China’s technology sector is facing fresh pressure in the United States as lawmakers seek to broaden the range of products that can be placed on a trade blacklist, while Lenovo Group has been drawn into a patent dispute involving memory devices. The Communications and Technology Transparency Act, unveiled by the US House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, would expand the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Covered List from “communications equipment or service” to the much...

The global race to lead artificial intelligence is usually framed as a contest between countries: the US versus China, with Europe, India and a handful of others trying to carve out space. A new ranking argues that this view misses where much of the action is actually happening. The Observer’s inaugural AI Cities Index, released […] The post Seoul tops global AI implementation as Singapore enters top tier appeared first on e27.

Efforts to detect multiple cancers through a single blood draw are gathering momentum after US regulators endorsed the technology for the first time, although experts say wider adoption in Hong Kong still faces challenges as doctors remain cautious about its clinical value. In a landmark decision for the emerging field of multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests, a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on Thursday voted in favour of US company Grail’s “Galleri test”, recommending it...

The artificial intelligence road map presented at its flagship Apsara Conference this week showcased a pragmatic pivot by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding, offering a clearer path to monetisation despite a sharp escalation in capital expenditure, analysts said. The conference, which ran from Tuesday to Thursday under the theme “Intelligence goes beyond”, highlighted “Alibaba’s disciplined execution across its full-stack AI ecosystem”, said Cathy Chan, an analyst at CCB International. She...

The artificial intelligence road map presented at its flagship Apsara Conference this week showcased a pragmatic pivot by Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding, offering a clearer path to monetisation despite a sharp escalation in capital expenditure, analysts said. The conference, which ran from Tuesday to Thursday under the theme “Intelligence goes beyond”, highlighted “Alibaba’s disciplined execution across its full-stack AI ecosystem”, said Cathy Chan, an analyst at CCB International. She...

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Southeast Asia’s startup funding market is showing signs of life again, but the recovery is not reaching most founders. Venture-backed companies in the region raised US$7.25 billion across 217 equity deals in the first half of 2026, according to the Southeast Asia Startup Funding Report H1 2026 by Kickstart Ventures and DealStreetAsia. That is the […] The post SEA startup funding jumps to US$7.25B, but most founders are still waiting appeared first on e27.

This rollout follows a refresh of its larger siblings earlier in the year with the same processor.

Tencent Holdings on Thursday launched TenPayGo, a mobile payment app targeting foreign visitors, as the tech giant seeks to capture China’s growing inbound tourism market ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen. Developed by Tencent’s WeChat Pay team, TenPayGo allowed international travellers to make payments at tens of millions of shops, restaurants and attractions across the WeChat Pay network by linking their credit cards or their home-country digital wallets...

Word on the street is that we will see a new iPad mini before the end of the year.

Singapore’s food waste problem is often framed as a consumer habit or a logistics issue. For Life Lab Resources, it is also a feedstock problem, and one that could help ease another pressure point in Southeast Asia: rising demand for more sustainable aquaculture feed. The Singapore-based startup has raised US$1 million in fresh funding to […] The post Life Lab Resources grabs US$1M to turn food waste into aquaculture feed appeared first on e27.

The digital asset market has fallen by 2.57 per cent to US$2.86T over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin, the largest token by market value, dropped 2.81 per cent to US$84,261.32 during the same period. The total crypto market cap declined 2.92 per cent, and Bitcoin’s move closely tracked that broader drop. The data shows a […] The post Bitcoin’s corrective pullback or the start of a deeper drop toward US$79,600? appeared first on e27.

Asia’s ETF market has never been more dynamic. Assets are growing, new issuers are entering the market, investors are more engaged and product innovation is accelerating. For many years, the region’s ETF industry was defined by its potential. Today, that potential is becoming reality, with Asia emerging as the world’s fastest-growing ETF market. Yet growth […] The post Can Asia’s ETF infrastructure keep pace with its growth? appeared first on e27.

Cynthia Wihardja’s LinkedIn post begins not with a legal argument, but with a distinction: “There are two ways to lose your freedom. One is done to you. The other, you do to yourself.” The first, she says, is what has happened to her brother, Donald Wihardja, the former head of MDI Ventures, who has begun […] The post TaniHub, prison and grace: Cynthia Wihardja’s post gives a human face to VC risk appeared first on e27.

In the last week of August, Viettel’s network engineers were doing something most of their customers never saw. They were moving traffic in real time, pushing 800 gigabits per second onto one undersea cable, another 300 onto a second, then routing whatever was left over a terrestrial fibre line that runs through Laos into Singapore. […] The post Why scaling across Southeast Asia means pricing in the cable you never see appeared first on e27.

There’s a specific kind of meeting I used to dread in the early years of building Ngital. You’ve prepared everything. You’ve built the presentation carefully. You’ve researched the client’s industry. You walk in, and within the first 10 minutes, you realise the person across the table has already decided what they want, and what they […] The post What building Bangladesh’s agency actually looks like from the inside – Part 1 appeared first on e27.

Gold has been a store of wealth across Asia for generations, yet access through traditional financial markets still carries familiar friction. Investors often need dedicated brokerage accounts, fixed trading windows and capital separated from money held elsewhere. What is changing is not what Asian investors want to own. It is how they access it. A […] The post Asian investors aren’t choosing between crypto and TradFi anymore appeared first on e27.

A startup doubles its headcount. It opens a new sales channel. It ships a second product line. All of this happens while the business is still running on a spreadsheet, a half-built dashboard, or a weekly gut-check meeting. Nobody notices the gap at first, growth feels like growth. Then, three months in, someone on the […] The post Startups keep scaling ops before they scale data — Here’s why it backfires appeared first on e27.

Apple has reportedly been testing screen-less fitness tracker prototypes for months.

For centuries, doctors have treated patients without having immediate access to an encyclopaedia of medical knowledge. A physician examining a patient did not need to read every medical textbook before deciding what to do. They observed symptoms, considered the patient’s history, recognised patterns, weighed possibilities and drew on years of experience. They did not know […] The post The future of healthcare AI isn’t more data. It’s better context appeared first on e27.

Every growing company eventually builds a ritual around checking in on itself. Daily standups, weekly syncs, status calls stacked on status calls, all in the name of staying aligned. At some point, that ritual stops serving the work because the team starts doing the check-in instead of doing the actual work. Fixing it meant asking […] The post How I rebuilt my company’s meeting culture after realising we were drowning in status updates appeared first on e27.

For years, one question has dominated the conversation around artificial intelligence: How many jobs will AI replace? After working with enterprises in Southeast Asia to deploy AI into real business processes, I increasingly think we are asking the wrong question. The more important question is: How much more can an organisation accomplish when AI becomes […] The post AI won’t just replace jobs. It will redesign how companies work appeared first on e27.

Earlier this evening I was trying to send some editorial instructions to our Discord group chat for work. All of these messages didn’t go through. I had initially thought I was in a no-signal zone, but my GOMO eSIM clearly had a 5G signal. Not thinking about it too much I switched to my SMART

The next portfolio concentration problem may not come from investors staying too close to home, but from millions of investors becoming familiar with the same handful of global companies. For decades, one of the most persistent puzzles in investing has been home bias. Investors have traditionally tended to allocate disproportionately to companies and assets from […] The post Reverse home bias: Why Southeast Asia’s digital investors may be diversifying in the wrong direction appeared first on e27.

It (likely) earned an Elite classification with 2x greater AI capability, a 30% smaller footprint, and integrated micro-power Wi-Fi 6E.

The new flagship also packs a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 processor, up to 8,500mAh battery, and an improved secondary rear display.

When the presidents of the United States and China meet in Washington, the world will be watching to see whether their two countries can make good on their agreement to work towards “constructive strategic stability”. In the sixth part of a series, Chong Ming Lee and Vincent Chow examine what’s behind the call for “pacing” by American AI giants – effectively a slowdown in development – and how the phenomenon is being viewed in China. After years of rapid development, leading US AI executives are...

US President Donald Trump has sold shares worth tens of millions of US dollars in major tech companies, including Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms in July, a move that may reveal some of his views on the sector, especially as competition with China intensifies. Microsoft topped the list of sales transactions, with six trades totalling up to US$31 million, according to filings disclosed by the US Office of Government Ethics on Tuesday. The data detailed Trump’s trading activity in July,...

For university students looking to build skills in cloud computing and AI, Amazon Web Services has launched a program that is worth knowing about, particularly for those already studying technology-related courses. AWS Student Rewards, available through the AWS Builder Center, gives verified higher education students access to 12 months of premium AWS Skill Builder, which

Chinese storage makers, long known for packaging chips into modules, have been moving up the value chain into wafer-level operations, with the latest firm to make the jump investing 4.5 billion yuan (US$672 million) in an advanced packaging project. The sum, which Shanghai-listed Biwin Storage Technology will pour into the third phase of its advanced packaging and testing project in Dongguan, in southern China’s Guangdong province, will exceed the 3.09 billion yuan it put into the first two...