New York accuses Polymarket of running illegal gambling operation in new lawsuit
New York sued Polymarket on Thursday, accusing the prediction market platform of running an illegal gambling operation. It marks the latest lawsuit from the Empire State, which has levied similar alle...
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Flock Safety touts platform changes ahead of Senate hearing
Flock Safety outlined a series of policy changes to its controversial database of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) as Washington mounts pressure on the company to prevent misuse of the technolo...
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Xi says China, US have 'responsibility' to keep AI under human control
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday the U.S. and China have an obligation to manage the development of artificial intelligence as “leading nations” in the industry. “We have both the capability...
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Razer brings back its Mako desktop speaker lineup, with a refreshed design to boot
Though, it does look a bit familiar....
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Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Australian health department site
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday said he spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about an agent at the company breaching the commonwealth's health department website in June. Albanese t...
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Warren: Trump loves power Xi represents
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday criticized President Trump’s decision to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping with fanfare during the leader's arrival at Joint Base Andrews. “This is actua...
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Trump on AI talks with Xi: 'I want to leave it exactly where it is'
President Trump said Thursday that he wants to leave AI “exactly where it is” ahead of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “A big day with President Xi of China,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Super...
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Stanford admits AI was used to swap gender, race of student image
"I don’t agree with Stanford making those choices about how we were represented," said Billy Ramirez....
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Meta unveils the Muse Charm, a tamagotchi-like device that lets you talk to Muse AI
It was showcased at the end of Meta Connect 2026, but no details about its pricing or release yet, apart from a holiday season release window....
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Seoul tops global AI implementation as Singapore enters top tier
The global race to lead artificial intelligence is usually framed as a contest between countries: the US versus China, with Europe, India and a handful of others trying to carve out space. A new ranki...
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Alibaba unveils ‘pragmatic’ AI road map to drive monetisation, infrastructure efficiency
The artificial intelligence road map presented at its flagship Apsara Conference this week showcased a pragmatic pivot by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding, offering a clearer path to monetisat...
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Smart Home Tech Show 2026 returns to Suntec with S$300,000 in prizes and more home tech deals
The Smart Home Tech Show is here to tempt you with deals and great freebies. There’s also a special voucher for all HWZ Forum members!...
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SEA startup funding jumps to US$7.25B, but most founders are still waiting
Southeast Asia’s startup funding market is showing signs of life again, but the recovery is not reaching most founders. Venture-backed companies in the region raised US$7.25 billion across 217 equity ...
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Microsoft’s new Surface Pro comes in at 12 inches with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus processor
This rollout follows a refresh of its larger siblings earlier in the year with the same processor....
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Why now is the time for a new iPad mini
Word on the street is that we will see a new iPad mini before the end of the year....
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Life Lab Resources grabs US$1M to turn food waste into aquaculture feed
Singapore’s food waste problem is often framed as a consumer habit or a logistics issue. For Life Lab Resources, it is also a feedstock problem, and one that could help ease another pressure point in ...
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Bitcoin’s corrective pullback or the start of a deeper drop toward US$79,600?
The digital asset market has fallen by 2.57 per cent to US$2.86T over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin, the largest token by market value, dropped 2.81 per cent to US$84,261.32 during the same period. The t...
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Can Asia’s ETF infrastructure keep pace with its growth?
Asia’s ETF market has never been more dynamic. Assets are growing, new issuers are entering the market, investors are more engaged and product innovation is accelerating. For many years, the region’s ...
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TaniHub, prison and grace: Cynthia Wihardja’s post gives a human face to VC risk
Cynthia Wihardja’s LinkedIn post begins not with a legal argument, but with a distinction: “There are two ways to lose your freedom. One is done to you. The other, you do to yourself.” The first, she ...
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Why scaling across Southeast Asia means pricing in the cable you never see
In the last week of August, Viettel’s network engineers were doing something most of their customers never saw. They were moving traffic in real time, pushing 800 gigabits per second onto one undersea...
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What building Bangladesh’s agency actually looks like from the inside – Part 1
There’s a specific kind of meeting I used to dread in the early years of building Ngital. You’ve prepared everything. You’ve built the presentation carefully. You’ve researched the client’s industry. ...
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Asian investors aren’t choosing between crypto and TradFi anymore
Gold has been a store of wealth across Asia for generations, yet access through traditional financial markets still carries familiar friction. Investors often need dedicated brokerage accounts, fixed ...
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Startups keep scaling ops before they scale data — Here’s why it backfires
A startup doubles its headcount. It opens a new sales channel. It ships a second product line. All of this happens while the business is still running on a spreadsheet, a half-built dashboard, or a we...
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Apple reportedly exploring a Whoop-like fitness band without a display
Apple has reportedly been testing screen-less fitness tracker prototypes for months....
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The future of healthcare AI isn’t more data. It’s better context
For centuries, doctors have treated patients without having immediate access to an encyclopaedia of medical knowledge. A physician examining a patient did not need to read every medical textbook befor...
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How I rebuilt my company’s meeting culture after realising we were drowning in status updates
Every growing company eventually builds a ritual around checking in on itself. Daily standups, weekly syncs, status calls stacked on status calls, all in the name of staying aligned. At some point, th...
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FBI investigates hackers' claim to have stolen sensitive employee data, compromised jobs website
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI said Wednesday that it was investigating a criminal hacking group's claims that it had stolen “very sensitive data” belonging to thousands of agents and applicants and that i...
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AI won’t just replace jobs. It will redesign how companies work
For years, one question has dominated the conversation around artificial intelligence: How many jobs will AI replace? After working with enterprises in Southeast Asia to deploy AI into real business p...
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#OpEd: The Discord ban affects freelancers, students, remote workers
Earlier this evening I was trying to send some editorial instructions to our Discord group chat for work. All of these messages didn’t go through. I had initially thought I was in a no-signal zone, bu...
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Reverse home bias: Why Southeast Asia’s digital investors may be diversifying in the wrong direction
The next portfolio concentration problem may not come from investors staying too close to home, but from millions of investors becoming familiar with the same handful of global companies. For decades,...
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