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Why do we fear AI in the news but love it in our apps?

AI headlines warn us of job losses, machines replacing humans, and a dangerous future. Yet, in daily life, we midlifers are already enjoying...

Exploring the rise of finance-as-a-service in APAC

Southeast Asia and India’s first wave of fintechs was characterised by B2C products that provide consumers with easy access to financial services. While...

Unleashing AI’s potential: The vital role of human guidance in AI’s growth and learning

The global market for artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced a dramatic spike in interest, with projections indicating a twenty-fold increase by 2030.  Despite...

Can you build an app without coding? My experiment might surprise you

As a Mobile Marketing Director with over a decade of experience in both startups and large companies, I am well-versed in mobile marketing...

Are the glory days of direct to consumer brands over?

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses sell directly to customers online, bypassing the “middlemen” of wholesalers and retailers. This allows them to control the user experience,...

How I continued building my tech startup as a student in the startup winter

My winter photo for startup winter 2022 Hi fellow readers, once again! My name is Gabriel, and I enjoy building software that helps make...

Data-driven financial services, a bigger imperative in a post-pandemic world 

The pandemic has had a detrimental impact on economic growth, unemployment, inequality and poverty levels in different parts of the world. At the...

How Groundup AI redefines what smart factories expect from their machines

Groundup AI, the Singapore-born startup that pioneered what it describes as the world’s first Agentic AI for Cognitive Maintenance, has closed its most...

Thailand’s cybersecurity boom has a weak core

Thailand’s cybersecurity ecosystem expanded steadily through 2025, propelled by rapid digital transformation, surging cloud adoption, and stepped‑up investment in national data infrastructure. Progress, however,...

The productivity pivot the Philippines can’t delay

The Philippines’s services sector is indisputably the country’s engine of growth and employment. Today, it accounts for more than half of the national...

Where startup money is really coming from today

Over the past few years, the conversation around startup funding has started to shift. Not in a dramatic way, but in how capital...

Model resource exhaustion as a denial-of-intelligence attack

Most defenders have a familiar picture of denial-of-service. Attackers overwhelm bandwidth, saturate CPU, or exhaust a shared dependency until the service becomes unavailable....

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