US$16.5B and counting: Inside the lopsided year that rewrote SEA’s funding charts

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.

The Huawei FreeBuds SE 5 Max combines long battery life, support for high-quality audio codecs, and active noise cancellation (ANC) technology for just S$58. Details within.

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.

Bitcoin fell 1.05 per cent to US$75,830.54 in 24 hours and underperformed a slightly weaker broader market. The move matters because it shows a trading environment tightly tied to macro risk. Bitcoin is 85 per cent correlated with the S&P 500. My view is that three forces reinforce each other. Institutional demand is retreating as […] The post US$1B ETF outflows, Democratic sweep highly likely, Iran war: Can Bitcoin hold US$75,600? appeared first on e27.

Before North Korea’s hackers took US$6.4 billion from Binance, they took US$14.3 million from people most of us will never hear about. That second figure, from a new Chainalysis analysis, may matter more. Over the past 18 months, the blockchain analytics firm has linked more than US$14.3 million in losses to DPRK-linked fake job interview […] The post Two interviews and a coding test: How a fake job opened Binance to North Korea appeared first on e27.

The biggest threat to every startup is short-sightedness. Quick decisions, wrong partners, disproportionate risks, team hires. Every wrong decision needs to be fixed in the medium term. What this causes is disruption, loss of pace, pain, burned money, and sometimes the death of the startup. Getting these right separates those who scale quickly from those […] The post Your startup should think about scaling, not surviving appeared first on e27.