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Singapore's New Pitch to Keep Finance Talent: Access to the World's Best AI
The battle between Singapore and Hong Kong for the region's finance talent has long been fought with tax rates, visas and IPO listings. The Financial Times reports Singapore Inc is now adding a new weapon to that arsenal: access to the most advanced AI models.
PC Partner Warns Graphics Card Shortages Will Push Up PC Prices as AI Demand Drains Supply
If you were thinking of building a new desktop or upgrading your gaming rig later this year, the price tag may look very different from what it does today. The culprit isn't inflation or a weak economy — it's the same force reshaping Singapore's technology landscape: the AI buildout.
China Set to Lift Travel Ban on Manus Founders as CEO Xiao Hong Returns to Singapore
China is expected to lift the travel ban on Manus founders, clearing the way for CEO Xiao Hong to return to Singapore as the startup nears the final resolution of its US billion breakup with Meta. The move closes the last open thread in one of the year's messiest cross-border AI deals.
NTUC's first job security chief targets two groups as AI disruption reshapes work
Singapore's labour market is at a pressure point. Retrenchments hit their highest quarterly level in nearly six years in Q2 2026, youth unemployment is creeping up, and AI is quietly rewriting what entry-level work looks like. Into that picture steps Caryn Lim, NTUC's first-ever Chief Job Security, a...
UMS Integration posts 89% jump in Q2 profit as AI 'super cycle' fuels Singapore semiconductor supply chain
Singapore's semiconductor supply chain is riding a wave that keeps getting stronger. UMS Integration, the mainboard-listed precision components maker that supplies the chip equipment industry, has delivered a second quarter that its own chief executive calls "stellar" — and the reason, he says plainly, is...
Arm China's Ex-Co-CEO Came Home to Singapore to Build AI Chips for Agents
Singapore's AI story has mostly been a software story — chatbots, copilots, policy frameworks — while the silicon underneath gets designed somewhere else. A homecoming chip executive is trying to redraw that map. Ken Phua, who spent 25 years abroad building other people's business models,
Singapore's First Biological Data Centre Runs on Living Brain Cells
Singapore's data centre industry has spent years learning to work around heat, water and power constraints — a 2019 pause on new builds made efficiency the price of admission. So it is fitting that the country's newest computing facility has no silicon servers to cool at all.
Singapore Criminalises AI-Generated Intimate Images as Law's Second Phase Kicks In
Singapore has spent the past year racing to make itself an AI hub — and now it is writing the rules for the technology's darkest edge cases. From Monday (Aug 17), producing intimate images without consent — including fully synthetic, AI-generated ones — becomes a specific criminal offence in Singapore,...
NTU to stop using 'fundamentally unreliable' AI detector from 2027
NTU is ditching its institutional AI detector. The university told faculty on Aug 13 that it will deactivate the tool by the end of this semester — Dec 31 — and stop using it entirely from 2027, describing automated detection as "fundamentally unreliable" and lacking "empirical validity."
Singapore Weighs AI-Era IP Reforms as IPOS CEO Says Intangible Assets Are the New Competitive Moat
AI has compressed the innovation cycle, turning intellectual property into a strategic business asset rather than a legal safeguard. An IPOS study found IP rights lift Singapore firms' profit per invested capital by 20.8 per cent — and a public consultation on AI-related IP reforms is coming.
OpenAI in Talks to Lease 100,000 Sq Ft at Shaw Tower as Singapore Becomes Its Regional AI Base
OpenAI has spent the past year signalling that Singapore matters to it beyond a regional sales office — an Applied AI Lab, a government MOU, a growing team. The company now appears ready to back that up with one of the biggest physical commitments yet: Business Times reports that ChatGPT's creator is in...
Agoda and STB Extend Partnership to Explore AI-Powered Travel Recommendations for Singapore
Trip planning has quietly become an AI problem. Travellers now expect platforms to anticipate where they want to go, what they want to do and how much they are willing to spend — and destination marketing boards have to keep up. Singapore, which has made digitalisation a pillar of its Tourism 2040 strategy...