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iFLYTEK has released Spark X2.6, a model family it says is the first in China to reach a step change in coding and agent work while being trained entirely on domestic computing power. The company announced it at its 1024 developer festival, alongside an open source 4B model for devices and a new speech model called SparkAudio 1.0.

OpenAI has turned Singapore's official statistics into something you can simply ask for. The company surfaced the SingStat plugin this week, so a question inside ChatGPT about population, consumer prices or household income now comes back from the government's own Table Builder rather than from a model's memory, which is a meaningful difference for anyone who needs a figure they can defend.

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a revolutionary fibre that functions simultaneously as pixels and touch sensors. Assistant Professor Tural Khudiyev led the team that integrated these fibres into a sleeve to create the world's first touchscreen built directly into a garment. Photo by: College of Design and Engineering, NUS The innovative sleeve displays images and video, responds to finger presses, and connects wirelessly to other devices. D