Oct 21, 2026
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 economy is projected to reach in 2026, up 17 per cent year-on-year. The longer-range promise is more than US$1 trillion by 2035. Long-time readers […] The post Southeast Asia’s US$1T digital dream slips five years, and AI is the new reason to keep believing appeared first on e27.
3 days of concerts, anime showcases and fan experiences await from 27 to 29 November.
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”. Multiply that by a few thousand listings and you arrive at the headline figure in Jobstreet by SEEK’s new AI Gauge. According to […] The post Agentic AI is Singapore’s hottest job skill, and that should worry the people it replaces appeared first on e27.
Only the Vivo X500 and X500 Pro Max are coming to Singapore’s shores. Pre-order and pricing details within!
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 Kaliber, stuck with me because it opened with an uncomfortable claim: most of the AI work in the room […] The post AI won’t tidy your business. It just moves the mess faster appeared first on e27.
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. Using Gemini and a script in Google Docs, I compared five years of proposals with our client invoicing records. One […] The post How I use AI to support public relations appeared first on e27.
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 loop. Most of what I have learned came from AI […] The post I still work 40 hours a week. AI turns it into 120 appeared first on e27.
Arriving on 10 December, the cool-looking controller features racing stripes and a textured carbon-fibre-style finish.
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 Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Khazanah’s Jelawang Capital and KWAP’s Dana Perintis would invest MYR450 million (US$110.4 million) in startups. […] The post Malaysia’s US$110M startup bet has a matching problem, investors warn appeared first on e27.
Guests can join through a computer browser, share their screen and keep talking without a time limit.
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 was not ready. As he later put it, “we still didn’t have enough of the components.” Deep learning had not yet […] The post Google may already be showing us its route to AGI appeared first on e27.
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 Risk Management. “It’s all about Chinese competition when analysing Anthropic,” said Felix Wang, managing director and global tech sector head at Hedgeye. “Many of my clients are asking the same question.” The assessment comes as Anthropic faces renewed investor jitters over whether its massive AI...
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