Singapore Tech News & Gadget Reviews

The DeepSeek Harness team has published a design write up on what it calls a Super agent, an always on system that carries several coding tasks at once, finds work without being asked and recovers when a step fails, alongside a research prototype on GitHub under the MIT licence.

A team at Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore robotics firm ACE Robotics has released Mundo, a world model that turns a handful of photographs of a real place into an editable three dimensional scene that robots can be trained inside. Take one to twelve pictures of a room, and Mundo builds a version of it with physics, then renders what a robot sees as it moves and manipulates objects in that copy.

Meta has built a prototype humanoid robot together with Fourier, the Shanghai robotics company, and has started work on a second version, according to a report by The Information that Reuters carried. The account rests on people familiar with the project rather than on any disclosure by either company, and Reuters did not independently confirm it.

Agoda has opened its AI Assistant to travellers in 21 markets, Singapore among them, letting people plan and book a trip inside one conversation in the app. The company describes it as the first brand new booking experience in its 20 plus year history, a rare structural change for a business built on search boxes and filter panels.

LG Electronics Singapore and Harvey Norman have rebuilt the LG Life's Good AI Home inside the Harvey Norman flagship at Millenia Walk, opening what the two companies call the world's first anchor LG AI Home Experience Zone. The space occupies Level 1 of the store and is arranged as a walk through home rather than a row of appliances on display.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, is investigating what its own founder described as a hack, after estimating that the incident touched about $6.3 billion in assets. The company suspended deposits and withdrawals while its teams work through the damage, and says roughly $3 billion has already been frozen on chain with the help of blockchain partners.

Tencent has launched Buddy One, a system that connects its productivity applications for individual users to a single artificial intelligence agent. Alongside the new platform, the company released Tencent Drive as a cloud storage layer designed to support this agent setup. Credit : UNSPLASH Buddy One links Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Drive, and the knowledge tool ima through the WorkBuddy agent. Users receive a single account across all integrated applications alo

Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX claims that its new Tiangai 300 graphics processing unit can match and even surpass Nvidia's H200 in real-world workloads. The Shanghai-based firm demonstrated the chip outperforming the H200 in complex multimodal tasks during a live presentation for mainland Chinese media outlets. Credit: UNSPLASH The H200 stands as the most advanced Nvidia processor approved for export to China under current United States trade rules.

Singapore Science Park is converting a corner of its Geneo development into a three day food laboratory, with start ups, researchers and the public sharing the same space. Flavours of Tomorrow, now in its third year, runs from the fifth to the seventh of next month at The Canopy, opening daily from 10am to 5pm.

OpenAI has reorganised its Model Spec around five core values, placing faithfulness to human intent at the foundation of the framework. The updated guidelines require models to understand what users, developers, and the organisation intend and value, rather than merely following instructions literally. This update forms part of artificial intelligence alignment efforts to help models apply human values in unfamiliar situations while remaining subject to human oversight. The