A letter to the editor by Dr Gleb Tsipursky, a behavioural scientist and author, argues that Singapore's AI anxiety among workers, where 89 per cent use AI at work but only 67 per cent believe it will…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing record shareholder returns after investor concerns over AI hardware spending sustainability hit their stocks. Samsung will announce a plan worth more tha…
SK Hynix and its labour union reached a tentative wage deal featuring a 6.3% salary increase and a shift in bonus payments to 40% cash and 60% company shares, replacing the previous all-cash structure…
The Star 50 Index, dominated by technology firms with 86% of its constituents in information technology, has outperformed the CSI 300 Index by about 30% in 2026, emerging as the key gauge for China's …
Apple Inc.'s camera-equipped AirPods remain on track for a 2027 launch despite a leaked video suggesting an earlier release, according to people familiar with the matter. The earbuds, designed to ente…
Singapore Computer Society (SCS) president Lim Bee Kwan announced a new cross-industry AI skills pathway at the Tech³ Forum 2026 on Thursday (Aug 20), designed to align learning pathways, industry-rec…
US President Donald Trump pressed Congress to pass the Clarity Act, a digital asset market structure bill, during a White House meeting with cryptocurrency executives on Aug 19, calling it critical to…
Deal value in South-east Asia's energy infrastructure surged 2.5 times year on year to US$9.2 billion in Q1 2026, driven by AI-driven data centre demand and energy security concerns amid Iran war disr…
Singapore stocks ended lower on Wednesday (Aug 19), with the Straits Times Index (STI) losing 0.1 per cent or 7.16 points to finish at 5,694.24. UOL Group led gainers, rising 2.7 per cent to S$9.44, w…
Reserve Bank of Australia Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser warned on Wednesday (Aug 19) that the central bank will have to raise interest rates again if upside risks to inflation crystallise, citing the …
Unitree Robotics, officially Yushu Technology, will begin trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Aug 19 after raising 6.1 billion yuan (US$904 million) in an IPO, making it the first publicly trade…
Wall Street's main indexes closed lower on Tuesday, Aug 18, with the S&P 500 losing 0.69% to 7,691.76 and the Nasdaq Composite shedding 1.33% to 26,289.71, as rising bond yields and Middle East uncert…
Global digital infrastructure platform DayOne has secured a S$530 million four-year green loan from DBS, OCBC, and UOB to finance its first data centre in Singapore, which will be the country's first …
ManpowerGroup chairman and CEO Jonas Prising said the hiring slowdown is mostly due to economic cycles, not technology killing jobs, and that coders remain in high demand, dropping from No. 2 to No. 4…
Alphabet Inc. has started marketing its debut Australian dollar bond sale, seeking to raise about A$5 billion (US$3.6 billion) in four maturities, including a 20-year note, according to Australia & Ne…
A Lloyds Business Barometer survey of 1,200 UK companies found that 54% said AI led to job creation, with a quarter increasingly hiring candidates with AI skills and a fifth creating new AI-specific r…
BHP Group reported a better-than-expected full-year underlying profit of US$13.20 billion for the year ended June 30, beating the Visible Alpha consensus of US$12.66 billion, driven by record copper p…
Singapore will assume the Asean chairmanship in 2027, and the bloc's 11 member states are expected to sign the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (Defa) in November, establishing common rules for dig…
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has deployed over 160 artificial intelligence applications, with more than 550 potential generative AI use cases identified, as part of its push to become a leading 'digital a…
Nearly 40 per cent of Singapore's resident workforce is aged 50 and above, and AI-powered recruitment systems risk scaling age bias, according to a commentary in The Business Times. The article argues…