A pronounced wave of Chinese-owned businesses is reshaping Malaysia’s commercial landscape, from the hair salons of Kuala Lumpur’s integrated townships to automotive service chains operating across more than a dozen outlets. These operators compete on price, operating hours and digital…
The resignation of a single 27-year-old researcher rarely moves markets or rewrites policy. But when Jacob Coxon walked away from Anthropic this week, he did something more unsettling: he confirmed, from the inside, what critics have long argued from without.…
What is OpenAI actually selling now? The answer is no longer just chatbots. OpenAI is pushing its AI capabilities into highly specialised industrial verticals — chip design, life sciences, financial services — while simultaneously restructuring how it charges for them.…
A two-month coordinated operation between the Singapore Police Force and five major banks disrupted more than 400 scam attempts and prevented over S$46 million in potential losses, the SPF announced on Tuesday. The operation, which ran from July 1 to…
The Regulatory Thesis Singapore’s Online Criminal Harms Act Office has issued a set of binding codes of practice that fundamentally recast the legal obligations of messaging services, social media platforms, and e-commerce operators — and the central argument embedded in…
A Calculated Disruption to Northeast Asian Security Architecture The thesis is straightforward, even if its implications are not: Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea, paired with his public praise of Kim Jong Un and…
The idea took shape long before the doors opened. Perennial Holdings, a Singapore-listed conglomerate with roughly a decade of eldercare operations in China and approximately 38,000 beds in its portfolio, had been watching Singapore’s ageing demographic curve with the kind…
A Landmark Reckoning for the Platform Meta entered federal court in Oakland, California this week to face one of the most consequential legal challenges in its history — a multi-state trial examining whether the company deliberately engineered addictive features, misled…
Every August, a familiar ritual plays out across Singapore’s middle-class households. The latest global university rankings drop, and with them comes the annual cascade of WhatsApp forwards, forum threads, and dinner-table negotiations between parents and their children about what a…
In 1846, two men sat down to commercialise a technology that most of Britain had barely heard of. William Fothergill Cooke, an engineer, and John Lewis Ricardo, a businessman, founded the Electric Telegraph Company to bring electric telegraph communication to…
