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Finding a sounding board, stress-testing solutions: The network preparing S’pore tech leaders for global roles

clockwise from top left, codex solutions chief executive officer tracie teo, accredify co-founder and chief technology officer derrick lee, meta client solutions director melissa kwek and former gojek chief operating officer shobhit singhal who participated in sgln leadership development programme in singapore

Singapore factory activity grows at slower pace in October after accelerating since March

Singapore’s purchasing managers’ index remained in expansionary territory while falling to 51.4 points in October.

Anthropic seeks up to US$3.5 billion in Japan for its mega US IPO

Apart from Japan, investors in Australia, Canada and parts of Europe will also be able to buy into the initial share sale.

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Investor scrutiny of the AI spending boom is rising, but Big Tech is unlikely to give up

Given that the bulk of chip manufacturing capacity is in Asia, the AI boom’s fate has the potential to redefine the region’s economic outlook.

CEO Insights

AI doesn’t destroy art but raises the bar for even better content creation, says Adobe APAC chief

Ben Goodman, president of Adobe Asia-Pacific and Japan, says flood of AI content will only make audiences more discerning.

DeepSeek drops enhanced coding agent with aim to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek’s new open-source offering can proactively monitor group chats among developers for feedback on coding issues.

Trump says US looking ‘closely’ at report Nvidia CEO is target of China spy plot

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was among tech CEOs who joined US President Donald Trump on his visit to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in May.

Market Insights

Crypto shaken after Binance hack; Wilmar discloses sales to firms in haze probe: Markets this week

Bitcoin fell about 5% over 24 hours since the Oct 29 incident, while Ether lost about 5.7%.

OpenAI’s Altman meets Samsung executives as chip crunch deepens

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is the latest American tech leader to visit South Korea, the leader in advanced memory chips.

AI giants promise publishers new way to block some scraping

The announcement comes as publishers are facing a surge in bots that scrape their articles to feed AI models.

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