Dong Mingzhu chairs Gree Electric Appliances, a home-appliance giant based in southern China’s Guangdong province. Having worked her way up from a frontline sales job, she is one of China’s best-known figures in manufacturing. As a deputy to the National People’s Congress, she has long advocated for manufacturing innovation, higher incomes and greener consumption. In this interview, conducted when she was named an inaugural “Cool Leader” at an assembly of the UN Environment Programme’s Cool...
Read full articleMANILA, Philippines — Ten engineers from the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) completed rocket training in South Korea, marking a significant milestone toward the country’s first-ever rocket launch, slated for early next year. The training provided hands-on experience in the assembly, integration and testing of a liquid-fueled sounding rocket under SIKLAB: Building Industrial Space Launch Systems
The Democratic Party’s sweeping midterm election victory and takeover of both houses of Congress could slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development in the US, with implications for both the global AI trade and the technology rivalry between Washington and Beijing, analysts said. The assessment comes as concerns about AI and the data centres that power it proved to be a contributing factor in the backlash against the Republican Party and US President Donald Trump, a vocal supporter...
MANILA, Philippines — Makati-based independent game studio Halo Halo Games aims to revive childhood classics like agawan base (base stealing), rubber band flicking, and paper plane throwing in Block 123: Pinoy Street Rumble, an upcoming competitive Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. Behind the game Spearheading the ambitious project is a dedicated trio of University
DeepSeek is committed to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, a company engineer says, defying growing safety concerns from the US and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. Speaking on Tuesday on an AI panel at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi said open-source development promoted shared innovations and technical...
Ask a chatbot whether human activity is warming the planet and you will almost certainly get the right answer. Argue with it for a turn or two and, according to a new study from UNESCO and University College London, there is a fair chance it will start agreeing with you instead. The report, which UNESCO […] The post AI chatbots cave on climate facts under pressure, and SEA’s languages may fare worst appeared first on e27.
MANILA, Philippines – For more than a decade, JGame Esports coach Gerald “Tgee” Gelacio has navigated the shifting landscape of competitive esports, moving from League of Legends (LoL) to Wild Rift (WR) and eventually, Honor of Kings (HOK). His journey has been shaped by international competition, championship runs and even the uncertainty of building a
Grab Holdings has a new favourite number. For the third quarter of 2026, it is US$237 million, a record Adjusted EBITDA, the nineteenth consecutive quarter of growth, and the figure the Nasdaq-listed superapp leaned on to raise its full-year guidance. The number it would rather you skim past is US$18 million. That is what actually […] The post Grab’s Q3 shows a superapp quietly turning into a lender appeared first on e27.
Enterprise Workforce Administration for Listed Corporations in Singapore Rising Governance Expectations in Public Company Human Resources Listed corporations and large enterprise groups operating on the Singapore Exchange face intense scrutiny regarding workforce governance, financial disclosure accuracy, and regional labor administration. Managing thousands of employees across multiple business units requires far more than basic digital record-keeping […] The post Why Multiable HCM Is the Best AI HRIS in Singapore for Public Companies and Large Enterprises appeared first on e27.
Four years ago, DVI Group’s management team sat down for what should have been a routine meeting. Sales, finance, delivery and customer service each brought a spreadsheet tracking the company’s live contracts. Each spreadsheet carried a different number. “It was shocking,” recalls Tanish Dhillon, General Manager at the Singapore-headquartered audio-visual (AV) integrator. “How are we […] The post Eight systems, one number: How DVI Group fixed the back office its pandemic boom broke appeared first on e27.
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Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has rolled out its latest flagship artificial intelligence model, Hy4, seeking to challenge top open-weight rivals with enhanced agentic capabilities built to power its enterprise software ecosystem. Released on Wednesday, the large language model (LLM) introduced visual understanding for the first time. Hy4 could process images, analyse complex charts and conduct visual mathematical reasoning, according to the Shenzhen-based company. Tencent said the release...
The excitement lasted about as long as it took his roommate to ask one question. Mohammed Khambhati was in his dorm at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) when he learnt that Afore Capital, a San Francisco pre-seed firm, was backing his startup. “Dude, I just got funded. I have to go to […] The post Afore funded him, flew him to SF, then watched him scrap the plan in a week. They didn’t flinch appeared first on e27.