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Weekly Perplexity Update Report (Jan 11 – Jan 17, 2026)

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weekly Anthropic Insight Report, January 17, 2026

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OpenAI Weekly Update Report, January 17, 2026

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Weekly AI Tech Research Update Jan 16, 2026

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FintechNews.sg – Weekly Newsletter January 11 – January 17, 2026

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Fintech Frontier Weekly — Stablecoins, AI‑Agents & Payments Policy Pulse, Friday, 16 January 2026

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Fintech Pulse Weekly, Saturday, 17 January 2026

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China’s Robot Revolution - Commanding Over 80% of the Global Humanoid Market in 2025

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Alipay and Alibaba Unveil China’s First AI Commerce Protocol — Redefining In-Chat Shopping

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Veera’s $10M Boost - Inside the Singapore Crypto Startup Redefining On-Chain Finance

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OpenAI Backs Sam Altman’s Merge Labs to Build Non-Invasive Brain-AI Interfaces

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Why Visa’s Crypto Chief Thinks Stablecoin Payments Are Poised for Takeoff

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Alibaba’s Qwen AI Goes From Chatbot to Commerce Engine — Now Lets You Pay, Book Travel, and Order Food Inside the Chat

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Open‑Source AI Shakes Up Image Generation- Z.ai’s GLM‑Image Outsmarts Google’s Nano Banana Pro on Complex Text Tasks

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Say It Twice - How a Dead‑Simple Prompt Trick Supercharges LLM Accuracy

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China Cracks Down on Algorithmic Pricing- A New Era for Fair E-Commerce

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Why Doctors Embrace AI — Just Not the Chatbot Doctor of the Future

Why Doctors Embrace AI — Just Not the Chatbot Doctor of the Future OpenAI TechRadar The New Yorker Rolling Stone When artificial intelligence meets medicine, the reaction from doctors i...

Atome Secures US$345M in Debt to Power Southeast Asia Expansion

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From Wellness to Wall Street - How Meta-Backed Hupo Is Redefining AI Sales Coaching with a $10M Series A Win

From Wellness to Wall Street: How Meta-Backed Hupo Is Redefining AI Sales Coaching with a $10M Series A Win Singapore’s AI startup Hupo — once a mental wellness platform — has just scored a signif...

Why PayPal Is Betting Big on Restaurant Payments- Klearly’s $14M Series A Raises the Stakes in Hospitality Fintech

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Ant International’s AI-Driven Payments Near $2 Billion in 2025, Signaling a New Phase of Global Fintech

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AI on the Hospital Floor- Anthropic’s Claude Breaks Into U.S. Healthcare

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AI Meets Checkout- Ant International + Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol Set to Redefine Online Shopping

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Astra's Maucash Shocks Indonesian Fintech - A Peer-to-Peer Lending Giant Shuts Its Doors

🚹 Astra’s Maucash Shocks Indonesian Fintech: A Peer-to-Peer Lending Giant Shuts Its Doors Indonesia’s digital lending scene just lost one of its most recognizable players. Maucash, a peer-to-peer ...

Autonomous Finance Takes Flight - AI-Native Startup Bluecopa Secures $7.5M Series A to Redefine Enterprise Finance

Autonomous Finance Takes Flight: AI-Native Startup Bluecopa Secures $7.5M Series A to Redefine Enterprise Finance In a clear sign that AI-driven automation is reshaping corporate finance, Hyderaba...

Brain-Computer Breakthrough to Wall Street- China’s BrainCo Eyes Hong Kong IPO

Brain-Computer Breakthrough to Wall Street: China’s BrainCo Eyes Hong Kong IPO In a bold step bridging neuroscience and finance, Chinese brain-tech innovator BrainCo has confidentially filed for a...

Why Chinese AI Leaders Now Warn the U.S. Is Pulling Ahead — Even After a $1B IPO Week

Why Chinese AI Leaders Now Warn the U.S. Is Pulling Ahead — Even After a $1B IPO Week In early January 2026, AI luminaries from China sounded a strikingly candid alarm: despite a blockbuster week ...

Weekly ByteDance insight report Jan 10, 2026

Here’s your weekly ByteDance insight report (covering the last 7 days up to Jan 10, 2026). After searching breaking news and industry sources, the only official developments in the last seven days ...

NVIDIA Weekly Update Jan 10, 2026

NVIDIA Weekly Update Jan 10, 2026 1) NVIDIA Kicks Off Next‑Gen AI With Rubin — Six New Chips, One AI Supercomputer Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-platform-ai-supercomputer (NV...

Weekly QWen insight report January 10, 2026

Weekly QWen insight report January 10, 2026 1) Alibaba Releases Qwen‑Image‑2512 — Next‑Gen Open‑Source Image Model Headline Alibaba formally releases Qwen‑Image‑2512, a next‑generation open‑so...

Weekly Perplexity Report — Jan 10, 2026

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Weekly Google insight report, Jan 10, 2026

Weekly Google insight report, Jan 10, 2026* 🧠 1) Gmail Enters the Gemini Era — “AI Inbox” & AI Overviews (Official Google Blog, Jan 2026) Headline Google launches AI‑powered Gmail enhanceme...

Weekly report on Anthropic & Claude 10 Jan 2026

Weekly report on Anthropic & Claude 10 Jan 2026 1) Anthropic Plans $10B Funding Round at $350B Valuation Headline: Anthropic Prepares to Raise $10 Billion, Doubling Its Valuation to ~$350 B...

Hugging Face Advances Open AI Platform with Falcon H1R 7B, K‑EXAONE, EvoCUA, and New Robotics & Autonomous Systems Tooling

Hugging Face Advances Open AI Platform with Falcon H1R 7B, K‑EXAONE, EvoCUA, and New Robotics & Autonomous Systems Tooling Introduction / Hook Hugging Face continues to catalyze open AI dev...

Weekly AI Tech Research Update (Up to Today — 9 Jan 2026)

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Weekly OpenAI Insight Report Jan 4 – Jan 10, 2026

Weekly OpenAI Insight Report Period: Jan 4 – Jan 10, 2026 1. Introducing OpenAI for Healthcare Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-for-healthcare/ (OpenAI) Executive Summary: OpenAI offic...

Weekly VC & Startup Funding Snapshot (Jan 4–10, 2026)

Here’s the latest verified VC & startup investment update (last 7 days up to Jan 10, 2026) focused on top VCs, angels, and accelerators you track (Sequoia, a16z/Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Globa...

FintechNews.sg – Weekly Newsletter, January 10, 2026

FintechNews.sg – Weekly Newsletter Period: January 3 – January 10, 2026 📝 Executive Summary This week’s FintechNews.sg coverage reflects ongoing expansion and strategic shifts across digital a...

Fintech Payments Frontiers Weekly - January 10, 2026

📹 Fintech Payments Frontiers Weekly — January 10, 2026 1. Top Headlines Global Fintech Investment Surges to $53bn in 2025 — Finextra Global fintech funding climbed 21% in 2025 to $53 bi...

Fintech Frontier Weekly — January 10, 2026

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SEC Gives Green Light for AI-Assisted Proxy Voting — A Quiet But Big Shift for Wall Street

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eyond RAG- How Databricks’ Instructed Retriever Is Redefining Enterprise AI Search

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Claude Code 2.1.0 Lands With Smarter Agents, Streamlined Workflows, and Real Dev Fuel

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How Nitro Commerce Just Scored a $5M Boost — and What It Means for Marketing Automation in Asia

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Fireblocks’ $130M Bet on Crypto Accounting — Building the First “Operating System” for On-Chain Finance

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Stanford Blockchain Breakthrough - How a16z’s $15M Bet Could Redefine Bitcoin Collateral

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Saudi Arabia’s Bold AI Bet - New Venture Fund to Supercharge 25 Startups

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China’s MedBot Makes History With Autonomous AI Surgery Robot That Operated on a Live Pig

China’s MedBot Makes History With Autonomous AI Surgery Robot That Operated on a Live Pig In a breakthrough that signals the future of surgical care, Shanghai-based MedBot has demonstrated an auto...

Why Brex Thinks the Future of AI Isn’t More Orchestration — It’s Less

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When Bulldozers Get Brains - How Caterpillar & Nvidia Are Bringing AI Into the Dirt

When Bulldozers Get Brains: How Caterpillar & Nvidia Are Bringing AI Into the Dirt At CES 2026, two unlikely partners turned heads with a vision that could redefine construction as we know it:...

Amazon’s AI Shopping Tool Sparks Retailer Revolt - Consent Isn’t Optional

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Grab’s Big Bet on Robotics - How a Chinese AI Startup Could Transform Delivery in Southeast Asia

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Indonesia Threatens to Ban Grok and X Over Sexualized AI Content — A Turning Point in AI Safety?

Indonesia Threatens to Ban Grok and X Over Sexualized AI Content — A Turning Point in AI Safety? In a sweeping challenge to one of Silicon Valley’s most controversial AI tools, Indonesia’s Communi...

Razer’s $600M AI Play- From Gaming Gear to Global Innovation Powerhouse

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AI Agents Are Revolutionizing Finance — But the Real Work Is in Building Them Right

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The Next Frontline in Banking- How Agentic AI Could Revolutionize the Fight Against Financial Crime

The Next Frontline in Banking: How Agentic AI Could Revolutionize the Fight Against Financial Crime In a world where financial criminals are becoming more sophisticated and regulatory pressure is ...

Inside China’s AI Power Play- How Baidu and Huawei Are Winning the GPU Cloud Race

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Singapore AI Startup i10X Raises $1M Pre‑Seed Backed By Antler & Iterative — A New Contender in the AI Aggregator Space

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