Twenty sim racers will compete in the 2026 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Philippines Esports GT Championship National Finals on September 27 at SMX Convention Center Manila. The top 10 Sporting Class and top 10 Junior Class qualifiers emerged from more than 400 participants nationwide, with class champions earning PHP100,000 and slots in the Asia Finals.
Acer has introduced the Googlebook 14, its first laptop in Google’s new Googlebook category and the industry’s first convertible Googlebook. Designed for Gemini Intelligence, it features up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 355 processor, a 14-inch 3K OLED touch display, up to 32GB LPDDR5X memory, Wi-Fi 7, and a 1.14kg aluminum-magnesium chassis.
Built for young professionals, creators, and digital-savvy users, the HONOR 600S combines entertainment, content creation, work, business, and connectivity in a smartphone made for everyday life. It officially launches in the Philippines on October 1, 2026.
Filipino youth are looking beyond academic knowledge as they prepare for future careers.
A new FedEx and Junior Achievement study found that 94% of Filipino respondents believe an entrepreneurial mindset can help someone succeed in any job, while adaptability, workplace experience, AI capability, and global trade knowledge are also emerging as important priorities.
Cebu Pacific is working with Thinking Machines Data Science and OpenAI to scale enterprise AI across the airline, using ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI APIs, and risk-based governance to redesign workflows. Early results include faster legal contract review, project intake and triage, and engineering reference searches, with 86% of surveyed users saying AI supports more than one-third of their daily work.
iProov has published the Human Approval and Presence Specification, or HAPS, an experimental framework for verifying that a human approved a specific action before an AI agent carries it out. Released on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license, HAPS includes procedural rules, test vectors, and a partial Rust reference implementation.
EY Global Delivery Services Philippines is marking its 11th anniversary with plans to add approximately 2,000 professionals over the next two to three years. The organization currently employs more than 6,000 people across Manila and Cebu and expects growing demand in assurance, technology consulting, AI, data, cybersecurity, digital engineering, and enterprise platforms.
Gaming, PC building, content creation, collectibles, cosplay, and tech all came together during SM Supermalls’ Tech & Play Month.
Held throughout August at participating malls nationwide, the campaign brought different communities together through tournaments, creator meetups, hobby activities, and hands-on tech discovery at Cyberzone.
The OPPO AI Pen works with the OPPO Find N6 to turn hand-drawn notes into editable charts and add handwritten feedback directly to long documents. Its AI Chart and Global Annotation features reduce the time spent recreating whiteboard content, organizing feedback, and preparing files for sharing.