Disruption

Tax software firm Intuit to cut 17% of workforce or nearly 3,000 jobs as focus shifts to AI

Investor worries over AI’s potential to disrupt Intuit’s tax software business have sent its shares down 42 per cent in 2026.

Qantas flight to Dallas diverted after man bites flight attendant

A Qantas flight from Melbourned to Dallas was forced to make a stop-off in French Polynesia to offload a disruptive passenger.

Economic Strategy Review

Workers in Singapore at risk of disruption could be offered ‘career bridges’ into other jobs

Generic of office workers at Raffles Place on May 12, 2026. Can be used for stories on Economic Strategy Review (ESR), economy, workers, workforce. ST PHOTO: BRIAN TEO

Anthropic launches slew of AI finance tools as CEO warns some software firms will ‘go bust’

Hardly a year into unveiling ambitions to tailor AI for finance, Anthropic has rapidly expanded its business, with adoption by Goldman Sachs, Visa, Citi, AIG and others.

Two Gaza aid flotilla activists brought in for questioning, says Israel

A coast guard vessel carrying activists of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, intercepted by the Israeli Navy, to a port in Crete on May 1. Israel said two of them were linked with a US-sanctioned group.

From surplus to strain: Global rice supply threatened by Iran war, El Nino

FILE PHOTO: A worker cultivates rice plants at a farm in Bangkok, Thailand, August 28, 2018. Picture taken August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

Madagascar detains French former serviceman over alleged mutiny plot

Power disruptions hit some MRT stations in KL; trains still running

epa12880061 A view of capital city in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10 April 2026. Malaysia's unemployment rate stood at 2.9 percent in February 2026, remaining unchanged for the fourth consecutive month and holding at its lowest level since November 2014. The number of unemployed persons declined by 0.6 percent from the previous month to 506.8 thousand, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia. EPA/FAZRY ISMAIL

China’s aluminium exports to surge as Middle East disruptions persist

Overseas orders for aluminum products used in cars and packaging should see a noticeable increase in April, according to analysts.

Despite Middle East truce, airlines fear long-term disruptions

With no certainty that jet fuel prices will return to pre-war lows, chief executives are having to rethink expansion plans and plane orders.

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