A few months ago, I was trying to understand why one high-protein formulation puffed well during low-moisture extrusion while another did not. I gave ChatGPT the formulation details, expansion results, rheological measurements and observations from the extrusion trials. Then I started asking what might explain the difference. One line of reasoning concerned critical strain — […] The post How AI became my sparring partner appeared first on e27.

Before I used Mailchimp, my monthly newsletter was one of those tasks I kept postponing. Not because it was complicated. Because it was annoying. I was running a small business, which meant the newsletter was always competing with more urgent things. Customer messages, fulfilment, invoices, product updates, random admin. By the time I got to […] The post What changed when I stopped sending newsletters manually appeared first on e27.

In Singapore, a car is less a vehicle than a ten-year licence wrapped in steel. Carro now wants institutional money to treat that licence as collateral. The Singapore-headquartered automotive marketplace has set up a S$450 million (about US$350 million) asset-backed securitisation facility backed by Singapore car loan receivables. In a statement on Thursday, Carro called […] The post Carro turns Singapore car loans into a US$350M funding pipeline in a regional first appeared first on e27.

The son of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi said she sounded “fairly healthy” after speaking to the detained ex-democratic leader on Thursday for the first time in more than five years. Suu Kyi, 81, is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar authorities, where she has been sequestered since being unseated in a 2021 military coup. “She was sounding fairly healthy,” Kim Aris, who lives in the UK, said after the telephone conversation. It was the first time he had spoken to his...

HSBC’s latest survey of wealthy entrepreneurs contains an awkward finding for the men who still write most of the cheques. Their own confidence is slipping, while the confidence of the women they rarely fund is rising. The Global Entrepreneurial Wealth Report 2026 polled more than 3,000 business owners across 17 markets. Over the past year, […] The post Male founders are losing confidence. Women are doubling down on AI appeared first on e27.

Indonesia’s D2C and inventory-heavy startup sector looks different in 2026 than it did before 2022. The cohort of platforms that scaled between 2018 and 2021 (Fabelio in furniture, several in F&B, fashion, and household goods) encountered a category of operational risk that the original venture playbook tended to underestimate. Some platforms have stabilised. Several have […] The post The working capital trap: Lessons from Indonesia’s first D2C generation appeared first on e27.

A wind energy partnership between Vietnam and Denmark has fuelled expectations of the Southeast Asian country boosting its competitiveness in renewable electricity to serve overseas and domestic markets. Vietnam is well placed to grow its renewable electricity sector by tapping its large pool of engineering talent and abundant wind resources with help from Denmark, a global leader in wind energy, according to analysts. On Tuesday, the two countries signed a comprehensive strategic partnership...