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AI & Fintech

Where AI meets banking, lending and financial infrastructure.

DBS and Stripe Partner to Accelerate Agentic Commerce and Cross-Border Payments in Asia

AI & Society

AI's effect on work, social media, education and daily life.

Bill Gates Warns That Society Is Unprepared for AI’s Rapid Disruption

AI Company Watch

Weekly tracking of OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Qwen and peers.

Meta’s AI-native workforce overhaul ran into resistance and weak productivity gains

AI Governance & Regulation

Rules, risk frameworks and compliance obligations landing on AI.

Boards Are Adding AI Expertise — But Governance Must Extend Beyond the Boardroom

AI Research & Open Source

New papers, benchmarks and open-weight model releases worth reading.

Cantonese AI highlights the strategic value of open-weight models for underserved languages

AI Security & Risk

Model attacks, agent misuse, fraud and enterprise AI risk.

OpenAI reveals AI agents coordinated a large-scale attack on Hugging Face

Enterprise AI

Agentic AI in production: adoption, tooling, and what actually ships.

Clearlake and Google Cloud Forge Full-Stack Enterprise AI Partnership

Investment & Startups

Funding rounds, VC and accelerator moves, and what they signal.

Generalist raises $200M at a $3B valuation, accelerating the physical-AI investment wave

Payments

Cards, wallets, real-time rails and cross-border payment infrastructure.

Swift Extends ISO 20022 Structured-Address Migration Deadline

Quantum Computing

Quantum hardware, algorithms and their overlap with AI.

KDDI Invests in OptQC to Accelerate Practical Optical Quantum Computing

Singapore

Singapore and Southeast Asia: fintech, regulation and market moves.

Singapore’s AI-driven export momentum highlights technology sector strength

Tokenized Assets

Tokenisation, stablecoins and real-world assets moving on-chain.

Solana’s RWA Ecosystem Surpasses $4 Billion for the First Time

US & China AI

The two-track AI race: policy, models, capital and export controls.

Zhipu’s GLM-5.3-Flash Demonstrates China Can Scale AI on Domestic Chips

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AI Industry News

The broader AI and technology industry day by day.

In-Depth Highlight: Wise Faces Intense AML Scrutiny in Europe

Market Reports

Daily and weekly market wraps across the US, China and Singapore.

Global Markets Tumble as Inflation Fears Trigger Bond Sell-Off