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Southeast Asia’s digital economy is projected to reach US$368 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) in 2026, growing 17% year-on-year as artificial intelligence increasingly shapes how consumers discover, compare and buy products and services online.

Importantly, this is as pharmaceutical companies expand digital marketing investment amid rising demand for treatments, medical innovation and advances in personalised medicine.

Automating document-intensive workflows, improving data consistency and reducing operational delays could reshape how structured products are analysed, distributed and serviced, but the quality of the client experience remains central to competition.

Half of large businesses are expected to change their remote working models, requiring workers to attend the office for a fixed number of days per week by 2027.

Half of large employers are expected to require workers to attend the office for a fixed number of days by 2027, according to a new report.

That’s the idea behind ShipAI, which is live on TDS today. It’s a video showcase for AI work: practitioners record a screen-share walkthrough of something they’ve built (an app, an agent, a pipeline, an experiment), and we review and publish it.

The massive purchase of Seo Hak-ts towards SKHY, SK Hynix’s US deposit stock (ADS), is an extreme example of Korean investors’ preference for the US stock market.

The EU ended the duty exemption for low-value imports worth €150 on July 1, 2026, replacing it with a €3 duty. The measure has already added pressure to a business model built around large volumes of inexpensive cross-border parcels. For ePost Global, however, the first 45 days have not brought a decline in overall volumes.

Mobile security is undergoing an important transformation. Rather than relying primarily on users and developers to configure security controls correctly, Google is increasingly designing Android around a secure-by-default philosophy—where potentially risky capabilities are restricted unless applications have a legitimate reason and explicit authorization to use them. 

We’ve rebuilt towardsdatascience.com from the ground up, but most of the changes affect the site’s infrastructure. The main positive effect for you is that the new site is faster. We’ve also moved to our own platform and have full control over every detail you see — unlike before, where WordPress limited what we could do. This…