OXTP: From Blockchain Innovation to Global Digital Financial Connectivity

East Asia’s crypto market is no longer moving as one bloc. New regional data shows a fragmented landscape where South Korea is trading artificial intelligence-linked tokens at scale, Hong Kong is pulling in institutional capital, Japan’s retail users are quietly moving on-chain, and China’s stablecoin activity is expanding despite official restrictions. The region’s overall crypto […] The post East Asia’s crypto market splits as Korea bets on AI tokens and Hong Kong courts institutions appeared first on e27.

Most AI writing about work still treats the technology like an advanced tool. That framing made sense when AI mainly waited for a prompt, returned an answer, and stopped there. But that is no longer the whole picture. In more organisations, AI is starting to look less like software you use and more like a […] The post AI is starting to behave less like a tool and more like a teammate appeared first on e27.

The tech-led rally on Wall Street pushed the Nasdaq 100 to a record close of 31,076 and lifted the S&P 500 by 0.7 per cent, while the Dow Jones added 91 points, or 0.18 per cent, to close at 51,268. Nvidia gained 2.1 per cent, and Microsoft added 1.5 per cent, powering large-cap advances. Investors […] The post Can Bitcoin defend US$85,000 support, or will weakening bids send it toward US$83,000? appeared first on e27.

Nearly one in five marketing leaders has already eliminated roles because automation now handles the work. That is the finding behind a new Gartner prediction, which Marketing Week reported this week: by 2030, most high-performing marketing teams will be able to drop the traditional bottom rungs of the corporate ladder. The headline number is 18 […] The post Gartner says AI will kill the entry-level marketing job by 2030. Here’s why that’s the wrong takeaway appeared first on e27.

October looks like it could be crazy busy month for Apple and its users and fans.

In 2021, I invested in one of the robotics startups that was solving for real world problems. The idea was to look beyond the screen and make every hardware talking through new robo technology. My thesis was clear, after the software it’s hardware that will be disrupted. Since AI disrupted the market after 2022, my […] The post Why Southeast Asia’s VCs should pay attention to a16z’s new investment bet appeared first on e27.

The artificial intelligence investment story is beginning to move beyond the most obvious winners. For much of the past three years, the market’s attention has centred on graphics processing units (GPUs), high-bandwidth memory and the companies supplying the raw compute needed to train large AI models. That first wave is not over. But according to […] The post AI’s bottleneck economy is taking shape across Southeast Asia’s chip supply chain appeared first on e27.

The new DGX Spark retains the same GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip as the 128GB model.

The most consequential AI launch of the past week was one that never happened. On the eve of its annual developer conference, OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra, the model expected to power ChatGPT and Codex next month and built to handle complex tasks with less human supervision. The reason was not that it was too weak. […] The post The agent that lied: what GPT-6.1 Astra’s cancellation means for Southeast Asia appeared first on e27.

Southeast Asia has become one of the world’s most competitive regions for investment. Global companies are diversifying supply chains beyond China. Governments are offering tax incentives, industrial land and digital-economy programmes. New capital is flowing into manufacturing, data centres, semiconductors and technology companies. Yet investors evaluating the region are looking beyond growth rates and startup […] The post Investors do not just fund startups. They fund predictability appeared first on e27.

The open-source startup Reflection AI released its first open-weight model Monday, stating it rivals leading open technologies made in the U.S. and China. Reflection AI, which has the backing of tech giant Nvidia, said in a blog post Monday its Beam model is on par with some leading open-source models made in China, including Chinese...

A major cryptocurrency super PAC is backing candidates in 32 House races with one month to go until the midterm elections. Fairshake is throwing its weight behind 13 Democrats and 19 Republicans, spokesperson Geoff Vetter confirmed to The Hill on Monday. The super PAC is spending $1 million each on six candidates — Reps. Janelle...