2025 highlights: October

Technology highlights for October 2025 included:

- Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered an outage that affected services globally, including for Asana, Slack, and Zoom. 

Darren Guccione, CEO And Co-Founder, Keeper Security commented: "While major Internet outages often raise immediate concerns of a cyberattack, current reports indicate the significant AWS disruption was caused by an internal infrastructure fault, rather than malicious activity. It’s an important distinction, as not every system’s failure is the result of a cybersecurity breach, and conflating the two can blur understanding of where the real risks lie. 

"Modern IT ecosystems are complex, interconnected and highly dependent on a handful of critical cloud providers. When an incident of this scale occurs, whether through technical failure or misconfiguration, the impact on global operations can be just as severe as a coordinated cyberattack.

"For enterprise organisations, this underscores the need for resilience that goes beyond threat prevention. Business continuity plans should account for both cyber and non-cyber disruptions, ensuring that privileged access, authentication and backup systems remain secure and functional, even when core infrastructure is affected.

Zero-Trust frameworks and privileged access management (PAM) solutions are designed to protect against malicious actors, however, they can also play a critical role in maintaining visibility and control during system outages, while improving a customer's resilience and incident response capabilities. True resilience isn’t just about preventing attacks; it’s about ensuring stability when failures occur."

- Anthropic opens a Tokyo office, its first in the Asia-Pacific region.

- The Asia Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Asia-ISAC) was launched at Cyber Security World Asia. This is the first and only cross-industry non-profit member-focused information sharing and analysis centre for Asia, built to help organisations unlock business innovation with safe and secure AI adoption, and reduce the cost and impact of cyberattacks through trusted collaboration. 

Ericsson said it will manufacture all telecom equipment meant for India within the country.

- FUJIFILM Business Innovation Philippines celebrated its 60th anniversary. 

- Google announced its 1st AI hub in India as part of a US$15 B investment spent over five years, from 2026 to 2030. This is Google's largest investment in India to date.

- LG launched One LG as the partner of choice for data centre operators seeking efficiency, scalability and sustainability. The approach combines LG Electronics’ cooling technologies, LG CNS’s expertise in data centre design, construction and operations, and LG Energy Solution’s battery systems into a single offering for high-performance data processing facilities.

- Microsoft's Copilot updates are more human-centred and include a US-only version of the Clippy assistant, named Mico.  

- NVIDIA Blackwell, the company's architecture for AI and high-performance computing, led the new SemiAnalysis InferenceMAX v1 benchmarks, delivering the highest performance and best overall efficiency. InferenceMax v1 is the first independent benchmark to measure total cost of compute across a range of models and real-world scenarios.

The company also announced a slew of partnerships with the South Korean government as well as chaebols to advance the national ambition to become a global AI hub. 

- Qualcomm Technologies announced it will acquire Arduino, an open-source hardware and software company. Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple semiconductor providers.  

Qualcomm also launched the AI200 and AI250 chip-based accelerator cards and racks for optimised AI inferencing in data centres. 

- Singapore and Australia upgraded the Singapore-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP 2.0). Initiatives to be implemented over the next 10 years included memoranda of understanding (MoUs) EnterpriseSG and the states of New South Wales and Victoria that include innovation ecosystem access. The MoU with New South Wales includes fintech, medtech, cleantech, transport and mobility technology as well as sustainability innovations. The MoU with Victoria includes offshore wind, energy storage, renewable hydrogen, bio energy, medtech, and digital health. 

Key provisions detailed in the Singapore Cybersecurity (Amendment) Act, passed in Parliament in May 2024, commenced at the end of October 2025. The amendments include the updating of existing regulations related to critical information infrastructure (CII), and the expansion of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA)’s oversight to cover new classes of regulated entities, such as systems of temporary cybersecurity concern (STCCs).

Singapore also shared new standards to strengthen the interoperability of digital solutions for public healthcare.

- SoftBank Group said it would acquire ABB's robotics business for approximately US$5.4 B. ABB is a global technology provider in electrification and automation. 

The Tech Week Shanghai booth at Tech Week Singapore 2025.

- The organisers of Tech Week Singapore, CloserStill Media, announced Tech Week Shanghai. Running from 6-8 May 2026 at the Shanghai New International Expo Center, Tech Week Shanghai will feature Data Centre World, Big Data & AI World, and Cloud & AI Infrastructure 2026.

Tech Week Singapore 2025 hosted over 29,000 attendees and 550+ technology and solutions providers. Ninety-five percent said they would attend again. Tech Week Singapore 2026 will take place 29-30 September, 2026 at the Sands Expo Center, featuring Data Centre World Asia, Big Data & AI World Asia, Cloud & AI Infrastructure Asia, DevOps Live!, and Cyber Security World Asia. The eCommerce Expo | DMEXCO Asia event will return 7-8 April 2027.

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