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Technology beyond the press release. What is being built, who pays for it, what it costs the rest of us.
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Tech Dispatch
MTI raised the 2026 forecast. Manufacturing had its worst quarter since 2023.
Singapore posted Q1 GDP up 4.6 percent year on year. Manufacturing fell 4.9 percent quarter on quarter, the steepest single-quarter drop since 2023. The AI hardware tailwind has rolled off.
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Tech 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.
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Tech Dispatch
The humanoid robot moment landed in Shenzhen. The first SEA buyers are warehouses in Johor.
Unitree opened UniStore on May 7, the first developer marketplace for humanoid robots, with 1,200 developers and 237 apps at launch. The R1 retails at US$4,900. The math works first in regional logistics, not in CBD towers.
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Tech Dispatch
Mistral's biggest SEA deployment skips the consumer market entirely.
Singtel and Mistral announced their AI-compute partnership at DC Tuas this week. The deployment targets Singapore's banks, government, healthcare, and telco workloads. The geography is the deal.