For Hyperbond Studio, the question was never only whether artificial intelligence could teach a language. It was whether people would keep coming back long enough for the teaching to matter. The Singapore-based startup, best known for its AI language-learning dating simulation app Call Me Sensei, has secured backing from Supercell, the Finnish gaming company behind […] The post Supercell backs Hyperbond Studio as Call Me Sensei bets on AI romance for language learning appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin’s surge to around US$87,000 has captured the market’s full attention, and the data tells a clear story about what powered this move. The leading cryptocurrency rallied from the mid US$70,000s to an intraday high near US$87,000, its strongest level since late January. That advance pushed its market cap toward roughly US$1.7 trillion to US$1.8 […] The post Bitcoin’s US$87,000 spike: Real breakout or a US$900 million short squeeze? appeared first on e27.

Startups are constantly encouraged to expand. Enter new countries, test new segments, build distribution partnerships, hire locally and capture market share before someone else does. Much less attention is given to the opposite decision: leaving a market that looked promising but is not working. That decision is often harder than entering in the first place. […] The post Startups should learn to leave bad markets faster appeared first on e27.

Robotics and rehabilitation are undergoing a profound transformation that the industry’s own measurement infrastructure has largely failed to keep pace with. For four decades the recording of movement in three dimensions has been organised around a building in a studio. From a wired ring of cameras, a morning of calibration, and a purchase order that […] The post Why Asia’s Physical AI boom will be decided at the camera, not the model appeared first on e27.

Ask most founders why a deal stalled and they’ll say the same thing: “they wanted a better price.” It’s the most comfortable explanation in the room, because it points outward — at the market, at the competitor who undercut you, at a buyer who’s “just being cheap.” A common counter-argument is worth taking seriously: a […] The post Your price problem is a positioning problem wearing a discount request appeared first on e27.

Malaysia’s Sabah state has ordered a full investigation into the Semporna resort where a female tourist from China was allegedly molested and assaulted inside her room by an intruder early last Saturday. State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Jafry Ariffin said he instructed tourism authorities and enforcement agencies to investigate the security lapses that led to the incident and the resort’s licensing status. “I have instructed the relevant tourism authorities to immediately look...

The next useful software product may come from someone your hiring process would reject. A paramedic. A teacher. A shop owner with no software credentials, but years of experience with a problem that nobody has bothered to fix. AI coding platforms give more of these people a way to build an answer. Whether anyone takes […] The post AI lets outsiders build but the connected still have an advantage appeared first on e27.

Every few months, another story circulates about Vietnamese-origin engineers leaving Silicon Valley, Tokyo, or Seoul to come home. The framing is almost always the same: here is an underused pool of senior talent, and here is why your company should go get some. That framing skips the harder question. Attracting a returning engineer is the […] The post Vietnam’s returning engineers are high-quality talent. Keeping them is the real problem appeared first on e27.

A generation ago, digital literacy was considered a specialist skill. Today, the ability to use digital tools, communicate online, and work with technology is a basic expectation across most industries. Artificial intelligence is following a similar path. What was once viewed as an emerging technology reserved for tech companies is rapidly becoming accessible to businesses […] The post Why AI literacy is becoming a business necessity, not a competitive advantage appeared first on e27.

The teller does not sound accusatory. The tone is worse than that. It is procedural. A man in his thirties slides his phone across the counter and points to the screen, a transfer that never arrived, a balance that will not move. The teller looks past the story and into the system. The account is […] The post The compliance paradox: More checks, more fraud appeared first on e27.