APAC real estate is at a turning point as AI evolves from a tool for efficiency to a catalyst for reinvention. It's reshaping how assets are managed,...
Author: Clement Teo
AI’s forgotten problem: Plaud’s Nathan Xu on building AI that remembers what matters
As AI agents become increasingly capable of performing knowledge work, a critical question remains: how do they acquire the context that humans take for granted? Nathan...
Self-checkout’s second act: Why Diebold Nixdorf sees AI as retail’s new loss prevention layer
Self-checkout was meant to improve retail economics. Instead, it exposed a new margin leak. Retail shrink hit US$112.1 billion in 2022, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF),...
How AEON is rewiring retail for the age of agentic commerce
For decades, AEON won with a familiar retail formula: more stores, more inventory, more foot traffic. That era is over. In a market defined by real-time data, predictive...
Can AI save the mid-market retailer? The battle for the future of physical stores
Physical retail isn't dying. It's being brutally sorted. As e-commerce commands 42 per cent of global sales in Asia alone, brick-and-mortar stores face a hard ultimatum: get smarter...
The agentic pivot: SAP bets its future on the Autonomous Enterprise
The most revealing moment at SAP's Sapphire 2026 conference wasn't a product demo. It was a question. CEO Christian Klein opened his keynote by asking the audience...