr Lal PathLabs now leads in AI-assisted cancer diagnosis, becoming the first domestic lab to deploy a deep learning module flagging lymph node metastasis, including micrometastasis. Built with Qritive, the QiAI Lymph Node Dx tool caught every true positive across tested cancer types, with zero false negatives recorded. Pathology AI screening like this now sits inside the lab's diagnostic workflow.
Kyrgyz scientists at National Center for Cardiology and Therapy — Kyrgyzstan's National Academy of Sciences trialled an AI heart failure detection system at a Bishkek care home, matching ultrasound findings 85 per cent of the time. The AI cardiac diagnostic tool reads electrocardiogram frequency patterns to flag hidden decline within five minutes. Researchers want the Ministry of Health to back wider rollout.
National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) — Thailand's National Cyber Security Agency published AI security guidelines Thailand-wide, setting recommendations for shielding AI systems from cyberattacks at every lifecycle stage. Called the AI Security Guidelines, the document leans on ISO/IEC 42001:2023, ISO/IEC 23894:2023 and the NIST AI risk management framework while tackling hazards particular to artificial intelligence, among them poisoned training data, evasion attacks and injected prompts. This gives Thai regulators a reference point for AI cybersecurity risk management rather than relying purely on generic infosec practice.
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. — Japan's Mitsui Fudosan wants AI in real estate to trim firm-wide hours by over 10 per cent after handing roughly 2,000 employees ChatGPT Enterprise. Workers built about 500 Custom GPTs in a quarter, guided by 150 AI Promotion Leaders in 85 departments. Bespoke property AI includes President AI Agent, mimicking President Takashi Ueda's judgement, and Automated Document Generation AI.
GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan — Gross National Happiness, not GDP growth, anchors Bhutan's AI national strategy. GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan, built NAIS 2025 on eight priority areas spanning farming, healthcare, schooling, tourism and government services, backed by seven pillars: infrastructure, governance, skills and funding. This AI policy stays non-binding.
Singapore Police Force — A new AI chatbot for filing reports, R-COP (Report Lodging Co-Pilot), is being deployed by Singapore's police force at kiosks in seven division headquarters. Jointly built with HTX, it guides members of the public through a conversational exchange, compiling their answers into a draft statement automatically. This AI-assisted police reporting effort is meant to spare investigation officers from having to phone back for details they still lack.
Sang Hyang Seri — One worker now replaces a crew of ten, according to pilot Adam Dalah Agung, since Indonesia's state rice producer Sang Hyang Seri (SHS) began flying XAG P100 Pro units over 15 hectares of paddies. This effort, part of a wider shift toward AI-powered drones for rice farming, lets the machines handle spraying and fertiliser spreading without manual control, sharply cutting the labour once demanded by such tasks. SHS, which farms roughly 5,000 hectares altogether, wants to broaden its use of these autonomous agricultural drones going forward.
Bank of Japan — About 50% of financial institutions surveyed by the Bank of Japan already deploy generative AI in banking, its FY2025 poll of 153 firms found. Counting pilots pushes that share past 70%, and including firms merely weighing adoption drives it beyond 90%. Officials cited swift AI adoption in financial institutions nationwide, yet flagged weak usage monitoring and third-party risk oversight.
Banglalink — Bangladesh gets its first telecom AI-powered complaint management system, launched by Banglalink. Handset, SIM and network readings feed the tool, which flags faults and drafts self-diagnosis reports largely without staff, escalating unsolved cases to a live agent. The launch adds an AI-driven diagnostic layer to the country's telecom customer support.
Immigration Agency of Mongolia — Mongolia's Immigration Agency (IAM) runs an AI chatbot for visa and permit enquiries via its Unified Electronic Service System, site and social platforms. This automated immigration enquiry system covers permits, inspections and citizenship non-stop in Mongolian, English, Chinese, Korean and Russian, replacing phone and in-person support.
Matsunami General Hospital — AI DPC coding is now live at Matsunami General Hospital in Gifu, linked to electronic health records via Ubie's generative AI platform since August 2025. Messy clinical notes become organised data, tightening diagnosis-procedure combination accuracy. Automated discharge summaries are planned next.
MinterEllison — MinterEllison has adopted Legora firmwide, weaving AI in legal services into core workflows such as due diligence after a thorough selection process. This large Australian law firm now handles matters through one connected system instead of scattered tools, aiming to extend artificial intelligence for law firm processes across most operations.
MyBank and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs — MyBank (网商银行) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' Information Centre put China's first AI farming assistant into service in 2025. It gives 24-hour agronomy, weather and finance support for over 200 crop and livestock types via MyBank丰收卡, grounded in regional soil and climate records from the Ministry. Tricky questions get routed to this AI agriculture advisory system's pool of over 1,000 verified specialists.
Tianjin Medical University General Hospital — Nearly 100% analysis accuracy and 49.3% faster reports: that's the claim behind an AI in hospital diagnostics tool from China Mobile Tianjin and Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, built on DeepSeek-V3. Deployed at the check-up centre, this medical health management large model drafts health check reports automatically, aids clinical decisions and reads patient records and scans. The developers, not an independent auditor, supplied these figures.
Xingfa Group — A single control unit now runs autonomous chemical production at Xingfa Group's chlor-alkali site in Hubei, built by Supcon under the label industrial embodied AI. Rather than relying on separate control cabinets, the plant assigns everything to what it calls its 81st digital employee — software combining Supcon's TPT time-series large model with the firm's UCS platform to monitor over 15,000 data points and act on them without human input. Results so far include caustic soda held steady between 32 and 32.1% concentration, plus valve-fault diagnosis accuracy topping 95%, an early sign of embodied AI reaching chemical manufacturing.
Federal Directorate of Education — One urban and one rural school in Pakistan have begun trialling grade 8 lessons built around AI in education, through a scheme run by the Federal Directorate of Education alongside technology firm Mind Hive. Machine assistance now supplements standard curriculum delivery, replacing parts of conventional teaching. A positive outcome could justify wider rollout, eventually covering up to 100,000 students.
Super Krishak (Gham Power Nepal) — Gham Power Nepal has added a chat tool, Super Krishak Krishi Intelligence, to its Super Krishak platform, giving growers AI farm advisory in Nepali. Users ask about pests, weather, prices, fertiliser timing or cultivation and get answers suited to their own plot — AI-based agricultural guidance for local conditions.
Dialog Axiata — Farmers and home gardeners across Sri Lanka can now reach Govi Mithuru, Dialog Axiata's AI agriculture advisory service, through trilingual chat, voice interaction, photo-based pest detection, or a Sinhala-English call line at 616. All channels deliver expert-verified answers in Sinhala, Tamil and English, part of Dialog's latest step in AI-driven farming support.
Ministry of Digital Development and Transport and Ministry of Justice — E-qanun.ai now lets Azerbaijan's legal community mine the country's legislative database through one AI legal search platform. Built by the National Artificial Intelligence Center, the system reads queries by keyword, by meaning, or through a blended method, then hands back AI-written summaries instead of raw statute text. The launch pushes legal research automation forward, aiming for faster answers for practitioners and broader public reach into the law.
Ministry of the Interior and Safety — By 2030, 2 myung (20,000) civil servants will hold "AI champion" status under a new South Korean certification scheme spanning Green, Blue, and Black tiers, designed by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety to embed AI in government work. Demand emerged early: a 220-seat pilot logged 770 applications. Public institutions now get shared access to the ministry's AI literacy curriculum, and completion figures feed directly into staff performance reviews.
Dhaka Bank PLC — Dhaka Bank PLC's eRin Device APP gives Bangladesh its first AI-driven digital loan platform, built with Samsung Electronics and Banglalink for financing smartphones and smart devices. AI-based lending now judges creditworthiness and speeds approvals for service professionals, micro-entrepreneurs and underserved communities.
MedIQ Smart Healthcare — MedIQ Smart Healthcare debuted its AI Suite at the Med-AI Health Summit in Islamabad, billed as the nation's first AI-powered assistant serving both physicians and patients. The system pairs an Urdu chatbot with symptom-tracking tools that keep medical history on file and relay it to providers, then points users toward specialists and dosage advice, a clear step forward for AI in healthcare. It stands out as an early digital health assistant tailored to Pakistan.
Cathay Life Insurance (Guotai Life) — Taiwan's insurance regulator has approved Cathay Life Insurance to pilot facial recognition for policy signing, replacing 8 to 13 signatures per document with one signature plus two face scans. The face recognition insurance trial runs at two sites, finishing by end of 2025 before wider rollout of the biometric verification system.
Customs Service of Tajikistan — Starting 1 October 2025, Tajikistan's Customs Service will require an AI-powered customs system for all import-export declarations, built on UNCTAD's ASYCUDA platform. Traders face a new rule: electronic paperwork must reach officials at least two hours before goods or vehicles arrive at the border. The move targets faster processing and automated customs clearance, aiming for wider transparency and stronger revenue collection across every customs regime and procedure.
Cabinet of Mongolia — Mongolia's Cabinet has cleared the National Strategy on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, a five-year blueprint of 66 measures under four goals to grow a domestic AI ecosystem. Mongolia AI policy now aims to rank the nation among Asia's top ten in artificial intelligence, the Prime Minister confirmed.
Cabinet of Mongolia — Mongolia's Cabinet adopted the "Digital First" policy, requiring digital technology and AI in government to take precedence across every tier of decision-making, policy formulation and service provision. The framework underpins the country's wider digital transformation in public administration agenda, including phasing out paper-based processes entirely.
NSW Department of Education — NSW Government is expanding NSWEduChat to public school students in Years 5 to 12 from Term 4, after a 50-school AI in schools pilot. Built in-house on the Department of Education's own cloud environment, the generative AI app steers pupils toward answers via guided questions instead of handing them over, fostering critical thinking.
State Tax Service of Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's State Tax Service now runs Aisalyk, an AI virtual assistant for taxpayers, its first such rollout nationally. Made by Salyk Service, this AI-driven tax consultation tool interprets legislation and responds 24/7, presently piloted on Telegram under the name TestSalykBot. A Salyk mobile app version arrives before year's end.
Federal Board of Revenue — Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue now runs a government AI chatbot for taxpayers, live in beta on its website. Powered by generative AI, it gives round-the-clock, tailored answers to tax queries, and FBR calls it the first public-facing AI-enabled taxpayer support tool from any federal or provincial body nationwide. Officials say the goal is modernising citizen facilitation and spreading AI adoption across government departments.
Hanoi Hospital of Post and Communication (Bệnh viện Bưu điện) — Hanoi Hospital of Post and Communication is testing EIRL, a Japanese AI diagnostic imaging tool from VNPT-IT, LPIXEL and JTEC, through 28 February 2026, scanning chest X-rays, CT and brain MRA. Japan runs this radiology AI in 1,000-plus hospitals across 12 million cases. The pilot tests whether that record travels.
Immigration Department of Malaysia (JIM) — Facial recognition and a chatbot now greet arrivals at two Johor checkpoints, part of Malaysia's National Integrated Immigration System (NIISe) — an AI border control pilot from the Immigration Department. Autogates screen incoming records automatically. Officials aim to widen the AI immigration system to five international airports, finishing trials by February 2026.
Lahore Police — Punjab Safe City Authority built 'Punjab Emergency AI', an AI crime prediction system steering Lahore Police toward robbery and theft hotspots and flagging accident-prone zones. DIG Operations Faisal Kamran called it a step toward smarter policing, sharpening patrol deployment, part of Pakistan's push into AI-driven policing.
Defence Science and Technology Agency — Gaia, a generative AI defence staff tool from Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency, now helps Ministry of Defence and Singapore Armed Forces personnel pull documents, draft reports and review policy faster. This AI in defence administration switches between large language models to fit each job.
Livspace — CoHyre.AI cut Livspace's cost per hire by 30 to 35%. The Indian home interiors firm saw hiring cycles shrink 40%, cultural fit climb 20%, and roles once stuck at 45 days close in 15 to 20 days — an agentic AI recruitment platform delivering an AI hiring platform upgrade.
KB Insurance — South Korea's KB Insurance runs an AI agent car accident fault assessment tool, calculating fault ratios for reported crashes via automated liability determination instead of manual guideline checks. Called the Automobile Accident Fault Ratio AI Agent, the generative AI system reads claim details and assigns splits alone, speeding claims and payouts.
Peking University — Guanghua School of Management and Peking University's Computing Centre built "Doujiao," an AI teaching assistant for humanities and social-science instruction: knowledge-base assembly, outline and PPT drafting, live quiz interaction, and natural-language lookup in the school's case library. Staff compile reference sets, sketch lecture materials, run polling, and pull cases without formal query syntax. The rollout marks a first push into generative tools for liberal-arts subjects, distinct from science and engineering AI in higher education uses.
Hong Kong Government — John Lee's 2025 Policy Address pledges AI in public service delivery across 200 procedures in Hong Kong by end-2027, with 100 converted within 2026. Licence approvals, customer service and data analysis are targeted, coordinated by a new AI Efficacy Enhancement Team through AI-driven administrative processes.
XpressJobs — XpressJobs unveiled Sri Lanka's first AI-powered recruitment assistant, texting pre-matched candidates via WhatsApp, fielding thousands at once. Interaction hit 85% in John Keells Retail Sector's launch, an early sign of AI-powered hiring tools taking hold locally.
Midea — World Economic Forum Lighthouse Factory status now belongs to Midea's Chonburi plant, the first such honour for an appliance maker outside China. The 208,000 sqm Thailand site runs Southeast Asia's first fully 5G-connected line, joining 5G to AI in manufacturing so cameras catch faults as goods pass through, an AI-driven manufacturing intelligence approach. Power use sank 40.2%, water 23.5%.
Nikita Mobile LLC — Arevik Vacharyan, an AI sales agent built by Nikita Mobile LLC, now runs outreach: spotting partners, negotiating terms, and passing strong leads to contracts staff without human input at each step. The Armenian firm reports solid early wins from this AI-driven sales prospecting abroad.
UNSW Sydney — UNSW Sydney will hand 10,000 staff access to ChatGPT Edu in higher education, calling it Australia's largest education deal with OpenAI. A 10-month pilot with 800 staff preceded the move, with 98% asking to stay on the AI tool for university employees. Coverage extends to all fixed-term and permanent staff.
Juewei Food — Juewei Food's AI marketing agent for retail: 3.1x sales, 1.8x click-through, 2.4x payment conversion, 47% fewer WeCom friend deletions — tested on millions of shoppers versus human teams. China's largest braised snack chain built this full-chain AI marketing automation with Tencent Smart Retail on Hunyuan and DeepSeek dual-model architecture, spanning strategy through execution. Juewei's own trial figures, unverified externally.
Kameda General Hospital — Kameda General Hospital in Chiba Prefecture now lets physicians pull up records by speaking or typing plain questions, via Ubie's generative AI Patient Navigator and AI Partner tools for AI clinical decision support. Scattered files across electronic health record and departmental systems merge into one lookup point, sparing staff the mental strain of hunting for data and backing diagnostic decision-making.
GlobalFoundries — GlobalFoundries' 300mm Singapore fab won Global Lighthouse status from the WEF (World Economic Forum) after rolling out over 60 AI in semiconductor manufacturing upgrades since 2020, spanning ML, IoT and analytics tools. Labour productivity rose 40 per cent and prototyping time for new products fell 30 per cent, as machine learning took over upkeep forecasts, defect screening and scheduling tasks.
HSBC — HSBC Private Bank staff in Singapore and Hong Kong use Wealth Intelligence, a generative AI private banking tool on OpenAI's LLM. It sifts 10,000-plus outside feeds, sharpening how fast relationship managers spot market shifts and craft client-specific plans. HSBC will extend this AI wealth management platform elsewhere.
Westpac — Westpac has deployed Microsoft Copilot Studio organisation-wide for AI agent development within a governed setup, letting employees build their own generative AI agents. Dashboard queries via natural language are already possible through assistants embedded in SharePoint.
Zhanjiang Municipal Bureau of Justice — Zhanjiang Municipal Bureau of Justice has introduced AI in judicial administration through "Kunpeng Matrix" (鲲鹏矩阵), unveiled on 28 September 2025 as China's inaugural vertical large-model system devoted to this sector, achieving a 99% success rate at pinpointing case focus within its administrative reconsideration component. Powered by domestic AI foundations including Tongyi Qianwen, more than 80 agents now perform tasks ranging across legal aid, legislative drafting, public legal education and community correction, all folded into one platform. The public reaches this system via a companion channel named "Kunpeng Smart Answer", delivering round-the-clock AI legal assistance that has already fielded upwards of 2.6万人次 (26,000) queries — a bureau-reported figure lacking independent verification.
Beijing Municipal Education Commission — China's Beijing municipal government now leads the nation as the first provincial-level region requiring universal AI general education, with artificial intelligence classes launched across every one of the 1,400-plus primary and secondary schools, reaching 1.83 million pupils. Under a graduated approach, younger children get hands-on experience-based learning, middle schoolers pursue cognitive exploration, and senior students apply skills through comprehensive practice, with a floor of eight class hours set each academic year. Officials support delivery through 160 curriculum resource packages, training for 130 lead teachers, and a scheme linking urban schools with rural counterparts to widen access to AI courses in schools.
National Privacy Commission (NPC) — Advisory No. 2025-02 binds Philippine controllers handling AI in data privacy to a life-cycle safeguard duty, per the National Privacy Commission's Guidelines on Privacy Engineering in Systems Life Cycle Processes. Coverage runs from early planning through ongoing upkeep. Fines for breaches reach PHP 5 million per instance, tied to broader AI governance and privacy engineering standards.
Ministry of Education Brunei Darussalam — A handbook titled 'GenAI Guidance for Education – Handbook Edition', issued by Brunei's Ministry of Education, sets AI in education standards for students and teachers, spanning safety, honesty and privacy. Its rules echo the AITI AI ethics guidelines and Personal Data Protection Order, embedding generative AI adoption within existing national policy.
Bharat Forge — Bharat Forge runs AI predictive maintenance manufacturing globally, fitting presses, furnaces and induction lines with IoT sensors and digital twins that flag faults automatically, cutting manual checks. A factory automation push adds robots like Snowy, a quadruped with cameras and LIDAR hunting oil leaks and joining robotic arms to fix misalignments.
Telenor Pakistan — Telenor Pakistan built an AI HR assistant chatbot in Microsoft Teams for quick staff answers on HR policies. Shown at its AI Day and AI Expo in Islamabad beside systems for service monitoring and smart energy management, it marks fresh use of AI in HR support.
Presidential Broadcast Service-Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS) — Radyo Pilipinas rolled out AI in broadcast journalism Saturday: virtual hosts Aivan and Aira front its AI Talks show for the Philippine state network. Staff at the Presidential Broadcast Service-Bureau of Broadcast Services (PBS-BBS) vet every line before the AI-generated anchors speak it, said Fernando Amparo Sanga, who pitched the pair as a fix for wider reach against fake news.
Packworks — Filipino sari-sari shops running Philippines-based Packworks' AI-driven retail analytics tool, Store Insighting Project (SIP), saw daily gross merchandise value climb 46% and overall revenue rise 17% inside a fortnight, across a network topping 300 outlets. Despite trading on 20% fewer days, participating vendors still out-earned peers, evidence that AI-guided inventory and demand planning beat simply staying open longer.
CJ Onstyle — CJ Onstyle's live shopping chatbot AiON, co-built with AWS's GenAI Innovation Centre, tripled reply speed and scored 85.7% satisfaction in a 'Transit Beauty' mobile broadcast trial. The live commerce assistant sorts viewer messages into five types — delivery, product, authentication and order — answering in under 10 seconds on average. Six top channels received it first.
KIDO Group — KIDO Group's Mid-Autumn 2025 sales tripled from a year earlier once it turned to AI livestream sales and machine-generated marketing content across the business. A digital avatar hosted a broadcast lasting beyond 250 unbroken hours, drawing 19 million viewers and shifting more than 180,000 items while a single staffer kept watch over the feed. TV ad spots emerged 60% quicker and at almost 40% less expense thanks to the same push into machine-generated marketing content. Afterward the firm set up AIRO, a separate AI arm handling sales and marketing, on 30 December 2025.
Designer Wardrobe — Designer Wardrobe's DW AI List Assist trims listing time by up to 90 per cent for 350,000-plus members of New Zealand's biggest pre-loved fashion marketplace. From snapped pictures, the AI listing tool completes each field within seconds. AI-drafted listings suggest live prices from recent site sales.
South Australian Department for Education — SA will extend EdChat, a ChatGPT-style AI chatbot in schools built with Microsoft, to every South Australian public high school next term, says Education Minister Blair Boyer. The classroom AI assistant was trialled with educators and 10,000 students.
Osaka International Cancer Center, NIBN and IBM Japan — Two generative AI in healthcare systems are now running clinically at Osaka International Cancer Center, built with Japan's NIBN and IBM Japan: one turns paper intake questionnaires into electronic-record entries, the other drafts documentation from nursing handovers and phone calls. Under this AI-driven patient care approach, symptom-hearing time is expected to fall to 25% of what it previously took, and testing found the transcription tool trimming charting effort by around 40%. Neither figure has been checked by an outside party — both come directly from the developers.
Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development — The Solomon Islands Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development is drafting a policy on AI in school exams to capture benefits while limiting misuse. Education Minister Tozen Leokana tied it to students' growing use of AI resources during assessments. The government earlier pledged an AI-driven education policy framework covering data privacy, digital infrastructure and AI literacy.
ABC — Frame-level searches across decades of radio, TV and digital archives are now possible for reporters using ABC Assist, a multimodal AI assistant for journalists built internally at ABC. Roughly 600 to 700 employees had already begun relying on this AI research tool in newsrooms, ahead of a wider push to reach the broadcaster's full 5,000-person headcount.
China Logistics — China Logistics has deployed Liuyun, a 2780-billion-parameter model built with China Telecom, China Mobile, iFlytek and Huawei, in an AI deployment in logistics spanning 40-plus scenarios covering transport, warehousing, supply chains and rail equipment. Company figures credit its multimodal transport engine with lifting customer adoption 9%, boosting order matching 10% and trimming average shipping costs by 5%. National generative AI service registration was granted 2 July 2025, ahead of the model's public unveiling. An AI-powered logistics platform of this scale now sits among China's largest state-backed applications.
Bank of Thailand (BOT) — Thai bank and payment-firm boards now bear direct responsibility for AI outcomes under Bank of Thailand rules built on fairness, ethics, accountability and transparency (FEAT). Its AI Risk Management Guidelines demand human oversight, strong data quality, explainable models and cybersecurity protection at every deployment stage, reinforcing wider AI regulation for financial services.
Allens — Allens becomes the first Australian law firm to partner with Legora, giving lawyers firm-wide access to this AI in legal services tool for tailored client collaboration. Thomson Reuters CoCounsel now handles contract review, agreement summarisation and legal research across the firm, marking an AI-driven legal research and drafting rollout.
Singapore Academy of Law — About 10,000 LawNet subscribers, over three-quarters of Singapore's private lawyers, now have access to GPT-Legal Q&A, a new AI legal research engine unveiled by the Singapore Academy of Law. Rather than searching by keyword, users pose questions in plain language and get answers grounded directly in local statutes and court judgments. The underlying model draws on a dataset built entirely from Singapore's own legal materials — judgments, law reports and legislation — with contract law as its first focus before wider legal question-answering coverage follows. TechLaw.Fest hosted the unveiling.
Sindh School Education and Literacy Department — 3,500 educators across Dadu, Tando Allahyar, Tharparkar and Umerkot are set to receive AI teacher training via Pakistan's Sindh School Education and Literacy Department, working alongside UNICEF and Khan Academy Pakistan. Across six months, staff will practise using Khanmigo, an AI assistant for lesson plans, materials and pupil engagement, blending live instruction with independent study modules. Authorities call it an unprecedented AI-based teacher training pilot nationally.
Clayton Utz — Clayton Utz has gone firmwide with Harvey, past a trial of 100-plus lawyers—an instance of AI for law firms. It covers drafting, due diligence, extraction, summarising and contract checks. It joins Harvey's earliest Australian clients, holding data in-country under a new secure setup, lifting legal AI tools uptake locally.
Singapore Courts — Singapore's Judiciary now uses generative AI in small claims tribunals, deploying a tool built with Harvey AI to condense case filings for magistrates. Legal and factual points are extracted automatically from lodged paperwork, easing pressure from rising caseloads. Self-represented claimants and respondents gain generative AI case summarisation access from November 2025.
Urug.mn — Soningoo (Өрөг овогтой Сонингоо), Mongolia's first AI news commentator, now fronts Urug.mn's weekly Saturday recap of major headlines and emerging trends. The virtual presenter lets the outlet trim staffing costs without sacrificing professional, ethical coverage, reflecting a push toward automation and fresh technology in local journalism.
MoMo — MoMo has rolled out iProov Dynamic Liveness to tens of millions of users in Vietnam, applying AI fraud detection in fintech against deepfakes and digital-injection attacks. This makes MoMo iProov's first national partner and meets State Bank of Vietnam Decision 2345's call for stronger biometric identity verification for payments.
Tokuyama Corporation — Tokuyama Corporation extends Cognite Data Fusion and Cognite Atlas AI to nine Tokuyama Factory departments by March 2026, merging sensor data, equipment diagrams, maintenance systems and inspection records. Japan's chemical and materials manufacturer uses AI in chemical manufacturing to automate operations, improve anomaly detection and speed inspection tasks: digital transformation via chemical plant AI.
National Capital District Commission (NCDC) — K20 million backs a new AI-powered CCTV surveillance system live in Port Moresby, giving NCDC unbroken 24/7 coverage citywide. A Command and Control Centre drives this AI surveillance network, spotting movement, matching faces and auto-switching feeds toward flagged incidents. James Marape led the launch, split between K15 million from national coffers and K5 million from NCDC.
GL Group — Onshore fields in Salyan now run AI seismic data processing under a Waverity partnership with GL Group, marking a regional first for post-stack interpretation of subsurface data. Kursangi and Garabaghli saw sharper imaging and newly identified zones missed by earlier methods. GL Group, based in Azerbaijan, showcased results from this machine-learning approach to seismic mapping at Houston's IMAGE 2025 conference.
ACBS (ACB Securities) — ACB Securities (ACBS) embedded an AI stock analysis assistant, SMARTY, in its ACBS SMART app for Vietnamese clients. The AI investment assistant runs on Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic's Claude 3.7 as a multi-agent setup, mining reports to pitch trades, field questions and steer tactics free, geared toward retail traders over fund managers.
Government of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan plans a major expansion of AI satellite monitoring of farmland, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on 8 September 2025. The upgraded system will assess soil quality, harvest volumes, and crop spread nationwide, with the same AI-driven land monitoring extended to forestry. A single digital land-resource map combining cadastral records is also planned.
Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy — South Korea now runs national AI policy through one presidential body: the Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (국가인공지능전략위원회), under President Lee Jae-myung. As top AI governance authority, it sets overall strategy, coordinates ministries, and tracks implementation. Its 34 private-sector members split into 8 subcommittees: industry AX, public AX, tech/infrastructure, data, society, global ties, talent, defence/security.
Labaid Group — Labaid Group debuted two AI healthcare tools at Labaid Cancer Hospital and Super Speciality Centre in Dhaka: Labaid-GPT, giving physicians rapid, evidence-based recommendations from treatment guidelines and clinical records, and LUNA, an AI-driven clinical support chatbot cycling through eight functions from nursing to legal counsel. Eight patents protect the pair, unveiled 7 September 2025.
Pupuk Kujang — A state-owned fertiliser producer in Indonesia, Pupuk Kujang Cikampek, has rolled out an AI farming assistant named Plantastic, an AI agricultural app reachable through WhatsApp to give growers instant guidance. Farmers can pose questions on fertiliser dosing and crop nutrition, or send pictures of ailing plants so the system can diagnose the problem and suggest a remedy. The company's own innovation team built the tool, unveiled at the Festinov 2025 conference.
Lawson — KDDI and Lawson are trialling AI in convenience stores at 221 Lawson outlets in the Philippines, applying AI-driven store management to sales and inventory data for shelf layouts and order volumes. A separate system reads security camera footage for stock levels and checkout congestion. The venture targets efficiency and revenue gains.
Midea Group — China's Midea Group earned WRCA recognition for its Jingzhou washing machine plant, the first multi-scenario AI agent factory manufacturing site anywhere, a benchmark for AI in industrial production. A unifying brain pairs large models with embodied robotics, directing 14 agents across 38 core production scenarios there. Hours of hands-on labour now finish in seconds, lifting average efficiency beyond 80% and scheduling responsiveness by 90%.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand — Beef + Lamb New Zealand's new AI farming assistant, Bella, gives tailored guidance drawn solely from the B+LNZ Knowledge Hub: about 4,600 pages plus 220-plus hours of podcasts and video. Over two months, more than 100 testers, farmers, students and advisors among them, checked its answers before launch. Bella takes spoken questions in several languages, including Te Reo Māori and Filipino, functioning as a multilingual voice-based advisory tool for the sector.
NSW Government Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure — A tender now open in New South Wales seeks AI development assessments for State Significant Development applications, targeting a review period that stretches to roughly eight and a half months on average. Proposed functions include document screening ahead of filing, checks against core criteria, and post-lodgement reviews, though AI in planning approvals would still leave the ultimate call to a person.
TBC Bank — TBC Bank debuts Georgia's first generative AI banking chatbot, built in-house. The assistant parses customer questions and gives thorough financial guidance, with skills set to grow through ongoing learning. Live now on the lender's website, the AI virtual assistant for banking should later reach every TBC digital channel.
AI Council under Ministry of Industry and New Technologies — Tajikistan's Ministry of Industry and New Technologies has begun offering AI education in schools through more than 100 institutions nationwide, using its AI Council to deliver a free weekly period to grade 10 and 11 pupils. Dushanbe hosts sixty of the sites, while 40 operate in outlying towns and districts. Since 1 September 2025, this optional scheme has served as groundwork for eventually making 'Fundamentals of AI' a mandatory curriculum topic, with AI lessons in schools not yet compulsory.
National Diet of Japan — Full enforcement of Japan AI regulation arrived on 1 September for Act No. 53 of 2025, the country's first dedicated statute on artificial intelligence. Under this AI-related technology promotion law, a Cabinet-level AI Strategic Headquarters gets created, an AI Basic Plan becomes mandatory for officials to adopt, and authorities gain power to issue guidance, collect information and probe instances where AI causes rights violations, extending direction to companies and ordinary citizens alike. Businesses face no fines or bans under the legislation, only a request to cooperate with state initiatives, having been promulgated earlier on 4 June 2025.
Niigata University — ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI's education-grade generative AI platform, went live for Niigata University staff and learners on 1 September 2025, making it among the earliest Japanese national universities to roll out generative AI in higher education. Managed, secure access now underpins a newly launched practical generative AI course plus trial schemes spanning teaching, learner support and administrative work. The rollout builds on a course recommendation system driven by AI that the university launched in May 2025, after discovering that roughly 60% of incoming students had never used generative AI tools during secondary school.
Ministry of Law — Public comment is open from Singapore's Ministry of Law on a draft Guide for Using Generative AI in the Legal Sector, covering ethics, confidentiality and openness for lawyers. The Singapore Academy of Law, Law Society of Singapore and firms contributed, easing safer uptake of GenAI industry-wide. It sits beside IMDA's Model AI Governance Framework and the Supreme Court's guidance for court users.
Bangladesh Medical University (BMU) Super Specialized Hospital — A new robotic rehabilitation centre, Bangladesh's first, has opened at Bangladesh Medical University (BMU) Super Specialized Hospital, cramming 57 machines, 22 of them AI-driven, into 8,000 square feet below ground. Stroke-related paralysis and long-term nerve disorders now fall within reach of trial care there, scaling toward 50 people served each day at full tilt. Nurjahan Begum cut the ribbon, backed by Chinese government money behind the AI rehabilitation robotics push.
PLN Nusantara Power — PLN Nusantara Power, subholding of Indonesia's state-run PLN, deployed Hydrobot, operator assistant applying AI in hydropower. Using natural language processing, live weather, telemetry and predictive models, the hydroelectric AI tool forecasts inflow discharge and dam surface elevation, optimising reservoirs against overflow. Hydrobot won the Gold Stevie Award for Technology Breakthrough of the Year (energy technology).
National Police Agency of Japan — Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) will apply generative AI crime investigation methods to expose hidden bosses behind "tokuryu" networks, gangs recruited and directed via social media. A new tokuryu information analysis division, launching October 2025, will mine case data to map command chains and messaging links between members, an AI-powered criminal network analysis effort targeting figures who stay concealed.
Singapore Government — Autonomous AI agents public services trials are being launched by Singapore's GovTech together with Google Cloud, inside a sandbox that Josephine Teo unveiled. Early targets include firms tangled in multi-agency licence approvals and social workers swamped by paperwork. GovTech, the Cyber Security Agency and IMDA jointly assess outcomes and recommend safe rollout of agentic AI government functions.
Peking University Shenzhen Hospital — An example of AI in hospital patient services: Beidafu, a virtual assistant at Peking University Shenzhen Hospital running on Ant Group's Bailing medical LLM. This hospital patient AI assistant guides patients through 27 checkpoints from arrival to result collection, pushing alerts on what comes next instead of waiting to be asked, ending the hospital's old passive setup.
SBI Insurance (SBI Ikikai Shoutanki) — Callers to Miyazaki Business Centre are now greeted by an AI voice bot insurance call centre system built for SBI Group's insurer SBI Ikikai Shoutanki Hoken, resolving over 70% of inquiries unaided. Mobirus's agent-type voice engine powers this AI customer service in insurance, trimming handoffs to staff by 63%.
UM Specialist Centre (UMSC) — UM Specialist Centre has switched on Q-Ward, Malaysia's first fully operational AI-driven smart ward, fitting bedside screens with artificial intelligence for routine surgery patients. One panel per bed covers dining, entertainment, charts and lab results together. UMSC says the AI hospital ward helps offset staffing gaps by giving carers live case insight.
Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) — MISTI trained roughly 400 staff in AI for public sector innovation. The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation session built skills in applying artificial intelligence in government operations, covering core concepts, ethics and hands-on public-service use cases, while pushing a proactive, adoption-ready outlook among attendees.
MUFG Trust Bank — Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank now runs ASSIST, a Kasanae-built generative AI assistant retail banking tool, across roughly 2,000 staff in Japan who consult it daily on manuals, rules and procedures. The system shortens time otherwise lost searching for answers and handling queries. This AI staff support tool for banking operations is projected to yield savings near six thousand five hundred working hours a year.
Zangia.mn — An Advanced AI engine now runs inside Zangia.mn, scoring CVs, pairing applicants with openings, and flagging roles by skill set and location. AI recruitment in Mongolia advances as career analysis and auto-written CV summaries reach 1.2 million users and 10,000-plus firms on the site, part of a shift toward AI-driven hiring software.
State Council — The State Council Opinions on Deeply Implementing the AI+ Action (Guo Fa [2025] No. 11) set phased targets to 2027, 2030 and 2035 for China AI policy. This national AI strategy spans six priority areas: global cooperation, governance capacity, public welfare, consumption quality, industrial development and scientific research.
Sheng Siong — All 83 Sheng Siong outlets in Singapore now run facial recognition CCTV retail surveillance against shoplifting, built with the Singapore Police Force under the STAR programme. Flagged repeat offenders trigger an instant phone alert to staff on re-entry. Sheng Siong credits this AI-powered surveillance in supermarkets with cutting monthly failed-transaction losses from roughly S$10,000 to S$1,500.
GS Engineering & Construction — GS E&C is first among South Korean builders to adopt ChatGPT Enterprise, spreading AI in construction into contract checks, drawing analysis, cost forecasting and technical review. OpenAI staff visited Seoul to demonstrate embedding the tool into site workflows. A GPT Champion scheme from September trains staff as specialists to widen construction sites AI use cases.
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital — Annalise.ai, AI chest x-ray analysis software able to flag as many as 124 possible findings, is being piloted at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital for six months. Australia's public sector sees its first hospital test of the tool's secondary capture function here, using AI-powered medical imaging software as decision support rather than replacing clinical judgement. Final sign-off still rests with staff reviewing each scan before reports are issued.
SCENTS N SECRETS — SCENTS N SECRETS, a Pakistani fragrance brand, launched an Agentic AI chatbot in retail service on Instagram and Facebook Messenger, tied to Shopify and Asaan Retail, an instance of Agentic virtual assistants. Week one: 4,000+ queries answered, orders taken, updates pushed live.
Saint Clare School for Special Education — AI in special education cuts planning time at Saint Clare School for Special Education by 30 to 50 per cent, via a Learning Management System built with SOZCODE. Using over 15 years of data, it turns basic learning needs into matching goals and activities from a stored SPED bank for staff to adjust, speeding Individualised Education Plans and special needs teaching.
City of Sydney — A skills framework for 2,000 City of Sydney staff took six weeks with SAP Business AI, an AI in HR skills management case, versus months before. Discovery Consulting merged hiring, growth, and appraisals into one system, cutting paperwork 25%. The AI-driven skills taxonomy updates itself as needs shift.
Land Transport Authority — Singapore's Land Transport Authority is piloting AI bus lane enforcement, mounting onboard bus cameras to perform AI-powered bus lane detection whenever vehicles drift into reserved lanes during service hours. The scheme grew from a 2024 proposal call and sits alongside other electric-bus safety additions, among them 360-degree collision warning and anti-fatigue monitoring.
Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora) — Nicolab, a Dutch AI firm, is bringing its AI stroke imaging platform StrokeViewer into up to 30 New Zealand hospitals under a Health New Zealand rollout backed by the University of Otago. A Health Research Council-funded trial will check if faster scan reading cuts stroke treatment delays, targeting 850 additional patients reaching reperfusion therapy yearly. It marks a large-scale test of AI-assisted stroke diagnosis, pending confirmed outcomes.
Padiberas Nasional Berhad (BERNAS) — Malaysia's Padiberas Nasional Berhad (BERNAS) is piloting Project Rakan Tani, WhatsApp-based AI in paddy farming, within BERNAS's SMART Large-Scale Farming programme. Built with the National AI Office and Ministry of Agriculture, this AI farming assistant tailors hyper-personalised, real-time pest control, fertiliser and planting advice to each field, forecast and crop stage.
Tilleke & Gibbins — Tilleke & Gibbins, spanning Thailand and five neighbouring countries, has adopted Harvey, an enterprise-grade AI platform for the legal industry. This AI in legal services tool speeds drafting, research and file review. Custom agentic workflows for Southeast Asian legal markets follow next, widening legal AI adoption.
Government of Uzbekistan (Supreme Court, Ministry of Digital Technologies) — President Mirziyoyev's Decree UP-140 folds AI in judicial system operations into a staged Digital Court rollout across Uzbekistan. Litigants get forecast verdicts and probable costs before filing; once underway, cases gain live hearing transcripts and auto-drafted paperwork. Tashkent pilots launch by end-2025, with a virtual AI consultant reaching the my.sud.uz portal from January 2026.
Halodoc — AIDA, Halodoc's AI medical assistant for partner physicians, hit 93% accuracy handling administrative work during its first rollout. A board of medical excellence guided its doctor-first design, freeing clinicians for diagnosis and treatment decisions instead of paperwork. Over 80% using this AI Doctor Assistant reported clear benefits.
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance — Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance in South Korea now applies AI claims review medical insurance processing, automating cancer diagnosis checks and surgery benefit payouts. Generative AI with optical character recognition scans records up to 48 pages, extracting data from diagnosis paperwork and lab results without manual work. The insurer reports faster, more accurate claims processing.
Tilleke & Gibbins — Harvey, an enterprise-grade legal AI platform, now runs firm-wide at Tilleke & Gibbins, extending AI in legal services across Southeast Asia. Teams in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam use it for drafting, research, document review. Custom agentic workflows for legal practice are planned, tailored to core practices and Southeast Asian markets.
Community Bank Bangladesh PLC — MSME lending in Bangladesh now runs through an AI credit scoring for MSMEs tool built by Community Bank Bangladesh PLC with partners PriyoShop and Insights Genie, the first alternative scoring model of its kind in the country. Rather than relying on collateral, it weighs demographic data, purchase patterns, psychometric signals and behavioural analytics to judge creditworthiness, opening short-term loans to small retailers long excluded from formal banking via a fast eKYC process. This small business credit assessment marks a shift from conventional collateral-based lending.
Tottori Prefectural Board of Education — 365 students at Tottori model schools now use School AI, a generative AI platform for education, following its rollout by the Tottori Prefectural Board of Education on 20 August 2025. Under a Ministry of Education scheme for AI-enhanced English education, the system sharpens speaking and writing through conversation drills, feedback on essays and vocabulary matched to each learner. Staff also receive tools for setting tasks and marking work, a rare instance of AI in English language teaching led by a regional authority.
Mahkamah Agung (Supreme Court of Indonesia) — Judge panel selection for Indonesia's first-level courts now runs through Smart Majelis, a Supreme Court AI judge assignment tool unveiled for the institution's 80th anniversary. Caseload, legal expertise, competence and conflicts of interest feed the automated matching. A 22-office pilot launched the system, building on an earlier automated judicial case matching trial that succeeded at the Supreme Court level in 2023.
Datacom — AI adoption in business has surged across New Zealand, with Datacom's 2025 State of AI Index putting the share of organisations using some form of AI at 87%, up from 66% in 2024 and 48% in 2023. Among the 200 senior business leaders polled, 88% of those already onboard flagged a measurable positive impact, and a fifth, 20%, logged productivity leaps of at least 25%. Full-scale rollout still lags behind, though: a mere 12% have gone enterprise-wide, and nearly half, 46%, remain stuck testing the waters on this pattern of AI usage among organisations.
IAG — Insurance Australia Group runs AI property claims assessment on every claim, flagging urgent make-safe repairs after a hazard via generative AI. Automated review replaced contractor site visits, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars and beating manual accuracy. IAG applies this damage-assessment approach fleet-wide.
Agro Prom — Armenia's Agro Prom runs an AI-powered greenhouse in Nor Yedesia where thousands of tomato plants are watched for disease, pests and ripeness with no human checks needed. Harvests already reach 18 to 20 tonnes a day, shipped onward to Latvia, Bulgaria, Romania and the UAE, and the firm hopes to push that total to 40 tonnes as the site expands. A patrolling machine hunts down insects, while an automated drip network handles all watering and feeding for the crop, an early example of AI in agriculture taking root locally.
Baiduri Bank — Baiduri Bank claims Brunei Darussalam's first generative AI banking customer service launch, rebuilding Emmi from a declarative chatbot into a model handling complex queries with tailored replies. Unveiled at TechXpo 2025, it is also being piloted on WhatsApp, extending conversational AI for customer support beyond the bank's app.
CEAT — Twenty per cent higher mixer output at CEAT followed the rollout of an AI-governed closed-loop control system, one strand of a wider AI in tyre manufacturing push across the Indian firm's plants, alongside an 18 per cent drop in cycle time variation. Cameras and computer vision now flag inspection faults automatically, machine learning schedules upkeep before breakdowns occur, and a smart export container optimisation tool has slashed order-to-dispatch turnaround by 54 per cent. Support queries flow through chatbots, while designers trial tread patterns shaped by an AI-driven manufacturing supply chain approach.
Ashok Leyland — Hubble.ai now ties together 28 assembly lines and 2,000 machines inside Ashok Leyland's plants, forming one AI manufacturing platform built entirely in-house rather than bought off the shelf. Cameras under the Manufacturing Process Assurance System (M-PAS) catch defects as they happen, while predictive maintenance and robotic process automation (RPA) keep equipment running; a bot named ALPHA clears more than 10,000 supplier bills daily on its own. Ashok Leyland's connected-truck software iALERT, distinct from this vehicle manufacturing AI push, already rides in over 150,000 trucks across India.
Primaya Hospital Group — AI hospital chatbot Sasya covers patient queries across all 20 Primaya Hospital Group hospitals in Indonesia, handling appointments, insurance checks and doctor selection. Running on Google infrastructure, this healthcare-bot deployment generated billions of rupiah by October 2025, with referrals driving roughly 30% of web bookings.
Ryt Bank — Over 50,000 Malaysians tap Ryt Bank, a YTL Group and Sea Limited venture billed as the world's first AI-powered bank, logging some 80,000 transactions monthly. Talking replaces tapping: assistant Ryt AI, built on homegrown model ILMU, moves funds via plain speech, not menus. Chat is the interface in this AI-driven banking design.
Korea Southern Power (KOSPO) — Korea Southern Power (KOSPO Evolving Mind Innovation) flipped the switch on generative AI public institution tool KEMI on 26 August 2025, marking what officials call South Korea's first such deployment inside a state-run body. Konan Technology co-engineered the platform, letting workers tap sensitive files - plant operations, energy policy, admin workflows - purely in-house, keeping outside leakage out. A companion avatar, Joy, guides consultations and delivers safety coaching, feeding a broader shift toward generative AI in the public sector.
Shinhan Securities Vietnam — Shinhan Securities Vietnam embedded S-Era, an AI stock assistant, into its 'Sàn Xịn Ha' trading app, arming users with live pricing, forecasts, condensed news, equity analysis and valuations through charts or text, plus Q&A follow-up. This puts AI-driven stock analysis inside a Vietnamese brokerage's daily toolkit.
Bank of the Philippine Islands — Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) gave its 24/7 AI banking chatbot, BEA Chat, a real-time service request tracker, product applications and personalised replies within three seconds. Via BPI's website and Facebook page, the conversational assistant fields banking questions and self-service requests, routing complex cases to live agents.
SoftBank — SoftBank has deployed voice AI customer support for Y!mobile PIN code inquiry calls in Japan, using an autonomous-thinking generative AI platform. Reading speech from several angles for context and intent, the platform questions callers and verifies details; a large language model plus a proprietary knowledge-reasoning engine handles complex conditional judgments and non-standard inquiries. SoftBank has used call-centre AI since 2019, co-developing generative AI platforms with Microsoft since March 2024.
Myanmar State Administration Council (military junta) — Myanmar's junta runs an AI surveillance network, the Person Scrutinization and Monitoring System (PSMS), fusing facial recognition, CCTV feeds and personal records to chase dissenters. General Administration Offices in Mandalay Region and southern Shan State were ordered to apply it against deserters, fugitives and revolutionary activists. Mandalay Region officers tied the AI-powered monitoring system to roughly 1,650 arrests, March to April 2025.
Fonterra Co-operative Group — Every one of Fonterra's 66 million annual milk powder bags now passes under AI image recognition milk powder inspection, part of a system covering all 56 packing lines. Designed in-house, this AI visual inspection setup catches damage on the 25kg sacks, pulls faulty ones off the line instantly, and stores a timestamped photo of each for tracking back through production. Separately, New Zealand's dairy giant has been trialling the Plant Equipment Scheduling Programme (ESP), which applies AI-driven optimisation and is now spreading from Edgecumbe toward Clandeboye.
Discover Pakistan — Discover Pakistan built an AI news channel called Pakistan Today English News, staffing it entirely with synthetic anchors, reporters and analysts instead of human presenters. Machine learning and language-processing systems animate each figure through more than 1,500 facial movements, enabling non-stop 24/7 output from a London base transmitted by satellite across the globe. Marketers describe this synthetic-broadcast approach as the first fully AI-powered English-language channel anywhere.
TVB — TVB became the first Hong Kong broadcaster to stream an AI-generated short drama, "You Are The Only One In My Heart", on myTV SUPER and TVB Plus from 15 September 2025. Episodes stay under two minutes, made with AI video tools, extending TVB's earlier AI beauty pageant.
Australian Taxation Office — Australian Taxation Office staff are piloting large multimodal AI models for AI work expense audits, checking claims taxpayers file. A document tool live since May 2024 scans and ranks key details in submitted paperwork; the new trial builds on it. The ATO's goal: full artificial intelligence rollout, or "industrialisation," agency-wide by 2030.
Oliy Majlis (Parliament of Uzbekistan) — Two-stage passage in Uzbekistan gives artificial intelligence a formal legal footing: deputies cleared the bill through the Legislative Chamber on 12 August 2025, before the Senate signed off on 1 November 2025. Built as an amendment to the Informatization Act, the new Uzbekistan AI regulation defines AI in law, forces labels onto AI-generated content, and blocks any decision touching personal rights from resting on AI alone. Handling someone's data unlawfully through AI now carries administrative penalties, closing a gap the earlier act left open — an AI governance law shaped by parliament rather than by regulators alone.
SMBC (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) — An AI CEO chatbot answering as Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's Tatsuru Nakajima now handles staff questions, drawing on his past remarks via OpenAI's GPT-4o and RAG to mimic his reasoning as an AI-powered executive assistant. A Microsoft-based avatar version is still being built. SMBC calls it a route to normalising generative AI among staff.
Government of Nepal — Nepal now has a National Artificial Intelligence Policy 2025, giving the country legal and regulatory scaffolding for AI across all sectors under this new Nepal AI regulation. An AI Regulatory Council led by the communications minister will steer implementation, backed by a National AI Centre under the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, with workforce skills for AI a stated priority — part of Nepal's wider national AI governance strategy.
ZhongBang Bank — ZhongBang Bank, an internet transaction lender in Wuhan, now uses an AI smart marketing assistant powered by large language models to serve WeCom customer engagement. Chats are parsed automatically, matched to intent, and answered with recommended knowledge and rewritten replies, cutting labour costs by 25% while raising response speed 20% and operational efficiency nearly 30%, the bank said, having shown it at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in July.
Mediacorp — Mediacorp's AI video production suite compresses prime-time bulletins into digital clips within minutes, near 90 per cent accuracy, replacing a sixty-minute manual routine. Visualiser GPT drafts narrative structure, AI Smart Frame handles automated editing, and a clipping engine preps broadcasts for release. Manual formatting has largely yielded to automated video editing at Singapore's broadcaster.
Parliament of Armenia — Armenia's Ministry of Internal Affairs holds nonstop, 24/7 entry to a facial recognition surveillance grid, thanks to Law on Police amendments parliament cleared in March 2025. That biometric camera grid reaches airports, parking zones, cultural sites, transit hubs and municipal or state buildings nationwide. Civil society groups warn the statute lacks real safeguards and any AI-specific oversight.
Maxis (with Ministry of Education Malaysia) — 150 schools, 30,000 people: Maxis's target for AI training for students and teachers, backed by Malaysia's Ministry of Education. Under Program GenAI Maxis eKelas, tracks cover prompt engineering, ethical use and real-world applications. Early trials of this generative AI workshop for schools gave a 40% average lift in post-test scores.
Harbin Institute of Technology — HIT's Faculty of Computing engineered 'Gong Xiaoxing,' a 24-hour AI counsellor for students at Harbin Institute of Technology, fusing empathetic dialogue with tiered logic: menus for routine questions, warm replies for distress, retrieval-augmented generation for thorny procedures — delivering AI mental health support in higher education. Over 2,000 students and counsellors shaped it, covering study advice, admin queries, and stress relief.
Personal Information Protection Commission — Chief Ko Hak-su's Personal Information Protection Commission in South Korea introduced its "Guidelines on Personal Data Processing for Generative AI", targeting AI data privacy compliance across how generative systems handle personal information from concept to deployment. Four sequential phases structure the document: defining purpose, mapping strategy, building and training models, then applying and managing them — each carrying baseline protections and lawful-basis tests for training data. A designated chief privacy officer anchors accountability throughout, reflecting wider generative AI governance goals that weigh innovation against individual data rights.
Sinopec Shengli Oilfield — 40 subsidiaries of Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield now share China's first large-scale AI in oil and gas system, the Sheng Xiaoli large language model. By August 2025, 1.8万 accounts had signed up, sending 2,000-plus daily queries for document analysis, data retrieval and report drafting. A DeepSeek-R1 upgrade brought 280 assistants and 1,000-plus knowledge bases into this petroleum-sector generative AI platform.
After You — An AIoT factory energy management deployment at After You's Samut Sakhon plant, built with PTT, cut power spending 15% via hands-off cold-room thermostat regulation. Linked IoT sensors and AI algorithms watch chiller output round-the-clock, driving an APA (Automation Process Analytic) setup for AI-driven cold room control that reacts on its own overnight, unstaffed.
Agency for Innovation and Digital Technologies under the President of Tajikistan — Bonoor, a free AI assistant government services tool replying only in Tajik, sits inside ehukumat.tj, Tajikistan's new digital gateway from the Agency for Innovation and Digital Technologies. Since its March 2025 pilot, over 1.5 million residents joined, drawing on 20 online services spanning 45 state bodies. ChatGPT falters on Tajik syntax, so this AI-driven public service delivery model closes that gap.
SynCab (Chung Shing Taxi Ltd.) — Hong Kong's first AI-powered taxi dispatch system is now running, a joint venture between Chung Shing Taxi Ltd's SynCab fleet and the University of Hong Kong. Branded the Smart Dispatch Decision System, it pairs riders with cars by crunching live congestion levels, weather patterns and EV charge status. Drivers logged into this AI cab dispatch system cannot decline whatever booking gets pushed to them.
Bank SinoPac (Yongfeng Bank) — Yongfeng Bank's AI agent in banking, "Yongfeng iWish," spans all 125 branches in Taiwan, taking spoken, typed or photographed deposit, withdrawal, transfer and remittance requests. By December 2025, this conversational banking tool tallied 80,000 transactions (8万), hit 95% satisfaction, cut counter time 30% and voice waits 70%.
MTR Corporation — MTR Corporation runs two AI-powered systems handling train deployment and AI crowd control at major Kai Tak Sports Park events, and they are already dispersing passengers. A ridership prediction model built with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on billions of MTR and government data sets joins an intelligent crowd diversion system.
Republic of Palau Social Security Administration (ROPSSA) — Carnegie Mellon University consultants helped build an AI compliance tool now running at the Republic of Palau Social Security Administration (ROPSSA) and its Health Care Fund. Large language models paired with retrieval-augmented generation speed up drafting and let staff verify adherence to the Palau National Code. Paper-bound guidance is now a searchable web resource, an early case of AI regulatory compliance automation in a Pacific island government agency.
Policybazaar for Business — ClaimSetu, built by Policybazaar for Business, chases a 50% quicker group health reimbursement cycle through AI in health insurance claims. NLP and OCR sift paperwork, catch mismatches and flag fraud while scoring submissions instantly, letting corporate insurers cut delays with AI-powered claims processing.
Seven-Eleven Japan — AI in retail operations is now company-wide at Seven-Eleven Japan: AI Library covers 8,000 employees, up from 4,000 staff in 20 departments by June 2025. Staff choose among 13 large language models, including Claude, Gemini and GPT, for minutes, product development, and POS or social media analysis. This corporate AI rollout cut minutes per meeting from 40 to 10.
JINS Holdings — JINS Holdings is piloting AI customer service retail technology through JINS AI, a self-built generative chatbot live in select eyewear stores. Shoppers scan a shelf QR code for frame suggestions, multilingual pricing and FAQ answers, part of an AI customer service system built in-house. Full rollout follows in 2026.
Agency for Innovation and Digital Technologies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan — Tajikistan AI policy now runs through a new Interdepartmental Commission for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, formed by the Agency for Innovation and Digital Technologies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan. It coordinates digital technology rollout and drives the AI regulation strategy set out to 2040.
Personal Data Protection Bureau (PDPB) — Nine Asia-Pacific privacy regulators, led by Macao's Personal Data Protection Bureau (PDPB) and Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), now back a shared framework for AI data anonymisation. Their "Guide to Getting Started with Anonymisation" pushes organisations to scrub identifying details from records before these enter AI models, walking through five phases: locating the relevant data, wiping direct identifiers, deploying anonymisation tools, gauging re-identification exposure, and taming that exposure over time. Put simply, anonymising personal data for AI model training turns into a mandatory groundwork step.
Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament) and President of the Kyrgyz Republic — Kyrgyzstan AI regulation now runs through Digital Code No. 178, with Chapter 23 covering Articles 191 to 197 under Artificial Intelligence Systems. Parliament passed it 18 June 2025, President Sadyr Japarov signed it 31 July 2025, and it took force 6 February 2026. The chapter sets an AI systems risk classification, tougher duties for high-risk categories, and disclosure requirements for AI use.
House of Travel — House of Travel Group launched HoT Brain, its own AI for travel consultants, bundling map creation, passport scanning, personalised itinerary generation and ChatGPT functionality. The consultant-facing AI runs in a secure Microsoft tenancy linked to Timatic and internal knowledge databases. Live in New Zealand, HoT Brain reaches Australia next month.
Government of Pakistan — Pakistan's cabinet has unanimously cleared the National AI Policy 2025, a Pakistan AI policy meant to grow a full artificial intelligence ecosystem nationwide. It targets one million skilled AI professionals by 2030, 1,000 homegrown AI products within five years, 50,000 civic AI projects, and 3,000 yearly scholarships, steered by a new AI Council under a Master Plan and Action Matrix, plus dedicated Innovation and Venture Funds.
Government Information Centre (GIC), Government of Sri Lanka — An AI voice system government pilot is coming to Sri Lanka's Government Information Centre (GIC), automating citizen replies, per Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Chief Advisor to the President on Digital Economy. He called it the opening phase of a broader AI-first push, ahead of automating routine state processes for AI-driven citizen information delivery.
KT — Five seconds off every call and 4,500 staff-hours reclaimed monthly: that's KT's payoff from an AI customer service deployment running its own generative AI model, Mi:um, across KT, K Bank and KT M Mobile. Wrap-up paperwork, once a third or more of an agent's shift, now takes barely 3%, KT says.
Bunnings — Bunnings is piloting AI in human resources to map career goals across 55,000 staff, pairing Workday Skills Cloud, built on the vendor's Illuminate AI, with HiredScore for AI workforce skills matching to internal vacancies. A chatbot separately handles queries on leave, policy and procedure so employees skip a human contact.
QazaqGaz — Manual home visits are disappearing from gas billing at QazaqGaz Aimaq, Kazakhstan's biggest gas supplier, now trialling AI meter reading via an app that reads consumption straight off a snapped photo. Kyzylorda, Kostanay and Turkestan host the pilot, aimed at quicker bills.
Hsinchu Mackay Memorial Hospital — Hsinchu MacKay AiCare runs entirely on hospital servers, a design choice by Phison Electronics and Hsinchu Mackay Memorial Hospital meant to stop patient data leaving the building. The generative AI system supports doctors through record assistance, translates for patients before surgery in multiple languages, manages medical knowledge, summarises meeting audio and answers health questions via chatbot, illustrating one model for AI in hospital care. Hsinchu City Mackay Children's Hospital has since adopted the same setup, extending this healthcare AI rollout.
Azerbaijan Standardisation Institute (AZSTAND) — Azerbaijan now has a national AI management system standard. AZSTAND adopted AZS ISO/IEC 42001:2025, "Information Technology – Artificial Intelligence – Management System," after review by committee AZSTAND/TK 05. It covers AI risk, ethics, transparency and a system's full lifecycle, and now sits in the State Fund of Normative Documents as the country's official AI governance benchmark.
Information and Communication Technology Division (ICT Division) — Bangladesh set up the National AI Policy Committee to steer its Bangladesh AI policy work. The panel mixes officials, academics, industry figures and international experts, and has run three steering sessions: the 1st, 2nd and 3rd meetings, in August and October. These sittings mark early momentum on national AI regulation.
Jyoti Bikas Bank — To mark 18 years in business, Jyoti Bikas Bank rolled out Jyoti, an AI chatbot for banking customer service, reachable any hour via a simple, multilingual interface. It answers account questions instantly, widening the lender's digital service footprint in Nepal.
Air New Zealand — Companion AI, Air New Zealand's enterprise build of ChatGPT delivered through direct work with OpenAI, now reaches every one of its 3,500 corporate staff for daily tasks. That milestone in AI in corporate airline operations follows a year in which employees assembled over 1,500 Custom GPTs for in-house needs, with executives weighing generative AI for airline workflows across self-service for customers, upkeep scheduling and broader operational calls.
Forte Diagnostics — Forte Diagnostics debuts an AI-powered medical diagnostics platform, Sri Lanka's first, made with India's Health Vectors. Bland text reports become live, personalised dashboards under this health data visualisation model.
Ministry of Health and Welfare (衛福部) — Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare opened clinical AI verification centres at four hospitals: Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tri-Service General Hospital and Far Eastern Memorial Hospital. Federated learning paired with FHIR standards lets developers validate diagnostic algorithms across sites without moving patient data, tackling the weak training data behind poor AI diagnostic tools accuracy.
Anglicare Sydney — Hiring at Anglicare Sydney now takes six days, down from 42, after AI recruitment tools joined its Workday HCM system. Yvette McDonald credited the AI-assisted staff recruitment shift at the Workday Elevate summit, spanning 5,500 staff, onboarding and job coaching.
Bell Gully — Bell Gully now ranks as New Zealand's first major law firm to embed AI legal research firm-wide, having struck a licence for the Harvey platform. Over 200 lawyers gain access for case lookup, storing files and tougher matters, per Andrew Petersen, framing it as a step in generative AI adoption for legal work.
Islamabad Capital Territory Police — A roaming, AI-integrated "Police Station-on-Wheels" is now serving Islamabad, fielded by Islamabad Capital Territory Police as Pakistan's first such vehicle and an early instance of AI-powered law enforcement in Pakistan: it can log FIRs, answer emergency calls and hand out services directly on the street. Wired into the Safe City grid's 3,257 cameras, it packs facial recognition, crime mapping, drone links and live monitoring into a single mobile package, a setup some would call AI-integrated policing. Months earlier, a pilot run had already cleared more than 7,000 complaints, and a female citizen lodged the unit's first formal FIR on 22 July, just ahead of the official rollout.
Axis Trustee Services — AVA (Axis Trustee Virtual Assistant), built by Axis Bank subsidiary Axis Trustee Services, marks India's first AI chatbot for trustee services. The assistant resolves product and service questions instantly, tracks pending requests, and clears up transaction issues touching paperwork, regulatory rules and compliance checks — an early example of an AI-driven fiduciary support tool in this sector.
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) — East Japan Railway Company (JR East) unveiled Japan's first AI voice assistant for train information: a spoken rail-status hotline named Dokotore Dial. Naming a station or route by phone lets generative AI retrieve live delay, departure-time and position data from JR East's train information system, aiding smartphone-averse riders anywhere.
Ministry of Employment and Labor — Job seekers using Work-Net, the AI job matching platform run by South Korea's Ministry of Employment and Labor, secured over 87,000 placements across the first half of 2025 — an 84% jump against the equivalent stretch in 2024. Matching candidates against openings via analysis of resumes, work history and career goals, the system also produced a wage gap: workers placed through its recommendations took home 120,000 won more each month than those who landed jobs unassisted. Come September, the ministry adds four further AI capabilities to the platform, including an aptitude test built around the individual and a tool projecting employment probability, extending its AI recruitment matching capacity.
Directorate-General of Personnel Administration and Ministry of Digital Affairs — Taiwan's Directorate-General of Personnel Administration and Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) launched the Taiwan Artificial Intelligence Government Talent Office (TAIGTO) for AI in government talent development. Civil servants train under MODA's AI Industry Talent Guidelines and reach the TryAI platform, linking to more than ten large language models. This centralises public-sector AI upskilling nationally.
Supreme Court of Korea — A W14.5 billion contract has gone to a KT-led consortium tasked with building South Korea's Supreme Court AI platform for judges, an AI-assisted judicial platform designed to accelerate legal research, pull case issues automatically and support judgment drafting. KT's proprietary legal-specialised language model, layered atop Mideum 2.0, drives the roughly four-year build, joined by partners Conan Technology, Elbox and MT Data. Shrinking case backlogs and sharper judicial output count among the hoped-for gains, per the court's own internal forecast rather than any independently verified result.
亞東醫院, 中山醫學大學附設醫院, 高雄榮民總醫院, 奇美醫院 — Four Taiwanese hospitals — Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital and Chi Mei Medical Center — have adopted MedBobi 2.0, a generative AI platform built by the Industrial Technology Research Institute, bringing AI clinical documentation into everyday practice. Built on voice recognition paired with patient records, the system pushes clinicians beyond routine paperwork into faster diagnostic reasoning, shrinking the write-up and evaluation stage for each case from 30 minutes down to 3 minutes. That gain comes from ITRI's own internal measurement of AI-assisted clinical decision support, not an outside audit.
Singapore Police Force — Singapore Police Force's Airport Police Division has tested GIBSON, an AI patrol robot, at Changi Airport's Terminal 4 since early July 2025. Built by HTX and A*STAR, the scooter-style robotic patrol unit roams departures unaided; officers can book it by application as a lift around the premises.
Bank of Baku — Round-the-clock digital support for Bank of Baku customers now comes from BOBAI, a newly launched AI virtual assistant customer service tool hosted on bankofbaku.com and Bolkart.az. Available 24/7, it handles queries on products and services while routing trickier issues to human staff. The rollout marks another step in the lender's push toward full digital transformation in Azerbaijan, extending its AI chatbot for banking support beyond typical business hours.
Ministry of Health (Vietnam) — AI training healthcare workers is the goal of a new Vietnamese scheme, AI Opportunities for Healthcare Workers, targeting 15,000 professionals by 2026. Google-certified staff lead five modules at Hanoi Medical University on prompt engineering and responsible AI use, feeding into digital transformation in healthcare nationwide.
Gold Coast Health — First in the Southern Hemisphere: Gold Coast University Hospital now runs CAS-One IR, an AI-guided tumour ablation system reaching tricky liver and kidney lesions. Radiologists gain live 3D imaging plus AI-assisted comparison of pre- and post-treatment CT scans, confirming success on the spot rather than after follow-up. Deployment began July 2025.
Ministry of Public Security (C06) — Vietnam's C06 department put an AI assistant for public services on VNeID, letting citizens search procedures, confirm documents, and get policy guidance together. It also flags fraudulent information and finds merged administrative unit data. This government AI chatbot combines paperwork queries with fraud warnings and unit lookups.
Mankind Pharma — Custom GPTs built on OpenAI Enterprise now run throughout Mankind Pharma's workforce, spanning field force enablement, digital marketing, R&D, manufacturing and medical affairs. Teams handling sales and marketing have gained the most from this alliance with OpenAI, a case of AI in pharmaceutical operations reaching further than most rivals attempt. Hardly any pharmaceutical business in India has pushed generative AI so deeply into daily operations.
Wipro — Wipro has automated HR, finance and legal work with over 200 AI agents built alongside major cloud providers, running tasks independently rather than assisting staff, marking a shift in AI deployment in corporate IT services across India. Rishad Premji told shareholders about 87,000 employees have gained role-based training as agentic AI in enterprise operations becomes central to internal workflows and client offerings.
Suzuki Motor Corporation — Suzuki runs AI work-analysis software called Ollo Factory, built by Tokyo startup Ollo, to monitor assembly-line tasks at its Sagara plant and, since December 2025, at its engine plant too. Smartphone, tablet or wearable-camera footage feeds the system, which breaks down worker motions, flags anomalies like a missed screw as they happen, spots inefficient movement, and helps train staff by contrasting beginners' actions with those of experienced workers using this AI-powered factory motion analysis. The deployment sits within Suzuki's wider Smart Factory programme.
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited — CoreMate, an AI executive built by Kirin Holdings, now sits on the Kirin Group Executive Committee to guide corporate strategy. 12 distinct AI personas power it, drawing on 10 years' worth of board records, internal files and outside sources, then producing the issues and viewpoints that emerge when those personas debate each other during live meetings. Operating-company executive committees and Kirin's board of directors are next in line for this AI boardroom assistant.
Zurich Malaysia — Zurich Malaysia's Z Buddy answers agents' questions via WhatsApp on travel and motor cover, claims steps and product details. This AI insurance assistant speeds up routine tasks and lightens the load on Zurich's distribution network. As a virtual assistant for insurance agents, it frees staff for selling and servicing policies.
National University Hospital (NUH) — MedBot, National University Hospital's AI medication counselling assistant, cuts 28 staff-hours monthly and about S$15,400 yearly since July 2025 across 66 approved drugs. It greets patients before prescription pickup at kiosks in NUH's Kent Ridge Wing Pharmacy and National University Centre for Oral Health pharmacy. Pharmacists review each reply from this generative AI pharmacy assistant first.
Thai PBS — Thai PBS has launched three AI-driven features on its news website, blending synthetic voice, story digests and content recommendation into one push for AI news personalisation. News out Loud reads out articles by mixing machine-generated speech with human anchor tones, while AI in Brief compresses stories into quick summaries. A third tool, Playlist for You, tailors suggestions to individual viewers through VIPA, the broadcaster's OTT streaming platform, delivering personalised recommendation and summarisation. Kuala Lumpur's ABU Con-Fest served as the stage where Thai PBS unveiled the trio, tied to a broader accessibility drive in digital journalism.
Tashkent city government / Ministry of Internal Affairs — Tashkent's Road Safety Service rolled out AI traffic cameras at 10 pedestrian crossings to catch drivers who fail to yield on unsignalled crossings, issuing 1,700 fines within the first three days. The rollout will extend to 30 additional intersections, according to the agency's press secretary, as part of a wider push for automated pedestrian-safety enforcement in Uzbekistan. The detection system targets crossings without traffic signals, relying on computer vision to flag violations in real time.
Ministry of Digital Affairs — Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs opened consultation on the draft Act on Promoting the Development of Data Innovation and Utilization, gathering comment through 15 August 2025 for a framework tackling AI innovation policy. Agencies would gain Chief Data Officers and an Executive Yuan Data Innovation and Utilization Advisory Council on data innovation and use, plus firmer legal footing for data-sharing.
Hallym University Medical Center — Doctors at Hallym University Medical Center will gain back 20 to 30 working days each year, thanks to a generative AI platform called HAI (Hallym Artificial Intelligence) that now handles AI medical records duties across the whole hospital stay, from a patient's arrival to their release. Built in partnership with Konan Technology, HAI pulls together 97 distinct categories of clinical information and is forecast to eliminate about 83,000 hours of manual charting work per year. So far it handles five conditions - stroke, gallbladder inflammation, caesarean delivery, cataract procedures and tonsil removal - operating on a locally hosted LLM rather than a cloud service, which keeps sensitive health information from leaving the hospital, an approach that supports broader AI clinical documentation goals in hospital settings.
104 Job Bank (104人力銀行) — 104 Job Bank's AI System automates job-description drafting, company research and candidate matching, forming an AI recruitment automation tool for headhunters. Adoption reached over 70% of consultants within three months, shrinking case prep from about 10 hours to under 2 — an 80% gain that lifted division revenue by 6%, a result of the recruiting automation approach.
VietinBank — Built on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, VietinBank's Genie assistant fielded 350,000 staff queries within two months, serving Vietnam's banking workforce. Drawing on 2,000 processes and 500 financial indicators, this AI in banking operations tool slashed response delays by 95%, sparing hundreds of thousands of monthly work hours through generative banking AI.
Manipal Hospitals — Manipal Hospitals runs AI nurse handoffs at 23 of its 37 sites, cutting handover time from 90 to 20 minutes — a 70% drop. Google Cloud built it on Gemini on Vertex AI; over 5,000 nurses use it daily. The Indian chain's shift-transfer tool anchors clinical communication.
Santos — Papua New Guinea's wells, pipelines and reservoirs now draw on Xecta's Integrated Production System Model (IPSM), an AI-powered digital oilfield system Santos rolled out after success in Australia's Cooper basin. Physics-based modelling paired with AI-driven production optimisation converts billions of telemetry readings into continuous, live output guidance.
Commercial Bank of Ceylon — Commercial Bank of Ceylon unveils Sri Lanka's first AI-powered SME credit underwriting system, engineered with a global consultancy. Predictive analytics now drive faster, tailored loan decisions for small firms, marking a fresh use of AI in commercial banking.
BREEZEONLINE (Breeze Group) — Generative AI personalised shopping now drives BREEZEONLINE's Taiwanese luxury storefront, built on UpGPT from developer Anran Technology. Typing a plain-language wish, like wanting something elegant for an occasion, prompts the tool to surface matching picks, while behind the scenes AI image analysis auto-labels listings with style tags and suggested contexts. Conversion from search and repeat visits have both climbed post-launch, a gain the retailer has not quantified, as AI-driven product recommendations reshape how customers browse and buy.
Land and Houses Bank (LH Bank) — LH Bank built LISA, an AI chatbot for banking staff, using Sertis technology hosted on AWS. Workers now get faster answers on internal procedures, plus help with task management, cutting time spent hunting for information across departments through this workplace AI assistant.
New Zealand Government — New Zealand's Government unveiled 'Investing with Confidence', its national AI strategy, branding the nation a 'sophisticated adopter' of machine intelligence rather than an architect of foundational models. Existing statutes and a light-touch, principles-based stance replace any push for fresh AI-specific rules. Science and Technology Minister Shane Reti flagged 8 July 2025 as the latest such rollout among OECD members, leaving New Zealand's AI policy framework trailing every peer nation.
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) — MBIE's Responsible Artificial Intelligence Guidance for Businesses gives firms a starter kit for AI adoption in business: risk toolkits, checklists, lifecycle controls. Tied to New Zealand's AI strategy, the non-binding framework favours light-touch, principles-based oversight, steering artificial intelligence for companies toward safer, ethical use.
Digital Government Development Agency (DGA) and Microsoft Thailand — Roughly 2,000 officials from agencies across Thailand completed AI training for government officers, run jointly by Microsoft Thailand and the Digital Government Development Agency (DGA) as 'Tech for Gov 2025: NextGen Gov AI Training Program'. Topics ranged from core machine-learning concepts to ethical rollout practices, building AI skills in government roles, and ending in a hackathon where teams pitched their own AI builds.
Jets Sdn Bhd — Near the Muara port town in Brunei Darussalam, Jets Sdn Bhd has unveiled what it calls Southeast Asia's first net-zero-emission AI shrimp farm. Solar arrays supply energy while automated systems oversee blue shrimp breeding, blending renewable power with eco-friendly production methods under the AI in aquaculture approach. The firm describes the venture as a breakthrough for the nation's fisheries sector.
Shandong Jianzhu University — Shandong Jianzhu University is now Shandong province's first with a full-stack AI education platform, unveiling Zhisiti, an education large language model (LLM) spanning 70-plus subjects. Assistants field queries non-stop across 24 hours, generate lesson plans automatically, break down multi-modal lectures and flag pupil conduct.
HNB General Insurance — HNBGI NEXA, an AI chatbot for insurance customer support, now runs on HNB General Insurance's site. Indian InsurTech firm AccelTree Software built it for round-the-clock routine queries, forwarding harder cases to the hotline.
Ministry of Digital Technologies of Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan's One Million AI Leaders programme, run with the UAE, targets 100,000 young people this year via its AI study platform. The free AI training programme covers five tracks — AI fundamentals, generative AI, prompt engineering, ethical AI use — open to students, entrepreneurs and 100 tech enthusiasts, part of a wider AI skills initiative.
People's Leasing & Finance PLC — People's Leasing & Finance PLC now holds the title of Sri Lanka's first AI avatar for annual reports, courtesy of martech firm Enfection. Built on RAG and large language models, this corporate reporting AI fields questions on financial and sustainability metrics instead of static PDFs.
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) — The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications opened its draft National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2030 to public consultation in June 2025; over 300 participants refined it at a national workshop. This Cambodia AI policy has six priorities: ethical and responsible AI, human resource development, sectoral adoption, digital government, data and infrastructure, and collaboration, research and innovation. The national AI plan awaits approval from the Digital Government Committee and National Digital Economy and Society Council.
Ministry of Women and Child Development — Compulsory facial recognition nutrition programme checks now cover take-home ration recipients in India via the Poshan Tracker app, run by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Staff verify identities using Aadhaar-based face matching and e-KYC scans monthly, closing gaps that let fraud and phantom claimants through. A pilot preceded December's nationwide rollout.
Shiseido Japan — Shiseido Japan's PBPs now type plain questions into a generative AI chatbot for beauty advisors, an AI-powered retail customer service tool built into their Beauty Tablet handsets, to pull up product, brand and promotion details. It cuts calls to sales and admin teams, helping staff assist shoppers faster. Shiseido Interactive Beauty and Accenture co-developed it with Shiseido Japan after a trial run.
Kirin Holdings — Kirin Holdings put ChatGPT Enterprise AI deployment into its strategy, R&D and marketing units, covering patent searches, market studies, product creation and planning. Custom agents built for individual workflows come next on the OpenAI system, while a separate generative AI tool rollout called 'BuddyAI' already reaches roughly 15,000 staff inside Japan.
Tunghai University — Taiwan's first AI PC classroom, an AI computing lab for education, opens at Tunghai University: 75 ASUS PCs, donated by an alumna, powered by Phison aiDAPTIV+ cards. NTD 100 million funds campus AI infrastructure, including an NVIDIA GB200 server, for training large language models and generative AI on site.
momo (Fubon Multimedia) — Over 90% response accuracy resulted from momo's LLM-powered AI customer service platform, built with Microsoft Azure OpenAI via RAG. Self-service adoption climbed 5% at Taiwan's biggest online retailer, easing pressure on human agents. Older chatbots gave way to this generative AI support tool for natural-language shopper questions.
Office of the Council of State (OCS) — TH2OECD now checks over 70,000 Thai legal documents against more than 270 OECD legal instruments at once, work Thailand's Office of the Council of State (OCS) formerly finished across several years without machine help. Running on Microsoft Azure OpenAI and built alongside Thai partner STelligence, this AI-powered legal comparison system converts text between Thai and English on its own and spots inconsistencies via natural language processing. Behind the rollout lies Bangkok's ambition to enter the OECD, aligning home-grown statutes with worldwide benchmarks through automated AI legal document comparison.
Connect Kisan — Farmers in Nepal can now speak their agricultural questions in Nepali to Connect Kisan's mobile app and hear spoken answers on topics from pest control to fertiliser choice, watering schedules and current market prices, an early step in AI voice advisory for Nepali farmers. Developed alongside Diyo AI, this AI-based farm advisory tool has already logged more than 2,000 queries in its opening phase.
Tashkent city government / Road Patrol Service — Uzbekistan's road patrol service is running AI traffic management from Tashkent's Situational Monitoring Centre, expecting congestion to fall by 50 per cent. The intelligent transport platform reads live vehicle flow, anticipates bottlenecks and pulls in street-camera feeds to catch crashes and violations without human input, quickening emergency response too — a benefit officials themselves project rather than an audited result.
Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's government has stood up RAMS, Pakistan's first AI road management system, built in-house with FCDO-funded SEED programme backing. Damage gets flagged, severity ranked, and a Pavement Condition Index compiled, with output feeding a live GIS dashboard that guides repair scheduling — fresh momentum for AI in road maintenance locally.
Hindustan Unilever — Small kirana retailers using Hindustan Unilever's Shikhar platform now build their own personalised promo clips through GenAI, and Samadhan gets stock to those shops by the next day, part of a wider push on AI in marketing retail and supply chain across the firm's India footprint. Sangam reallocates advertising budgets on the fly, working alongside separate tools churning out more than 6,000 branded assets each quarter. Skincare recommenders and virtual try-on features under Lakmé, Pond's and TRESemmé complete this AI-powered value chain deployment, having already drawn upwards of five million consumer trials.
Medentec — Medentec debuted Meri Muskan, Pakistan's first AI dental telehealth platform, from Karachi's National Incubation Center. A homegrown model reads uploaded photos and symptom notes to flag oral trouble, then links users to licensed dentists over encrypted video. Prescriptions, records and delivery round out Karachi service, extending dental care access powered by AI.
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan's Ministry of Internal Affairs is piloting an AI investigator assistant for police, the Digital Assistant for Investigators, at Astana's Yesil district department. Interrogation speech becomes searchable text, mismatched witness accounts get flagged, and case files draft themselves unaided. Similar past rulings guide the software's next-step recommendations.
BSP Financial Group — BSP Financial Group, Papua New Guinea's largest bank, has adopted SmartStream Technologies' Affinity module, an AI-driven tool for exception management in banking using observational learning to support automated exception management and data-based decisions. Nuni Kulu said the change cut manual work and lifted accuracy for over two million customers across PNG and the Pacific.
State Commission on the State Language under the President of Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's State Commission on the State Language, with UlutSoft, debuts Aitil, the nation's first Kyrgyz-language AI platform, running solely in Kyrgyz. It bundles speech recognition, text-to-audio, a chatbot, OCR and translation across 10 languages, backing the tongue digitally via Kyrgyz AI translation.
Eurobank Cyprus — Cyprus now hosts what Eurobank terms Europe's first enterprise-grade agentic AI voice platform, developed alongside Fairfax Digital Services and Voicing.AI. Staff hold lifelike spoken exchanges with these AI voice agents, which resolve IT questions and run operational chores unaided. Eurobank next plans wider adoption spanning HR, compliance and customer-facing roles.
St. Luke's Medical Center — St Luke's Medical Center now runs Rapid AI, scanning CT and MRI scans for early stroke signs, including subtle warnings before a major episode. The hospital calls its AI stroke detection tool the first and only one in the Philippines, helping clinicians pick treatment faster through this AI-assisted neuroimaging approach.
Government of Sri Lanka (Ministry of Digital Economy, ICTA) — About 1,000 executive officers from ministries across Sri Lanka joined AI training for public officials at Temple Trees, Colombo, run jointly by the Ministry of Digital Economy and the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA). The single large workshop covered generative tools including ChatGPT and Gemini, aiming to lift digital literacy across government ranks.
United Ajod Insurance — AI livestock insurance is now live in three Nepali districts, Humla, Lalitpur and Achham, run by United Ajod Insurance on muzzle-pattern biometrics from a smartphone app photo. That image becomes each animal's unique identifier, letting PlantSat's technology automatically match post-mortem pictures against the original record to settle claims. UNDP backs the digital livestock insurance rollout, which shortens payout times by making remote verification possible for herders.
AboitizPower — Digital twins, anomaly detection, early warnings and live asset checks now drive AI in coal power generation at AboitizPower's 300-megawatt Therma South Plant in Davao City, converted to a smart coal-fired station under Project Arkanghel. Next: the Therma Visayas Plant in Cebu and a Luzon site.
Ministry of Public Health — A 25-hospital trial of Thailand's new AI drug interaction alert system checked nearly 90,000 medication records, catching 2,384 risky combinations and firing over 3,800 live warnings that pushed doctors to revise care before dispensing. Thailand's Ministry of Public Health now runs the tool in 11 hospitals, targeting every government hospital by September 2025 — a broad national push for AI-driven prescription safety screening.
MB Bank — MB Bank (Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank) has halted hundreds of billions of Vietnamese dong in suspected fraud after rolling out AI fraud detection in banking beyond earlier pilot work. Vice Chairman Vu Thanh Trung pointed to automated screening as the driver, while AI-driven banking fraud prevention now supports retail sales staff and broader internal efficiency.
Customs Service of Tajikistan — Tajikistan's Customs Service topped its first-half 2025 goal by 623 million somonis (11.7%), collecting nearly 5.7 billion somonis versus a 5.1 billion target, via AI risk management in customs. A Data Mining module now flags shipments for inspection and sorts paperwork using computed risk screening.
Office of the Public Sector Development Commission (OPDC) — Typhoon, SCBX Group's Thai large language model, underpins an AI chatbot for public service trialled with Thailand's OPDC. Round-the-clock, 24/7 support answers Public Sector Excellence Awards questions, an early instance of AI chatbot in government services. Broader rollout follows.
Bank of Georgia — Georgia's Bank of Georgia has rolled out Smart Loan, billed as the region's first AI-powered SME loan for small and medium enterprises. Approval takes under two minutes, with the system generating tailored financing offers automatically rather than through manual underwriting. The bank presents this as a shift in how business borrowers in the country obtain rapid access to credit through AI in SME lending.
Rio Tinto — Rio Tinto's ReconAI tool powers AI rail defect detection across its automated freight network, reaching 96 per cent classification accuracy in live operation on autonomous locomotives. Pulling data from multiple systems, it flags recurring equipment problems and cuts manual admin work for maintenance staff. The mining group's fault-sorting system, a form of AI-based fault classification for rail assets, lets engineers focus on fixes rather than repetitive logs.
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) — AI business registration in the Philippines gained a round-the-clock helper: the Department of Trade and Industry's FAI assistant fields licensing and accreditation queries automatically, sparing applicants queues and office visits. Running since 9 June 2025 inside the DTI's Integrated Registration Information System, it replies instantly, 24/7, as a digital assistant for government services.
National Bank of Georgia — Georgia's central bank has opened its Regulatory Laboratory to fintech firms testing AI in banking, letting companies trial new tools under supervision before wider rollout. The National Bank of Georgia's sandbox for AI-driven financial technology lets advanced systems enter the sector safely, replacing unsupervised deployment. Applications close October 2025.
Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES) / Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) — Under Thailand AI regulation plans, ETDA and MDES have floated Draft Principles of the Law on Artificial Intelligence, opened for public consultation with a 2 May 2025 session and a comment window ending a month later. Systems get sorted by risk tier, separating prohibited uses from high-risk categories, while providers must build risk processes matching ISO/IEC 42001, name local representatives, and disclose serious incidents. An AI Act Thailand hearing stage still lies ahead before enactment.
KAIST — KAIST runs a retrieval-augmented Virtual Teaching Assistant (VTA) for 477 students on its Programming for Artificial Intelligence course, an AI teaching assistant mining lecture slides, assignments and recorded lectures for 24/7, evidence-based answers. Over half the cohort used it regularly, racking up nearly 3,870 Q&A exchanges, while questions reaching human TAs fell roughly 40% year on year. KAIST has open-sourced the code, extending this virtual tutoring model beyond its own campus.
UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta — Rector's Decree No. 127/2025 makes UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta the first Islamic university in Indonesia with formal rules on generative AI in education, spanning Generative AI and Large Language Models in academic and non-academic activities. Exams stay off-limits unless a faculty sets its own protocol; written work needs clear disclosure of AI contribution. Curriculum design, material prep and reporting remain open to generative AI use in universities.
Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK) — Indonesia's PMK Coordinating Ministry launched the Gugus Tugas AI Task Force under Minister Pratikno to speed nationwide AI talent development in Indonesia. Rather than delivering programmes itself, it aligns artificial intelligence strategy across ministries spanning health, learning, heritage, family welfare and faith affairs.
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co — Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (SAM) becomes India's first law firm to deploy generative AI in legal services firm-wide, rolling out Harvey's complete toolset across seven offices after a year-long trial. Lawyers now use these AI-powered legal work tools for contracts, due diligence, research, forecasting and client pitches.
Beeline Kazakhstan — Beeline Kazakhstan's Janymda super-app now hosts an AI language tutor, engineered by QazCode atop KazLLM, a homegrown large language model. Six playful modules with a guiding avatar serve grown-ups and youngsters studying Kazakh. Rarely does such an AI-powered learning assistant rest on domestic rather than imported technology.
Snow Factory (Xuefang Premium Yogurt) — A 30% drop in customer service spending followed Snow Factory's rollout of an AI chatbot in customer service, built on Appier's BotBonnie for LINE. Taiwan's yogurt brand feeds documents into a knowledge bot that autonomously handles FAQs, keyword triggers and tougher conversational AI customer support cases, lifting satisfaction too.
University of Sydney — Over 800 University of Sydney staff rely on Cogniti, a locally built AI assistant in higher education, crafting bespoke AI agents across fields like engineering and musicology. Australian Financial Review AI Awards judges gave it the Research and Education title. Such classroom AI assistant adoption remains rare campus-wide.
Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Sri Lanka Police — Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced AI-generated suspect images of people wanted over a serious Southern Province crime. Its Homicide and Organised Crime Investigation Division built the likenesses from incident footage, using AI facial image generation for police with the Crimes Record Division, then released them for tips.
92 News — Pakistan's first Urdu AI news reporter went live on broadcaster 92 News, presenting bulletins in the national language to a mainstream television audience. Live updates and pre-written segments both come from the digital anchor, the channel says. The "first-ever" claim remains unverified independently.
Shenzhen Longhua District People's Court — Shenzhen Longhua District People's Court runs Dragon Vine ('龙藤'), China's first end-to-end court enforcement AI system across 54 nodes — filing, property control, credit sanctions, asset tracing — via 21 linked platforms. Piloted from December 2024, the judicial enforcement AI application cleared 7,847 cases unaided, cutting average duration 28.9 days, January–April 2025.
Westpac — An AI scam detection tool now being trialled by Westpac transcribes live calls between customers and its fraud support staff, surfacing risk indicators mid-conversation. Prompts steer operators toward sharper, faster responses. Westpac frames this real-time fraud call analysis as a route to quicker fraud disruption.
Lotte Department Store — A 70% drop in customer analysis time within one month followed Lotte Department Store's rollout of BI Agent, an AI-powered BI system layered on Strategy One, the generative platform from Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). Wired into existing customer-data tools, it lets untrained staff pose questions in plain wording rather than code, extending AI-driven business intelligence into routine retail choices. Work once needing specialist skill, like cohort and relationship studies, now runs directly under marketers at stores and head office.
Korea Customs Service — South Korea's Korea Customs Service is building an AI risk management for express cargo tool, formally named the "AI Risk Management System for Express Cargo and International Postal Items," to catch narcotics and other banned goods moving through overseas direct-purchase parcels. The system will score declaration filings and detection records for risk in real time, applying AI-based customs risk screening for parcels at scale. Work should wrap by end of 2025, ahead of use at clearance checkpoints starting January 2026.
Nawaloka Hospitals PLC — Nawaloka Hospitals runs NASHA, an AI-powered outpatient department chatbot reviewing patient symptoms and directing suitable care. A separate corporate chatbot sits on its website, both already active. Sri Lanka gets its first such setup for digital patient interaction, an early move into AI-driven OPD triage support.
Supreme Court of the Philippines — AI court transcription spreads to every Philippine court by end-2025, as the Supreme Court scales its Scriptix software nationwide after a strong trial. Tested from July 2023 to September 2024 across the Sandiganbayan and 41 selected courts, the tool cut transcription time by 50% and raised accuracy from 70% to 90-95% with ongoing use. Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo has pledged stenographers won't lose their posts to it.
Universal AI University — Karjat's Universal AI University has launched GURUJI, an AI chatbot that instantly resolves academic and administrative questions, an early example of AI in higher education. Running on machine learning and natural language processing, it recaps missed lectures and draws context from PDFs, websites and other linked sources. This AI chatbot for students works as a round-the-clock campus companion.
Vinschool — Vinschool, Vietnam's largest private system, runs an AI curriculum kindergarten to grade 12 at 54 campuses, ages 5-18. VinUni University guided it, folding AI into IT and computer science rather than standalone classes, covering mechanics, literacy and responsible use via this AI education programme for students, from 2025-2026.
Ministry of Digital Development and Agency for Civil Service Affairs of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan's Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, with the Agency for Civil Service Affairs, rolled out AI Qyzmet: AI training for civil servants using five-minute videos. Officials learn to apply artificial intelligence in planning, data handling, decisions and automating tasks. This Central Eurasia first targets 30,000 public employees yearly, an AI skills training for government workers push.
Wildberries — Wildberries brought AI in e-commerce analytics to Kazakhstan with Jam, a new seller-facing tool powered by a neural network. Sellers gain automated image and description editing for promo pages, plus visibility into audience segments, search-term performance and sales funnel conversion. The marketplace positions this AI-based seller analytics tool as a way to sharpen listings and lift conversions for Eurasian sellers.
Nasfund — Nasfund, Papua New Guinea's biggest private superannuation fund, runs AI invoice processing via DeepDelve Invoice AI, hitting 97 per cent data extraction accuracy on trialled supplier invoices. Innovation PNG Awards gave Nasfund its Large Business prize as the tool lifted productivity 40 per cent and freed three hours daily per worker. Rajeev Sharma says large language models come next, automating payments entirely, targeting a 70 per cent cut in processing time.
Taichung Veterans General Hospital — Foxconn's Nurabot, built with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, is on trial at Taichung Veterans General Hospital as an AI healthcare robotics platform. It delivers medicine and specimens, patrols wards and educates patients — cutting nursing workload up to 30%, Foxconn's own unaudited figure. FoxBrain, Foxconn's large language model, and an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin chip supply the onboard AI compute, an early hospital automation case.
Government of the Philippines — A formal AI policy Philippines framework is now in place: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed the National AI Strategy for the Philippines (NAIS-PH) into effect. Unveiled at a sectoral meeting in Malacañang, the blueprint rests on five pillars — infrastructure, workforce development, innovation, data governance and policy, and deployment of AI systems — aimed at turning the country into a globally competitive, inclusive innovation hub by 2028. Better governance and industrial growth both feature as stated goals of the roadmap.
Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) — AI adoption in Taiwan's financial sector reached one in three institutions — 126 of 383 surveyed by the Financial Supervisory Commission — a jump from 29% in 2024 to 33%. Penetration was highest among banks (87%), then life insurers (67%) and property insurers (45%), while generative AI specifically had reached 61 firms. Back-office administrative work ranked as the dominant application, claimed by 39% of adopters, pointing to artificial intelligence uptake among Taiwanese financial institutions still weighted toward internal efficiency gains rather than client-facing services.
E.SUN Bank (Yushan Bank) — E.SUN Bank runs "GENIE" internally and gives retail customers "Jin Mishi", an AI in retail banking chatbot for queries. Its coders use GitHub Copilot, cutting build times 30% per the bank's own figure. All three sit inside a wider NVIDIA partnership spanning four finance AI use cases, including AI-assisted coding.
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan — Kazakhstan AI policy now runs through a new presidential advisory body, the Council for the Development of Artificial Intelligence, created by Decree No. 881 and chaired personally by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Seats around the table go to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, and outside foreign experts brought in from beyond government ranks. The panel's remit stretches across drafting national AI strategy proposals, sharpening AI-related legislation, and scrutinising AI projects through expert vetting.
Sunway Medical Centre, Sunway City — Sunway Medical Centre (SMC) in Sunway City is the first hospital in Malaysia and Southeast Asia offering AI spine surgery, via the AiBLE Spine Surgical Suite. It merges live scans, 3D mapping and machine-guided spinal navigation so doctors can rehearse an operation on a virtual copy of the patient's backbone beforehand, a method used over 50 times already. It also covers cranial, orthopaedic, ENT and trauma work.
EtonHouse Education Group — Teachers at EtonHouse now spend one to two hours on lesson preparation instead of a full day, after the Singapore provider rolled out Lumina, an AI lesson planner powered by OpenAI's application programming interface. Administrative workload has dropped 90 per cent since the generative AI system replaced an older Excel-based method. Piloted at selected centres first, Lumina tracks learning objectives as they happen, works across multiple languages, and keeps a familiar look borrowed from conventional planning templates — part of a broader shift toward AI in education.
Mobiuz — Uzbekistan's Mobiuz fields 25 to 30 per cent of call-centre traffic via its AI voice assistant for customer calls, Moobina, resolving tens of thousands of daily calls. Atop the Omilia AI platform, this AI customer-service bot confirms caller identity, verifies balances, guides tariffs and unblocks numbers unaided, work begun in 2024.
King & Wood Mallesons Australia — King & Wood Mallesons has scaled AI in law firms to more than 1,200 users spanning Australia and Singapore, building on a six-week pilot involving about 200 lawyers. Harvey, a generative AI tool for legal document drafting, now also checks compliance, condenses bulky files and proofreads.
Asahi Shimbun — Asahi Shimbun deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot across nearly all departments after a four-month pilot with 300 staff found roughly two hours saved weekly per person. This AI in journalism rollout followed an AI Committee formed that April by its CEO, backed by a company-wide "AI full-commitment" mandate; adoption reached over 90% of staff within five months. Agent-building tools within Microsoft Copilot Studio are now under trial, extending generative AI in newsrooms into daily reporting.
KB Financial Group — KB Financial Group has switched on KB GenAI Portal, an agentic AI banking platform giving staff across its eight subsidiaries the tools to build and run their own AI agents for financial services—a first for South Korea's financial industry. No-code and low-code options let non-programmers build agents too, alongside a pro-level track. Roughly 90 agents across 17 business lines, covering wealth management, retail and corporate banking, are due within three years, with advisory, client relations and support agents already underway.
Japanese Police Authority (National Police Agency) — Several Japanese prefectural forces now run "Scon", open-source AI security camera analysis software from police authorities, to trace suspects across relay investigations. Officers feed in footage and it flags matching people, vehicles and other objects. Low-cost open-source parts let each force customise this AI-based surveillance footage analysis for local needs.
Mutual Trust Bank PLC — Mutual Trust Bank PLC (MTB) became the first lender in Bangladesh to roll out an AI voice contact centre agent, letting account holders speak commands for balance inquiries, card activation and PIN generation rather than punching keypad options or sitting on hold. Available 24/7, the tool sharpens its own replies over time via machine learning, functioning as an AI virtual assistant for banking that keeps improving with use.
Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education — Toritsu AI, a generative AI platform for schools, now reaches 256 metropolitan schools under the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education after two years of trials at 29 research schools. Its Tokyo-only tenant excludes prompts from model training, filters unsuitable material, and gives teachers ready lesson templates — the fruit of that pilot phase, now a full AI in education deployment.
Chiba Institute of Technology — Chiba Institute of Technology now runs Japan's first AI university lecturer, built from ChatGPT joined with blockchain-based Verifiable Credentials for AI teaching in higher education. It studies each learner's history and answers through dialogue, tested in the school's web3 and AI course until July 2025. Activity becomes a tamper-proof credential, proving learners' progress.
Singapore Government — About 50,000 Singapore public officers, a third of the total, now regularly use the government AI chatbot Pair for research and writing tasks. Josephine Teo said active users have doubled since 2024, with roughly 100,000 officers having tried it. Staff have also built thousands of bots on the AIBots platform as an AI chatbot for public officers, covering HR queries and budget guidance.
Sampath Bank — Five taps on the Sampath Vishwa Mobile App now trigger a full AI-powered personal loan decision, under Sampath Bank's new Sampath Select scheme, marketed as Sri Lanka's first fully automated lending product of its kind. Real-time analysis of applicant data replaces the old paper-heavy approval chain, producing an instant, paperless outcome. The pitch centres on AI-driven loan approval, with credit checks and sign-off compressed into one digital flow.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) — Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data checked 60 organisations, finding AI adoption in Hong Kong businesses at 80%, up 5% on 2024. Over half, 54%, ran three-plus AI systems in daily operations, mainly client support, marketing and back-office tasks. No Personal Data Ordinance breaches turned up.
Taoyuan City Government (桃園市政府) — Taoyuan City Government has installed AI traffic control at 91 junctions near the Zhongli, Neili and Dazhu interchange areas. Sensors, edge processors and machine-learning models read congestion live, cutting driver delays by 19% and journey times over 5%. The system feeds Taiwan's wider intelligent transportation strategy.
Government of Bangladesh — Bangladesh is first in South Asia to punish AI-powered offences, addressing artificial intelligence misuse under the Cyber Security Ordinance 2025 gazetted 21 May 2025. The interim government's law scraps nine sections of the 2023 Cyber Security Act, grants internet access as a civic right, bans online gambling, and penalises abuse of women and children online.
Ministry of Health Malaysia — Seven government clinics in Malaysia now run AI X-ray screening for lung disease among high-risk smokers and chemical workers. Machine-read scans sharpen diagnostic accuracy, says the Ministry of Health Malaysia, and nearby hospitals catch flagged cases for CT follow-up. Kit per site costs roughly RM10,000 upfront, per the ministry's figure.
Cathay Insurance (Guotai Property Insurance) — Four new patents mark Cathay Insurance's (Guotai Property Insurance) push into AI in insurance claims processing across Taiwan: claims reports now write up twice as fast, loss-prevention reports take over 50% less staff time, and new tools handle underwriting risk monitoring and reinsurance exposure forecasting. A human-in-the-loop setup governs every AI-assisted risk assessment function.
Supreme Court of Guam — A hallucination dispute in May 2026 traced back to Administrative Order 2025-001, the rule Chief Justice Katherine Maraman of Guam's Supreme Court had invoked against an attorney over a flawed legal brief. That order, forming the Judiciary of Guam Policy on Artificial Intelligence, binds AI use in court filings to the Guam Rules of Professional Conduct already covering lawyers, jurists and unrepresented parties. Anyone submitting AI-generated legal content in court must personally confirm its accuracy first.
Federal Court of Australia — Federal Court of Australia guidance now covers generative AI in legal practice: Chief Justice Debra Mortimer's Notice to the Profession follows a 28 March 2025 statement flagging the issue. A dedicated 'AI Project Group' will consult key legal personnel while drafting formal AI rules for filings. Lawyers stay fully liable for submitted material regardless of what tool assisted.
Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK) — OJK guidance sets minimum standards for AI governance in Indonesian banking, spanning design, testing, rollout, monitoring and audit across the full system lifecycle for banks. Reliability, accountability and human oversight anchor the framework. Non-binding as soft law, it still marks out OJK's supervisory expectations for responsible artificial intelligence deployment in banking.
Bank of Ayudhya (Krungsri) — Cloud migration sped up over 50% at Krungsri (Bank of Ayudhya) after adopting generative AI agents on AWS. AI fraud detection banking runs via Amazon SageMaker's AI-powered mule account detection; a valuation tool trims property visits from three days to 15 minutes; and machine learning balances cash across 5,000 ATMs nationwide.
Financial Services Authority (OJK) — OJK's Buku Panduan Tata Kelola Kecerdasan Artifisial Perbankan Indonesia (Artificial Intelligence Governance for Indonesian Banks) sets out supervisory expectations for commercial lenders adopting AI in banking, published on 29 April 2025 by Otoritas Jasa Keuangan. Institutions are expected to form a dedicated AI committee, apply controls across the full model lifecycle, conduct stress testing and validation, and keep humans in the loop for oversight. The document carries no binding force for AI governance for banks, yet OJK treats it as a reference point when examining banks' risk management practices.
Tsinghua University — China now has an AI hospital run entirely by artificial intelligence: Tsinghua University's AI Agent Hospital fields 42 AI doctors spanning 21 departments and diagnosing over 300 conditions. An internal trial platform, active since November 2024, reached 93.06% accuracy on respiratory illness after processing roughly ten thousand simulated patients, giving clinicians a working AI clinical diagnosis benchmark. Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital will host the initial rollout.
KazMunayGas — KazMunayGas has deployed ABAI for AI oil exploration and production across seven modules covering wells, repairs and flood control. Flooding-event readiness fell from 40 hours to two, saving KZT450 million, with KZT9.3 billion projected by 2030 — an AI-based oilfield safety and speed upgrade using Big Data (unaudited company figures).
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) — HKGAI V1, Hong Kong's first homegrown large language model, is free for HKUST staff and students, reflecting growing AI adoption in higher education and AI use in universities. Built on DeepSeek and tuned for Cantonese, Putonghua and English, it joins 10-plus tools on the GenAI Platform, including GPT-4, DALL-E and DeepSeek-R1, with faculty training via the Center for Education Innovation.
Singapore Courts — At a symposium marking the 40th anniversary of Singapore's Small Claims Tribunals, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon revealed an AI translation service for court documents, live from April 16, 2025. Disputing consumers and merchants may now ask that filings from the opposing side get converted into Chinese, Malay or Tamil through this system, built under a new tie-up between Singapore's courts and American legal start-up Harvey. It stands as their first joint output, bringing machine-driven language rendering into small-claims case handling.
Anhui Provincial People's Procuratorate — Anhui Provincial People's Procuratorate is piloting an AI-assisted case handling system across all 79 procuratorates, China's first provincial-scale prosecutorial AI rollout. Ten functions are covered, including document review, drafting, sentencing recommendations and contradiction detection, reflecting wider momentum behind AI in criminal justice. Human sign-off remains mandatory at each of 21 checkpoints.
JD.com — More than 100,000 Chinese job seekers have used JD.com's AI interview agent recruitment tool, built on its JoyAI large model, to screen for entry-level logistics and support roles. The e-commerce firm says the system now handles tens of thousands of first-round conversations daily, recognising over 20 regional dialects while flagging impersonation through digital-human hosts with layered verification checks — an AI-driven hiring screening approach. JD.com credits this with lifting hiring speed by 70% and scoring 91% accuracy, though these are the company's own unaudited figures.
Digital Policy Office — A move on Hong Kong AI regulation arrived 15 April 2025: the Digital Policy Office issued the Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical & Application Guideline for developers, vendors and users. It draws deployment limits, flags pitfalls like data leakage, model bias and system errors, and sets principles to manage them. Non-binding, it serves as a template for responsible AI adoption in Hong Kong.
Sejong Law Firm — South Korean law firm Sejong, ranked among the country's top five, now applies AI legal research via Harvey AI, an OpenAI-based legal generative AI tool, in a pilot running since April 2025 for chosen advisory matters. Overseas assignments involving bulky document sets rely on it most: hunting for precedents and regulations, drafting contract wording, and condensing due diligence files. This counts among the earliest legal AI research assistant rollouts in South Korea.
Pegatron — Pegatron's new AI-powered smart factory in Batam, Indonesia runs on a private 5G network and IoT sensors, launched under subsidiary PT Pegaunihan Technology Indonesia on 24 April 2025. Telkomsel equipped the plant with 1,200 SIM cards, letting machines report output and status in real time. The build, blending advanced automation with AI in manufacturing, supports a broader Industry 4.0 push and Pegatron's wider digital transformation goals.
Astro Malaysia — Astro's sooka streaming service runs on ThinkMediaAI, delivering AI personalisation streaming for recommendations, curation, and metadata enrichment. The Malaysian broadcaster credits the rollout with higher usage and viewing time, though the gains are self-reported, not independently audited. AI-powered content recommendation now drives sooka's engagement.
Vietjet Air — Vietjet Air now runs AI recruitment for cabin crew hiring, becoming Vietnam's first carrier to fold artificial intelligence into staff selection. A pair of tools drives the workflow: AI Interview builds tailored questions from an applicant's background and rates language ability, teamwork and customer service, whereas AI Grooming Check inspects appearance. The Vietjet Aviation Academy hosted the debut round on 12 April 2025.
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) — Cambodia's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has drafted a National Artificial Intelligence Governance Framework, an early step in shaping Cambodia AI regulation alongside the National AI Strategy. The AI governance framework plan sets expert consultations for July–August 2025, ministry talks from September 2025, and submission to the Digital Government Committee in November 2025.
AI Academy Asia — AI Academy Asia's National AI Program will train 2,250 teachers and 250 AI specialists from 330 soums in 21 aimags over five years. UNICEF Mongolia and M Bank back the AI teacher training, a three-month course for ages 21 to 65. Training teachers in AI should narrow the digital divide and widen inclusive AI education.
FWD Life Insurance (Thailand and Cambodia) — FWD Insurance's generative AI voicebot and chatbot cut policy cancellations by 60% and lifted retention by 41% in Thailand. Both apply natural language understanding to read customer intent and emotional tone, with the chatbot giving sharper answers and the voicebot scoring high on satisfaction. This AI chatbot customer service upgrade relies on the insurer's own figures, not independently audited.
Hospital E (Bệnh viện E) — Hospital E in Hanoi now runs an AI spectral CT diagnosis system, the Philips Spectral CT 7500, marking a first for northern Vietnam. Nearly 500 scans followed in month one, 45% coronary angiography, with its AI-integrated CT scanner telling benign cysts from malignant lesions at 96% accuracy.
HBL — HBL, Pakistan's largest bank, became the first bank in the country to deploy generative AI fan engagement, launching FanTunes to mark the tenth edition of the Pakistan Super League (HBLPSL). The tool lets supporters create their own personalised tracks using AI-driven music composition, tying the bank's brand to the tournament through an interactive, fan-generated experience. The initiative positions HBL as a pioneer in applying generative AI within Pakistan's banking sector for consumer engagement rather than back-office use.
Supreme Court of Pakistan — Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah's 18-page opinion for Pakistan's Supreme Court, dated 11 April 2025, demands formal rules covering AI in courts before judges lean further on systems like ChatGPT or DeepSeek. Machines, the bench warned, can widen judicial capacity yet never substitute for human reasoning, discretion and empathy. Drafting duties now fall to the National Judicial Policy Making Committee alongside the Law and Justice Commission, tasked with defining what AI use in the judicial system should look like. Separately, the Federal Judicial Academy's 'Judge-GPT' is already deployed, backing roughly 1,500 district judges.
Suning — Suning Max stores in Zhengzhou and Beijing now run an AI store assistant and digital human guide on Lingsi, the retailer's own large model, fused with DeepSeek. Keyword lookups return product details in under a second, closing queries in a minute instead of four hours, with accuracy up from 80% to beyond 98%. The avatar adds tailored suggestions and live deals, an early retail AI deployment gain.
Government of French Polynesia — French Polynesia's government will pilot AI-driven legal text consolidation through the SGG, the Secrétariat général du gouvernement. The system will scan the Lexpol database to catch contradictions built up across years and group related rules by subject, supporting legislative codification. President Moetai Brotherson called it a test to evaluate before wider rollout.
EBM — English Biscuit Manufacturers (EBM) debuted Piper Ki Duniya under its Peek Freans Young Pipers' Club banner, billed as Pakistan's first AI-curated children's entertainment offering. Five Ramazan instalments wove narrative with automated selection tools, producing AI-curated kids' content for young viewers.
Grab — Grab debuted agentic AI for merchants and drivers across Southeast Asia at its first GrabX showcase. Its GrabMerchant app now hosts a chatbot, AI Merchant Assistant, suggesting tailored moves and automating ad campaigns or menu edits. An AI Driver Companion bundles demand-forecasting route tips with spoken hazard alerts, these AI-powered driver and merchant tools drawing 250,000-plus weekly users and 16,000-plus daily submissions.
Ulaanbaatar Traffic Police Authority of Mongolia — GMD Soft's MD Video AI now drives AI video enhancement software for investigations at Ulaanbaatar's Traffic Police Authority in Mongolia. The Office of the Governor of the Capital City transferred the South Korean-built tool in 2025; it clarifies blurry recordings, detects faces and objects tied to unlawful acts, and recovers information from broken handsets. A web of 2,606 smart cameras spanning 176 intersections supplies the feed, extending AI-powered forensic video analysis across the city.
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) — A single pilot, DG SuperApp, now folds AI in government services together for Cambodia's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. DG ChatGPT, pitched as GPT-4's equal, sits beside TranslateKH's Khmer-English converter, go.gov.kh's file store, FormKH's builder, QR codes and Flow.gov.kh's tracker. Still ahead: an AI government platform upgrade bringing DG DeepSeek and DG Gemini.
UNFPA Nepal and Ministry of Health and Population — UNFPA Nepal, with the Ministry of Health and Population, Google and the British Embassy Kathmandu, built SITA for AI government data analysis, turning Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2022 data into statistics, charts and reports via plain-language queries. This AI-driven data analysis system targets a 50% cut in analysis time, 20% lower survey costs.
Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) — Public agencies in Taiwan now tap TryAI, a Ministry of Digital Affairs platform offering 32 language models (TAIDE, Gemini, ChatGPT among them) alongside 20 shared AI tools, under a "try before you buy" approach for safer rollout. Over 30 bodies already use it; the Ministry of Health and Welfare cut meeting-record turnaround from 30-40 hours to 6 using the tool, part of the wider government AI platform push. This marks one adoption pathway for AI in public agencies nationwide.
New Windsor School — New Windsor School in Auckland runs an AI literacy pilot built into daily lessons through the Ako Hiko Cluster. Students compose music with Suno, generate video through Sora, and get instant writing feedback from Brisk, sharpening reading, writing and creative skills. Principal Lisa Harland argues outright bans achieve nothing, so pupils learn instead to judge when AI in schools helps and when it hinders.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data issued the Checklist on Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI by Employees, Hong Kong AI policy helping organisations draft staff rules under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. Workplace AI governance topics are permitted scope, data security, lawful and ethical use, personal data privacy and breach penalties.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) — Hong Kong's PCPD released a generative AI checklist for employers: the Checklist on Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI by Employees. It helps firms set internal rules on lawful staff use of these tools under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, spanning data protection, security and penalties. This AI use policy for employees came with a new AI Security Hotline.
Guang'anmen Hospital — A TCM AI diagnosis model, Guangyi-Qizhi, has gone live at Guang'anmen Hospital in Beijing, built jointly with Baidu Intelligent Cloud and Quanzhen Medical. It reads multimodal signals such as tongue and pulse data to draft records in 2-3 seconds, then guides physicians through syndrome differentiation, prescriptions and medication choices across the whole path from intake to discharge follow-up, serving as an AI-assisted traditional Chinese medicine documentation system.
Ningbo Zhoushan Port Meishan Port Area — Ningbo Zhoushan Port's Meishan gates now run AI vision container terminal checks, matching plates, container numbers and seal numbers in one camera pass. Staffing fell from four to one per gate, with trucks cleared in under a minute. Automated recognition is replacing manual inspection across the port's logistics.
Immigration New Zealand (INZ) — Automated visa approvals are coming to Immigration New Zealand under a $336 million, seven-year overhaul Cabinet approved in March 2025, the Our Future Services project. Algorithms clear straightforward grants; humans still handle refusals. Officials expect the shift to automated visa processing to save at least $80 million yearly once finished.
Mitsubishi UFJ Bank (MUFG) — Mitsubishi UFJ Bank now runs FRONTEO's "KIBIT Eye" for AI fraud detection in banking, spotting cartel links and early misconduct hidden across huge text archives. Automated screening cuts human bias, letting compliance staff work from thorough, uniform results. The move backs MUFG's wider AI compliance monitoring drive for customer safety and openness.
Bakai Bank — Kyrgyzstan's Bakai Bank now issues cards in one minute via machines using AI face recognition in banking, powered by BakaiGPT. Biometric facial identification for card issuance replaces document checks. Bakai Business Forum hosted the debut, the country's first such rollout.
Macquarie University — Macquarie University trialled Virtual Peer, an AI chatbot for students, across a group of 1,400 undergraduates and recorded nearly five extra marks on average, a 9.45% lift, among those who used it, an AI-powered virtual student assistant that proved its worth in testing. Running on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, it handles academic and administrative questions 24/7, drawing solely on verified institutional records via retrieval-augmented generation rather than searching the open web. Satisfaction reached a Net Promoter Score of 92, a striking result for campus-based software of this sort.
Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore — A live digital replica of the Port of Singapore, built with artificial intelligence, will be tested by the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) from mid-2025, marking a fresh push into AI in port operations. Sensors tracking ships, terminal activity and environmental conditions feed this AI-powered digital twin of a port so planners can watch harbour conditions unfold as they happen, sharpening safety, efficiency and sustainability outcomes. Beyond monitoring, MPA intends to run oil-spill and chemical-spill scenarios through the model and lift situational awareness for staff managing port operations.
Chaurjahari Municipality — Chaurjahari Municipality in Rukum West is rolling out an AI chatbot for public services, aiming to speed up how citizens reach information on municipal offerings. Built on conversational technology handling both typed and spoken queries, the assistant will explain what paperwork residents need, walk through procedures, list applicable fees, and share contact points for local offices. Officials have finished training staff on the new system, with launch expected inside a month, according to authorities overseeing the rollout of conversational AI for municipal services.
Supreme Court of India — India's Supreme Court now applies AI in judiciary functions to convert oral arguments in Constitution Bench matters into text, render judgments from English into 18 regional languages, and flag defective electronic filings. About 200 Advocates-on-Record are trialling a prototype for the filing-defect tool and feeding back on its performance. Judicial rulings remain untouched by this artificial intelligence in courts effort, the court has clarified, with automation confined to administrative and linguistic support.
President of Azerbaijan — A presidential decree signed by Ilham Aliyev put the Azerbaijan AI strategy into effect for the Republic of Azerbaijan, running through 2025-2028. Five focus areas structure the plan — regulatory governance, education and workforce skills, infrastructure and data systems, innovation and research, plus cooperation abroad — while each ministry must appoint a deputy minister handling digitalisation and AI matters. Ministerial accountability thus becomes the backbone of the country's artificial intelligence policy.
West China Hospital of Sichuan University — Sichuan University's West China Hospital has switched on Huaxi Hongyi, a 72-billion-parameter medical large language model now running across hospital departments for AI in healthcare applications, unveiled on 19 March 2025. Engineers fused over 10 general-purpose systems with more than 50 specialist ones, feeding the build with 1.1 million doctor-patient dialogue records, 1,600 clinical guidelines and 3.5PB of scanned imaging data. Among the clinical large language model's live jobs: sorting incoming patients, drafting medical records automatically, spotting early-stage cancers during endoscopy, backing up staff on shock-response calls, and staffing a health-outreach line that has logged over 1.2 million calls.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan AI policy now runs on a national strategy for 2025-2028, approved by presidential decree from President Ilham Aliyev for the Republic of Azerbaijan. It sets goals across government services, the economy, schooling, data and computing capacity, workforce skills, and safety and ethics oversight, backed by a coordinating body and an action plan to 2028. The approach treats artificial intelligence adoption in Azerbaijan as a cross-sector priority rather than a single-agency effort.
Guangdong Baocheng (Futian) Law Firm — Guangdong Baocheng (Futian) Law Firm has deployed Fa Xiao Qi for AI contract review, case analysis and document drafting, built on DeepSeek's large model as a legal AI assistant. Drawing on over 1 million case records, it boosts clause-comparison accuracy by 80% and drafts compliant contracts instantly, underpinned by a specialised legal model and knowledge base.
Mahkamah Perusahaan Malaysia (Industrial Court of Malaysia) — An AI transcription system is coming to Malaysia's Industrial Court (MPM), part of a Human Resources Ministry upgrade that turns spoken hearings into text on screen as they unfold. Officials expect the change to shrink the turnaround for case records from 30 days down to just three. Steven Sim named Penang as the pilot site, with a budget nearing RM5 million for producing AI-generated court transcripts.
Papua New Guinea Immigration and Citizenship Services Authority (ICSA) — 40,000-plus documents cleared in three months mark the start of AI visa processing at Papua New Guinea's Immigration and Citizenship Services Authority (ICSA), via NiuPay's AI-driven e-visa system. Two-week waits now end in under two minutes for over 95% of short-term applicants. John Rosso called it the Pacific's first AI tool live in a government production setting.
Shuohuang Railway (CHN Energy) — Huanghuagang station now runs China's first intelligent shunting system, an automated freight rail shunting deployment by CHN Energy subsidiary Shuohuang Railway. Trains set routes, drive themselves and take remote commands instead of outdoor crews, combining AI, 5G and Beidou positioning. Danger levels fell 90%, adding roughly 10.56 million tonnes of yearly capacity.
Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) — Fault fixes sped up 40%, paperwork dropped 30% and power use fell roughly 10% at five Hong Kong government sites piloting Engentica, an AI agent for building management built by the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD). Engineers use it to spot faults, plan maintenance and cut energy waste, pulling from EMSD's live operational data, service logs and technical manuals. The tool exemplifies AI-driven facilities management by linking directly into E&M infrastructure records rather than working as a separate add-on.
Mobicom Corporation — AI-based customer personalisation has arrived in Mongolia's telecom sector via Explore, built by Mobicom Corporation with partner Circles. Usage patterns feed one-to-one promotions to curb subscriber loss across a market of 3.5 million people. Smaller operators increasingly use such AI-driven personalisation tools to cut churn.
Central Provident Fund Board — AI helpline transcription spares Central Provident Fund Board staff from writing up calls, freeing attention for the caller. NCS built the tool on Amazon Web Services; it also grades quality by reading tone, phrasing and loudness. A pilot flags less tech-savvy callers for quicker human help, an early Singapore use of AI call summarisation.
Beijing Dacheng (Kunming) Law Firm — AI in legal practice has moved on-premises at Beijing Dacheng (Kunming) Law Firm, which installed DeepSeek-R1-671B, DeepSeek-V3-671B, QwQ-32b and GLM4-9b on its own servers rather than the cloud in March 2025. Contract review, legal research and drafting tasks get routed automatically to whichever model fits best, with KIMI and Tongyi Qianwen brought in alongside the locally hosted systems for added coverage. Housing everything on Uptime Tier III certified infrastructure keeps client information private and under domestic control, a priority driving broader adoption of AI in law firms wary of external hosting.
Maxis — Roaming help, destination advice and custom suggestions reach Maxis's B2B accounts 24/7 via Mia (Maxis Intelligent Assistant), a generative AI concierge — an AI-powered virtual assistant on AWS's Amazon Bedrock. Reached through the Maxis Business Hub portal, it handles routine queries without human staff.
Singlife — Singlife's #BetterIdea Challenge hackathon produced this AI insurance assistant for financial advisors, live on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Staff retrieve product details instantly rather than by hand, powered by OCI Generative AI and AI Vector Search — a generative AI tool for insurance advisors speeding replies to client questions.
News Corp Australia — NewsGPT now runs across News Corp Australia's editorial and business teams, blending OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude into one enterprise generative AI tool for newsrooms. Journalists and staff use this AI-assisted journalism workflow to draft copy, condense lengthy files and speed everyday tasks. Access opened in March 2025, reaching every employee within days.
KDDI — KDDI brings AI in customer service to its call centre with au Support AI Advisor, merging a 3D digital-human avatar and generative AI to read voice, text and image queries. Ponta-point questions launch first; full au service coverage follows by fiscal 2025's end. It joins existing automated customer support: voice recognition since 2023, generative AI chatbots since 2024.
Prime Minister's Office (PMO) — AI recruitment for civil servants is advancing in Brunei, where the PMO (Prime Minister's Office) backs a Public Service Commission tool that automatically vets job candidates during hiring. Elsewhere, the Public Service Department has teamed with Intel and the Commonwealth Secretariat on StrategusAI, an AI-assisted drafting toolkit trialled by ministries shaping regulations. Fiji alone joins this pilot.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China — A dedicated thousand-card computing cloud drives Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's rollout of DeepSeek's newest open-source model, folded privately into its "ICBC Intelligent Surge" (工银智涌) system — a first for major Chinese lenders. AI banking deployment spans 200-plus scenarios across 20 business lines. Ten-plus large language model banking tools alongside 2,000 legacy models back this expansion.
Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) Commercial Crime Investigation Department — Bukit Aman CCID, under Royal Malaysia Police, will add AI in commercial crime investigations: chatbots scanning witness statements for suspicious financial transactions and fraud trends. Director Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf calls it an AI-assisted financial crime detection push to free investigators' time. No date or figures given.
Government of New Caledonia — New Caledonia's government and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) gave nearly 100 agency heads AI training for public administration in a single day. Sessions covered core concepts, prompt engineering, intelligent agents and cases like automating workflows, virtual assistants and predictive analytics, plus adoption risks. The push reflects wider generative AI adoption in government across the territory.
Tertiary Scholarships and Loans Service (TSLS) — A new AI chatbot for student travel and bond clearance now serves Fiji's Tertiary Scholarships and Loans Service (TSLS) community, rolled out with the agency's Travel and Bond Clearance Portal. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Biman Prasad said the 24-hour AI-integrated chatbot service for tertiary students removes the need for parents and learners to queue or travel simply to confirm details, delivering dependable answers around the clock instead. Roughly 70,000 past and present scholarship holders gain portal access, with electronic links to Immigration and Border Control confirming clearance status automatically.
Fiji media sector — Over 50 per cent of surveyed media workers in Fiji already use AI in journalism, relying on tools such as ChatGPT on the job, per ABC International Development's State of the Media: Fiji 2025 report. Editing, research and drafting social posts topped their listed uses, though many flagged worry about losing a human touch, showing cautious AI tools adoption among newsroom staff.
Sindh Government Qatar Hospital — Sindh Government Qatar Hospital in Karachi's Orangi Town now runs the province's first public AI X-ray machine for TB diagnosis, the Rs45 million Cat 4 Integrated system. In five minutes it converts grayscale scans into colour-coded pictures, marking diseased spots in red to catch TB and chest infections, a tuberculosis screening tool built for speed. Around 120 to 150 sufferers visit daily.
KBS — South Korea's KBS has proclaimed 2025 the launch year for its AI broadcasting push, weaving automated tools into news, animation and emergency alerts. A synthetic-voiced radio host now anchors bulletins on KBS Hanminjok Broadcasting, and a generative AI animation series draws on the classic horror drama 'Legend of the Hometown'. Since 2023 the broadcaster has run a CCTV network of roughly 12,000 cameras nationwide to catch earthquakes and floods automatically, a setup now broadened for AI-powered TV production so wildfires trigger the same automatic alerts. KBS has additionally drafted an ethics guideline steering how artificial intelligence gets used across its content.
Ministry of Digital / National Digital Department (JDN) — Malaysia now has a 158-page rulebook for AI adoption in the public sector, from the Ministry of Digital. Gobind Singh Deo said the Public Sector AI Adaptation Guidelines cover ethics, risk controls, roles and self-check templates for agencies. Transparency and accountability anchor government agencies adopting AI responsibly.
Health New Zealand — Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is trialling AI diabetes retinal screening in South Auckland, aimed at the Pacific community. Seven general practices deploy trained personnel to capture eye photographs; software flags concerns, while an ophthalmologist verifies outcomes. Roughly 840 people should be seen across three months, with AI-based eye screening for diabetes validated on 3,000-plus patients should the concept prove successful.
Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court — Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court now hosts China's first government deployment of an AI legal document generation system, running DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B on a private cloud built with Guangzhou Data Group. Branded the 'Court DeepSeek Application Experience Centre', it gives judges instant statute lookup and drafting help through AI-assisted judicial drafting, entirely local so case files stay off outside servers.
Clip News — Clip News, a Cyprus media intelligence firm, runs an AI-powered radio and TV monitoring platform across 39 stations, 24/7: 15 in Cyprus, 24 in Greece. Built with Italian partner Digital Wave Form, it applies Automatic Speech Recognition above 90% accuracy for instant alerts and transcripts for marketing and communications staff, marking Greece's first use of automated broadcast transcription monitoring.
Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) — RTHK ran CPII's AI media assistant a second straight year for its Budget Speech broadcast, live-transcribing and translating the Financial Secretary's remarks in Cantonese, English and Mandarin. A new chatbot took audience questions while scored summarisation joined the rolling summaries carried over from before.
Fujian University of TCM Affiliated People's Hospital — First in Fujian province: this hospital now runs DeepSeek R1 70B locally, linked into record-keeping and screening systems. The Affiliated People's Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine gives doctors an AI hospital deployment for analysing patient data and drafting diagnoses fast. Next, a TCM-specific decision support agent extends this clinical AI integration into traditional Chinese medicine.
Gyeonggi Agricultural Technology Institute — South Korea gets its first AI smart farming pilot as Gyeonggi Agricultural Technology Institute pairs orbital imagery with machine analysis across 120 rice paddies growing the province's 'Younjin' variety and 50 fields under the Yeoncheon soybean research association. Sharpness is the selling point: satellites resolve ground detail down to 0.7 metres, four times finer than the 3m benchmark previously used, feeding growers near-instant readings on how crops are developing — a precision agriculture approach the institute hopes to expand. No results from the trial have surfaced yet, and the provincial body has not said when a wider rollout might follow.
National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (NECTEC) — NECTEC has rolled out HandySense B-Farm, a smart farming platform pairing artificial intelligence with sensors and IoT technology to steer farm management. Live data feeds decisions on watering, fertiliser use and pest control, trimming costs and lifting yield quality. The launch backs a wider drive toward precision agriculture technology nationwide.
Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan's Ministry of Justice launched an AI chatbot for government services, Odil, on Telegram to cut calls to its 1148 hotline, which logged nearly 135,000 queries in 2024. It answers questions on paperwork, procedures and submission locations, acting as an AI virtual assistant for public administration.
SK C&C — Four hours: that is how long SK C&C's new AI recruitment platform now needs to sift a stack of job applications that used to take a week. Co-built with SK Telecom, A.Biz HR applies an AI capability test (AICT) gauging each applicant's technical grasp, problem-solving and readiness for the job, and now runs across entry-level and junior hiring at the South Korean firm's AI hiring system. Since an internal trial went well, bosses will next bolt on AI talent search and recommendation tools, due later this year.
Hospital Authority — Six Hong Kong hospitals will pilot generative AI medical reports under a Hospital Authority scheme unveiled 20 February 2025: Princess Margaret, Caritas Medical Centre, United Christian, Tseung Kwan O, Queen Elizabeth and Tin Shui Wai. Chief Executive Tony Ko Pat-sing called it a self-built AI-assisted clinical documentation tool, aimed at letting clinicians pull up case files faster and generate first-draft write-ups automatically. Staff physicians must still confirm and sign off on every output before it becomes official.
Ping An Life Insurance — Ping An Life has rolled out AI insurance claims processing alongside a tailored DeepSeek-R1 model spanning three business functions: AskBob, a sales-support tool for agents; a training system for staff; and an automated engine for handling complex claims cases. Engineers built the customisation in just seven days, from raw data processing through to production release. More than 90% of agents judged the revamped AskBob better than its predecessor on completeness, accuracy and practicality, while the claims engine, now embedded in the core system, lifted accuracy on complicated cases by 31% versus the earlier version — an early signal of how automated claims review can scale inside a large insurer.
China-Pakistan Joint Laboratory for Agriculture — About 1,000 growers across Punjab and Islamabad have taken up Kisan 360, an AI-powered farming app from the China-Pakistan Joint Laboratory for Agriculture. Orbital imagery supplies moisture and nitrogen figures to users' phones, and a chatbot tuned on DeepSeek handles their questions, while drones fitted with visual-recognition tech spot pests and gauge plant stress. Both Apple and Android users can download the AI agriculture app.
Nepal Police — Fifteen Nepal Police officers trained in Pune, India, launching a fresh AI crime prediction push under the Crime Investigation Department. Bought from an Indian firm, the intelligence platform now drives pattern spotting, promotion-linked scoring, and live casework. This AI-driven crime pattern analysis remains mid-rollout.
Zong 4G — Zong 4G debuted Pakistan's first AI-generated television campaign, built for the ICC Champions Trophy. Machine-generated visuals and narrative replaced conventional production methods for the advert. The result signals wider adoption of AI-powered advertising content across Pakistan's telecom industry.
PICC Property and Casualty — PICC Property and Casualty leads Chinese insurers in adopting AI in claims processing, running DeepSeek's full-size model on home-grown hardware. DeepSeek now sits in the firm's model base, auto-checking claims quality, pulling facts from paperwork and sharpening staff training. Underwriting, claims and investment uses are still developing, pointing toward wider claims automation powered by AI.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital — PUMCH-Taichu, a rare disease AI diagnosis model jointly built by Peking Union Medical College Hospital and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Automation, entered clinical use in China. Drawing on years of accumulated rare disease knowledge and genomic data specific to the Chinese population, and combining DeepSeek-R1 reasoning capabilities, the system is the first large model designed for this group. It supports faster, more precise identification of rare conditions and also lets patients hold initial consultations through multi-turn dialogue, offering AI-assisted rare disease identification directly to the public.
China Construction Bank — China Construction Bank has built DeepSeek-R1 into its own systems, adapted since February 2025 using internal records. AI in banking spans half the workforce over 46 divisions and beyond 200 jobs: scoring risk, converting payments, writing summaries, checking code. Review time per client dropped from 30 minutes to five under this model effort.
Beijing Children's Hospital — Beijing Children's Hospital in China paired an AI paediatrician with 13 specialists to assess an eight-year-old boy. Baichuan Intelligence and Xiao'erfang Health Technology trained it on records from over 300 paediatric experts before a month-long internal trial preceded this AI in paediatrics rollout. Diagnostic accuracy beyond that trial remains unconfirmed.
Court Artificial Intelligence Research Society — Judges behind South Korea's Court Artificial Intelligence Research Society drafted "Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary", a five-chapter framework addressing AI use in the judiciary. Bias and hallucination risks for judges applying such tools sit alongside rules on adopting the technology and duties for litigants to flag artificial intelligence in judicial work whenever they file submissions.
JA Toyohashi (Toyohashi Agricultural Cooperative) — Aichi Prefecture's JA Toyohashi cooperative in Japan has scrapped pheromone traps for AI pest prediction in agriculture, running the TENRYO app built by Mirai Saien. Staff now flag outbreaks by blending weather data with farmer sightings instead of counting traps, cutting trap-based pest forecasting labour by about 90 per cent, down from over 40 hours monthly. No other JA cooperative nationwide has gone this far.
Chiang Mai University — Chiang Mai University in Thailand launched Matthew, a generative AI platform for higher education and an AI-powered academic research tool, built on GPT-4o and Amazon Web Services. Chatbots manage courses, generate and analyse images via DALL-E 3, and search literature through Semantic Scholar. A trial with 100+ lecturers and 4,000 students ran from September 2024 ahead of faculty rollout; students join in 2025's first semester.
Ministry of Science and Technology — Myanmar's Ministry of Science and Technology met in Nay Pyi Taw on 18 February for a fourth session on a National AI Strategy and National AI Policy spanning 2025–2030. Myo Thein Kyaw said the aim is weaving artificial intelligence into growth sectors while lifting public grasp of AI ethics and standards — shaping Myanmar AI policy grounded in the ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics. This national AI strategy for Myanmar awaits approval.
Supreme Court of Palau — The Supreme Court of Palau adopted a Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Courts, opening AI in the courts to lawyers, judges, court staff and self-represented litigants for legal research and writing, citing efficiency and access to justice. AI use carries accountability for accuracy and legality; an AI-generated error excuses no misleading or defective submission. Confidential communications and personal and health information are protected, and judicial decisions stay with judges.
Bank of Baroda — Bank of Baroda now runs three GenAI banking tools as part of its generative AI in banking rollout: Aditi, a Virtual Relationship Manager, manages conversational interactions via digital avatars; GyanSahay.AI gives employees an internal knowledge base; ADI fields customer queries as a chatbot. All three deliver 24/7, multilingual help, part of a wider GenAI-powered banking tools push for sharper service and staff output.
Cadbury Pakistan — Fans of pop star Abdul Hannan could remake his track 'Iraadey' into a Valentine's Day message under an AI-powered personalised song campaign from Mondelez Pakistan's Cadbury brand. A gift-box QR code unlocked the generator. The tie-up brought AI-driven audio personalisation to Pakistan's confectionery marketing.
Shikho — Bangladesh-based edtech company Shikho unveiled a beta AI tutoring assistant for Bangla-speaking students, running on generative models fine-tuned for Bangla-language processing to narrow academic gaps. This AI-powered doubt-solving platform for students serves paying subscribers first, ahead of rollout to teachers, parents and schools. A freemium option follows, designed for cheap smartphones and minimal data use.
Khon Kaen University — Khon Kaen University rolled out KKU IntelliSphere, a free multi-AI platform giving Thai staff and students access to nine large language models: OpenAI's GPT-4o, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, Meta's Llama and others. It is Thailand's first deployment of this scale. Access began January 2025, extending to everyone from 11 February 2025, with over 1,000 already registered — proof of demand for this multi-model AI access.
Eurasian Resources Group — Eurasian Resources Group is applying AI in mining at Kazchrome's Donskoy chrome ore plant in Khromtau, Kazakhstan, where cameras now catch belt overheating before it starts. This machine vision for predictive maintenance approach cut overheating downtime by 75 per cent and matched human operator inspections on 80 per cent of detected flaws, with ERG's own figure crediting the rollout with over US$300,000 in cost savings within three months.
SriLankan Airlines — Nearly 12,000 queries have hit Yaana, SriLankan Airlines' AI customer support airline chatbot — 88 percent settled without staff help. CodeGen International built it on GPT-4 and NLP, easing this generative-AI customer service load on agents.
Ministry of Digital / National AI Office (NAIO) with Google Cloud — Malaysia's Ministry of Digital extended AI in public sector access to 445,000 civil servants via AI at Work 2.0, built with NAIO and Google Cloud, placing Gemini inside Google Workspace. Sessions teach report writing, information review and lighter workloads through government AI adoption.
Supreme Court of NSW — A new NSW Supreme Court block on generative AI in legal evidence covers character references, affidavits and witness statements, binding lawyers, litigants and judges alike. Machine-written reasons and judgments are barred too. Submissions may still incorporate AI-drafted court documents, provided citations are checked independently.
Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO) — Under the Responsible AI Guidance for the Public Service: GenAI, New Zealand's Government Chief Digital Officer requires agencies deploying generative AI in government to set up governance boards spanning privacy, security, legal and Māori representation. Human oversight for high-stakes decisions, proportional risk assessments and Māori data sovereignty are compulsory. This replaces interim July 2023 guidance on AI in the public sector.
KDDI — KDDI's beta trials of an AI ad creative generation system, built with Recursive and Supership, cut digital marketing workload by 50% in Japan. A KPI prediction model trained on past campaign results flags likely winning banners, shaped to fit KDDI's brand guidelines and the 'au VISUAL IDENTITY' framework, as AI-generated banner ads.
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison — Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison's around 14 AI use cases lifted network prediction accuracy from 70-72% to 88%, saving approximately USD 25 million in six months. The Indonesian AI in telecom work, under the AI North Star strategy, covers churn reduction, network optimisation and customer experience. Indosat targets nearly 200 telecom AI use cases.
Department of Internal Affairs (Government Chief Digital Officer) — New Zealand now has a formal method for rolling out AI safely across government, set by Paul James under the Public Service AI Framework. It covers every kind of AI in public services, part of a wider effort tied to the National AI Strategy. Public sector AI governance gains a fixed reference point.
IAG — Roughly 500 CGU staff in Australia now rely on CASI, an AI claims assistant insurance tool from IAG, to locate policy clauses instantly rather than spending 20-30 minutes searching manually. IAG intends widening this generative AI in claims handling into additional divisions beyond CGU.
Faysal Bank — Faysal Bank's i-Faysal, an AI virtual assistant banking customers use round the clock, handles balances, transactions, bills, transfers and product advice. The lender calls it Pakistan's first such AI-powered customer service assistant, replacing duties once handled by staff.
77 Bank (Shichijushichi Bank) — 77 Bank (Shichijushichi Bank) runs AI mortgage screening from Mitsubishi Research Institute, clearing over 50 per cent of home loan applications instantly without staff review. The Japanese lender adopted automated home loan underwriting once the model reached stable accuracy, keeping 100% uptime since launch.
Sun Life Philippines — Sun Life Philippines now runs AI-powered underwriting in life insurance on ALLFINANZ SPARK, a SaaS platform built by Munich Re Automation Solutions. Predictive models instantly score fresh submissions and paper forms, shrinking turnaround while raising straight-through rates. Policyholders gain quicker, automated underwriting decisions plus smoother onboarding.
South Australia Medical Imaging (SAMI) — South Australia Medical Imaging (SAMI) has become Australia's first public radiology provider offering AI radiology diagnosis support across an entire state network, adopting Annalise.ai's chest X-ray tool at ten hospitals. Among SAMI's 1,200-member workforce, this AI diagnostic support flags suspicious regions on scans and proposes likely diagnoses, though clinicians still confirm every outcome.
Government of Cyprus — Cyprus AI Act regulation now runs through three bodies the Council of Ministers named to meet EU requirements. The Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy is national coordinator on the European AI Board. The Commissioner of Electronic Communications holds the Notifying Authority, Market Surveillance Authority and Single Point of Contact roles; the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection is Market Surveillance Authority for high-risk AI systems, completing this AI Act implementation authorities structure.
Council of Ministers — A new panel now drives Cyprus AI policy: the National AI Taskforce, cleared by Cyprus's Council of Ministers on 22 January 2025 under the Chief Scientist for Research, Innovation and Technology. Members chosen for AI expertise hold five-year posts, guiding national AI strategy, public adoption and innovation.
Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic — Resolution No. 29 gives Kyrgyzstan a National Council on AI Development, an advisory body under the Cabinet of Ministers steering national AI strategy and linking ministries on implementation. Officials want this artificial intelligence development council to open the door for AI tools across priority economic sectors, keep projects running smoothly, and grow scientific and educational skills in the field. It came into force on 31 January 2025.
Korea Western Power — Korea Western Power trained WP-GPT on 1,432 internal documents and roughly 35,000 Q&A records, becoming the first of South Korea's state-run power generators using generative AI for power plant maintenance. WP-GPT covers maintenance, procurement, construction and safety queries, running on a fully internet-isolated network to stop data leaks. By year-end, the plant maintenance chatbot is due to draft procurement specifications and equipment management reports too.
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner — Feeding personal information into publicly accessible generative AI tools now draws a caution from the OAIC, whose updated AI privacy guidance covers commercial AI products broadly. Before adopting any such system, organisations are urged to run due diligence checks first. This sits within Australia's expanding AI regulation regime.
Ministry of Health Brunei Darussalam — BruHealth 5.0's new Smarter Health Index lets Brunei's Ministry of Health apply AI in healthcare to diet, sleep and stress data from 16 January 2025, generating tailored wellbeing steps. Built by EVYD Technology, it adds cervical cancer to existing breast, colorectal and cardiovascular disease screening. AI-generated health guidance now anchors the country's public health platform.
Belau National Hospital — VeriSee DR, AI software screening for diabetic retinopathy, now runs at Palau's Belau National Hospital via a joint venture with Taiwan's Shin Kong Hospital. Their Taiwan-Palau Smart Hospital Project adds remote pathology review and secure cross-border imaging transfer. Pacific hospitals increasingly use AI-assisted diabetic eye screening where specialist access is scarce.
Beijing High People's Court — Judges' contact requests, case-status enquiries and litigation consultations totalled 91,293 across two months on Beijing High People's Court's new "数智北法" (Digital Intelligence Beijing Law) platform, launched to test AI in judicial administration through 12 approved scenarios. The 12368 litigation service AI robot fielded 45,249 judge-contact queries and 34,265 case checks, while 11,779 people sought legal guidance through the same channel. Separate tools built into the rollout provide automated oversight of trials and back court rulings with algorithmic recommendations for court rulings.
Ramsay Health Care — Speech-to-text software now drafts clinical notes at St Andrew's Ipswich Private Hospital in Queensland, under a Ramsay Health Care trial of AI clinical documentation branded Ramsay Scribe. Built with T-Pro, it targets less paperwork, faster records — the firm's first deployment of this AI-powered medical notetaking tool.
Chemist Warehouse — At Chemist Warehouse, staff can now get HR answers drafted automatically through AIHRA (AI HR Advisory), a shared-inbox agent handling roughly 300 weekly email queries sent by 30,000 employees and store owners across Australia — an early rollout of AI HR email management. Human advisors still check each draft before anything is sent out. Insurgence AI, a Microsoft partner, built the tool on Azure AI Foundry combined with Power Platform, and Chemist Warehouse reckons it now saves about 1,950 hours yearly, turning it into a blueprint other departments are copying for AI-assisted HR query handling.
AI4EDU project (University of Cyprus and Cyprus Pedagogical Institute) — AI4EDU, a joint project of the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, put AI classroom tools for secondary education through four classroom trials, dividing 160 teenagers evenly between test and comparison groups of 80 apiece. Physics, Chemistry and English Literature lessons hosted the conversational assistants TeacherMate and Study Buddy, with the latter also backing homework completion and exam readiness beyond ordinary lesson hours, functioning as AI tutoring assistants in schools. The work ran January to May 2025.
TBC Uzbekistan — AI voice agents now field over 50% of TBC Uzbekistan's payment reminder calls, the latest step in the Central Asian digital lender's AI banking automation push across Central Asia. Since January, a bilingual LLM built for product sales has driven Uzbek and Russian speech recognition and synthesis, with capacity flexing automatically alongside call centre demand. Staff at TBC describe these AI voice agents in banking as up to ten times stronger than human sales reps in certain instances, a claim from the firm itself rather than an outside audit.
Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam (Bộ Chính trị) — Vietnam's Politburo formed a 19-member Central Steering Committee for the Development of Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation, chaired by Party General Secretary To Lam, reflecting a shift in Vietnam AI policy. Debuting 13 January 2025, it drives breakthrough science, technology and digital transformation measures, naming AI research and development a priority. It also oversees Resolution 57-NQ/TW, fixing AI as a strategic technology under the country's wider AI development and digital transformation strategy.
Royal Malaysia Customs Department (JKDM) — Malaysia's Royal Malaysia Customs Department (JKDM) runs 40 AI baggage scanners at entry points, part of its drive on AI in customs enforcement. Director-General Datuk Anis Rizana Mohd Zainudin said units read items within 20 to 30 seconds at high precision, tightening border checks with body-worn cameras (BWC).
Chulalongkorn University — Gemini 1.5 Flash and Pro reach the whole Chulalongkorn University community through ChulaGENIE, a generative AI platform for universities hosted on Google Cloud's Vertex AI, with Anthropic's Claude and Meta's Llama models slated to arrive later. Staff gained entry first, in January 2025, then students in March. Chulalongkorn pairs this with Google AI Essentials courses, building AI literacy in higher education campus-wide.
Academy of Civil Service under the President of Turkmenistan — A four-day course paired the Academy of Civil Service under the President of Turkmenistan with UNDP in Ashgabat, briefing officials on AI in government administration. Lessons cast artificial intelligence as fuel for digitalisation, touching its presence in official platforms and its lift to civic growth. Viktor Dostov of RUDN University steered the block on AI in the public sector, walking staff through fresh digital tools.
Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants (KICPA) — South Korea's Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants (KICPA) unveiled ChatCPA, a beta member tool delivering AI accounting and tax help via a large language model. Cited answers pull from Korean International Financial Reporting Standards (K-IFRS), prior inquiry records, plus relevant tax rulings and precedents. Members gain an AI-assisted tax research helper with built-in source traceability.
DBS Bank says its AI value in banking reached about S$1 billion in 2025 from more than 2,000 AI models across 430-plus use cases, up from over S$750 million across 370-plus in 2024. The figure, from the annual report's chairman and CEO letter, is DBS's internal estimate of costs saved and revenue gained, unaudited, and harder to isolate as AI embeds in daily workflows.
A co-designed generative AI teaching assistant at a Singapore vocational institution improved teaching processes but produced no significant gain in student assessment outcomes, an evaluation found. High-ability students used it to verify work strategically, while low-ability students often used it to skip cognitive effort, potentially widening gaps.
National Privacy Commission — Advisory No. 2024-04 from the National Privacy Commission applies the Data Privacy Act of 2012 to AI systems processing personal data, requiring transparency, accountability and fairness from controllers. Automated decisions must carry privacy impact assessments plus a human intervention mechanism. The rules also ban AI washing, barring firms from overstating their AI-driven automated decision-making capabilities.
Personal Information Protection Commission — South Korea's PIPC has issued a voluntary, CPO-centred 'AI Privacy Risk Management Model' covering AI systems that touch personal data, spanning design, data gathering, build, rollout, use and shutdown. Organisational and technical safeguards plus ongoing oversight apply throughout. This AI Privacy Risk approach backs wider personal information protection in AI systems, though adoption stays optional.
Securities and Futures Commission — Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) now holds licensed corporations to conduct standards for generative AI language models used in regulated activities. Senior leadership must answer for outcomes, oversee model risk, and guard against cyber and data threats. Scope covers any firm offering AI-driven services tied to regulated business, effective immediately.
Ministry of Homeland Security and Technology — Maldives cabinet has adopted an AI governance framework Maldives officials call the National AI Masterplan 2025-2035, tasking the National Centre for Information Technology with steering a decade of artificial intelligence policy. The plan, under the Ministry of Homeland Security and Technology, pushes for a standalone oversight body, a multistakeholder advisory council, public AI education drives, and digitised Dhivehi-language datasets. Muizzu's government frames this as capturing AI's economic upside while containing its risks, part of a broader national AI strategy.
Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau — Hong Kong's Government set out an open, prudent stance on AI in financial market activity through its Policy Statement on Responsible Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Market. Financial institutions must balance innovation against risk management, adopting a risk-based AI governance strategy for financial institutions.
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan's Presidential Resolution PQ-358, signed 14 October 2024, sets a Uzbekistan AI strategy targeting $1.5 billion in AI-based software products and services by 2030. It also targets a 10% share for AI-based services on the e-government portal, 10 new AI research laboratories, and a top-50 ranking on the Government AI Readiness Index. This Uzbekistan AI policy created the Center for Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy under the Ministry of Digital Technologies, with an action plan for 2024-2026.
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) — Malaysia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) issued AIGE, the National Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Governance and Ethics, a non-binding Malaysia AI governance blueprint for safe, fair and accountable AI use nationwide. Seven pillars underpin it — human benefit, accountability, transparency, inclusivity, privacy and data security, reliability, safety and control, plus fairness — named in the guidelines themselves. It sits inside the National AI Roadmap 2021-2025 and is built for revision over time, tracking wider shifts in AI ethics and governance.
Cabinet of Sri Lanka (Ministry of Technology) — The Cabinet approved the National AI Strategy (AI Sri Lanka 2028), a five-year Sri Lanka AI policy aimed at a regional AI hub and economic resilience by 2030, with Rs 1 billion of the 2024 budget for initial work. Target sectors are public safety, public sector services, agriculture, finance, education and healthcare. Seven principles, among them inclusivity, transparency and human-centricity, guide this national AI plan, drafted by the Committee on Formulating a Strategy for AI (CFSAI) with UNDP support.
Hong Kong Monetary Authority — Hong Kong Monetary Authority guiding principles now cover generative AI in banking, setting GenAI consumer protection safeguards for authorised institutions in customer-facing tools. The principles build on the 2019 BDAI framework, requiring embedded safeguards before deployment. This extends existing Hong Kong Artificial Intelligence Use oversight rather than a separate regime.
Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan — The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan has launched a Kazakhstan AI policy under Resolution No. 592, setting a five-year national AI strategy through 2029 across data, infrastructure, talent, R&D and legal rules. Targets include training five million people in AI skills, building five domestic unicorns, raising IT exports to $5 billion, and deploying at least 25 AI products yearly across economic sectors. The plan is formally titled the Concept for the Development of Artificial Intelligence.
Hong Kong Judiciary — Hong Kong's Judiciary introduced its first policy on generative AI in courts, covering judges and support staff. It sets broad principles for AI use by judicial officers in judicial and administrative work, framed around guidance from other jurisdictions and the government's Ethical AI Framework.
Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry — Kazakhstan now has a National Ethical Code in the Field of Artificial Intelligence, issued by the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, setting out AI ethics in Kazakhstan across six areas: putting people first; safety and reliability; being transparent and explainable; accountability; avoiding unfair bias; and protecting the environment. Signing is optional for state bodies, businesses and researchers, though it may improve odds in government contract bids. This Kazakhstan AI regulation leans on incentives rather than legal duty to encourage buy-in.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data — Hong Kong's Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data published the Artificial Intelligence: Model Personal Data Protection Framework on 11 June 2024, giving organisations recommendations for AI data protection compliance under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. It sets out four areas: AI strategy and governance, risk assessment with human oversight, system customisation and management, and stakeholder communication. The guidance targets procurement, implementation and use of AI systems while safeguarding personal data protection in AI systems.
Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry (AITI) — Brunei AI governance policy runs through a 25-member panel at AITI, pooling representatives from government, industry and academia. That team wrote the Guide on AI Governance and Ethics for Brunei Darussalam, ran the public consultation and issued two editions. It endures as the nation's lead voice on AI ethics and governance rules.
Department of Health, Medical Device Division — Hong Kong regulators set new evaluation rules for artificial intelligence tools used in diagnostic and treatment equipment under Technical Reference TR-008, effective from 3 January 2024. The Department of Health's Medical Device Division published the standard, which spells out listing criteria for AI medical devices within the Medical Device Administrative Control System. Machine learning-based products now face defined technical benchmarks for approval, marking a shift toward structured oversight of AI in healthcare technology.
Singapore's SkillsFuture AI skills training nearly tripled. Participants in AI, cybersecurity and digital marketing courses rose from 34,000 in 2023 to 96,000 in 2024.
India's Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched the Skill India Assistant on 21 July 2025, a multilingual AI skilling chatbot on WhatsApp built on Meta's open-source Llama model. MSDE calls it the first large-scale open-source AI deployment in a national public skilling mission. By February 2026 its Skill India Digital Hub, run with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), counted 1.5 crore (about 15 million) candidates, 7,000 training providers and 68,000 employer and industry partners.
Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo), now Ministry of Communication and Digital (Komdigi) — The Minister of Communication and Informatics issued Ministerial Circular Number 9 of 2023 on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the operative instrument for Indonesia AI regulation. Public and private business actors and electronic system providers must draft and apply in-house AI ethics policies built on inclusivity, humanity and security. As soft law, this AI governance tool carries no sanctions.
Financial Services Authority (OJK) — OJK, Indonesia's financial regulator, released the Guidelines for Responsible and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Ethics in the Financial Technology Industry with four fintech associations. Four pillars underpin AI in fintech oversight: beneficial, fair, accountable, transparent, explicable, robust, secure. The non-binding code covers digital lending, payments and insurtech, signalling artificial intelligence oversight in financial technology rather than binding rules.
Financial Supervisory Commission — Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission has issued a policy framework for AI regulation in the financial industry, resting on six pillars: accountability, fairness, privacy, system security, transparency and sustainability. It guides how banks and insurers apply artificial intelligence in banking and insurance.
Executive Yuan — A 10-point framework now governs generative AI use by government agencies across Taiwan: the Executive Yuan cleared its Reference Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI by the Executive Yuan and Its Subordinate Agencies, binding from 3 October 2023. Human review must confirm every AI-assisted output before release, and staff are forbidden from feeding classified records, personal data or confidential business information into these tools. This public sector generative AI guidance places responsible conduct at the centre of agency practice.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner — New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner ties AI regulation in government agencies to the Privacy Act 2020's 13 Information Privacy Principles, covering a system's full life. Leaders sign off, assess privacy impact pre-launch, and keep someone accountable for outcomes. Vendor contracts must bar reuse of uploaded data for training, with Māori consulted on data sovereignty — AI governance for public sector agencies as an ongoing duty, not one step.
Bangladesh Bank — Bangladesh Bank's Guidelines to Establish Digital Bank mandate round-the-clock AI-powered complaint handling in digital banking, under Section 9.3. Every licensed digital bank must run a system driven by artificial intelligence that will automatically settle transaction disputes, with no downtime allowed.
Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives — A 15-strong panel, the National Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, operates in Pakistan under Ahsan Iqbal to fast-track AI adoption in Pakistan across commerce, administration, schooling, medicine and growth targets. Charting a 10-year plan for these aims is its mandate. Ranks pair specialists with state and firm appointees, backing AI adoption in government.
Government of the Republic of Tajikistan — The Government set Tajikistan AI policy through Government Resolution No. 483, the Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in the Republic of Tajikistan for the period up to 2040, targeting 5% of GDP from AI-related economic activity by 2040. The national AI plan prioritises ethical AI, model deployment, data enhancement and talent development. Resolution No. 83 amended it on 31 January 2025.
Prime Minister's Cabinet Office / Ministry of Digital Economy and Society — Thailand's cabinet cleared a five-pillar national AI blueprint for 2022 to 2027: regulatory readiness, infrastructure, AI education, AI technology innovation, and sector adoption. This Thailand AI policy, under the Thailand National AI Strategy and Action Plan, targets an ecosystem lifting the economy and quality of life within five years, part of AI regulation in Thailand.
Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) — The Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) issued the Digital Thailand AI Ethics Guideline, a non-binding national framework advising regulators, developers, providers and users on keeping AI systems consistent with national strategy objectives, law and human rights. This ethical AI guidance rests on six core principles: reliability; security and privacy; transparency and accountability; competitiveness and sustainable development; equality, diversity, inclusiveness and fairness; and compliance with law, ethics and international standards.
National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) — Thailand's National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) runs a Thailand AI policy built on a non-binding standard, the NSTDA AI Ethics Guideline, steering research, development and deployment nationwide. Grant recipients, contractors, and public bodies conducting research must weave governance, privacy, transparency, fairness and safety through every stage of the AI lifecycle. The guideline also brings NSTDA's own research network into step with global AI governance norms.
India's supreme audit institution found skilling scheme placements for just 2.318 million, or 41%, of the 5.614 million candidates certified under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana's short-term training. The ministry itself blamed the weak job placement on roles picked without skill-gap analysis or market-demand assessment.
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) — Under national AI policy, Malaysia's MOSTI rolled out the National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025 (AI-Rmap), a five-year blueprint for a lasting domestic AI innovation base. Thrusts span governance, R&D, infrastructure, skills and uptake, with 11 flagship applications across five fields: farming and forestry, health, smart urban mobility, learning, and government services. Seven values anchor trustworthy AI deployment: fairness, dependability, privacy, inclusion, openness, accountability and benefit to people.
Digital Policy Office — The Digital Policy Office's Ethical AI Framework, anchoring Hong Kong AI policy, steers government bureaux and departments to design and deploy ethical AI and big data analytics IT projects. Revised August 2023 and December 2025 for generative AI, this ethical AI guidance bundles guiding principles, leading practices and an AI assessment template.
Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), now part of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) — BPPT built Stranas KA (Strategi Nasional Kecerdasan Artifisial), Indonesia's 2020-to-2045 blueprint fixing Indonesia AI policy on artificial intelligence. Priority falls on five fields: medicine, government reform, schooling with research, food supply, plus transport and smart cities. Ministries, regional offices, universities and firms answer to one artificial intelligence governance roadmap spanning that quarter-century.
Information and Communication Technology Division (ICT Division) — Six pillars anchor Bangladesh AI policy: agriculture, health, education, manufacturing and public service delivery, defined by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division through the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. Execution spans a five-year national AI strategy timeline to 2024, with a proposed task force and steering committee reporting to the Division.
Council of Ministers — Cyprus's Council of Ministers adopted the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy of Cyprus, drafted by the Department of Electronic Communications and an AI panel. Four pillars anchor it: partnership investment, data spaces, lifelong learning, and trustworthy AI, forming the basis of Cyprus AI policy.
Ministry of Science and ICT — MSIT built South Korea's national AI policy on 100 tasks across 9 strategies spanning AI ecosystem, AI utilisation, and people-centred AI. Cabinet adopted this as the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, slogan 'Toward AI World Leader beyond IT', targeting competitiveness and living standards by 2030 — marking AI adoption in South Korea as a cross-ministry drive.
Ministry of Science and Technology (now NSTC) — Eight ethical principles anchor Taiwan AI technology regulation under the AI Technology R&D Guidelines from the Ministry of Science and Technology, built on three core values: human-centred development, sustainability, and diversity and inclusion. Fairness, autonomy, safety, privacy, transparency, explainability, accountability and the common good together form the basis of the country's AI research and development governance.
NITI Aayog — NITI Aayog released the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (#AIforAll), setting India AI policy under the Finance Minister's mandate. Priority areas span healthcare through agriculture, education, smart cities and infrastructure, plus smart mobility and transportation, followed by a two-tiered research structure — Centres of Research Excellence alongside International Centres of Transformational AI — as its artificial intelligence adoption framework.
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