The M5 Ultra chip is Apple’s most powerful Mac chip yet.

Vietnam’s car-care market is large, busy and still highly fragmented. For many car owners, booking a wash, detailing job or routine maintenance service remains a matter of phone calls, word-of-mouth recommendations and uneven service standards. Bonbon Mobility wants to put a digital layer over that experience. The Ho Chi Minh City-based startup has entered a […] The post Bonbon Mobility raises US$500K to digitise Vietnam’s car-care market appeared first on e27.

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...

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.

The United States and China’s agreement to establish an official AI dialogue, including a proposed threat-notification system, marks a pragmatic step towards crisis prevention in their tech war, even as deep-seated divisions over chip access, model distillation and market dominance threaten to limit its impact, analysts said. Announced following high-level talks in New York on Sunday between US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Vice-Premier He Lifeng,...

The United States and China’s agreement to establish an official AI dialogue, including a proposed threat-notification system, marks a pragmatic step towards crisis prevention in their tech war, even as deep-seated divisions over chip access, model distillation and market dominance threaten to limit its impact, analysts said. Announced following high-level talks in New York on Sunday between US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Vice-Premier He Lifeng,...

MANILA, Philippines – Magic: The Gathering’s Commander (MTG) format is about to become more accessible, thanks to the upcoming Foundations Commander Decks. Cited by Wizards of the Coast (WotC) as the most popular tabletop format for Magic: The Gathering, Commander can be an intimidating place for newer players, especially with its massive card pool and

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI has begun supplying its flagship Kimi K3 model to Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s largest cloud services providers, in a major test case for how open-weight AI models can generate higher revenue from third-party platforms. The model is now available on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s tool for building generative AI applications, offering “a powerful new option for coding and knowledge work”, Amazon said in an announcement on Friday. While...

MANILA, Philippines – For the first time in three years, Blizzard’s annual fan gathering, BlizzCon returned. The California-based publisher, developer—and now Microsoft subsidiary—kicked off a weekend-long celebration with big reveals for their familiar brands and franchises. The Blizzard identity has always been wrapped up in a small number of steadfast IPs. Series like Warcraft, Diablo