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AI-Generated Sci-Fi Film Trace Project Premieres in Singapore on National Day, Creator Hits Back at 'AI Slop' Critics
National Day weekend is becoming an unlikely showcase for Singapore's AI filmmaking experiments. Hot on the heels of the zombie-apocalypse short Bersama Majulah comes Trace Project, a full-length AI-generated sci-fi feature that premieres on Aug 9 with a single screening at Golden Village VivoCity.
Singapore Captures Nearly All of Southeast Asia's US$9.3B Native AI Funding: Tracxn
If there was any doubt about where Southeast Asia's AI money actually lands, Tracxn's latest count settles it. The market intelligence platform reports that the region's native AI ecosystem has raised roughly US$9.3 billion across 261 disclosed equity rounds as of July 2026 — and Singapore accounts for the...
Singapore Finance Teams Hit the Scaling Wall: Forrester Study Finds Adoption Outpacing Expansion
Singapore's finance teams have largely crossed the AI adoption threshold — the harder question now is what comes after the pilot. A new Forrester study commissioned by fintech AirWallex, surveying more than 1,200 finance decision-makers across 11 markets including 105 in Singapore, finds.
Singapore's Acrab Raises US$130M Series B to Push Edge AI Silicon From Stealth to Revenue
Most of the AI conversation in Singapore runs through software — chatbots, copilots, policy frameworks — while the silicon underneath is designed elsewhere. Acrab, a Singapore-headquartered startup founded in 2024, is trying to change that with chips built to run large models where the user is,
AI Research Startup LinqAlpha Sets Up Singapore Base to Win Asian Capital Markets
Institutional investing is quietly becoming one of the most demanding proving grounds for agentic AI — and the founders behind LinqAlpha have a bold pitch for it: portfolio managers should be able to "work at a superhuman level with the support of an army of AI agents." The New York-headquartered.
Razer-NUS AI Lab Moves Holographic Companion AVA Closer to Reality
Razer has been talking about AVA, its holographic desk companion, since January, when the transparent block of light first appeared at CES in Las Vegas. On Aug 5, the Singapore gaming giant moved a step closer, opening the Razer-NUS Joint AI Research Lab with the National University of Singapore —...
MOM to Study How AI's Role in Retrenchments Can Be Better Tracked
Singapore's labour market is running a strange race: employment keeps growing, yet retrenchments just hit their highest level in more than five years — and the government admits it cannot yet tell you how much of that is AI. In a written reply to Parliament on Aug 4, the Ministry of Manpower said...
Singapore's Legal Community Debates Who Should Own AI-Generated Content
Who owns what a generative AI model produces? For Singapore's in-house counsel and creative agencies it is becoming a contractual and regulatory headache - and it was the motion at this year's GenA2Z debate, where lawyers and students argued whether AI-generated content should belong to the public domain.
Tech Data Brings Wasabi's AI-Ready Cloud Storage to Singapore and Malaysia
Cloud storage does not get the headlines AI models do, but it is quietly becoming one of the most consequential purchasing decisions in Singapore's AI build-out. A new distribution deal brings Boston-based Wasabi Technologies' storage portfolio to resellers in Singapore and Malaysia through Tech Data.
Singapore Studio's AI Short Film Reimagines NDP Under Zombie Attack — Out Aug 9
Singapore's National Day has its rituals — the parade, the fireworks, the flag fly-past — and AI now has a stake in them. On Aug 9, a Singapore studio will release an AI-assisted short film in which the National Day Parade comes under attack by a lethal spore pathogen that turns people into zombie-like...
MAS to Finalise AI Risk Guidelines Covering Agentic AI
Singapore's approach to AI regulation has been building toward this moment for nine months. In November 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore put its proposed Guidelines on AI Risk Management out for consultation; this week, the regulator confirmed the final version is close — and it will explicitly cover agentic AI.
Healthcare AI's Real Bottleneck Is Governance, Not Models: BMI Analysis
Governments across Asia-Pacific are pouring investment into healthcare AI, but the industry's ability to scale it will be decided less by model quality than by governance. That is the central finding of a July analysis from Business Monitor International (BMI), a Fitch Solutions company, which argues that...