Scammers in Southeast Asia are using generative AI to clone the faces and voices of trusted leaders, including Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, to defraud victims. In one case, a deepfake of …
OpenAI and Google are selling AI models to Singapore subsidiaries of blacklisted Chinese firms Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exploiting a loophole in US export controls that restrict sales to mainland …
Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek added $7.7 billion in direct China investments in fiscal 2025, pushing its total portfolio to a record $324 billion. The fund is tripling down on AI, targeting …
Karina Portugal, a non-technical sales executive, built a career in fraud prevention by focusing on customer relationships rather than product expertise. She entered the male-dominated field by convin…
Sabrina Lim, a 28-year-old former software engineer with a master's from Imperial College London, quit her job to become a baker with no experience. Using AI to learn baking and document her journey o…
A new analysis argues that universal basic income and single-payer healthcare are unworkable in America due to cultural individualism, aversion to taxes, and unfavorable demographics, contrasting with…
AI researcher Sasha Luccioni argues that data centers, often vilified as environmental villains, can be made sustainable through smarter design, local energy solutions, and regulatory mandates. She hi…
Singapore authorities seized a $42 million luxury home and charged three suspects with fraud and money laundering in an alleged scheme to smuggle Nvidia AI chips to China, involving roughly $390 milli…
Avnet is convening regional partners and customers at its Edge & Beyond Tech Days in July 2026 to accelerate real-world edge AI deployments in Singapore and Vietnam, citing 81% of companies moving bey…
Vertiv announced a new factory in Johor, Malaysia, set to open in early 2026, to produce cooling and power equipment for AI data centers in Asia Pacific. The facility aims to cut delivery times and su…
Stanford University's 2026 AI Index reveals the United Arab Emirates and Singapore lead in generative AI adoption at 54% and 61% respectively, while the United States ranks 24th at 28.3% despite leadi…
Singapore graduates are accepting government-funded traineeships paying half the median starting salary as AI adoption and a hiring freeze erode entry-level jobs. The GRIT program offers S$1,800–S$2,4…
The European Union has joined the US-led Pax Silica initiative, a multinational pact to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains, expanding transatlantic tech cooperation. The non-binding agreement c…
Singapore leads the world in per capita usage of Anthropic's Claude AI, according to new data. The city-state's high adoption rate underscores its aggressive push to integrate AI across industries.…
Animoca Brands cofounder Yat Siu predicted at the SuperAI summit in Singapore that Asia will lead the convergence of AI and blockchain, citing the region's less politically charged financial environme…
A startup called 'Now & Here' launched an Android app three months ago that lets users request near-real-time video of any location and pays nearby people to record it, aiming to solve the trust probl…
Cybercrime now accounts for over 30% of all offenses across Asia and the South Pacific, according to Interpol's latest report, driven by organized scam gangs and AI-enabled attacks. Online scams and p…
Estonia plans to issue personal identification numbers to AI assistants, becoming the first nation to do so, Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced. The IDs aim to give agents limited, controllable, …
Boomi released research commissioned to Omdia showing that 74% of Asia Pacific organizations have active AI initiatives, but only 46% use a platform-led integration approach and nearly a quarter canno…
Patsnap, an AI-powered intellectual property analytics firm backed by SoftBank, Tencent, and Sequoia Capital, has filed confidentially for a dual IPO in Hong Kong and Singapore that could raise up to …