Warsh offers no fresh signals on interest rates

Alibaba Group Holding’s two major domestic online marketplaces, Taobao and Tmall, plan to greatly expand the use of artificial intelligence across merchants’ operations next year, a senior executive said, as the e-commerce giant doubles down on the technology to drive growth amid a challenging consumer landscape. “Starting next year, AI will comprehensively enter the internal enterprise workflows of merchants,” Liu Bo, president of Tmall, said at the company’s Singles’ Day media briefing on...

Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML is expanding into next-generation hybrid bonding, a technique that creates dense electrical connections by directly joining chips or silicon wafers, according to a new report. Major Chinese companies are also adopting the technology to improve chip performance. ASML submitted 27 patent families related to hybrid bonding tools between December 2022 and November 2024, according to a report published by semiconductor and AI supply chain research firm...

For two decades, marketers obsessed over a single question: where do we rank on Google? A growing number now ask a stranger one: what does ChatGPT say about us when we are not in the room? The Wild Ventures, the Swedish-founded company behind home decor brand Wild Palace, is betting that question will turn into […] The post What does ChatGPT say about your brand? Miracly raises US$2M to find out appeared first on e27.

The cuts affect around one-fifth of the studio’s local workforce, with Ubisoft saying its Singapore operation remains an important part of its global production organisation.

The upsized Car Expo returns to Singapore Expo with more than 50 car brands, now with a tech and home lifestyle extension, plus great deals and prizes to take home!

The Huawei MatePad Air has a generous 12-inch display, but it’s only 5.3mm thin.

SK hynix said Friday that it has showcased its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) memory technologies aimed at expanding the boundaries of AI infrastructure beyond conventional high-bandwidth memory (HBM). The company presented the technologies at the OCP Global Summit 2026, held in California from Tuesday to Thursday (local time). The summit is an annual conference organized by the Open Compute Project Foundation that brings together engineers and industry leaders. The Korean chip giant said it divided its exhibition space into two sections. The front section, dubbed the memory section, showcased the company's flagship products, while the larger rear section, called the system demo section, featured memory solutions designed to support next-generation server ecosystems. Kim Ho-sik, a senior vice president at SK hynix, introduced MARS (Memory-Centric AI Rack-Scale System), a disaggregated rack-scale architecture designed to coordinate computing and memory resources seamlessly. Kim highlighted progress in High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), a technology aimed at addressing the industry's

Singapore’s office workers answer a 10.47pm message within 90 seconds to prove their commitment. Their bosses barely notice. The Jobstreet by SEEK Singapore Workplace Culture Study 2026, which surveyed 600 employees and jobseekers and 200 hiring decision makers, finds that 63% of staff signal dedication by replying fast, a behaviour only 39% of employers value. […] The post Ecosystem Roundup: Singapore’s always-on workers are performing to an empty room appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin currently trades at US$82,231.14, reflecting a 0.65 per cent gain over the last 24 hours. This movement mirrors a broader 0.84 per cent rise in the total crypto market capitalisation. Having operated in this industry for over 15 years and advised on blockchain policy, I view this price action as a clear reflection of […] The post The US$82,000 Illusion: Why Bitcoin still trades like a traditional tech stock appeared first on e27.

Every humanoid robot looks brilliant in a launch video. The trouble begins on an ordinary weekday in a warehouse, when a parcel arrives in a shape nobody trained the machine for, a forklift reverses where it shouldn’t, and a worker strolls into its path while scrolling a phone. That messy gap between the lab and […] The post Hong Kong builds a test track for robots that keep failing outside the lab appeared first on e27.

The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain settlement network Partior to study whether the Bahraini dinar (BHD) can be settled on the Singaporean firm’s rails, with NBB acting as the currency’s settlement bank. Read the fine print and the ambition shrinks to its proper size. The MoU commits […] The post Why a small Gulf currency matters for Partior’s Southeast Asian ambitions appeared first on e27.

Almost every founder I meet reaches the same conclusion at roughly the same moment. You cannot outbid a funded competitor on salary, so you give people a stake in the outcome instead. The logic is sound. Equity turns salary-limited hires into owners and aligns the people doing the work with the value they create. Then […] The post Your ESOP is a fundraising document. Most founders treat it as a HR perk appeared first on e27.