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Thursday, 27 August 2026
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5 CÈ pieces since 11 May 2026: 1 deal, 4 essays. Newest first. All companies →

  1. Deal

    Selling to Asia now means hiring in Asia: Klaviyo staffs a Singapore HQ toward 175

    The marketing-automation firm opened with 25 staff and plans more than 175 by year-end, backed by the Economic Development Board. Revenue outside the Americas grew 35% year on year last quarter.

  2. Essay

    Singapore opened 200MW to new data centres. One Batam campus contracted 450.

    On apatheia, and the compute money landing across the strait from a business it is never going to touch.

  3. Essay

    Alibaba will publish Qwen3.8-Max’s weights next week. Intelligence stops being the scarce input.

    Alibaba shipped a 2.4-trillion-parameter model on 3 August and promised the weights for the week of 10 August, which reprices every Southeast Asian AI project around the one input nobody can download.

  4. Essay

    What Singapore’s S$1 billion deep tech top-up actually changes

    Budget 2026 puts a billion dollars behind Singapore’s deep tech founders through a scheme that only moves when private investors move. The math it changes, and the math it leaves exactly where it was.

  5. Essay

    Novo Nordisk handed OpenAI its full operation. Singapore's contract labs are next.

    Novo Nordisk's deal with OpenAI is being read as a drug-discovery story. The part that resets Singapore's biotech cluster is the supply chain, the manufacturing schedule, and the corporate operation.