Southeast Asia is digitising health records. Making them portable is the harder problem

Insurance has spent the past year experimenting with generative AI in the most obvious corners of the enterprise: summarising emails, extracting details from claims forms, drafting responses for call-centre agents, and speeding up document-heavy back-office work. Those are useful gains. But a new whitepaper by Google Cloud and CoverGo argues that they may also be […] The post SEA’s insurers face a new question: what happens when customers have agents? appeared first on e27.

Over the past year, the question I hear from operators shipping into three or four ASEAN markets has quietly changed. It used to be about the tariff. Now it is about the paperwork. Which certificate does this lane need? Who in our supply chain can prove where this component was made? Why does the same […] The post ASEAN just upgraded its trade rulebook. Most operators will scale on the old one appeared first on e27.

Winning new customers is usually treated as one of the clearest signs that a company is growing. More contracts mean more revenue, more logos and more evidence that the market wants what the business is selling. For an early-stage company in particular, saying no to a paying customer can feel almost irrational. Yet revenue can […] The post Not every customer is good for growth appeared first on e27.

For the better part of a decade, Southeast Asia rehearsed its big public-markets moment with a familiar cast: a ride-hailing superapp, a gaming-and-e-commerce giant, a merged Indonesian decacorn. The next star, we assumed, would be another consumer platform that turned the region’s 680 million people into daily active users. Instead, the region’s most anticipated tech […] The post Southeast Asia’s biggest tech IPO of the year is a landlord appeared first on e27.

President Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives Thursday, a White House official confirmed to The Hill’s broadcast partner, NewsNation.  Musk, the head of SpaceX and Tesla, will receive this high honor at the White House’s “Science: A New Golden Age” summit. Three other tech leaders...

RTX Spark laptops will start shipping from 16 October, while NVIDIA is also bringing its more powerful DGX Station platform to Windows.

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, unveiled a framework Wednesday for regulating artificial intelligence amid growing pressure on lawmakers to address the technology's risks. Cantwell laid out a set of principles for how Congress and the executive branch should approach AI, arguing that to "manage risks...

MANILA, Philippines — Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah turned to religious leaders with a question the AI company has struggled to answer: Could artificial intelligence be conscious?  The effort eventually reached the Vatican, where Olah and his team urged Pope Leo XIV’s advisers to consider the possibility. Leo rejected it in his first encyclical. Pope Leo

Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the artificial intelligence boom, heavy borrowing and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the head of the IMF said Wednesday. “Some very tough political choices stare us in...

Most U.S. voters want more safeguards on artificial intelligence and think the federal government has fallen short in confronting the powerful technology’s risks, according to a new poll. In a Reuters/Ipsos survey released Wednesday, 57 percent of respondents said they believe the Trump administration is not taking the risks posed by AI seriously enough, while...

Guardrails Action, a nonprofit pushing for safeguards on artificial intelligence, led a coalition of nearly 40 organizations to outline a series of key principles for AI legislation, warning that it will oppose anything less. In a Wednesday letter to lawmakers, the coalition argued legislation must feature enforceable and transparent government oversight that is not designed...

General Motors (GM) Korea’s decision to bring to market its first Buick model — imported entirely from China — is putting its multi-brand strategy at odds with its commitment to local production, experts and industry officials said Tuesday. Last week, the carmaker unveiled Buick, positioning the premium brand as a key pillar of the strategy to offer consumers a wider range of products, along with its other brands, such as GMC, Cadillac and Chevrolet. But since Buick’s first model, the Electra E7 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), will be imported from China, the latest decision has also renewed questions about GM Korea’s long-term commitment to domestic production. In March, GM Korea announced a $600 million (806 billion won) investment plan to expand its production infrastructure. At a media briefing, GM Korea CEO Hector Villarreal highlighted the benefits of operating multiple brands and providing customers with greater choice. But when asked whether Buick or other new models could eventually be produced in Korea, Villarreal did not offer a specific commitment. Kim Pil-so