I knew within the first two minutes of glancing through the deck. A strategy workshop for our senior stakeholders had just wrapped. The session itself was good: the partner facilitating it followed our brief, the debate was sharp, and an AI tool captured the notes. When the deck arrived, I opened it and felt that […] The post AI took perfect notes. Then it ruined the deck appeared first on e27.

Grab wanted Taiwan to be its first market outside Southeast Asia. Taiwan’s competition regulator has told it, in effect, that it is not really an outsider. Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (TFTC) on Wednesday blocked Germany-based Delivery Hero’s planned sale of foodpanda’s Taiwan business to Grab, scuttling a US$600 million all-cash deal agreed on March 23. […] The post Taiwan kills Grab’s US$600M foodpanda deal, and Uber’s shadow is the reason appeared first on e27.

Malaysian police have arrested a 16-year-old student after he live-streamed an attack on a teacher with an axe at a private school in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak state. CCTV footage shows the teenager entering a classroom at around 7.50am on Wednesday, hitting the female teacher with an axe before leaving. He re-enters through a second door and swings the axe at students as they flee the room. As the teacher tries to intervene, he attempts to hack at her again but is subdued by two male...

While building an AI-assisted video workflow for a TikTok commerce creator, I ran into a problem with the storyboards generated by a language model. The scripts covered the product, but the shots were not tight enough for the short videos we wanted to make. I could rewrite the scenes myself. Instead, I first asked a […] The post How I decide what to fix in my AI video workflow appeared first on e27.

Southeast Asian nations are seeking to make it easier for businesses and consumers to operate across borders in the digital economy, but achieving the goal will depend on whether governments can align their domestic laws under a proposed pact, according to analysts. Targeted to be signed during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Manila in November, the Asean Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA) is aimed at improving compatibility between rules and systems governing...

Our company builds software in Ho Chi Minh City. Our website has been live for over a year, and for most of that time we assumed our directory listings were doing something for us. On 15 August 2026 I measured it. Four domains link to our site. Two of them pass any ranking value at […] The post We audited our own backlinks. Four domains linked to us, and two of them counted appeared first on e27.

In February 2026, Sea Limited struck a partnership with Google on “agentic shopping prototypes.” By June, Shopee had become the first Southeast Asian e-commerce platform built directly into ChatGPT, live across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam. Lazada, meanwhile, built its own AI shopping agent, Lazzie, running on Alibaba’s Qwen model, and credits […] The post Southeast Asia’s sellers spent a decade learning to sell to people. Now they have to sell to AI appeared first on e27.

For years, the small business owner in Penang or Cebu has relied on a quiet, unspoken form of security: obscurity. Who would bother hacking a family-run online furniture store when there are banks to rob? The logic was not wrong. Breaking in took skill, time and patience, and skilled criminals price their time like consultants. […] The post AI agents broke into 100 firms for pocket change. SEA’s online shops fit the target profile appeared first on e27.