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Singapore finance leaders are ahead on AI — and now hit the scaling wall, survey finds
Singapore's finance chiefs have moved past the pilot phase. A new study commissioned by payments company Airwallex and conducted by Forrester Consulting finds 86 per cent of Singapore finance leaders have already adopted AI in at least some finance workflows, with 96 per cent expecting investment in...
AI decodes the architectural DNA of Singapore's shophouses, NUS study finds
Machine learning has turned Singapore's shophouses into a data problem — and the results are rewriting how the country understands its own built heritage. Researchers at the National University of Singapore used AI and mathematical techniques borrowed from evolutionary biology to reconstruct how the island's...
July's tech sell-off tested the AI boom — Singapore's infrastructure bet is still running
Singapore's economy has spent the last two years riding the AI investment wave — the government this week raised its 2026 growth forecast to 4.5-5.5% partly on the strength of AI-driven electronics exports. But July gave global tech investors their sharpest scare in two decades.
AI adoption lifts Singapore business revenue 16% in a year, MTI study finds
Singapore's AI story is usually told in headline numbers — GDP upgrades, export surges, data centre dollars. But a new study from the Ministry of Trade and Industry looks at what AI actually does to the businesses on the ground, and the answer is more nuanced than the macro picture suggests: revenue and...
AI's National Day Reality Check: Singapore's Creative Industry Weighs Authenticity vs Efficiency
Singapore's AI story this year has run on semiconductors and GDP upgrades, but National Day 2026 turned into a quieter kind of test: whether AI-generated content can carry the country's most emotionally loaded cultural moments. From an AI-composed National Day song to an AI-assisted short film and a botched...
Singapore and Australia Formalise Deeper AI and Cyber Security Partnership
Singapore's AI policy playbook has always been built on partnerships — and the latest one to move is with Australia. The two governments have formalised a deeper working relationship on artificial intelligence and cyber security, following the inaugural Australia-Singapore Cyber and Digital Senior.
NUS students to get ChatGPT access; AI module compulsory for incoming freshmen
From this August, no National University of Singapore student graduates without proving they can work with generative AI. The university's new AI strategy, unveiled on Tuesday, makes two compulsory AI courses a graduation requirement for its roughly 29,600 undergraduates across all 15 faculties.
SMU Unveils New Courses for an AI-Enabled Future, Backed by a University-Wide AI Strategy
Singapore's universities have spent the past year deciding what AI should and shouldn't change about how they teach. Singapore Management University's answer, unveiled on Tuesday, is a curriculum where students first prove they can think without AI — and then learn to build with it.
Singapore's AI Strategy Needs Evidence From Frontline Workflows, Says Behavioural Scientist
Singapore's refreshed national AI strategy has all the top-down ingredients a small country could ask for: ten priorities, a new National AI Council steering the agenda, and A*STAR's freshly launched Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing pulling together AI, data and high-performance.
Singapore's MNDR Builds AI Lab Data Tool Under National AI Cloud Takeoff Programme
A Singapore-headquartered healthtech company is putting government-backed cloud compute to work on one of medicine's quietest problems: clinical data overload. Mobile-health Network Solutions (MNDR), which operates a digital health ecosystem across Southeast Asia and the US, has developed an AI-powered lab...
GIC Joins Anthropic and Macquarie to Build AI Data Centres at Scale
GIC is going deeper into the AI infrastructure play. The Singapore sovereign wealth fund has joined Anthropic and Macquarie Asset Management in a strategic partnership to build and own data centres at scale for the Claude developer, in a deal that turns the AI compute shortage into a long-duration investment...
Singapore Lifts 2026 Export Forecast to 14-16% as AI Demand Drives Electronics Boom
Singapore's trade engine is running on AI. Enterprise Singapore on Tuesday upgraded the city-state's 2026 non-oil domestic exports (NODX) forecast to 14 to 16 per cent — more than triple the previous 3 to 5 per cent range — after exports surged 27.4 per cent in the second quarter, powered by electronics...