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Arvind Krishna Rebuilt IBM Around Software. Now He Has to Make the AI Stack Outrun the Mainframe Cycle
Arvind Krishna made IBM smaller, more software-led and more profitable. A second-quarter shortfall now tests whether Confluent, Red Hat and watsonx can produce growth independent of the mainframe cycle.
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Lucy Guo Built Passes Around Creator Ownership. Trust Must Become the Subscription Advantage
A FigureAsia examination of how Lucy Guo is turning Passes' attempt to scale a direct-to-fan subscription platform while Guo's retained Scale AI stake gives her unusual financial independence as an operator into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
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Nikesh Arora Made Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity’s Consolidator. Now He Has to Make the Stack Work as One
Nikesh Arora turned Palo Alto Networks into cybersecurity’s leading consolidator. CyberArk and Chronosphere now make integration—not another acquisition—the defining test of his platform strategy.
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Scott Wu Joined Devin With Windsurf. The Combined Product Must Earn a US$26 Billion Valuation
A FigureAsia examination of how Scott Wu is turning Cognition's integration of the Windsurf editor into Devin's agentic workflow and its 2026 expansion into London, Japan and Singapore into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
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Sualeh Asif Took Cursor Beyond Autocomplete. The Product Must Preserve Developer Judgement
A FigureAsia examination of how Sualeh Asif is turning Cursor's expansion from assisted editing into agents that can plan, change and review work across a codebase into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
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Aravind Srinivas Turned Search Into a Computer. Perplexity Must Now Make the Economics Legible
A FigureAsia examination of how Aravind Srinivas is turning Perplexity's 2026 shift from an answer engine towards Perplexity Computer, an agentic system that executes research and work rather than merely returning links into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
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Alexandr Wang Put Evaluation at the Centre of Meta's AI Reset. Governance Must Keep Pace
A FigureAsia examination of how Alexandr Wang is turning Meta's effort to turn the data, evaluation and operational disciplines associated with Scale AI into a repeatable development system for its new generation of models into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
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Surya Midha Moved From Mercor's Operations Desk to Its Chair. Governance Must Catch Up With Growth
A FigureAsia examination of how Surya Midha is turning Midha's transition from operating leadership to chairman as Mercor scales a global marketplace for experts who train and evaluate AI systems into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
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Adarsh Hiremath Built Mercor's Human-Data Engine. Security and Worker Quality Are Now the Product
A FigureAsia examination of how Adarsh Hiremath is turning Mercor's move from automated recruiting into high-skill human-data infrastructure for frontier AI laboratories into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
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Sanjay Mehrotra Turned Micron’s Memory Shortage Into Long-Term Contracts. Now He Has to Stop the Boom From Rebuilding the Glut
Sanjay Mehrotra has used AI-driven scarcity to secure five-year customer commitments and record margins at Micron. The harder task is expanding supply without financing the next memory glut.
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Huda Kattan Bought Back Huda Beauty. Founder Control Must Now Fund Its Own Growth
Huda Kattan has placed social-led product discovery, colour cosmetics, direct consumer relationships and selective distribution through retailers such as Sephora at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.
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Choi Soo-yeon Made AI Pay Across Naver's Core. Global C2C Must Justify the Expansion
Choi Soo-yeon has placed search and display advertising, commerce, payments, cloud, web content and consumer-to-consumer marketplaces at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.
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Lisa Su Pushed AMD's Server Ambition Beyond GPUs. Memory Costs Could Split the Portfolio
Lisa Su has placed EPYC server CPUs, Instinct accelerators, adaptive computing, semi-custom chips and a common software and customer ecosystem at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.
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Jenny Lee Turned Granite Asia Into a Multi-Asset Platform. Penang Will Test Its Industrial Thesis
Jenny Lee has placed cross-border sourcing, operational networks, flexible capital and long relationships with Asian technology founders at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.
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Demis Hassabis Moved DeepMind Deeper Into the Laboratory. Scientific AI Needs a Verification Business Model
Demis Hassabis is building a wider scientific-AI stack around AlphaGenome and Co-Scientist. The opportunity is large, but laboratories need reproducible gains rather than fluent novelty.
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Melanie Perkins Put AI Inside Canva's Full Work Suite. Product Breadth Must Convert Into Enterprise Depth
Melanie Perkins has placed freemium distribution, collaborative design, subscriptions, brand-management tools and AI features embedded across documents, presentations, video and marketing workflows at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.
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Josephine Teo Built Singapore's Agentic-AI Rulebook. Adoption Must Reach Smaller Firms
Josephine Teo has placed digital public infrastructure, model governance, skills programmes, cloud capacity and a policy regime designed to attract international technology investment at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.
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Anima Anandkumar Put Neural Operators on Firmer Ground. Scientific AI Must Earn Its Compute
Anima Anandkumar’s neural-operator research targets reusable scientific models rather than one-off predictions. Adoption will depend on verification, compute economics and domain trust.
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Jyoti Bansal Is Putting Autonomous Agents Into Software Delivery. Harness Must Make Every Change Governable
AI can generate code faster than enterprises can validate and ship it. Jyoti Bansal is positioning Harness as the control layer around that bottleneck, where permissions, evidence, cost and rollback matter more than another coding assistant.
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Min-Liang Tan Is Spending More Than $600 Million on AI for Gaming. Developers Must Become Razer Customers
Razer’s distribution comes from gamers, not enterprise software buyers. Min-Liang Tan’s AI strategy will work if studios adopt its tools because they improve quality and testing, rather than because generative features add another slogan to devices.
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Lip-Bu Tan Has Put Intel Back on an Engineering Clock. The Foundry Still Has to Find Customers
Lip-Bu Tan has restored discipline and delivered Intel 18A into production. The company’s future now turns on whether 14A can win the external volume that its fabs—and its identity—require.
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Neal Mohan Turned YouTube Into a $60 Billion Media System. Now He Has to Keep AI From Breaking Its Trust
Neal Mohan transformed YouTube from a video platform into a diversified global media economy. Artificial intelligence will determine whether its scale remains an advantage or becomes a crisis of trust.
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Tan Su Shan Inherited DBS at Its Peak. Now She Has to Prove the Franchise Is Bigger Than the Rate Cycle
Tan Su Shan did not inherit a bank in need of rescue. She inherited one at its peak—and must now show that deposits, wealth, technology and regional connectivity can outlast the rate windfall.
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Jayshree Ullal Made Ethernet the AI Network. Two Customers Still Hold 42% of Arista's Revenue
Jayshree Ullal has positioned Arista at the centre of the AI data-centre build-out and preserved exceptional profitability. Customer concentration, proprietary interconnects and a fast-changing optics stack are the pressure points behind the numbers.
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Jayshree Ullal Made Ethernet the Language of the Cloud. Now She Has to Make It the Fabric of AI
Jayshree Ullal turned Arista into the cloud era’s most disciplined networking challenger. AI now requires a broader systems company without the complexity Arista was built to defeat.
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For Demis Hassabis, Gemini’s Leap Into Action Makes Scientific Proof the Hard Part
Demis Hassabis has turned Google DeepMind into the research engine behind products used at vast scale. Its next challenge is to preserve scientific credibility while delivering on Alphabet’s historic AI investment.
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SK hynix Found Its AI Moment Under Kwak Noh-Jung
A FigureAsia examination of how Kwak Noh-Jung is positioning SK hynix for the next phase of semiconductors.
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Wang Weixiu Caught the Optical Wave Behind AI’s Data Centers
FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Weixiu’s next chapter at Zhongji Innolight.
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Daphne Koller’s $800 Million AI Bet Is Reaching Its First Human Trial Test
Daphne Koller has financed insitro with roughly $800 million in capital and collaboration revenue. Its first AI-discovered MASH programme is nearing the point where patients, not models, set the valuation.
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Barry Lam Turned Contract Manufacturing Into an AI Server Strategy
FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Barry Lam’s next chapter at Quanta Computer.
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TCS’s K. Krithivasan Has to Sell Trust in the Age of Generative AI
A FigureAsia examination of how K. Krithivasan is positioning TCS for the next phase of technology.
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Check Point Is Getting a Founder’s Urgency Back
A FigureAsia examination of how Nadav Zafrir is positioning Check Point for the next phase of cybersecurity.
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Amnon Shashua Is Recasting Mobileye for Physical AI. He Must Protect the Core While Funding the Leap
Mobileye’s automotive business is regaining momentum, but Amnon Shashua is extending its technology into physical AI. The strategic leap needs firmer financial proof.
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Abraham Verghese Put Human Presence at the Centre of Medicine. AI Must Now Prove It Can Give Time Back
Abraham Verghese has spent years treating presence at the bedside as a clinical capability. As health systems scale generative AI in 2026, his framework offers a harder investment test: whether technology returns attention to patients without adding hidden error and inequity.
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TSMC Became the Factory the AI Economy Cannot Do Without Under C.C. Wei
A FigureAsia examination of how C.C. Wei is positioning TSMC for the next phase of semiconductors.
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Ali Ghodsi Has the Capital to Rebuild the Data Stack. Now Databricks Must Compound
Ali Ghodsi has built Databricks into a $5.4 billion revenue run-rate company. Its next phase depends on turning a widening product estate into one compounding platform.
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Aravind Srinivas Is Turning Perplexity Into a Product Portfolio. Focus Is the Next Breakthrough
Aravind Srinivas has expanded Perplexity far beyond search. The next leadership test is turning product velocity into a focused, repeatable business system.
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Rumman Chowdhury Is Commercialising Independent AI Evaluation. The Business Must Protect Its Right to Say No
Rumman Chowdhury helped make public red teaming a core AI-governance practice. Her new challenge is to build a scalable evaluation business whose findings remain credible when commercial relationships and launch schedules create pressure.
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Alexandr Wang Delivered Meta's First Superintelligence Model. A $145 Billion Build-Out Demands Returns
Alexandr Wang's first model at Meta is already spreading across its apps and glasses. Its commercial value must now catch up with a vast infrastructure budget and a high-priced talent reset.
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Andrew Ng Is Building AI Companies Faster Than Frontier Models. The Returns Must Catch Up
Andrew Ng has assembled an ecosystem that teaches AI, tests applications and co-founds companies in months. Its advantage is speed and distribution; its next test is producing businesses with defensible margins after models become cheaper and easier to use.
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Tan Teck Long Inherited a Record OCBC Franchise. His Next Frontier Must Outrun Falling Rates
Tan Teck Long took charge of OCBC in January 2026 with record income, strong capital and a diversified franchise. His first strategic test is to replace rate-driven earnings with fee growth and deeper regional customer relationships.
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Noubar Afeyan Is Exporting Flagship’s Venture Factory to Sovereign Health Systems
Flagship Pioneering is extending its venture-creation model through Saudi, Singaporean and British institutions. Noubar Afeyan must convert privileged data and regulatory access into investable companies without compromising privacy, ownership or speed.
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Sridhar Ramaswamy Committed $6 Billion to AWS. Snowflake’s Multi-Cloud Promise Must Still Hold
Snowflake is growing quickly under Sridhar Ramaswamy and has made a six-year, $6 billion commitment to AWS. The economics may be compelling, but customers will judge the company by its freedom across clouds.
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Sridhar Ramaswamy Is Building Snowflake’s Agentic Control Plane. Consumption Must Follow
Sridhar Ramaswamy has recast Snowflake around enterprise AI, open data and agentic work. The strategy now has to produce lasting usage, margins and trust.
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Kazuma Sekiya Runs the Semiconductor Company That Wins by Cutting Things Apart
A FigureAsia examination of how Kazuma Sekiya is positioning Disco for the next phase of semiconductors.
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Jay Chaudhry Is Extending Zero Trust to AI Agents. Zscaler Must Keep It Coherent
Jay Chaudhry is adapting Zscaler’s zero-trust architecture to AI agents and data. The company must now turn rapid expansion into a coherent, profitable platform.
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Liang Rubo Put AI at ByteDance’s Centre. Seedance Has Made Governance the Harder Problem
Liang Rubo has made artificial intelligence ByteDance’s central priority. Seedance’s rapid progress now tests whether the company can govern copyright, safety and global trust at equal speed.
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Thomas Kurian Closed Google’s $32 Billion Wiz Deal. Now He Must Preserve the Multi-Cloud Trust Google Bought
Google Cloud has completed its acquisition of Wiz, giving Thomas Kurian a rare chance to make security the connective tissue of a fast-growing cloud business. The return will depend on keeping customers’ rival-cloud estates visible and trusted.
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Safra Catz Has Become Oracle’s AI Balance-Sheet Steward. A $638 Billion Backlog Must Fund the Build
Oracle’s cloud infrastructure revenue is rising sharply, but free cash flow turned deeply negative under heavy investment. Safra Catz’s next leadership role is to impose financing discipline on growth that arrives before the cash.
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Pony Ma Wants Tencent’s Next Act to Be More Than WeChat
A FigureAsia examination of how Ma Huateng (Pony Ma) is positioning Tencent for the next phase of technology.
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Vinod Khosla Backed a Record-Hot Geothermal System. The 2026 Wells Must Turn Heat Into Bankable Power
AI data centres need clean power around the clock. Vinod Khosla’s backing of Mazama Energy could open a major geothermal resource, but a temperature record is not a power plant and the 2026 field campaign must prove repeatable economics.
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AI Chips Have Turned Testing Into Douglas Lefever’s Bottleneck
A FigureAsia examination of how Douglas Lefever is positioning Advantest for the next phase of semiconductors.
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Liang Wenfeng Made Efficiency the Most Disruptive Idea in AI
FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Liang Wenfeng’s next chapter at DeepSeek and High-Flyer.
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Fujitsu Is Leaving Its Hardware Memory Behind
A FigureAsia examination of how Takahito Tokita is positioning Fujitsu for the next phase of technology.
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Mustafa Suleyman Is Giving Microsoft Its Own AI Model Stack. The Bill Demands More Than Strategic Independence
Mustafa Suleyman has moved Microsoft from relying primarily on a partner’s frontier models towards a broader in-house portfolio. Strategic control matters, but customers and shareholders need evidence that another model stack earns its substantial cost.
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Wipro’s Reset Cannot Afford to Lose Its Patience
A FigureAsia examination of how Srini Pallia is positioning Wipro for the next phase of technology.
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Melanie Perkins Is Taking Canva Upmarket. Enterprise Distribution Must Catch Up With Product-Led Scale
Canva grew through individual users and teams. Melanie Perkins now has to turn that bottom-up reach into governed, company-wide deployments without sacrificing the accessibility that created the platform’s advantage.
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Shantanu Narayen Started Adobe’s CEO Search. The Handover Must Preserve an AI Transition He Will Not Finish
Shantanu Narayen will remain Adobe’s chair after a new chief executive is appointed. His final operating duty is to make the succession clear enough that the next leader can reshape the company without inheriting a shadow CEO.
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Thomas Kurian Made Google Cloud an AI Growth Engine. Now He Has to Turn Scale Into Trust
Thomas Kurian has turned Google Cloud into a fast-growing AI and data business. The next test is whether infrastructure scale, security and enterprise trust can advance together.
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Lisa Su’s Multi-Gigawatt Breakthrough Leaves AMD With a Taiwan-Sized Delivery Challenge
Lisa Su has secured multi-generation AI infrastructure commitments that could change AMD’s position. Its MI450 and Helios ramp will determine whether those contracts become a durable second platform.
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George Kurian Has Made NetApp Relevant to AI. Now Data Readiness Must Pay
George Kurian has moved NetApp from a storage incumbent to an intelligent data infrastructure contender. Fiscal 2027 will show whether AI demand can widen that opportunity.
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NAVER Is Defending Its Home Market With Its Own AI
A FigureAsia examination of how Choi Soo-yeon is positioning NAVER for the next phase of technology.
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Jensen Huang Turned Nvidia’s Chip Lead Into National Infrastructure. Japan Will Test the Economics
Nvidia’s record growth has given Jensen Huang the power to define whole AI systems. Japan’s new national physical-AI infrastructure will show whether that platform can create industrial value beyond the data centre.
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Demis Hassabis Raised $2.1 Billion to Industrialise AI Drug Design. The Clinic Has Yet to Validate the Engine
Demis Hassabis has given Isomorphic Labs the capital and computing ambition of a technology platform. The harder test is whether its drug candidates can survive the slower economics of human biology.
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Eric Yuan Is Turning Zoom Into an AI Revenue Platform. Common Room Must Make the Expansion Credible
Zoom’s enterprise revenue is growing modestly while margins remain strong. Eric Yuan is using AI and an acquisition to pursue a larger share of sales work, but customers will demand measurable pipeline results and disciplined data use.
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Prabhakar Raghavan Is Guiding Google’s Technology After Running Search. AI Is Rewriting the Business He Helped Scale
Prabhakar Raghavan moved from leading Google’s Knowledge and Information organisation to advising the company as Chief Technologist. His technical judgement now matters as AI turns search from a list of links into an answer and action layer.
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Kakao Must Become Trustworthy Before It Becomes Bigger
A FigureAsia examination of how Chung Shin-a is positioning Kakao for the next phase of technology.
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Yejin Choi Is Challenging AI’s Scale-at-All-Costs Economics. Smaller Models Must Win Beyond the Lab
Yejin Choi’s work questions the assumption that the largest model should perform every task. Her alternative—smarter algorithms, specialised systems and pluralistic design—could lower AI costs if it proves robust in real organisations and languages.
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Jay Chaudhry Bought Red Canary to Move Zscaler Into Security Operations. Integration Must Justify the Margin Cost
Zscaler’s annual recurring revenue is growing 25 per cent with help from Red Canary. Jay Chaudhry now has to prove that acquiring a people-intensive security service strengthens the platform rather than complicating its economics.
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Ong Ye Kung’s S$2.5 Billion Research Bet Must Connect to Healthier SG
Singapore is committing S$2.5 billion to translational and clinical research while expanding Healthier SG and ageing capacity. Ong Ye Kung must link discovery, primary-care incentives and measurable reductions in hospital demand.
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Tokyo Electron Sits at the Quiet Center of Toshiki Kawai’s Chip Boom
A FigureAsia examination of how Toshiki Kawai is positioning Tokyo Electron for the next phase of semiconductors.
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Samsung’s AI Problem Has Become Jay Y. Lee’s Defining Test
A FigureAsia examination of how Jay Y. Lee is positioning Samsung for the next phase of consumer technology.
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Robin Li Has Waited Two Decades for Baidu’s AI Advantage to Arrive
A FigureAsia examination of how Robin Li is positioning Baidu for the next phase of technology.
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Suchi Saria Put Predictive AI Into 20 Hospitals. The Next Sale Depends on Operational Returns
Suchi Saria’s clinical AI has evidence of adoption and improved sepsis outcomes. Its 2026 test is whether those gains can be reproduced across Asian health systems with different data, workflows and economics.
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Lim Chow Kiat Is Building GIC for a World That Cannot Be Forecast. The Price Is More Selectivity
Lim Chow Kiat is adapting GIC to geopolitical fragmentation, AI disruption and climate risk through granular investing and stronger cross-asset leadership. The strategy depends on liquidity, selectivity and institutional patience.
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Fei-Fei Li’s $1 Billion Spatial-AI Bet Runs Into the Physics Problem
Fei-Fei Li has raised $1 billion to commercialise spatial intelligence. World Labs’ harder task is moving from compelling 3D output to reliable simulation.
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Nadav Zafrir Bought Four Pieces of an AI Security Stack. Check Point Must Turn Them Into Growth
Check Point has accelerated acquisitions under Nadav Zafrir to close gaps around AI and cloud security. The test is whether one operating platform emerges quickly enough to improve product growth without sacrificing margins or repurchase discipline.
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Eric Yuan Has Restored Zoom’s Growth. AI Must Become More Than a Meeting Feature
Eric Yuan has repositioned Zoom as an AI-first system of action. The next test is converting product adoption into sustained enterprise expansion without losing simplicity.
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Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber Is Building ADNOC for an Energy Transition That Adds Before It Subtracts
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber is turning ADNOC, XRG and Masdar into a single thesis about energy security, industrial power and decarbonisation. Its credibility will be determined by capital allocation, not rhetoric.
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Sundar Pichai’s $185 Billion Gemini Push Depends on Reinventing Search Without Weakening It
Sundar Pichai has distributed Gemini across Google’s largest products at extraordinary speed. He must now convert conversational search and cloud demand into returns that justify Alphabet’s capital bill.
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Hock Tan’s $35 Billion AI Platform Moves Broadcom Closer to Its Biggest Customers—and Their Risks
Hock Tan has expanded Broadcom’s custom-chip model into gigawatt-scale infrastructure financed by Apollo and Blackstone. Its power comes with customer, supply and deployment concentration.
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Anima Anandkumar Joined the UN’s Science Board. AI for Science Needs Standards the World Can Afford
Anima Anandkumar’s 2026 appointment to the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board puts a technical researcher inside a global governance debate. The commercial and policy test is whether AI-assisted science can be verified, reproduced and made accessible across unequal computing markets.
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Amnon Shashua Took Mobileye Into Humanoid Robots. A $3.8 Billion Write-Down Raises the Standard
Amnon Shashua is using Mobileye's automotive cash flow and artificial-intelligence stack to enter humanoid robotics. The strategic overlap is plausible; the acquisition's governance and commercial hurdles make proof unusually urgent.
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William Ding Is Teaching an Old Games Company New AI Tricks
FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining William Ding’s next chapter at NetEase.
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Satya Nadella Is Building a $190 Billion AI Utility, With Scarcity as Both Proof and Warning
Satya Nadella is committing utility-scale capital to Microsoft’s agentic AI platform while reducing headcount. The return will depend on capacity allocation, product usage and disciplined pricing.
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Masayoshi Son Is Steering $64.6 Billion Towards OpenAI. SoftBank’s Balance Sheet Is the Constraint
Masayoshi Son’s latest OpenAI tranche makes SoftBank a more concentrated AI holding company, with its financial policy and Japan execution under scrutiny.
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Infosys Is Learning to Charge for AI Outcomes
A FigureAsia examination of how Salil Parekh is positioning Infosys for the next phase of technology.
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Jitendra Malik Is Putting Sensorimotor Learning Before Language. Robotics Must Build Its Own Data Economy
Jitendra Malik helped shape modern computer vision and now presses AI toward embodied learning. The next advance will depend on shared benchmarks, useful simulation and fleets that turn physical experience into reliable generalisation.
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Customer Service Is Becoming an AI Industry Just as NICE Changes Leaders
A FigureAsia examination of how Scott Russell is positioning NICE for the next phase of technology.
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Assaf Rappaport Is Turning Wiz’s Security Graph Into an Agent Control Layer. Automation Must Remain Reversible
Wiz can give AI assistants live context from its cloud-security graph. Assaf Rappaport’s opportunity is to make security teams faster; his risk is allowing an agent to convert a mistaken finding into a damaging production change.
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TikTok Became a Diplomatic Asset Just as Liang Rubo Inherited ByteDance
A FigureAsia examination of how Liang Rubo is positioning ByteDance for the next phase of technology.
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Natarajan Chandrasekaran Is Wiring Tata From Chips to AI Agents. Capital Discipline Must Hold the Stack Together
Natarajan Chandrasekaran is positioning Tata across the physical and software layers of artificial intelligence. The strategy could deepen India’s technology capacity, but only if demand, energy and execution keep pace with investment.
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Daphne Koller Is Turning Insitro’s AI Platform Into Drug Candidates. Biology Still Sets the Clock
Daphne Koller has spent years building a machine-learning company around human biology. In 2026, insitro’s partnerships and preclinical programmes are beginning to test whether its data advantage can produce medicines rather than promising hypotheses.
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Rajesh Magow Is Turning MakeMyTrip From a Booking Site Into India's Travel Operating Layer
Rajesh Magow is using AI and selective acquisitions to widen MakeMyTrip's role. The test is whether one platform can improve every stage of Indian travel.
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Aravind Srinivas’s Browser Ambition Depends on Winning the Enterprise Trust Search Never Required
Aravind Srinivas is pushing Perplexity from answer engine to action layer. Comet Enterprise must prove that autonomous browsing can be governed at scale.
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Liu Debing Took China’s Zhipu AI to Market Before the Dust Settled
FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Liu Debing’s next chapter at Zhipu AI.
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Satya Nadella Made Microsoft the Corporate World’s Default Route Into AI
A FigureAsia examination of how Satya Nadella turned Microsoft’s enterprise franchise into the world’s most powerful distribution system for artificial intelligence, and why his next test is trust rather than reach.