SEA startup funding jumps to US$7.25B, but most founders are still waiting

Gold has been a store of wealth across Asia for generations, yet access through traditional financial markets still carries familiar friction. Investors often need dedicated brokerage accounts, fixed trading windows and capital separated from money held elsewhere. What is changing is not what Asian investors want to own. It is how they access it. A […] The post Asian investors aren’t choosing between crypto and TradFi anymore appeared first on e27.

A startup doubles its headcount. It opens a new sales channel. It ships a second product line. All of this happens while the business is still running on a spreadsheet, a half-built dashboard, or a weekly gut-check meeting. Nobody notices the gap at first, growth feels like growth. Then, three months in, someone on the […] The post Startups keep scaling ops before they scale data — Here’s why it backfires appeared first on e27.

Apple has reportedly been testing screen-less fitness tracker prototypes for months.

For centuries, doctors have treated patients without having immediate access to an encyclopaedia of medical knowledge. A physician examining a patient did not need to read every medical textbook before deciding what to do. They observed symptoms, considered the patient’s history, recognised patterns, weighed possibilities and drew on years of experience. They did not know […] The post The future of healthcare AI isn’t more data. It’s better context appeared first on e27.

Every growing company eventually builds a ritual around checking in on itself. Daily standups, weekly syncs, status calls stacked on status calls, all in the name of staying aligned. At some point, that ritual stops serving the work because the team starts doing the check-in instead of doing the actual work. Fixing it meant asking […] The post How I rebuilt my company’s meeting culture after realising we were drowning in status updates appeared first on e27.

For years, one question has dominated the conversation around artificial intelligence: How many jobs will AI replace? After working with enterprises in Southeast Asia to deploy AI into real business processes, I increasingly think we are asking the wrong question. The more important question is: How much more can an organisation accomplish when AI becomes […] The post AI won’t just replace jobs. It will redesign how companies work appeared first on e27.

Earlier this evening I was trying to send some editorial instructions to our Discord group chat for work. All of these messages didn’t go through. I had initially thought I was in a no-signal zone, but my GOMO eSIM clearly had a 5G signal. Not thinking about it too much I switched to my SMART

The next portfolio concentration problem may not come from investors staying too close to home, but from millions of investors becoming familiar with the same handful of global companies. For decades, one of the most persistent puzzles in investing has been home bias. Investors have traditionally tended to allocate disproportionately to companies and assets from […] The post Reverse home bias: Why Southeast Asia’s digital investors may be diversifying in the wrong direction appeared first on e27.

Schools are struggling to keep up with the evolving world of AI as concerns among parents and advocates mount regarding the use of the technology in classrooms. The two largest school districts in the country have put a one-year moratorium on generative AI usage in the classroom amid worries about privacy and its effect on...

A Senate panel held the first Congressional hearing Wednesday on AI-powered surveillance cameras manufacturers, such as Flock Safety, in an attempt to "get to the bottom" of whether the technology infringes on the public's privacy. The hearing — titled "Always Watching: Flock's Nationwide AI Surveillance Network" — was spearheaded by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo), the...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could be used in war to "decide what happens on the battlefield." "As early as next year, there is already a real possibility that AI –– not only people –– will begin to decide what happens on the battlefield," Zelensky said in his address...

It (likely) earned an Elite classification with 2x greater AI capability, a 30% smaller footprint, and integrated micro-power Wi-Fi 6E.