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NUS Enterprise and Vietnam's Science Ministry Open an AI, Semiconductor and Startup Bridge
Singapore's universities have quietly become one of its most exportable AI assets. NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore, has spent years seeding startup ecosystems across Asia — and its newest agreement, with Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology, now bundles...
SGX Lands Two AI Hardware Listings in Seven Months — and One of Them Came Home
Singapore's exchange has quietly become a landing spot for AI hardware companies. Within seven months, two firms with very different reasons for being there have started trading on the SGX mainboard — and the more recent arrival, Ambiq Micro, did so with one of its largest R&D hubs already planted in...
EDBI and Peak XV Join Lumilens' US$700M Bet on Replacing Data Centre Copper With Light
Singapore's EDBI has joined Peak XV and a roster of global funds in Lumilens' US$700 million Series C, valuing the two-year-old optical interconnect startup at US$5.51 billion. The bet: AI's next bottleneck isn't chips — it's the wiring that connects them, and light will replace copper in data centres.
Singapore SMEs Are Winning at Google but Invisible to AI Search: Audit Finds 48/100 Readiness
Singapore SMEs rank fine on Google but are invisible to AI answer engines, an audit of 46 business websites finds — averaging just 48 out of 100 on AI search readiness. Most sites lack machine-readable FAQ schema, llms.txt files and direct answers, leaving them bypassed as customers increasingly ask ChatGPT first.
NNI Neurologist Uses Machine Learning to Predict How ALS Progresses — and Singapore's Data Is Different
An NNI neurologist is using machine learning to predict how ALS progresses in different people, with models validated on Singapore's own population. Local data tells a different story from the West: earlier onset, but patients living about twice as long with the disease.
DBS CEO Says AI Costs Are Falling as Usage Grows
There has been a quiet assumption in banking that generative AI would be powerful but expensive — a capability worth having, yet one that would pressure technology budgets as usage scaled. DBS chief executive Tan Su Shan is now pushing back on that assumption with data from inside one of Southeast Asia's...
Aspire Taps Flagright for AI-Driven Financial Crime Compliance
Singapore's fintech scene has spent the past year watching artificial intelligence reshape both sides of the financial crime fight — the same models that help fraudsters scale their attacks are now the ones banks and payment firms are turning to for defence. The latest sign of that shift comes from Aspire,...
AI Marketing Platform Emergine Chooses Singapore for Global Debut
There's a quiet scramble happening in marketing departments right now, and it's not about social media calendars anymore. As more people get answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI assistants instead of search engines, brands are realising they need to be visible inside AI responses — not just on page one...
Singapore Gets Its First Data-Led AI Impact Barometer for Commercial Real Estate
Singapore's AI boom has been easy to spot in funding rounds and chip announcements, but its quietest effects are showing up in bricks and mortar — record-low data centre vacancy, office floors emptying in back-office districts, and a shifting map of which buildings businesses actually want.
Singapore EdTech Startup ACANAV Deploys AI to Map Out Education and Career Pathways
Choosing what to study next has never had more information behind it — and that is exactly the problem. University listings, scholarship databases, qualification frameworks and job-market signals are scattered across hundreds of institutional and government websites, and most students and mid-career...
SMRT's JARVIS AI Platform Helped Trigger 500+ Rail Maintenance Inspections in Its First Year
Singapore's rail operator is quietly becoming one of the more interesting case studies in how a legacy infrastructure business can industrialise AI. For years, MRT maintenance ran on scheduled checks and engineer intuition — but with a network that now carries more than two million passenger journeys a day,...
DBS CEO says AI is beginning to contribute to fee income growth
Artificial intelligence is beginning to contribute to fee income growth at DBS, with early benefits showing up across wealth management and corporate banking. CEO Tan Su Shan told CNA the bank is seeing “green shoots” of AI-driven ideation that generates fees, after DBS posted a record second-quarter profit.