Every few months, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem gets a headline that sounds like a resurrection. This October brought two. Tracxn reported that tech funding in the region rose 176 per cent to US$...

ByteDance is accelerating its push into embodied artificial intelligence, stepping up recruitment for robotics talent as it seeks to move cutting-edge research out of the laboratory and into physical ...

Singapore has a habit of announcing its future in instalments. On Tuesday, at the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong unveiled the latest chap...

Amazon’s decision to block Meta’s Muse shopping agent looks, at first, like a technical dispute over access, security and authorisation. In practice, it points to a much larger commercial problem. If ...

The event takes place at Cafe @ La Tendo on 8 Nov and will have exclusive merchandise, cosplayers and lucky draws....

Everyone is worried about the wrong AI failure. For two years, the loudest AI safety conversation has centred on hallucination: the model that invents a fact, a court case, a source that never existed...

In a convention centre full of AI agents, autonomous closes and pyrotechnic keynotes, James Chisham has the least glamorous job at Oracle NetSuite’s SuiteWorld in Las Vegas. He is the man who makes th...

Meghan McCain, former Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) daughter, predicts that convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will get a pardon from President Trump. “One of my hottest, hot takes is that Eli...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the state of Utah to stop the state’s efforts to shut down CFTC-registered contract markets. Th...

The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system has been down for hours on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson who confirmed the agency's IT teams are working to restore the service. Accor...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is pushing for advertising targeting Republican candidates over their record on AI and data centers in dozens of key House races, as technology-r...

Prediction market platform Kalshi is expanding protections for young traders aged 18-20, which includes a new monthly deposit limit.   Accounts in the age range will now have a $2,500 monthly deposit ...

President Trump said Tuesday that he was banning the term artificial intelligence “in all relevant documents and everything else.” “In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, ‘AI/Artifici...

The 24-inch all-in-one keeps its familiar design but gains faster graphics, Wi-Fi 7 and a new version of Siri....

Apple’s entry-level MacBook Pro gets a spec-bump update....

A longtime Trump supporter says rising costs, data centers and frustration in farm country could hurt Republicans at the ballot box....

TikTok's latest trend claims to help combat brain rot and reduce doomscrolling with analog hobbies....

Open-weight models, China-US tensions, Taiwan – just a few of the more than dozen references to China-related risks cited in Anthropic’s much-anticipated listing prospectus, which was finally released...

Thirteen years after venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term, the unicorn has stopped being mythical. There are now 1,879 privately held companies valued at US$1 billion or more, according to a ...

Every enterprise software vendor now has an AI agent story. Oracle NetSuite’s version, unveiled at SuiteWorld in Las Vegas on October 26, comes with two twists: its agents are meant to know your indus...

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI, developer of the popular Kimi series, apologised on Monday for limiting customers’ use of its latest model in a botched roll-out that has also inv...

Bukalapak has kept its profit streak alive, though only just. The Indonesian tech firm reported positive adjusted EBITDA of US$55,088 for the third quarter of 2026, a swing from a loss of about US$991...

The crypto market is holding its breath. Bitcoin has spent the morning oscillating in a narrow band between US$79,300 and US$80,000. This tight range reflects broader paralysis across digital assets a...

I read a lot of contributor articles, and the ones that get published versus held back are rarely separated by writing talent. It’s usually the small things: an idea that’s too broad, a claim with no ...

For years, the logic of startup building was closely associated with ownership. A company developed its own technology, recruited its own specialised teams, accumulated proprietary tools and built inf...

The updated tablet keeps the previous model’s footprint, adds an IP67 rating and starts at $999 in Singapore....

Shares in ZTE rose more than 7 per cent in Hong Kong on Tuesday after the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker posted a nearly fivefold jump in third-quarter profit, driven by rapid expansion in...

Malaysia’s durian industry ought to be one of the country’s great economic success stories. Chinese demand soared. Musang King became an internationally recognised premium product. Investors planted o...

A few years ago, Stryv’s pitch fitted into a single product: a professional-grade hair dryer that did not cost as much as the famous ones. Today, the Singapore company sells massage chairs and air pur...

From 5–7 October, I organised and attended the Strategic Renaissance 21 (SR21) × World Governments Summit workshop in Dubai. The three-day gathering brought together 48 senior leaders from government,...