[Initiative] SCMP’s AI-powered search engine

Updated 2026 · 14 min read Singapore consistently ranks among the easiest places in the world to start a business — but for foreigners, the process involves more moving parts than it does for locals. Your visa status, your business structure, and your long-term residency plans are all connected. Getting one wrong can create problems […]

Insider Brief LUMIQ has closed a strategic funding round led by Bajaj Finserv, one of India’s largest financial services groups, with participation from existing investor Info Edge Ventures, to scale its auto-decisioning platform LiteCone across financial institutions in the United States and Southeast Asia. The LiteCone platform deploys AI agents that read files, apply institutional […]

The Crown would manage access but not own the hydrogen – similar to geothermal resources – and could give operators exclusive rights. The SMC asked experts to comment.

Meta is developing plans to sell access to its AI compute capacity and models as a cloud service, according to a Bloomberg report, a move that would place it in direct competition with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The initiative, reportedly dubbed Meta Compute, is being led by head of infrastructure Santosh […]