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Southeast Asia’s US$1T digital dream slips five years, and AI is the new reason to keep believing
Oct 21, 2026

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...

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Agentic AI is Singapore’s hottest job skill, and that should worry the people it replaces
Oct 21, 2026

Agentic AI is Singapore’s hottest job skill, and that should worry the people it replaces

Somewhere in Singapore this week, a recruiter is probably rewriting a job ad that once asked for “advanced Excel skills” so that it now asks for “hands-on experience with agentic AI workflows”. Multip...

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AI won’t tidy your business. It just moves the mess faster
Oct 21, 2026

AI won’t tidy your business. It just moves the mess faster

I build AI tools for marketers, and run an AI marketing software firm in Singapore, so I spend a lot of time hearing about AI adoption. A recent talk by Robert Lai, founder of performance agency Kalib...

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Nvidia in talks to invest more in AI cloud firm Firmus after IPO flop: report
Oct 21, 2026

Nvidia in talks to invest more in AI cloud firm Firmus after IPO flop: report

This signals Nvidia’s continued support for neoclouds, a group of debt-laden AI cloud providers...

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How I use AI to support public relations 
Oct 21, 2026

How I use AI to support public relations 

After narrowly losing yet another pitch earlier this year, I added up the time I had spent preparing proposals: 300 hours in four months. I wanted to know whether we were pursuing the right business. ...

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I still work 40 hours a week. AI turns it into 120
Oct 21, 2026

I still work 40 hours a week. AI turns it into 120

I teach people how to use AI for a living. So you would expect me to tell you it does everything. It doesn’t. What it does is take a huge amount of the grind out of my week, as long as I stay in the l...

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PropertyGuru ex-CEO’s AI health startup Genie Health raises US$3 million in seed funding
Oct 21, 2026

PropertyGuru ex-CEO’s AI health startup Genie Health raises US$3 million in seed funding

Investors include Temasek-backed venture studio Liminal; startup aims to use AI to personalise healthcare...

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PlayStation marks 30 years of Gran Turismo with a limited edition DualSense controller
Oct 21, 2026

PlayStation marks 30 years of Gran Turismo with a limited edition DualSense controller

Arriving on 10 December, the cool-looking controller features racing stripes and a textured carbon-fibre-style finish....

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Malaysia’s US$110M startup bet has a matching problem, investors warn
Oct 21, 2026

Malaysia’s US$110M startup bet has a matching problem, investors warn

Malaysia has found the money for its startups again. The harder part, investors say, is finding everything that is supposed to come with it. In his Budget 2027 speech on 9 October, Prime Minister and ...

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WhatsApp takes on Zoom and Google Meet with account-free guest calls
Oct 21, 2026

WhatsApp takes on Zoom and Google Meet with account-free guest calls

Guests can join through a computer browser, share their screen and keep talking without a time limit....

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