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Amazon is in talks to buy US$7 billion AI startup Decart, WSJ reports

2026-10-11T21:51:58.000Z
The model is also said to fare comparably on advanced reasoning benchmarks to the flagship open model of China’s Z.AI, GLM-5.2.

Nvidia-backed startup Reflection unveils open-weight AI model said to rival China offerings

2026-10-06T05:09:30.000Z
Joe Lu, HeyMax CEO and co-founder, says HeyMax First is the outcome of the aspiration to fly comfortably, cheaper and faster.

HeyMax wants to challenge the miles game with ‘fly now, earn later’ model

2026-10-02T07:05:09.000Z
The honourees of this year’s NGT30 were announced on Sep 30. The programme is Asia’s first public-private initiative to recognise the region’s top growth-stage tech firms.

Asia’s top tech startups move beyond software towards physical AI

2026-09-30T05:34:39.000Z
The bulk of the growth in Syfe’s assets under management has been from existing users, says Dhruv Arora, CEO and founder of the wealth platform.

Syfe crosses S$20 billion AUM mark, tracks growth from investment and trading segments

2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z
Anthropic’s backers include Amazon and Google, who are also its major compute suppliers. 

Nvidia in talks to invest in Anthropic’s mega IPO: sources

2026-09-12T03:55:26.000Z
The new models being rolled out will include new functions, such as being able to generate a song from audio, images and video inspirations.

AI music startup Suno launches new models that pay labels

2026-09-10T09:37:45.000Z
Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of Mistral, says the funding round will allow the company to pick up the pace on R&D, products and infrastructure.

Mistral raises record 3 billion euros in Samsung-led round at over 21 billion euro valuation

2026-09-08T05:00:00.000Z
A recent survey found that 64% of Singapore’s financial institutions are actively deploying AI across key business functions.

AI startup aiming to be banks’ ‘top-to-bottom operating system’ sets up Singapore hub

2026-08-26T03:59:41.000Z
There is intensifying competition in the biotech space, but Huang believes that K2 Therapeutics’ hub-and-spoke model should give it the edge.

Singapore-based biotech K2 Therapeutics secures US$50 million seed round; appoints Huang Ying as CEO

2026-08-11T12:00:00.000Z
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