Selina Xu

5 days ago | estadao.com.br | Eric Schmitt |Selina Xu

Os principais líderes da China não pareciam compreender totalmente o poder da inteligência artificial (IA) em julho de 2023, quando um de nós, Eric, e Henry Kissinger os encontramos. O mal-estar econômico pairava no ar. Mas quando outra de nós, Selina, retornou à China apenas 19 meses depois, o otimismo era palpável. As conversas durante o jantar eram dominadas pelo DeepSeek e outros chatbots de IA. Carros elétricos passavam zunindo e aplicativos ofereciam entrega de comida por drones.

Oct 29, 2024 | techpolicy.press | Selina Xu |Yvonne Ploder

Selina Xu is a writer and researcher in technology and geopolitics, and Yvonne Ploder works in strategy and operations in the Office of Eric Schmidt. This post was written in their personal capacity. On the eve of the US presidential election, it appears that TikTok is still failing to keep political ads off its platform despite an explicit ban, according to a new investigation.

Dec 2, 2023 | bloomberglinea.com.br | Isabel Joy Kua |Selina Xu

ÚltimascotaçõesBloomberg — Durante meio século de independência, Singapura lutou para expandir seu território, centímetro por centímetro duramente conquistado. Na ponta da península da Malásia, a cidade-estado aterrou seu litoral para expandir sua área e recuperar terras do mar. Nesse período, Singapura cresceu 25%, adicionando uma massa de terra com mais de duas vezes o tamanho de Manhattan.

Oct 16, 2023 | afr.com | Selina Xu

Demand is also being stoked by Singapore’s efforts to regulate housing costs. The city-state in April slapped additional levies on locals buying second homes and on foreign buyers purchasing any residential dwellings at all in a bid to cool a red-hot market. Shophouses, the bulk of which are classified as commercial, escape those rules. Loyalle Chin, a real estate agent who specialises in shophouses, has sold seven commercial ones since late April.

Oct 15, 2023 | bloomberg.com | Selina Xu

Almost a decade ago, Sebestian Soh got the idea to buy a shophouse, one of the two- to three-story row buildings that are distinctive of old Singapore. He’d recently returned to Singapore after going to university in London, and to his eyes shophouses had a kind of magic. “Everything is new in Singapore except for shophouses, so in a way these are works of art—every shophouse has a different way of expressing itself, a different facade,” Soh says. “These are spaces that we can never re-create.”