October Tech Round-up: Travel, Updated
This month we bring out the crystal ball and ask, ‘where are travel and travel tech going within the Asia Pacific region?’ Covid may have presented an existential threat, but travel is back. Big time. Read about it in this month’s Tech Round-up.
Enjoy, from all of us at North Ridge Partners.
Original Thinking from North Ridge Partners
Travel is unbreakable. Now the ecosystem is in full flight again (as it were) - what’s hot and what’s not? Read here.
Follow the money. Capital deployed into travel before and during Covid will soon be looking for a new home - but where will it go? Read here.
Big Tech News
Metaverse is back, and trendy! Facebook offers a glimpse of how it wants us to interact in an augmented world.
Pichai, Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman front congress on AI. If you can’t trust the tech leaders of the world, who can you trust?
A long time coming - Amazon in the cross hairs at FTC, 17 states launch antitrust action.
Alphabet readies ChatGPT rival Gemini for release.
Asia Pacific Tech News
Alibaba on the up, China looks to ease stock ownership rules.
Tencent reveals its Hunyuan large language model, declares “war” on AI rivals.
AI with Chinese characteristics. Could a censored Internet hinder the creation of Chinese ChatGPT rivals?
SEA tech wants to fill a China-sized IPO hole in the US.
Stuff We Found Interesting
Creation myths? Samsung’s startup up story is almost too bonkers to believe.
Grim monkey business at Neuralink triggers call from medical ethics group to investigate Elon Musk.
Harvard study finds ChatGPT users outperform on every measure, and underachievers get the biggest boost.
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