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