Hong Kong businesses are lagging behind their mainland Chinese peers in adopting artificial intelligence, as entrenched legacy systems and a risk-averse corporate mindset slow the city’s digital transition, according to a senior executive at consultancy Accenture. Only 10 per cent of Hong Kong firms surveyed by Accenture had integrated generative AI across multiple business functions, compared with about 21 per cent of mainland enterprises, said Robert Hah, Hong Kong office lead at Accenture...

Sibol’s Pokémon UNITE campaign at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 ended with a bronze medal after Indonesia stopped the Philippines in the semifinals at Aichi Sky Expo on Sunday. The Philippines fell 2-0 to Indonesia in the semifinal, ending its bid for a place in the gold-medal match. Despite the loss, the result gave

Anthropic has told prospective investors that it is growing at a pace few companies have matched, losing money at a scale few could survive, and building a product that could pose an existential threat to humanity. The prospectus behind what could become the largest IPO on record shows revenue rising twelvefold to nearly US$4.6 billion in 2025, […] The post Ecosystem Roundup: Anthropic’s IPO filing: 12x revenue, US$8B loss and an extinction risk appeared first on e27.

Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans to invest 34.9 billion yuan (US$5.2 billion) in expansion, with a large portion of the capital going to domestic suppliers of chipmaking equipment, according to a source. The firm, listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Star Market, would spend 24.1 billion yuan on a new technology research and development project and another 10.8 billion yuan on the second phase of a wafer testing base, according to a Monday stock filing. The...

Shares of Akeso surged after British drug maker AstraZeneca moved to advance the Chinese biotech firm’s flagship cancer drug, while a new deal from US giant Merck further underscored the sector’s global momentum amid easing fears of US curbs. AstraZeneca on Tuesday announced a US$2 billion equity investment in Florida-headquartered Summit Therapeutics, which holds the exclusive rights to develop and commercialise Akeso’s immunotherapy drug ivonescimab outside China. Summit and AstraZeneca would...

Armageddon is what will happen when billionaires, or even trillionaires, are given free rein. Could this be the final outcome of late-stage American capitalism and democracy? Imagine a human-extinction event: a rogue artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, a new world war or runaway climate change. You likely already have a fair idea of where the safest places on earth and beyond are, if you have been following the ultra-wealthy individuals from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. They are building...

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Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into asset management, but not only through chatbots, research summaries or back-office automation. The bigger question is whether AI can help investment firms do what has become increasingly difficult in public markets: find differentiated returns at scale. Blue Fire AI, a technology company focused on AI-driven investment management, is making […] The post Blue Fire AI closes US$9M round with AM-One stake under Mizuho partnership appeared first on e27.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics is making its largest single-product investment to date, committing US$4.9 billion to expand production of chip-packaging substrates in South Korea and Vietnam as the artificial intelligence boom reshapes demand across the semiconductor supply chain. In two filings with the Korea Exchange dated September 28, the Samsung Electronics affiliate said it will spend about […] The post Vietnam gains from Samsung Electro-Mechanics’s US$4.9B AI substrate expansion plan appeared first on e27.

For companies selling, hiring or operating across multiple countries, the promise of going global often runs into a very old problem: banking still behaves as if borders are hard walls. Opening local accounts can require entities, paperwork and long waits. Payments move through correspondent banks. Foreign exchange fees are not always clear. Finance teams end […] The post 1982 Ventures joins Limited’s US$18.5M seed round to simplify cross-border business banking appeared first on e27.

For much of the past decade, autonomous driving has been a story of bold promises followed by hard resets. Robotaxis were meant to flood cities by now. Instead, the industry has learned that driving without a human behind the wheel is not one problem, but thousands of edge cases stitched together: pedestrians who cross unpredictably, […] The post Autonomous A2Z bets on driverless shuttles as self-driving technology gets practical appeared first on e27.

US chip giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence start-up founded by renowned Chinese-American computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, for US$8.2 billion in an all-stock deal, as the company steps up its rivalry with Nvidia. The acquisition, expected to close by the end of this year, would integrate World Labs’ research team and spatial-intelligence model expertise into AMD, according to an announcement on Monday. Li, a Stanford University professor...

US chip giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence start-up founded by renowned Chinese-American computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, for US$8.2 billion in an all-stock deal, as the company steps up its rivalry with Nvidia. The acquisition, expected to close by the end of this year, would integrate World Labs’ research team and spatial-intelligence model expertise into AMD, according to an announcement on Monday. Li, a Stanford University professor...

The renewed agreement will take effect on 1 April 2027.

Shares of Shein Global Holdings fell as much as 14 per cent to a record low in Hong Kong on Tuesday after the online fashion retailer posted a 67 per cent drop in second-quarter profit in its first earnings report since listing, warning that tariff headwinds and logistics cost volatility would persist for the rest of the year. The stock sank to as low as HK$30.24 during the day and closed 10.7 per cent down at HK$31.50. Both the intraday and closing prices hit their lowest levels since the...

This week at Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg held up something that looked like a toy. The Muse Charm is a keychain-sized gadget with a little animated avatar on its screen. You press it, talk to it, and your Muse agent gets to work. Meta says it will ship by December. The Muse agent behind it […] The post Zuckerberg’s Muse Charm doesn’t care about your ad budget appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin is down 1.05 per cent to US$83,491.07 in 24 hours. The total crypto market has fallen 1.49 per cent to US$2.86 trillion. My view is that this decline is not one single story. It is a two-part selloff in which a major security breach and a broader macroeconomic risk-off shift have collided. The Bitget […] The post Can Bitcoin hold US$82,000? Inside the security fear and macro storm appeared first on e27.

When foreign technology companies first speak to me about Singapore, the conversation usually starts with one of three things: customers, talent or tax. Government funding often comes much later. That surprises me because Singapore has a sizeable ecosystem of grants, tax incentives and investment support available to companies building substantive operations here. But there is […] The post What I have learned watching foreign tech companies build in Singapore appeared first on e27.

The planet has already passed 1.5°C of warming against pre-industrial levels, or it’s very near. This isn’t fiction or a scam; it’s science and it’s existential. The 1.5°C target was set at the 2015 Paris Agreement after intense pressure from vulnerable island nations. It was meant to head off irreversible tipping points like catastrophic sea-level […] The post Passing 1.5°C global warming: Performative ESG is no longer acceptable appeared first on e27.

The eight-episode series will include additional content not seen in the version currently screening in Japanese cinemas.

Funcom’s survival game arrives on consoles with a full single-player mode and optional PvP.

Alibaba Group Holding has become an official technology and cloud partner of NBA team Brooklyn Nets, as the tech giant pushes for a deeper presence in the sports industry. The collaboration was announced on Monday under a multi-year strategic partnership between Alibaba and Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the basketball team. It would also see Alibaba become Brooklyn Nets’ official jersey patch sponsor ahead of the basketball team’s 60th anniversary season, according to a...

Alibaba Group Holding has become an official technology and cloud partner of NBA team Brooklyn Nets, as the tech giant pushes for a deeper presence in the sports industry. The collaboration was announced on Monday under a multi-year strategic partnership between Alibaba and Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the basketball team. It would also see Alibaba become Brooklyn Nets’ official jersey patch sponsor ahead of the basketball team’s 60th anniversary season, according to a...

For much of the past three years, the politics of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolved around relatively familiar questions. Will AI take jobs? Who owns the copyright to the material on which models are trained? Can companies protect personal data? And who should be responsible when an algorithm causes harm? Britain’s latest AI debate suggests […] The post AI governance is moving from promises to proof appeared first on e27.

A small number of users are said to be facing issues with their new iPhone’s Face ID system.

The US-China AI competition faces a dilemma. Both countries see artificial intelligence as a source of economic, scientific and strategic power, so neither has much incentive to slow down. Yet the more capable and autonomous AI becomes, the more important the question of human control. Last week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping brought that tension into the open. Trump wants to leave AI “exactly where it is” rather than add new guardrails, while Xi...

TOKYO, Japan – It has been a long time since Castlevania received a brand-new game, but Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse feels surprisingly comfortable picking up the mantle. Playable at Tokyo Game Show 2026, the upcoming title puts players in control of Rose Belmont as she battles through a monster-infested Paris alongside her father, Trevor Belmont. Set

My first real entry point into Dune was Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One. I knew what Dune was before watching it, of course, but the 2021 film was the first time the world really clicked for me. Dune: Part Two only made it more compelling. A big part of that was Paul Atreides and the

Sibol’s Honor of Kings squad came into the Asian Games with a podium finish as its target. It left Aichi-Nagoya with a bronze medal after making its way through a long opening day, sweeping South Korea in the quarterfinals, and eventually falling to defending champion China in the semifinals. The Philippines began its Honor of

MANILA, Philippines – Magic: The Gathering’s (MTG) multiversal saga headlined by Jace Beleren is coming to a head with its latest Standard expansion, Reality Fracture releasing on October 2, 2026. What if the Multiverse existed without the suffering, Eldrazi, and Phyrexians that shaped its history? Reality Fracture explores those possibilities through the Echoverse, a warped