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Southeast Asia’s retail sector is racing to embed AI into every layer of the customer journey and nowhere is that race more visible than in Singapore. The government announced a 400 per cent tax deduction on AI expenditure to help small and medium-sized retailers adopt the technology, a clear signal that AI is no longer […] The post Why SEA’s retailers need to protect AI-powered customer experience with observability appeared first on e27.

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[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] AI can generate an answer in seconds. Knowing which answer to trust—and how to act on it—still requires human judgement. The HKUST International Case Competition (HKICC) 2026 put that distinction to the test, bringing together twelve elite undergraduate teams from leading business schools around the world to navigate ambiguity, defend complex decisions and work across cultures under pressure. The University of British...

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Autonomous race cars take to the circuit in a display of high-speed innovation.

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Sygnia’s next phase of global growth focuses on AI-driven innovation across MDR, incident response, and proactive security services.TEL AVIV, Israel & AUSTIN, Texas & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sygnia, the world’s foremost incident response and cyber... The post Sygnia Unveils Security Operations Center Hubs and Expands AI-Powered Cybersecurity Capabilities To Challenge Threat Attack Rise appeared first on Crypto Reporter.

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Somantra research maps how ChatGPT advertising is taking shape in Australia: "best", "cheap" query responses show more ads vs. "why", "what" questions.

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Technology could help fill the gaps in the country’s education infrastructure but perhaps teachers are not so easy to replace – yet.

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SINGAPORE, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Leadde AI introduced an education-focused workflow that helps educators, physicians, and research teams turn course materials, lecture notes, slides, and PDFs into learning videos in minutes. Solving the Course Video Bottleneck Education institutions often have extensive teaching materials but limited capacity for scripting, recording, editing, subtitling, and localization. This challenge is particularly relevant across Asia-Pacific, where hybrid programs and multilingual classrooms require content to remain accurate, consistent, and easy to update. Built around Leadde's AI Video Agent for education, the workflow analyzes source materials, identifies key messages, and generates scripts, narrated scenes, subtitles, and editable video drafts. Selected education teams report that this workflow has reduced video-production time by up to 80 percent. Lecture and Document-to-Video Workflows Leadde's AI lecture video workflow turns notes, slides, PDFs, and study materials into narrated lessons for online courses, flipped classrooms, student revision, and professional education. Its document-to-video workflow also converts course outlines, reading packs, research summaries, and institutional documents without requiring teams to begin with a blank script or editing timeline. Educators can clone their own likeness and voice to create professional explainer videos. Leadde's newly launched Avatar O advances digital avatars from script-driven delivery to content-aware presenting, enabling them to interpret visual content, identify key details, and explain them through gaze, pointing, and motion. Animation for Visual Learning Leadde's Animation capability helps educators explain abstract and visual concepts through dynamic sequences. Its biology animation capabilities, for example, can clarify cellular processes and complex systems. "Complex subjects cannot be taught effectively by reading a script alone," said Chase Yang, Founder and CEO of Leadde AI. "By combining content-aware presenting with Animation, Leadde helps educators direct attention, visualize key ideas, and turn static materials into explanations students can follow." Extending Education Communication Beyond the Classroom The same workflow supports campus announcements, research updates, faculty news, and student communications. Through its AI news video workflow, institutions can turn written updates into consistent presenter-led videos without producing each item manually. About Leadde AI Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Singapore, Leadde AI is an AI Video Agent platform trusted by Fortune Global 500 companies. Leadde currently serves multiple education and research institutions across Asia-Pacific, helping them transform educational materials into professional multilingual explainer videos.

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HANOI, Vietnam--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $FPT #FPT--Global ICT corporation FPT and NAVER Cloud, one of South Korea's largest technology companies, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand their AI Factory business and market presence across Asia-Pacific and into global markets through joint technology development, AI service delivery, and commercialization initiatives. Under the partnership, FPT and NAVER Cloud will accelerate AI development and deployment on FPT AI Factory for enterprises in str

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To sift through resumes, human resources teams are using artificial intelligence, which may have favoured applications written using the same technology.

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SINGAPORE, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Leadde AI introduced an education-focused workflow that helps educators, physicians, and research teams turn course materials, lecture notes, slides, and PDFs into learning videos in minutes. Solving the Course Video Bottleneck Education...

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South Korean AI identifies new liver cancer biomarker Researchers at Asan Medical Center in South Korea have developed an AI pathology model to identify refractory liver cancer patients with complete deletion of the RB1 gene, a potential biomarker of the disease. According to a media release, the deep learning model, FR-MIL, detects the genetic alteration in standard pathology slide images without genomic sequencing, achieving F1 scores ranging from 84.39% to 91.58% in external validation.

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Bill Gates warns of surge in AI-powered cyberattacks over next year

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Lunit looks to bring pathology AI into drug development through US lab deal Korea Biomedical Review

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Will AI Devalue The Real World? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, Economic reality embeds many paradoxes, unexpected outcomes that go the opposite direction of what you might intuitively predict. The best example concerns a new innovation that seems to make more efficient use of…

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One of the world’s biggest network service providers has opened a new subsea route between Taipei and Hong Kong to strengthen the system against repeated underwater cable disruptions around the island. Britain-headquartered RETN said the new route would take its total to six serving Taiwan: four connecting Taipei and Hong Kong, and two linking Taipei and Tokyo. “Like many island economies, Taiwan’s international connectivity relies heavily on subsea cables, which creates exposure to risks such...

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Andrew Niccol's 2002 film "S1m0ne" anticipated the creation of AI actresses, a concept now realized with Tilly Norwood. While initially met with skepticism, the recent debut of Norwood in comedy and music videos has sparked controversy and confirmed Niccol's cautionary tale about the dangers of AI in entertainment.

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OpenAI on Friday hit back at three former safety researchers who accused the ChatGPT-maker of firing them for warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

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A reader has shared concerns about the project slated for Wagga.

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Home shoppers looking for new construction increasingly start with a question instead of a search filter. They type something like “new-home communities near Myrtle Beach under $400,000… Read the full article on TechBullion.

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Will AI Devalue The Real World? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, Economic reality embeds many paradoxes, unexpected outcomes that go the opposite direction of what you might intuitively predict. The best example concerns a new innovation that seems to make more efficient use of existing resources. Intuition might suggest that the result will be less resource use but reality often goes in the other direction. This is called the Jevons Paradox and it is based on a famous debate over the steam engine which made coal power far more effective than ever before, leading to wide predictions that the coal industry would experience a dramatic pullback in production need. Economist Henry Jevons said the opposite: the demand for coal will soar precisely because each unit will become more valuable in the task it serves. He was correct. The lesson applies in many areas of life. Sometimes that very thing we believe is endangered by an innovation that seems to nearly replace it prompts the very opposite: the original resource becomes more valuable than ever before. Consider the problem of counterfeit luxury goods. We are talking about Nike tennis shoes, Gucci accessories, Louis Vuitton luggage and bags, Rolex watches, and so on. There is a massive global economy supported by fakes. There is simply no way that a single brand can possibly stamp them out. I've been to cities in Turkey where the real and fake stores sell identical looking products happily, happily but at wildly divergent prices. Economists have studied this phenomenon for many years and the results of the empirical studies are nearly always the same. The counterfeit good does not diminish the value of the authentic good. In fact, the valuation push goes in the other direction. The prices of the authentic thing rise in price, which is precisely why luxury brands know better than to crack down with a heavy hand. Why might this be? The fake good provides brand advertising in two directions. It gets the name out there. And the very fact that these companies are dedicating time and resources to try to replicate the original only sends a market signal that the original is worthy of being copied. The result is a mad scramble on the part of consumers who can afford the real thing to find it, authenticate it, and brag about it. The end result: the real thing becomes more valuable than ever. The Coca-Cola Company discovered this early in its operations in the late 19th century. There were many imitators, despite the famous secret recipe. The company tried to stop the fake products through crackdowns and new techniques such as the beautiful bottle that other factories at the time could not replicate. All the while the demand for Coke only grew. Their impersonators only fed the legend through the decades. Finally the slogan "the real thing" dominated the marketing pitch. Today there are huge studios of painters in China and elsewhere that specialize in recreating old paintings by the old masters. They only grow and grow and the demand for the product rises ever further without diminishing the valuation of the original at all. Quite the reverse. Imitation and counterfeiting itself is a market signal that causes consumer demand to rally around that which is being imitated. Now we come to the core of why I'm explaining this. It concerns artificial intelligence or super intelligence or whatever you want to call it. (Actually I think AI has already stuck.) In only a few years since deployment, it is likely that a majority of the words you read on an average day are being written by machines not people. The same is true with videos and movies. The AI engines are playing a huge role in advertising and music production too. This has led to an existential panic among creative artists. Are they being replaced entirely? Publishers can no longer tell what is real and what is authentic. News broke last week that a book being considered for an award turned out to be an AI-generated text. That's a humiliation for everyone involved. No question that these innovations are legitimately troubling for the creative community. But keep in mind what AI specializes in. It is amazing at doing routine tasks, automating them, saving time and other resources. The more you use AI this way, the more it feels like a miracle. What took months only a few years ago takes minutes now. What AI cannot do is think creatively, make insightful judgments, access authentic imagination, and exercise moral consciousness. To the extent that it behaves as if it can do these things, it is only impersonating people. But the human mind will always maintain its advantage in the creative spark, the conjuring up of new ideas, and the relaying of deep emotion from the experience of love, fear, terror, jealousy, rage, pathos, and sacrificial empathy. In other words, the authentic products of the human spark will always have value even in a world flooded by AI slop and even its impressive output. We can fully expect that real human achievement will go the direction of all before. Just as coal became more valuable after steam, and just as a genuine Louis Vuitton bag goes ever higher in price. The fakes don't reduce the price and value of the real but just the opposite, they create an even more intense demand for authenticity. This is just as any technology that makes an existing resource more efficient to use will increase the demand for that resource. None of which is to say that AI is not going to destroy plenty of jobs, particularly those that have relied upon routine calculation and tasking. Many of those will mercifully go away. That said, we are already tired of AI-created videos that lack the creative spark and AI imagery, with its distinctive qualities, has already become dull. All of this is going to require adjustment to the new realities. That said, I fully expect the real symphony to make a comeback, the genuine oil painting to achieve new heights of fame, and a truly virtuosic writer to experience an even higher demand. If affordable and available, no one wants fake when the real is an option. Think of the pipe organ in a grand cathedral. It is an all-of-body experience. Nothing else like it. You can listen to recordings at home but they are a pale imitation, a digital file on your phone even less. An AI rendering of a fake Bach piece even less. The more we get away from the foundational form of expression - the genius of the human mind combined with the most physical form of making it real - the less it enraptures the spirit. The market will surely develop increasingly sophisticated mechanisms to certify and signal human authenticity, just as luxury brands developed holograms and blockchain verification to distinguish genuine goods from counterfeits. We are already seeing the emergence of "human-made" certifications and provenance tracking that command premium prices not from nostalgia, but from a deep consumer craving for connection to genuine consciousness. The creative professions will bifurcate: those which use AI merely as a steam engine for the mind, freeing their unique powers for work bearing their unmistakable human signature, and those which surrender entirely to algorithmic production only to find themselves drowned in the very "slop" that markets reject. The economic winners will understand that AI complements rather than replaces creativity, handling routine production while human judgment, moral courage, and imaginative depth become the scarcest and most valuable commodities of all. The Jevons Paradox shows us that efficiency does not diminish value but reveals what is truly scarce. As AI renders mediocrity abundant and costless, it simultaneously illuminates the profound scarcity of genuine human insight, suffering transformed into art, and love made manifest through creative sacrifice. We are not heading toward a future where the real world is devalued by its artificial imitation, but toward one where authenticity becomes the ultimate luxury, the one thing no machine can manufacture, no algorithm can optimize, and no counterfeit can replicate. And that, paradoxically, may be the most hopeful economic signal of all. Tyler Durden Fri, 10/09/2026 - 20:55

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New reporting from Axios reveals that leaders at artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are planning behind the scenes for fallout scenarios should a significant AI cyberattack occur. Axios tech policy reporter Maria Curi has the details.

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Queen guitarist Sir Brian May has cast doubt on the prospect of Queen returning with a virtual Freddie Mercury as he voiced his concerns over AI.

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An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police, authorities said on Friday, criticising the company for taking two months to report the incident. The Philadelphia Police Department said the false submission was made in July through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a public website where people can share information about unsolved killings. According to Anthropic’s account, as relayed by police, the model was running a...

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