DeepSeek engineer defends push for open-source AGI despite higher risks

The year-end electronics event returns with 1,000-plus deals, exclusive launches and an unusual S$67 cash rebate promotion.

I use AI regularly for prospecting and outreach. The useful part is not having it write a generic email to a long list of companies. It is helping me find a more relevant starting point: businesses that have put out a public signal which may match an offer I am making. That signal might be […] The post How I use AI for outreach without outsourcing judgement appeared first on e27.

In the same month a leading fintech publication declared that “information asymmetry is dead,” Singapore’s largest bank was teaching its flagship AI assistant to handle card refunds. Both claims are about artificial intelligence. Neither describes the same world. The claim making the rounds The Fintech Times’ 2026 banking trends report argues that agentic AI has […] The post Information asymmetry didn’t die in 2026. It just learned better PR appeared first on e27.

It seems that the HomeView that Apple launched last month was just the beginning of a new lineup of smart home hubs.

For autonomous vehicles, the hardest lessons to learn are the ones that can test the skills of even the most experienced human drivers: an errant cyclist darting through a red light, or an animal bolting into oncoming traffic from behind a corner. The Chinese tech giant Baidu has developed a new AI-driven simulator to prepare its Apollo robotaxis for just such rare but high-stakes road hazards, as the firm looks to gain an edge in the fast-growing self-driving taxi market. The system, Apollo...

The Atto 1 is by no means the first electric hatchback, but more options are welcome in this relatively underserved space.

Banks perform a useful trick. They let customers withdraw money from checking and savings accounts at short notice, while using much of that funding to support mortgages and business loans that may not be repaid for years. The system works because customers do not all ask for their money back at the same time. Most […] The post Could AI agents break fractional-reserve banking? appeared first on e27.

In the earnings call today from Apple, new CEO John Ternus mentioned its collaboration with the Philippine market, specifically the Department of Education. The DepEd will be able to distribute 170,000 MacBook Neo devices to teachers around the country to more than 16,000 K-12 schools across the country. After we published this news, our comments

US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic’s initial public offering prospectus has exposed a vast profitability gap between it and rivals Z.ai and MiniMax, highlighting the challenges facing China’s AI model developers in turning technological advances into sustainable businesses. The Claude developer’s filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week revealed a significant financial advantage over its most direct Chinese counterparts, despite the latter’s continued...

Despite being one of the few gaming phones out there left, it still packs in the latest and greatest.

Just like past Galaxy W releases, this is specifically made for a Chinese telco partnership.

One photograph in a recent Nikkei Asia report says more about Southeast Asia’s tech economy than most investor decks I have read this year. It shows Myanmar refugees working on a data centre construction site in Chonburi, eastern Thailand. Sit with that for a moment. People who spent years, sometimes decades, in border camps without […] The post Thailand’s labour crisis and the refugees building its AI future appeared first on e27.