Outright ban? Parental controls exist for social media platforms
A lot has happened since I first wrote about the Child Protection Act. Amidst the Discord ban that caused (former) DICT Henry Aguda to be replaced, to the Act being ratified while I was sitting at the...
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Tesla signs deal to integrate Alipay into its cars as China competition heats up
Tesla has agreed a deal to integrate Chinese fintech giant Ant Group’s Alipay digital payment software into its vehicles in China, as Elon Musk’s firm steps up efforts to offer localised smart feature...
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Washington’s DeepSeek ban may deter US firms from adopting Chinese AI models: experts
The US government’s latest ban on Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek could have a chilling effect on the wider American business community and deter companies from adopting low-cost Chi...
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2026 is the year AI is pushed to production
“Two years ago, AI was a demo. Last year, it was a pilot. This year, the leaders who are pulling ahead have moved it into production.” At this year’s VST ECS’ CXO Summit, President and CEO Jimmy Go la...
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Ex-PropertyGuru CEO’s Genie Health raises US$3M to make sense of your scattered health data
Anyone in Singapore who has sat through a corporate health screening knows the ritual. A thick report arrives, a few numbers glow red, and the PDF is filed somewhere between a tax notice and a gym mem...
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Homage turns its in-house care software into a business as Singapore turns super-aged
Ask a care manager in Singapore when the workday ends and the honest answer is: some time after the last visit, once the roster is patched, the visit notes are filed and the calls to anxious families ...
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Nvidia CEO to deliver keynote speech in Berlin as his firm faces investor scrutiny over AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage in Berlin on Wednesday, as the world’s most valuable company faces heightened investor scrutiny over whether the massive artificial intelligence spendi...
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The world’s rich are turning inward. Southeast Asia’s entrepreneurs are packing their bags
For two decades, the startup gospel was simple: find product-market fit at home, then blitzscale across borders. In 2026, much of the world appears to be rethinking the second half of that sentence. A...
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Bitcoin at US$82,829: Why a 95% correlation with the S&P 500 should worry long term believers
The digital asset landscape intertwines deeply with traditional equities rather than operating in isolation. The leading cryptocurrency recently climbed 1.67 per cent to reach US$82,829.06 over a sing...
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DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the gr...
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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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AFA Singapore 2026 brings Yuki Kajiura, May’n and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu to Suntec City
3 days of concerts, anime showcases and fan experiences await from 27 to 29 November....
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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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Vivo X500 Pro Max officially lands in Singapore *Updated*
Only the Vivo X500 and X500 Pro Max are coming to Singapore’s shores. Pre-order and pricing details within!...
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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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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
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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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
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
Guests can join through a computer browser, share their screen and keep talking without a time limit....
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Google may already be showing us its route to AGI
In 2015, Demis Hassabis looked back at a decision he had made more than a decade earlier. By 2004 he was already thinking about what would eventually become DeepMind, but concluded that the technology...
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Why Anthropic has a major China problem ahead of its blockbuster IPO
The growing popularity of Chinese artificial intelligence models has emerged as a key risk factor for Anthropic ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering, according to US research firm Hedgeye ...
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Samsung says interest in its foldables surged after Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo
Apple hasn’t even got its first foldable iPhone into everyone’s hands, but it may already be doing Samsung’s foldable business a favour....
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Homeplus' recovery falters as sales slump, buyer search stalls
Homeplus, which narrowly avoided liquidation and resumed operations in August, is struggling to regain its footing as weak sales and stalled takeover efforts cloud its recovery, according to industry ...
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DaouKiwoom-CJ consortium picked as preferred bidder for debt-laden JoongAng Ilbo
Creditors of JoongAng Ilbo Co. picked DaouKiwoom-CJ consortium as the preferred bidder for one of the major South Korean newspaper publishers as they closed bidding for the debt-laden company earlier ...
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Academics explore how entrepreneurs can navigate AI disruption at Jinju forum
JINJU, South Gyeongsang Province — Academics explored how entrepreneurs can turn artificial intelligence (AI)-driven disruption into business opportunities and solutions to social challenges at the 20...
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Musinsa, Sono International face IPO uncertainty amid market volatility
Recent volatility in Korea’s stock market is adding uncertainty to the listing plans of companies like Musinsa, as a prolonged downturn could weigh on their valuations and dampen demand for new shares...
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Can North Jeolla Province become Korea's 3rd financial hub?
North Jeolla Province is betting on the National Pension Service (NPS), which manages 1.6 quadrillion won ($1.2 trillion) in assets, to help transform the region into Korea's third financial hub. But ...
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Hyundai Motor, Kia to launch Level 4 autonomous truck trials
Hyundai Motor and Kia will test Level 4 autonomous heavy-duty trucks on real-world logistics routes next year, working with domestic self-driving software companies to develop technology for commercia...
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Foreign nationals make up 0.7% of Korea's research workforce, visa hurdles persist
Foreign experts accounted for less than 1 percent of research personnel at Korean companies, a report showed Tuesday, with companies identifying visa and related administrative issues as the biggest o...
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