Ask a room of enterprise executives whether they can keep their AI agents in line and most will nod. Ask them what happens when two of those agents disagree, and the room goes quiet. That, in essence, is the finding of a new report from OutSystems, the Lisbon-born low-code company that now markets itself as […] The post Who referees the AI agents? Enterprises aren’t sure, new report shows appeared first on e27.

Australia and East Timor signed a defence deal on Thursday to boost cyber and maritime security as Canberra seeks to curb China’s influence among its island neighbours. Australia is East Timor’s largest defence and security partner and the agreement will significantly increase defence exercises, Defence Minister Richard Marles told reporters. “This is a time to double down on friendship, to double down on family,” he said in East Timor’s capital Dili. Australia will provide A$62 million (US$44...

Anyone who has run security at a large Singapore organisation knows the routine. A vendor turns up with a slide deck, a slick demo and a quarterly target, and the talk is about the product long before anyone has asked what is actually keeping the security team up at night. Raz Kotler has sat on […] The post Scouter enters Singapore’s crowded cyber market with a “listen first” promise appeared first on e27.

Runners in Malaysia are swapping their usual routes through parks and city streets for laps around shopping malls, commandeering air-conditioned corridors to keep up their training as a stubborn blanket of haze makes exercising outdoors increasingly hazardous. The switch comes as smoke from forest and peatland fires continues to foul the air across parts of Southeast Asia, with Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur and its surrounding districts among the hardest-hit areas. By 9am on Thursday, 15 of...

A year ago, some of the most nervous entrepreneurs in the world were in Hong Kong, Taipei and Shanghai. Trade tensions, a property slump in mainland China and a stalled listings market had put founders there among the most cautious respondents in HSBC’s annual survey of business owners. Twelve months on, they are the most […] The post Hong Kong and Taiwan founders are cheering the AI boom. Southeast Asia isn’t in the room appeared first on e27.

Malaysia’s highway authority is working to resolve technical disruptions affecting its TuJu navigation application following a sharp increase in users. In a statement on Thursday, the Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM) said the matter was being resolved together with the application provider Prosignal Consortium. LLM said the surge in users came after Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim suggested that the public consider using a locally developed navigation application instead of Waze. “We apologise for...

Bitcoin rose 1.51 per cent to US$84,055.22 in 24 hours, and Ethereum rose 0.97 per cent to US$2,471.00. The total crypto market cap rose 1.36 per cent. A rebound in technology and AI stock sentiment lifted risk appetite across both assets. Bitcoin showed a 79 per cent correlation with the S&P 500, and its 24-hour […] The post 92% of Bitcoin liquidations were shorts: What happens when the squeeze ends? appeared first on e27.