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Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. List published by the Ministry of Manpower. Singapore’s economy may be growing at a record pace this year, but the boom—driven by demand for AI-related hardware products—has had an uneven impact on the job market. The total number of unemployed citizens increased to 64,700 last quarter, the highest figure since 2021. It was driven by a relatively high number of redundancies (4,800)—and the last time more Singaporeans were laid off in a single quarter was in Q4 of 2020, when it hit 5,640. At the same time,…

SEO is not dead. While people and agents AI or otherwise, might proclaim and shout its death from the rooftop. The era of SEO has just begun. A buyer asks an AI system a question. The answer appears in seconds: a summary, a few recommendations, perhaps a link to your website. The buyer reads it, continues their research, and leaves without visiting you. A week later, another member of the buying committee searches for a comparison, finds an independent review, and adds three vendors to a shortlist. Your sales team hears nothing until the committee is ready to talk. Where,…

Marc Brooker, an AWS VP and distinguished engineer, leads Velocity Labs, a small team inside Amazon’s cloud unit. (Amazon Photo) Last month, a small team inside Amazon Web Services called Velocity Labs went from concept to the public release of a new open-source AI model in less than a week. The group, whose existence hasn’t been previously reported, was formed in April. Velocity Labs has about 35 people, most of them in Seattle. The idea is to think beyond Amazon’s normal product-oriented approach, building quick prototypes in areas of AI that the company sees as underexplored and increasingly important to…

New studio targets brands seeking creative direction rather than another video-generation subscription  ShotCode is launching an artificial intelligence-powered advertising studio, betting that the growing availability of video-generation software will create demand for a different service: deciding what brands should make with it.  The company will develop AI video ad concepts, scripts and finished short-form advertisements for SaaS companies, ecommerce businesses and consumer brands. Its work is intended for platforms including YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels.  The proposition places ShotCode between self-service software and conventional production. Customers provide information about their products, audiences and commercial objectives; the studio takes responsibility for developing…

Refresh rates, size and screen technology all play a part. Gorodenkoff/Getty Images Choosing the right gaming monitor is a lot like choosing the right outfit. You wouldn’t wear the same thing to the gym as you would to the opera, while lifting weights in a tuxedo would inconvenience you and damage the tux. Similarly, a monitor that works great for one PC or console isn’t necessarily the best fit for another and gamers who enjoy competitive shooters should look for different options than those who enjoy visually rich single-person narratives. Only you can figure out exactly…

As Americans go to the polls today, many will have had their decision about who to vote for informed by an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.Around 50 percent of recently surveyed US adults have at one time used an AI chatbot, and 8 percent say they have used these tools ahead of the midterms to find information on candidates and policies, according to Pew Research.But a lot of information from these chatbots is out of date and has been hallucinated or sourced from partisan websites.Even supposedly non-partisan chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini have been found wanting when it…

Regina Barzilay, MIT’s School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI and Health, and James Collins, MIT’s Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science, are the recipients of the 2026 Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence. The award recognizes their joint work in “pioneering AI-enabled antibiotic discovery, integrating deep learning, bioengineering, and experimental validation to identify novel antibacterial candidates against drug-resistant pathogens.” Established in 2024 by the University of Chicago in partnership with Caltech, the Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence recognizes contributions that jointly advance AI and the natural sciences or engineering.Barzilay and Collins, who are faculty co-leads…

Could an AI barista know you’re craving an iced caramel macchiato? Starbucks says it will begin testing artificial intelligence for drive-up ordering — including recognizing customers as they approach — as the company focuses on integrating more automated tech, CEO Brian Niccol said on last week’s fourth-quarter 2026 earnings call. The idea is to make ordering “faster, more convenient and more personal” for drive-up customers, which account for roughly half of all Starbucks patrons, according to Niccol. The company would begin testing background AI models for drive-thrus sometime during fiscal year 2027, which ends Sept. 28, 2027. There were no…

How can software and cloud giant Microsoft Corp. translate its platform vision into fully deployed enterprise architecture in the age of AI? This central question has defined the next chapter in a decades-long partnership between Microsoft and Dell Technologies Inc. Dell provided some answers at this year’s Dell Technologies World by expanding its private cloud offering to deploy the latest Microsoft software implementations. Since that event, Microsoft has worked to enable a disaggregated architecture, simplifying operations across Dell PowerEdge compute, Dell PowerStore storage and Azure Local. Flexibility is the key attraction for enterprise customers evaluating Dell and Microsoft’s joint solutions,…

An AI pet portrait maker or workout app that looks harmless could be hiding nudifying tools. According to a Wired investigation, hundreds of apps on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store were found disguising themselves as pet photo editor, language tutor, workout coaches and other mundane apps. Under the right conditions, those ordinary-looking apps quietly switched over to a hidden interface that generated sexually abusive deepfakes. Researchers from AI Forensics uncovered the network, which includes 400+ connected apps and domains. How did ordinary AI apps hide their deepfake generators? These apps used a sneaky server-side trick to keep the…