Global financial ecosystems present a fascinating landscape today, as virtual currencies are in a modest recovery phase. Bitcoin leads this upward trajectory, up 0.94 per cent over the past 24 hours. The premier cryptocurrency trades at exactly US$82,204.31. This price action slightly outperforms a broadly flat digital asset sector. The total cryptocurrency capitalisation registers a […] The post Will the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting crush the bullish push toward the US$84,000 target? appeared first on e27.

Southeast Asia has spent the last decade trying to turn its obsession with play into businesses. Some bets worked spectacularly, some blew up just as spectacularly, and a surprising number of the best ones never raised much venture money at all. The Web3 gaming boom of 2021 is the cautionary tale everyone remembers: blockchain games, […] The post Beyond play-to-earn: 14 Southeast Asian gaming and sports-tech startups still in the game appeared first on e27.

Young workers in Singapore are not waiting for their employers to roll out AI. They are already using it, often on personal devices and often without anyone watching. According to “What Gen Z Workers Want 2026”, a study commissioned by Deel and conducted with YouGov and ThinkerTank, 49 per cent of Singapore workers aged 18 […] The post Gen Z is bringing its own AI to work. Singapore’s SMEs need rules, not bans appeared first on e27.

Workplace conflict rarely arrives as a clean set of facts. By the time we decide that a manager is undermining us, a colleague is being deliberately difficult, or someone on the team cannot be trusted, we have usually spent some time interpreting what happened. We have noticed particular behaviours, connected them with earlier experiences, filled […] The post When AI takes your side in a workplace conflict appeared first on e27.

Southeast Asia has spent the past decade moving rapidly towards a more connected future. Fibre networks have replaced much of the region’s older copper infrastructure, smartphones have become the primary gateway to services, and communications, payments, government functions and commerce have increasingly shifted online. That transition has brought enormous benefits, but it has also created […] The post Faster, smarter, but more fragile? Rethinking communications resilience in Southeast Asia appeared first on e27.

In most companies across Singapore and Thailand, the AI policy already exists: drafted, approved and circulated. And yet, somewhere in the same organisation, an employee is pasting a supplier contract into a free chatbot to summarise it before a meeting. This is known as shadow AI: employees using AI at work without company oversight, such […] The post Dealing with shadow AI: What companies should do instead of banning AI appeared first on e27.

At M360 ASEAN in Kuala Lumpur last week, the GSMA released its ASEAN Consumer Scam Report 2026. Nearly half of reported scam cases across six markets remain unresolved. Nearly nine in ten consumers said they had recognised AI being used in scams, from deepfakes to voice cloning. Julian Gorman, the GSMA’s head of Asia Pacific, […] The post Telcos are racing to put AI in the app. Their subscribers have already said which kind they will trust appeared first on e27.