Ant Group consolidates Alipay operations in big bet on AI ‘agentic commerce’

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...

Robotics and rehabilitation are undergoing a profound transformation that the industry’s own measurement infrastructure has largely failed to keep pace with. For four decades the recording of movement in three dimensions has been organised around a building in a studio. From a wired ring of cameras, a morning of calibration, and a purchase order that […] The post Why Asia’s Physical AI boom will be decided at the camera, not the model appeared first on e27.

Ask most founders why a deal stalled and they’ll say the same thing: “they wanted a better price.” It’s the most comfortable explanation in the room, because it points outward — at the market, at the competitor who undercut you, at a buyer who’s “just being cheap.” A common counter-argument is worth taking seriously: a […] The post Your price problem is a positioning problem wearing a discount request appeared first on e27.

Apple Intelligence now requires up to 14GB storage for newer iPhone models.

The next useful software product may come from someone your hiring process would reject. A paramedic. A teacher. A shop owner with no software credentials, but years of experience with a problem that nobody has bothered to fix. AI coding platforms give more of these people a way to build an answer. Whether anyone takes […] The post AI lets outsiders build but the connected still have an advantage appeared first on e27.

Every few months, another story circulates about Vietnamese-origin engineers leaving Silicon Valley, Tokyo, or Seoul to come home. The framing is almost always the same: here is an underused pool of senior talent, and here is why your company should go get some. That framing skips the harder question. Attracting a returning engineer is the […] The post Vietnam’s returning engineers are high-quality talent. Keeping them is the real problem appeared first on e27.

A generation ago, digital literacy was considered a specialist skill. Today, the ability to use digital tools, communicate online, and work with technology is a basic expectation across most industries. Artificial intelligence is following a similar path. What was once viewed as an emerging technology reserved for tech companies is rapidly becoming accessible to businesses […] The post Why AI literacy is becoming a business necessity, not a competitive advantage appeared first on e27.

Apple reportedly designed a shorter Apple Pencil specifically for its first foldable iPhone.

The teller does not sound accusatory. The tone is worse than that. It is procedural. A man in his thirties slides his phone across the counter and points to the screen, a transfer that never arrived, a balance that will not move. The teller looks past the story and into the system. The account is […] The post The compliance paradox: More checks, more fraud appeared first on e27.

In China’s hardware hub in Shenzhen, the speculative frenzy around consumer multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) has cooled into a sharp price correction, but prices for artificial intelligence server components remain elevated. Spot prices for consumer-grade MLCCs, often dubbed the “the rice of the electronics industry”, have fallen by two-thirds from their peak two months ago, according to Wang Jun, an MLCC distributor in Huaqiangbei, a commercial zone in the city known for electronic...

Only the Vivo X500 and X500 Pro Max are coming to Singapore’s shores. No sign of an Ultra yet.