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San Francisco and New York still lead The Observer‘s inaugural AI Cities Index, but the more consequential finding sits further east. Six of the world’s top 10 AI cities are in East and Southeast Asia, and Seoul ranks first globally for implementation: whether a city has the institutions, systems and practitioners to put AI to work across […] The post Ecosystem Roundup: Seoul tops AI implementation as Singapore joins the global top tier appeared first on e27.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and Taiwan at the White House on Thursday as part of a state visit dominated by pageantry. On AI, Xi said that “the right thing to do is to draw on each other’s strengths, not guard against each other”, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry. He also backed continued dialogue about risks, joint efforts to prevent misuse and keeping AI under human control. Trump earlier said on...

MANILA, Philippines — In the digital age, it only takes one cyberattack to bring a government service to a halt. When the Maritime Industry Authority’s (MARINA) seafarer document system was hit, the disruption exposed a problem beyond the attack itself: an aging digital infrastructure that had been waiting years for an upgrade. The agency temporarily

If the American guests seated at the head table with President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at Thursday’s White House state dinner were any indication, Washington now views its relationship with Beijing largely through the prism of technology. Analysts said the seating arrangement underscored how tech industry titans driving the global AI infrastructure boom were pushing to draw the two economic superpowers closer together. Sitting alongside Xi, Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan, Trump...

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MANILA, Philippines – UAAP Esports is no longer content with proving that esports belong in the collegiate sports scene. It now wants to prove that it can draw the same respect, attention, and energy as the league’s biggest events. Don’t call it just another sport, esports is a main event. At least, that’s what the

Asian stocks and bonds fell as a global bond selloff deepened and inflation fears intensified, with oil prices remaining elevated. Regional indices pointed lower in early trading. Wall Street had finished a volatile session mixed to flat. The S&P 500 edged slightly lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 161 points, or 0.3 per cent. […] The post Altcoins are running on real news, Wall Street is running on fear appeared first on e27.

The Idea Tab Pro Gen 2 is the latest mid-range enterprise tablet from Lenovo. Released only this year, it refreshes and refines the specs and functions that came to define its predecessor. At a time when budgets are getting tighter and value for money is being pushed as the main impetus to buying devices, the

There is a particular misery that visits finance departments in the last week of every month. The sales figure on the point-of-sale screen says one thing, the bank statement says another, and somebody has to explain the gap before the books close. Gilang Gibranthama, co-founder of Jakarta-based Matchmade.io, has built a business around that misery. […] The post Same failure, better clothes: Matchmade.io on selling Indonesian finance tech in Singapore appeared first on e27.

Hitting “send” on a bank transfer used to come with a cushion of time. A payment might sit in a queue for hours, sometimes days, giving banks and senders a window to notice a mistyped account number or a suspicious beneficiary. Instant payments have all but erased that cushion. Money now lands in seconds, and […] The post Citi, HSBC back iPiD’s US$16M round to make instant payments safer across borders appeared first on e27.

Pipeline operators already receive large volumes of asset data, but physical activity along remote rights-of-way remains difficult to observe continuously. Vision AI is beginning to turn existing infrastructure into an additional layer of operational intelligence. Midstream operators face a problem created by the infrastructure itself: pipelines can run for hundreds of kilometres through terrain that […] The post Vision AI expands visibility across remote pipeline corridors appeared first on e27.

For many people, foot pain is ignored until it starts changing everyday behaviour. They walk less, avoid stairs, switch shoes, or live with knee and back discomfort that seems unrelated. GoodARCH is betting that a five-minute scan can narrow the gap between early signs and medical attention. The Asian arch support brand, operated by Taiwan-based […] The post GoodARCH launches AI foot mapping in Malaysia with US$230K healthtech investment appeared first on e27.