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Every mid-sized Asian city with a reformist mayor and a decent airport eventually flirts with calling itself a startup hub. Fukuoka has been making that argument longer than most, and with more institutional backing than a slogan usually gets. Since 2012, the city in southern Japan has layered one startup policy on another: a national […] The post Fukuoka’s RAMEN TECH tests Japan’s startup pitch to Southeast Asia appeared first on e27.

China is attempting to breathe new life into its nearly 20-year-old Han Xin code by promoting a miniaturised version to use on semiconductors, marking the latest chapter in Beijing’s long-running attempt to secure a foothold for its home-grown standards in global industrial supply chains. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Monday that the “Micro Han Xin” code – a scaled-down iteration of the 2007-era symbology – had entered the formal international standardisation...

Singapore-listed MetaOptics has secured a potential financing line of up to US$10 million from Los Angeles-based White Lion Capital, giving the semiconductor optics company additional room to fund its United States expansion as it tries to take metalens technology closer to commercial scale. The arrangement is structured through a warrant deed under which White Lion […] The post Singapore’s MetaOptics eyes US expansion with potential US$10M warrant facility appeared first on e27.

The year’s final edition is at Singapore Expo, with more than 120 exhibitors, discounts up to 90%, and a goodie bag for the first 500 visitors each day.

Television maker Hisense Group Holdings’ optical communications unit made a steady debut in Hong Kong after raising HK$5.6 billion (US$714 million), adding momentum to a fresh wave of mainland Chinese conglomerates spinning off business units to tap overseas capital and support technology expansion. Shares of fibre-optic communications equipment maker Ligent Technologies jumped as much as 19.2 per cent on Tuesday morning, valuing the company at more than HK$35 billion. The stock pared early...

Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip and teased plans to train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, as top executives reaffirmed the tech giant’s ambition to pursue artificial superintelligence (ASI). Speaking at the company’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on Tuesday, group chairman Joe Tsai highlighted Alibaba’s commitment to building end-to-end capabilities. “Alibaba is firmly investing in building full-stack AI...

Alibaba Group Holding has introduced what it called China’s most powerful artificial intelligence chip and teased plans to train an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, as top executives reaffirmed the tech giant’s ambition to pursue artificial superintelligence (ASI). Speaking at the company’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou on Tuesday, group chairman Joe Tsai highlighted Alibaba’s commitment to building end-to-end capabilities. “Alibaba is firmly investing in building full-stack AI...

For all the recent progress in artificial intelligence, most machines still struggle with something humans learn as children: touch. A worker can feel when a box is slipping, when a surface is unstable, or when a repeated movement is putting strain on the body. Robots and automated systems, by contrast, often rely heavily on cameras, […] The post TacnIQ.ai raises US$1.5M to teach machines the language of touch appeared first on e27.

For Hyperbond Studio, the question was never only whether artificial intelligence could teach a language. It was whether people would keep coming back long enough for the teaching to matter. The Singapore-based startup, best known for its AI language-learning dating simulation app Call Me Sensei, has secured backing from Supercell, the Finnish gaming company behind […] The post Supercell backs Hyperbond Studio as Call Me Sensei bets on AI romance for language learning appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin’s surge to around US$87,000 has captured the market’s full attention, and the data tells a clear story about what powered this move. The leading cryptocurrency rallied from the mid US$70,000s to an intraday high near US$87,000, its strongest level since late January. That advance pushed its market cap toward roughly US$1.7 trillion to US$1.8 […] The post Bitcoin’s US$87,000 spike: Real breakout or a US$900 million short squeeze? appeared first on e27.

Startups are constantly encouraged to expand. Enter new countries, test new segments, build distribution partnerships, hire locally and capture market share before someone else does. Much less attention is given to the opposite decision: leaving a market that looked promising but is not working. That decision is often harder than entering in the first place. […] The post Startups should learn to leave bad markets faster appeared first on e27.

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has revamped its online payments operations by creating a new business group for Alipay, as it sharpens its artificial intelligence focus on “agentic commerce” to drive new growth. Ant, an Alibaba Group Holding affiliate, merged its Digital Payment Business Group, Alipay Business Group and Zhima Credit Business Group into a new business unit dedicated to Alipay, according to an internal letter from CEO Cyril Han Xinyi on Monday, as reported by Chinese media outlet...