As retailers gather in Singapore for next week, a shift is unfolding beneath the surface of retail technology conversations. The industry is no longer merely talking about...
Author: Tony Tan
NRF 2026 APAC PREVIEW – From prediction to autonomous execution: Enter the era of AI-native retail operations
Ahead of NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show Asia Pacific (NRF 2026 APAC), technology leaders are describing a retail future where AI no longer simply recommends actions to humans...
More than S$300 million: OpenAI and Singapore are building a new blueprint for AI nations
When OpenAI announced “OpenAI for Singapore” this week alongside Singapore’s Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI), the headlines naturally focused on the numbers: more than S$300 million...
FuriosaAI and the coming break in the AI hardware order
For the better part of the AI boom, one assumption has gone largely unquestioned: that the future of AI will be built on the back of...
The time dividend thesis: Why AppliedAI CEO sees enterprise AI as a liberation of work
In the race to operationalise AI, most enterprises are still stuck in a paradox: unprecedented technological capability on one hand and stalled real-world impact on the...
Who owns AI? The rise of personal nodes and the shift from access to control
The history of modern computing has been defined by cycles of centralisation and decentralisation. From mainframes to personal computers, from on-premises servers to the cloud, each...