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Xinterra's Former CTO Says AI's Real Frontier Is Atoms, Not Chatbots
Singapore's AI conversation is dominated by chatbots, model releases and funding rounds — but the entrepreneur behind one of the country's more unusual deep-tech bets thinks the real opportunity is in atoms, not information. Jatin Kumar, former Chief Technology Officer of Xinterra, the Singapore startup...
DBS Steps Up SME Support With AI Adoption, Financing and Payments
Singapore's SMEs are adopting AI at a fraction of the rate of large firms — a gap Parliament was told this week stands at 76% versus 27% — and DBS is betting that the missing ingredient is not just funding, but hand-holding. The bank's new "DBS for SMEs" initiative bundles advisory services,...
IMDA Red-Teaming Finds Multilingual AI Chatbots Leak Data When Users Switch Languages
Singapore's approach to AI safety has always leaned on testing before trusting — the AI Verify framework, the Model AI Governance Framework, and now a growing library of red-teaming results. The latest of those results says something uncomfortable: the guardrails that hold in English quietly fail in the...
Xinterra's AI Materials Lab Turns T-Shirts Into Carbon Capture Devices
Materials science has a speed problem: getting a new material from lab to market can take years of trial-and-error, which is exactly the wrong timeline for climate change. A Singapore startup spun out of A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering thinks AI can compress that timeline — and its...
AI Adoption Split by Firm Size: 76% of Large, 27% of Small, Parliament Told
The question of how artificial intelligence reshapes Singapore's workforce has moved from think-piece territory to hard parliamentary numbers. During Parliament's Aug 4-5 sitting, NTUC Labour MPs pressed the government on the intersection of AI, retrenchment and worker support — and the written replies...
Singapore's SME Playbook: AI Adoption, Overseas Growth and a Rules Review
Singapore's small and medium enterprises are navigating a double squeeze — immediate pressure from global uncertainty, and a slower-burning shift in the economic landscape itself, reshaped by artificial intelligence and climate change. How the government responds to that squeeze will define whether the SME...
AIMX Singapore 2026 Anchors EnterpriseSG-Linked Partnerships for Its August AI Expo
Singapore's AI conference calendar is filling up fast, and AIMX Singapore 2026 is positioning itself as the one focused squarely on deployment rather than demos. Running 26–27 August at Sands Expo & Convention Centre, the two-day event bills itself as the platform to drive AI adoption "for the real world" —...
Singapore's Tourism Boom Rides on an Invisible Layer of AI Security
Singapore's tourism engine runs on a layer of infrastructure most visitors never see. The Singapore Tourism Board logged 16.9 million arrivals in 2025, and every sold-out stadium show or Formula 1 weekend quietly depends on a coordinated web of communications networks, command centres, video security and...
Singapore's Bitdeer Signs US$4.7B Norway AI Data Centre Lease as It Pivots From Mining to Compute
Singapore may be short on cheap power and cold climates, but it is quietly becoming the headquarters of companies building the infrastructure that makes AI possible elsewhere. The latest proof: Bitdeer Technologies Group, the Singapore-headquartered AI cloud and infrastructure provider, has signed a 16-year...
Grab's H1 Profit Surges to US$355M as Its AI Layer Touches Every Part of the Superapp
When Grab reports numbers like these, it stops being just another Southeast Asian tech earnings call. The Singapore superapp posted US$1.95 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, up 23 percent year on year, with profit of US$355 million — a leap from US$30 million in the same period last year.
SMRT Turns MRT Gantry Data Into an AI Crowd Radar for Proactive Train Deployment
Singapore's rail network moves millions of commuters a day, yet crowd management has largely been a rear-view mirror exercise — operators study the data and respond after congestion forms or a disruption hits. SMRT wants to flip that sequence with a commuter pattern analysis system that pairs artificial...
Grab's AI Call-A-Ride Lets Seniors Book Rides With a Phone Call, Not an App
For years, the digital divide in Singapore has had a quiet casualty: seniors who never quite took to ride-hailing apps, and who found themselves relying on taxis flagged down the old-fashioned way. Grab's answer, announced Aug 5, is to make the phone call the interface again.