Singapore's hotel sector grew 4% in the first half of 2026, according to Far East Hospitality managing director Mark Rohner, who said agentic AI combined with robotic process automation will soon go l…
Copper price volatility is hitting Asia-Pacific data centre developers harder than global peers due to the region's inefficient power grids requiring more copper, analysts say. Alexander Kheder of BMI…
AI-related demand, robust household spending and a weaker-than-expected drag from the Middle East conflict are expected to boost growth in the Asean+3 economies to 4.1% in 2026, up from a previous for…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Monday that the Iran conflict has primarily affected Singapore's inflation rather than growth, and any growth drag will be outweighed by a boost from …
Productivity growth has decoupled from wage growth across the US, Europe, and Japan since around 1970, with the gap widening into a chasm in recent years, according to economic data. The trend risks a…
CXMT, formerly ChangXin Memory Technologies, surged 472% in its Shanghai debut on Monday after raising 66.6 billion yuan (US$9.8 billion) in China's second-largest IPO ever. The world's fourth-largest…
China's anti-corruption campaign is turning to the artificial intelligence sector as a new corruption risk, following the expulsion of former Politburo member Ma Xingrui for economic misconduct involv…
HSBC is hiring more than 100 artificial intelligence specialists for its first global AI centre of excellence in Singapore, set to launch later this year, and will also add 100 wealth relationship man…
Nvidia is in discussions to provide a guarantee of about US$250 billion to help OpenAI lease computing from a 10-gigawatt data centre hub that SoftBank Group is developing in Ohio, the Wall Street Jou…
The US Federal Reserve faces growing pressure to hike interest rates at its Jul 28-29 meeting as oil prices rebound due to Middle East tensions, AI-related demand, and new US tariffs fuel inflation ri…
Andrew Izyumov, founder of 8FIGURES, argues that AI can be trusted with financial decisions when designed to counteract emotional trading and incentive conflicts, citing his platform's flat US$20 mont…
Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) Open Innovation Platform (OIP) helps firms identify challenges, evaluate solutions and assess outcomes before deploying AI, as part of the gover…
A deepening divide in Silicon Valley over restricting Chinese AI has pitted companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, which argue for tight control of AI models, against Microsoft, Nvidia, and others that …
Samsung Electronics said on Saturday it struck a pact with US chip designer Broadcom to widen cooperation across memory chips, contract chip making and advanced packaging envisaged to exceed US$200 bi…
DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments widely attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about US-China AI competition went viral, people familiar with the matter said. The Chines…
Elon Musk, the engineer and entrepreneur, is helping create advanced AI that he says will render all human beings powerless within five years, according to an interview with The Insider. The race to d…
Singapore must build a longevity economy that improves lives without driving unnecessary healthcare spending, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Jul 25 at The Business Times Longevity Forum. Ong high…
Fidelity International, BNP Paribas Asset Management, and other big Asia stock funds are reducing exposure to volatile AI-related markets like South Korea and Taiwan, rotating into laggards such as Ch…
Nvidia will invest US$1 billion in Naver to help finance an AI data centre in South Korea, more than tripling the facility's size, and expand its partnership with SK Group to build over 2 gigawatts of…
BlackRock has seen weaker-than-usual demand for a US$12.3 billion corporate bond sale tied to a Meta Platforms data centre project in Texas, with final demand reaching US$20 billion, or about 1.6 time…