More Asia Pacific action this week as the e-book subsidiary of Chinese giant Tencent spent a whopping $2.25 billion (although not by its standards) on TV and movie studio New Classics Media (NCM), while Malaysian OTT video outfit iflix decided it was about time to get involved with machine learning and original content – so why not hit two birds with one stone? Iflix, dubbed the disruptor of South East Asia’s SVoD scene, is partnering with a Canadian publishing app called Wattpad for its original content strategy – throwing machine learning at the platform to identify stories and trends to produce as iflix originals. While the AI-powered co-production could be revolutionary for content production, we must be clear, there are…