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Singapore’s starting salaries may be on the rise, but the number of entry-level roles is shrinking, reported global professional services firm Aon in its latest 2026 Salary Increase and Turnover Study. The report, released on Sept 23, surveyed over 1,200 organisations in more than 20 industries across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It showed a 2.5% year-on-year salary increase for entry-level employees, alongside a 3.2% drop in entry-level headcount from 2025, indicating an increasingly tough job market for those just entering the workforce. The report is in line with a broader softening in Singapore’s graduate job market.…
Patients should not have to repeat the same tests and reconstruct their medical history every time they enter a new hospital. A shared health information system could make care faster, safer, and considerably less frustrating. You had a blood test two weeks ago. Then you visit another hospital, where the doctor needs the same information. The result exists. It is recent. You can see it on your phone, squinting at a PDF downloaded from a patient portal whose password you have already forgotten. But the hospital cannot access it. Perhaps the format is incompatible. Perhaps the first laboratory is outside…
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | I realize I am dating myself to some extent, but my first cell phone plan came with a fixed number of minutes and a small allotment of text messages, and anything beyond that was billed one at a time. You got in the habit of watching the clock on calls and thinking twice before you replied to a text. That model didn’t last. Once enough people wanted to use their phones without doing arithmetic, the carriers moved to unlimited plans, and now nobody counts anything. AI is still in the…
An artist’s conception shows Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft in lunar orbit, with Starcloud’s SC-1L data-processing payload highlighted in purple. (Firefly Aerospace Illustration) Redmond, Wash.-based Starcloud has signed up to send its artificial intelligence data-processing hardware into lunar orbit on a Firefly Aerospace spacecraft. Starcloud’s payload, known as SC-1L, will fly on Firefly’s Elytra orbital vehicle during a NASA-supported mission that’s scheduled for launch no earlier than 2028. The mission will demonstrate technologies that Starcloud plans to use on AI data centers in Earth orbit — and around the moon as well. “Space is the future of data centers, and the moon…
The grandstands erupted with shock as engineers clutched their heads in the paddock. One driverless race car, produced by the company PoliMove, slammed into Unimore’s slowing vehicle in an event held by the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL).At the famous racing track in Imola, Italy, Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, both cars crashed in an area called Rivazza. This is the circuit’s final sequence, made up of corners that are notoriously difficult to navigate. Formula 1 champions have met a similar fate here. But this time, the impact posed no danger to the drivers because there weren’t any.Launched…
A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help human decision-makers select ideal strategies to outfox opponents in complicated situations like military maneuvers.Using advances in machine-learning, researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and Stanford University developed an AI that defeated top-ranked human players of the board wargame Stratego by a large margin — something no AI system had been able to achieve. Stratego, a two-player game of imperfect information, in which the opponent’s piece identities remain hidden, is often used as a benchmark to test the strategic thinking abilities of powerful AI…
Ravie LakshmananOct 01, 2026Artificial Intelligence / AI Safety Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 4 Argon, that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. “It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense,” Koray Kavukcuoglu, senior vice president of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google, said. The development comes nearly a month after the tech giant unveiled Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as the most capable cybersecurity model.…
Artificial intelligence recruiting software startup Metaview Labs Inc. said today the industry is ready for a “Claude Code moment” after it closed on $60 million in a Series C funding. The round was led by Insight Partners and saw the participation of GV, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Intrepid Growth Partners, Plural and Garuda Ventures. To date, the company has now raised $110 million in total. Although Metaview is hitching on the agentic AI wagon, it’s actually pretty old as far as AI startups go. It was founded back in 2018 by former Uber Technologies Inc. and Palantir Technologies Inc. employees…
If you haven’t heard of “live shopping,” you might soon. Livestream shopping is already a staple of e-commerce in China, where consumers log onto apps like Douyin and Taobao to buy products from a livestreamer — think QVC. Now, a new app is trying to bring it to the United States.The Whatnot app features rolling live auctions that can last from three seconds to a minute. Users can bid on everything from trading cards to clothes to steaks. With about 550,000 hours of streaming per week, the site moves an extraordinary amount of product.Using Whatnot is fast-paced, and essentially frictionless.…
Don’t let your CRM become an open book. Lock down customer data, integrations, and every deal in motion with stronger CRM security. What does a CRM actually hold? The obvious answer is customer data, but that barely covers it. A CRM contains conversations, purchase histories, internal notes, contact details, deal values, support issues, and future sales opportunities. It records what the customer has done and what the business plans to do next. Companies often call it their single source of truth. That phrase carries more weight than most teams realize. If the data is manipulated, teams act on false information.…