Singapore Tech News & Gadget Reviews

Agoda has opened its AI Assistant to travellers in 21 markets, Singapore among them, letting people plan and book a trip inside one conversation in the app. The company describes it as the first brand new booking experience in its 20 plus year history, a rare structural change for a business built on search boxes and filter panels.

LG Electronics Singapore and Harvey Norman have rebuilt the LG Life's Good AI Home inside the Harvey Norman flagship at Millenia Walk, opening what the two companies call the world's first anchor LG AI Home Experience Zone. The space occupies Level 1 of the store and is arranged as a walk through home rather than a row of appliances on display.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, is investigating what its own founder described as a hack, after estimating that the incident touched about $6.3 billion in assets. The company suspended deposits and withdrawals while its teams work through the damage, and says roughly $3 billion has already been frozen on chain with the help of blockchain partners.

Tencent has launched Buddy One, a system that connects its productivity applications for individual users to a single artificial intelligence agent. Alongside the new platform, the company released Tencent Drive as a cloud storage layer designed to support this agent setup. Credit : UNSPLASH Buddy One links Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Drive, and the knowledge tool ima through the WorkBuddy agent. Users receive a single account across all integrated applications alo

Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX claims that its new Tiangai 300 graphics processing unit can match and even surpass Nvidia's H200 in real-world workloads. The Shanghai-based firm demonstrated the chip outperforming the H200 in complex multimodal tasks during a live presentation for mainland Chinese media outlets. Credit: UNSPLASH The H200 stands as the most advanced Nvidia processor approved for export to China under current United States trade rules.

Singapore Science Park is converting a corner of its Geneo development into a three day food laboratory, with start ups, researchers and the public sharing the same space. Flavours of Tomorrow, now in its third year, runs from the fifth to the seventh of next month at The Canopy, opening daily from 10am to 5pm.

OpenAI has reorganised its Model Spec around five core values, placing faithfulness to human intent at the foundation of the framework. The updated guidelines require models to understand what users, developers, and the organisation intend and value, rather than merely following instructions literally. This update forms part of artificial intelligence alignment efforts to help models apply human values in unfamiliar situations while remaining subject to human oversight. The

Fujifilm has updated its most recognisable hybrid instant camera with a 4.5 inch touchscreen, the first in the instax range, and a sensor that more than doubles the resolution of the model it replaces. The instax mini Evo 2 keeps the retro body and the dials of the original, but the back of the camera is now a large display that behaves like a phone.

Google used its first Google for Health Summit to announce a research hub in Singapore, a clinical evaluation with a national health cluster and a population health programme built on predictive models. The company said the work expands the National AI Partnership it signed with the Singapore Government earlier this year, and frames the country as a regional launchpad for health AI that can be deployed at scale.

Garmin has put a microphone and a speaker into its newest premium cycling computer, letting riders ask for ride data, directions and messages without moving their hands off the bars. The Edge 1060, announced by Garmin Singapore, responds to the wake phrase Okay, Garmin, and answers out loud through the integrated speaker.