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Cross-border data rules complicate AI rollout in APAC as localization pressures mount

By Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj ( July 14, 2025, 06:39 GMT | Insight) -- Companies developing generative AI in Asia Pacific are grappling with increasingly complex data-transfer rules that threaten to fragment infrastructure and delay innovation. Industry voices warn that divergent regulatory approaches — particularly data localization mandates and opaque transfer assessment regimes — are constraining cross-border data flows critical to scaling large AI models and deploying them regionally.Companies developing generative AI in Asia Pacific are grappling with increasingly complex data-transfer rules that threaten to fragment infrastructure and delay innovation, industry experts said at a conference* in Singapore last week....

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