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Voice AI Giant Deepgram Plants APAC HQ in Singapore Backed by EDBI Investment
Voice AI infrastructure firm Deepgram is establishing its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, backed by a strategic investment from EDBI as part of its US$130 million Series C extension. The move follows 96% year-on-year APAC growth.
Singapore's AI adoption numbers look strong — but much of it rests on a single person
An AWS-commissioned study of 1,500 Singapore firms shows strong AI adoption, but in around 60% of companies the entire capability rests on one person. The commentary argues Singapore's real test is converting adoption into durable, organisation-wide capability rather than single-champion dependence.
Singapore's AI Hiring Boom Risks Magnifying Age Bias, as Its Workforce Grows Older
Singapore is betting heavily on artificial intelligence to reshape how companies find and assess talent, but that bet collides with a demographic reality few AI vendors are designed for: the resident workforce is getting older. The Business Times columnist David R.
SG AI Recruitment Platform Snaphunt Winds Up After Delayed Funding Runs Down Its Cash
Singapore's AI startup graveyard just gained a notable name. Snaphunt, the AI-driven recruitment platform founded in 2017, is being wound up after a planned US$2.8 million funding round was delayed beyond the point of survival, leaving it without enough cash to keep on operating.
Singapore Captures US$9.3B of Southeast Asia's AI Funding as Capital Piles In
Singapore's grip on Southeast Asia's AI money has never looked tighter. New data from Tracxn shows Singapore-based AI companies raised US$9.3 billion across 227 funding rounds as of July 2026, while Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand combined attracted less than US$40 million.
72% of Singapore Shoppers Now Use AI to Decide What to Buy — Retail's New Middleman
Singapore's retail story has quietly stopped being about shopfronts and search rankings. A new wave of consumer behaviour data shows artificial intelligence inserting itself between shoppers and brands — not as a fancy checkout feature, but as the layer that decides which products get seen, compared and...
Singapore's 'Two-Speed Economy': AI Fuels Near-6% Growth, But the Gains Aren't Reaching Everyone
Singapore's GDP grew 5.9 per cent year-on-year in Q2, but the gains are increasingly concentrated — manufacturing, wholesale trade and finance account for about three-quarters of growth while retail and F&B lag. The AI-driven boom is widening a productivity gap that has analysts describing a two-speed economy.
Singapore's Agentic AI Adoption Doubles in a Year — but Only 28% of Firms Have Risk Controls
Singapore's enterprises have spent the past year buying into artificial intelligence at a pace few markets can match — and the latest evidence suggests agentic AI, the next stage of that push, is taking hold faster than almost anywhere else. The question is no longer whether Singapore's businesses will adopt...
Singapore's July exports jump 24.2% as AI demand keeps the electronics engine humming
Singapore's trade engine is humming at a pace it has not seen in years, and artificial intelligence is the fuel. Non-oil domestic exports rose 24.2 per cent in July, extending June's 20.8 per cent gain, as electronics shipments surged 112 per cent on the back of relentless global demand for AI hardware.
Singapore Investors Are Talking to Their Brokerage Apps as AI Assistants Go Mainstream
Singapore's brokerages spent the past two years bolting AI assistants onto their trading apps, and the numbers suggest investors are actually using them. Tiger Brokers says conversation volumes on its TigerAI tool among Singapore users grew 500 per cent year on year as of June, with monthly active users up...
Singapore Launches Agentic DeFi Forum as AI Agents Prepare to Move Money
Singapore has spent the past year building the rails for an economy where software agents — not just humans — do business. That ambition took a concrete step forward this month with the launch of the Agentic Decentralized Finance Forum, a new platform that ties together AI, blockchain and digital finance...
Data Centre S-Reits Power Ahead as AI Demand Keeps Singapore's Server Racks Full
Singapore's data centre real estate investment trusts are the quiet barometers of the country's AI boom. When global cloud providers sign leases and GPU-heavy workloads multiply, the evidence lands first in the half-year updates of the three pure-play data centre S-Reits — and the latest round, for the...