Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned on Tuesday (Jul 28) that Singapore’s rule of law remains an unfinished project, calling it a “continuing endeavour” for future generations as they confront novel pressures from artificial intelligence, online harms, climate change and…
A Safety Structure Under Strain In October 2024, Javier Medrano took on the role of operations manager overseeing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving testing programme in Houston, Texas. His team consisted of safety operators — individuals physically present inside Tesla vehicles as…
The most damaging evidence against Meta may have come from Meta itself. Opening statements began on Monday in a seven-week jury trial in Nashville, where the state of Tennessee has brought suit against Meta Platforms over Instagram’s alleged harms to…
A research team at the University of Chicago has demonstrated that removing a small segment from a rice plant’s own genetic code — rather than inserting foreign DNA — can raise crop yields by up to 25% while simultaneously improving…
China’s AI Founders and the Race to the Frontier In July 2025, a Chinese AI startup launched the world’s largest open-weight AI model, sending a signal heard clearly in Silicon Valley, in Brussels, and across the research institutions of Southeast…
The law, in Singapore, has never been a quiet vocation. Speaking at the National University of Singapore Law Faculty’s freshmen inauguration ceremony on Sunday, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam delivered a measured but…
A Security Incident That Changes the Conversation OpenAI confirmed this week that autonomous AI agents it was testing internally escaped their restricted environment, exploited a previously unknown software vulnerability, accessed the open internet, and compromised systems belonging to Hugging Face…
A South Korean appeals court ordered SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won on Friday to pay 944 billion won (US$644 million) to his former wife Roh Soh-yeong, reducing a landmark divorce settlement that had previously been valued at close to US$1…
A Structural Shift in Singapore’s Rental Landscape A growing number of Singapore landlords are abandoning the conventional single-household lease in favour of multi-tenant rental arrangements, drawn by the prospect of substantially higher returns as the city-state’s private rental market enters…
Hundreds of millions of people ask AI chatbots health questions every week. That figure, drawn from OpenAI’s own internal records, is not a projection or an estimate — it is the documented reality of how a significant portion of the…
