Most AI writing about work still frames the shift too narrowly. The conversation often starts with a familiar question: which tasks can AI do? That is a useful starting point, but it misses the more important operational change. The deeper shift is not that AI can write, summarise, classify, or draft faster than before. It […] The post AI will not become your employee. It will change what work has to be managed appeared first on e27.

Founders still ask me the question they asked in 2019: what does a good backlink cost. This September I finally answered it properly. ESBO Ltd, the link building and digital PR agency I run, exported its entire publisher database, 16,625 sites across 53 languages with verified authority scores and traffic, and published the numbers as […] The post The most expensive links aren’t really links: What 16,625 publisher price lists tell SEA startups appeared first on e27.

I was sitting in a cafe in Kuala Lumpur recently, sipping an iced mixed coffee with orange, when I realised that the way I organise for trips is exactly how I used to try to “organise” my startup. I was obsessed with the perfect project management software, the flawless internal wiki, and the 18-month roadmap—not […] The post The founder’s dilemma: Structured serendipity appeared first on e27.

Indonesia’s SME lending ecosystem looks different in 2026 than it did five years ago. The peer-to-peer lending sector that produced KoinWorks, Investree, Modalku, Akseleran, and dozens of others has consolidated. The number of OJK-licensed P2P lenders has fallen sharply since 2022. The platforms that remain — KoinWorks among the most prominent — operate inside a […] The post The KoinWorks era: What Indonesia’s SME lending journey has taught the next generation appeared first on e27.

Singapore’s major financial institutions have pledged to train more than 80,000 local employees in AI skills as the country moves to cushion white-collar workers from potential job disruption. A pioneer batch of 23 banks, insurers and asset managers has committed to train all their Singapore staff by 2028, and more than half of them have already gone through programmes recognised by an industry association, according to Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong. The firms would also study how jobs were...

The global race to lead artificial intelligence is usually framed as a contest between countries: the US versus China, with Europe, India and a handful of others trying to carve out space. A new ranking argues that this view misses where much of the action is actually happening. The Observer’s inaugural AI Cities Index, released […] The post Seoul tops global AI implementation as Singapore enters top tier appeared first on e27.

Singapore police have launched an investigation after a video of a man allegedly filming female students using smart glasses went viral, sparking concerns about privacy and safety. In the social media video, a man wearing black-rimmed glasses and a face mask is seen walking behind two female students wearing what appear to be uniforms from Raffles Institution, a premier school in the city state. The girls seem unaware of his presence. The man clutches his phone to his chest and presses what...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr said on Friday that he has pardoned Mary Jane Veloso, a former death row inmate detained since her 2010 conviction for drug trafficking in Indonesia. “I’ll give you a scoop: I signed her pardon yesterday,” Marcos told reporters during a visit to the northern town of Batac on Friday. Veloso is expected to be freed after the pardon since there are no other active cases against her, though Marcos did not specify when that will happen. Claire Castro, the...

The Philippine Senate has made it mathematically easier to convict Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio, but observers say the ruling could intensify a battle over an impeachment trial already viewed by the public as deeply divisive. The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, ruled on Wednesday that only senator-judges who are able to take part in the trial should be counted in determining the threshold for conviction. Under the Philippine constitution, a two-thirds vote of the Senate is...

Malaysia’s haze crisis has flared again just weeks after emergency measures and cloud-seeding operations brought temporary relief, with experts warning that smoke from Indonesian fires could continue drifting across the country until monsoon winds change. All 108 schools in Serian, a district in the state of Sarawak on Malaysian Borneo, were ordered to close on Thursday after the air pollutant index (API) breached 200 on Wednesday night, forcing pupils back to home-based learning. By noon,...