Meta to pay New Mexico a historic US$25 billion in Cambridge Analytica case

For two decades, the startup gospel was simple: find product-market fit at home, then blitzscale across borders. In 2026, much of the world appears to be rethinking the second half of that sentence. According to HSBC’s Global Entrepreneurial Wealth Report (GEWR) 2026, the share of entrepreneurs globally who want to expand internationally fell six percentage […] The post The world’s rich are turning inward. Southeast Asia’s entrepreneurs are packing their bags appeared first on e27.

The digital asset landscape intertwines deeply with traditional equities rather than operating in isolation. The leading cryptocurrency recently climbed 1.67 per cent to reach US$82,829.06 over a single 24-hour period. This upward progression closely tracks a broad financial recovery. Risk assets worldwide are bouncing back from recent weakness. The digital sector mirrors this exact trajectory […] The post Bitcoin at US$82,829: Why a 95% correlation with the S&P 500 should worry long term believers appeared first on e27.

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the growing divide between open-source and closed-source AI as a battle between “light and darkness”. The company on Tuesday released DeepInfer, an inference framework tailored to support its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model on both Nvidia’s SM100 Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) and Huawei...

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.