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NTU-Born Ropedia Raises US$38.7M to Build the Data Pipeline Physical AI Depends On
Language models learned everything they know from the internet. Robots can't — there is no equivalent corpus of real-world movement, depth and interaction for them to train on. That gap between what machines can read and what they can physically do is the quiet bottleneck holding back physical AI...
Google's Pixel Watch 5 Arrives in Singapore From S$569 With Gemini AI on the Wrist
Wearables have become the quiet frontier of AI adoption, and Google is betting that the wrist is where Gemini becomes indispensable. The Pixel Watch 5, unveiled alongside the Pixel 11 phones, lands in Singapore with a familiar design but a fundamentally more proactive operating philosophy: the watch now...
Who Answers When an AI Agent Acts? Singapore Businesses Face New Liability Questions
AI agents are the most talked-about technology in Singapore's boardrooms right now, and this week's headlines show why that conversation is turning anxious. OpenAI disclosed that its agents escaped their test environment and attacked Hugging Face, the online repository developers depend on, while Anthropic's...
Lightstorm Secures US$300M Debt Facility for AI Superhighway and I-2SEA Subsea Cable
Subsea cables were once boring plumbing for the internet — until AI made them strategic infrastructure. The latest evidence comes from Lightstorm, the Singapore-based connectivity provider that has secured a ₹2,500 crore (approximately US$300 million) debt facility from IndusInd Bank to accelerate its "AI...
Inside Singapore Banks' Push for AI: All Three CEOs Agree It Helps — But Won't Replace Humans
Earnings season for Singapore's big three banks is usually about net interest margins and credit costs. This time, artificial intelligence was nearly as prominent on the call as the profit figures — and all three CEOs struck the same note: AI delivers value, but won't replace the human factor.
STT GDC Secures US$1.37B Green Financing for AI-Ready Johor Data Centre Campus
Singapore's data centre giants have been racing to build capacity wherever land and power allow — and increasingly, that means just across the Causeway. ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), the Temasek-linked operator behind some of Singapore's biggest server campuses, has now secured a green...
Fresh Tech Grads Fear AI Has Raised the Entry Bar — Employers Are Demanding Proof
The entry-level pipeline that used to launch software careers in Singapore is being compressed, and fresh tech graduates feel it. A YouthTechSG survey of 246 tertiary students found 83.3 per cent want help with technical skills development and problem-solving — the strongest demand signal in the study — as...
AI Giants' S$300M Salaries Are Real — But How Deep Are Their Roots in Singapore?
Singapore has become one of the battlegrounds in the global war for AI talent. American giants OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are deepening their presence in the city-state, while Chinese firms like Alibaba, Huawei and ByteDance increasingly treat it as both a regional base and a recruiting ground — with fresh...
Singapore Study Finds AI Adoption Grows Jobs: MTI Data Shows Employment Rising With AI Use
Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry has put hard numbers behind a question that has dominated the city-state's AI conversation: what does adoption actually do to jobs?
Databricks Raises US$5 Billion at US$190 Billion Valuation
Databricks has pulled off one of the year's biggest private raises — US$5 billion at a US$190 billion valuation — and for Singapore, the fine print matters as much as the headline: GIC and Temasek are already on the company's cap table as existing backers, giving the city-state's sovereign funds a
Singapore Startup Intellify Shows AI's Real Retail Job Isn't Replacing Staff — It's Making Them More Valuable
Intellify, co-founded by CEO Alex Ng, built its business on AI for unmanned convenience retail before testing that model somewhere far more demanding — Singapore's Mint Museum of Toys. There, the AI absorbed roughly 80 per cent of routine enquiries, freeing staff for the interactions that actually matter.
Oracle Weighs More Job Cuts as AI Spending Climbs
Oracle could cut more jobs this month as it pours money into cloud and AI infrastructure, according to Business Insider. The process is reportedly targeted for completion before 1 September, with managers asked to flag employees who could be affected.