Global tech through a Filipino lens. What it means for PH founders, always.
Crypto industry M&A hit $93.7 billion in the first half of 2026, twenty-six times the prior year's pace, as traditional financial institutions from Mastercard to Bullish chose to buy licensed crypto infrastructure outright rather than build compliant systems from scratch.
The EU's single crypto rulebook became fully enforceable on July 1, but only 213 of the more than 3,000 firms…
The US Department of War established a new Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems on June 29, consolidating acquisition…
Valar Atomics powered an Nvidia Blackwell chip live with a helium-cooled microreactor in Utah on July 1, the clearest demonstration…
More than half of Philippine BPO companies are now integrating AI, and the industry's workforce grew rather than shrank through…
8090 raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for its Software Factory platform, where human teams and…
Zhipu's GLM-5.2 model has grown its usage 27-fold in a single week on developer platforms and now anchors a Chinese…
99.8% of firms now offer some embedded financial feature, but a $265-million-plus BaaS middleware collapse in 2024 and a wave…
The Philippine SEC says it now has the legal and regulatory footing to oversee tokenized real estate and US equity…
NMBLR.ai, profitable since 2024, opened a Makati AI training and development hub without a venture round behind it, a rare…
Klarna and Affirm posted genuinely profitable quarters in early 2026, but Affirm's stock climbed on heavier loss provisioning while Klarna's…
CLICX went live as Thailand's first licensed virtual bank on June 19, 2026, with CP Group's Ascend Bank chasing a…