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Turning orange peels into battery materials
AraBat turns agricultural waste like orange peels into a resource to extract critical minerals from discarded electronics and batteries.
Read more →Israel’s top-funded tech companies in the last decade
Which companies will emerge as the country's next tech bigwigs? A look at the players bringing in the most funds may help you figure it out.
Read more →SK hynix joins $1.5b loan guarantee program for suppliers
Under an agreement signed in Yongin, SK hynix and four banks would contribute a combined 100 billion won (US$75 million).
Read more →This robot will deliver your food, if it doesn’t get smashed first
The machines have been kicked, beaten and defaced – but are also vacuuming up data
Read more →Points beat percentages: Why three in four Singaporeans think their spare cash is underperforming
A Singaporean who will argue over a 50-cent difference in cashback at a hawker centre may have no idea what their savings account pays. New research suggests that person is the norm. Some 89 per cent of Singapore residents hold spare cash, according to a survey of 1,000 people conducted by research firm Milieu. Among [] The post Points beat percentages: Why three in four Singaporeans think their spare cash is underperforming appeared first on e27 .
Read more →OpenAI, Moderna expand AI use in drug development
Before ChatGPT Enterprise, Moderna built an internal tool, mChat, using OpenAI's API.
Read more →Singapore employers say they offer burnout support. Half their staff say they’ve never seen it
Many Singapore companies offer a peculiar kind of workplace benefit: one that exists mostly in the HR handbook. Managers will tell you it is there. Employees, asked the same question, will tell you they have never come across it. That gap sits at the centre of the Jobstreet by SEEK Singapore Workplace Culture Study 2026. [] The post Singapore employers say they offer burnout support. Half their staff say theyve never seen it appeared first on e27 .
Read more →SG AI cloud provider Aolani eyes Malaysia data center deals
Aolani would provide the AI infrastructure, graphics processing unit deployment, and operating requirements once the facilities are completed.
Read more →Will the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting crush the bullish push toward the US$84,000 target?
Global financial ecosystems present a fascinating landscape today, as virtual currencies are in a modest recovery phase. Bitcoin leads this upward trajectory, up 0.94 per cent over the past 24 hours. The premier cryptocurrency trades at exactly US$82,204.31. This price action slightly outperforms a broadly flat digital asset sector. The total cryptocurrency capitalisation registers a [] The post Will the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting crush the bullish push toward the US$84,000 target? appeared first on e27 .
Read more →S Korea’s OneStore partners with Airwallex on global payments
Airwallex, founded in Melbourne in 2015, serves more than 670,000 businesses worldwide.
Read more →Beyond play-to-earn: 14 Southeast Asian gaming and sports-tech startups still in the game
Southeast Asia has spent the last decade trying to turn its obsession with play into businesses. Some bets worked spectacularly, some blew up just as spectacularly, and a surprising number of the best ones never raised much venture money at all. The Web3 gaming boom of 2021 is the cautionary tale everyone remembers: blockchain games, [] The post Beyond play-to-earn: 14 Southeast Asian gaming and sports-tech startups still in the game appeared first on e27 .
Read more →Gen Z is bringing its own AI to work. Singapore’s SMEs need rules, not bans
Young workers in Singapore are not waiting for their employers to roll out AI. They are already using it, often on personal devices and often without anyone watching. According to “What Gen Z Workers Want 2026”, a study commissioned by Deel and conducted with YouGov and ThinkerTank, 49 per cent of Singapore workers aged 18 [] The post Gen Z is bringing its own AI to work. Singapores SMEs need rules, not bans appeared first on e27 .
Read more →Accenture considers $1.5b sale of China business: report
Accenture's Greater China operations span mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Read more →Changi Airport handles 17.4 million passengers in Q3, up 0.4% year on year
Air cargo volume rises 8%, driven by demand for AI-related semiconductor and electronics shipments
Read more →Buying AI tools is easy – getting real value is much harder
When enterprises can’t get the most out of AI, it’s not a technology problem. Instead, it’s a question of readiness.
Read more →Philippine fintech firm Salmon Group secures $140m financing
The company plans to use the funds to expand lending and launch products, including motorcycle and micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) loans in the country.
Read more →When AI takes your side in a workplace conflict
Workplace conflict rarely arrives as a clean set of facts. By the time we decide that a manager is undermining us, a colleague is being deliberately difficult, or someone on the team cannot be trusted, we have usually spent some time interpreting what happened. We have noticed particular behaviours, connected them with earlier experiences, filled [] The post When AI takes your side in a workplace conflict appeared first on e27 .
Read more →UK fintech firm Paymentology expands in the Philippines
It supports QR payments in 60 international destinations through Alipay+; AUB previously announced cross-border scan-to-pay functionality.
Read more →Faster, smarter, but more fragile? Rethinking communications resilience in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia has spent the past decade moving rapidly towards a more connected future. Fibre networks have replaced much of the region’s older copper infrastructure, smartphones have become the primary gateway to services, and communications, payments, government functions and commerce have increasingly shifted online. That transition has brought enormous benefits, but it has also created [] The post Faster, smarter, but more fragile? Rethinking communications resilience in Southeast Asia appeared first on e27 .
Read more →Australia’s Nextdc flags earnings risk over power delay
The M3 facility near Melbourne is a 225-megawatt data center serving cloud and AI customers.
Read more →DeepSeek’s leaner AI model hits Samsung, SK hynix shares
Memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK hynix each dropped more than 4% before trimming losses.
Read more →Cute AI agents need clear boundaries
Agentic AI’s promise to make life easier now comes in cute packages. But will that make us too trusting of what we let agents do on our behalf?
Read more →GoTo releases open-source AI model for Indonesian languages
GoTo, formally PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk, was formed through the merger of Gojek and Tokopedia.
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