Southeast Asia’s US$1T digital dream slips five years, and AI is the new reason to keep believing

Every October, Google, Temasek and Bain & Company gather Southeast Asia’s tech crowd around one seductive number. This year it is US$368 billion, the gross merchandise value (GMV) the region’s digital economy is projected to reach in 2026, up 17 per cent year-on-year. The longer-range promise is more than US$1 trillion by 2035. Long-time readers

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