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Razer and NUS Launch Joint AI Lab to Give Games a Mind of Their Own
Partnerships5 Aug 2026

Razer and NUS Launch Joint AI Lab to Give Games a Mind of Their Own

Singapore's gaming giant Razer is betting that the next big leap in games won't be sharper graphics or faster refresh rates, but software that thinks. On Aug 5, Razer and NUS's School of Computing announced the Razer-NUS Joint AI Research Lab, a dedicated facility that will explore how AI models...

Via NUS News
The Homegrown AI Six: Singapore's Quiet AI Champions, From Voice Bots to Juice Machines
News5 Aug 2026

The Homegrown AI Six: Singapore's Quiet AI Champions, From Voice Bots to Juice Machines

As Singapore counts down to its 61st National Day, the annual parade of tech specials has a different feel this year. HardwareZone's National Day feature turns the spotlight on six homegrown companies that built serious AI businesses long before ChatGPT made the term dinner-table conversation — a reminder...

Via HardwareZone
Fact-Checking AI to Cancer Data: Three Singapore Startups Take Homegrown Tech Global
News5 Aug 2026

Fact-Checking AI to Cancer Data: Three Singapore Startups Take Homegrown Tech Global

As Singapore turns 61, The Business Times turned the spotlight on three startups at JTC's LaunchPad @ one-north that are chasing global problems with homegrown technology — a useful snapshot of how far the Republic's deep-tech scene has come from its consumer-app roots. All three sit in the same building,...

Via The Business Times
Ong Ye Kung: Requiring Consent for Every Data Point Would Make Healthcare AI a 'Non-Starter'
Policy5 Aug 2026

Ong Ye Kung: Requiring Consent for Every Data Point Would Make Healthcare AI a 'Non-Starter'

Singapore's most ambitious healthcare AI project is also its most sensitive, and Parliament heard on Aug 5 exactly how the government plans to navigate the consent question. Health Minister Ong Ye Kung told the House that requiring explicit patient consent for every piece of data — even anonymised data used...

Via The Straits Times
Cloudflare Launches Wallets and Identity Tools for AI Agent Commerce
Tools5 Aug 2026

Cloudflare Launches Wallets and Identity Tools for AI Agent Commerce

The internet is quietly getting its first generation of digital butlers — autonomous software agents that shop, book and pay on our behalf. That shift needs a payments layer designed for machines, not humans, and Cloudflare has just stepped in with a wallet and identity system purpose-built for AI agent...

Via Fintech News SG
Sumsub and Sumvin Partner to Close the Identity Verification Gap for AI Agents
Tools5 Aug 2026

Sumsub and Sumvin Partner to Close the Identity Verification Gap for AI Agents

The next frontier in AI security isn't the model — it's proving who is behind it. As AI agents begin buying things, opening accounts and managing money on behalf of people, Singapore's financial sector is waking up to a question the industry hasn't fully answered: when an agent transacts, who exactly is...

Via Fintech News SG
Singapore's Law Schools Rewrite Exams for the AI Era — Closed Books, Sharper Judgment
Education5 Aug 2026

Singapore's Law Schools Rewrite Exams for the AI Era — Closed Books, Sharper Judgment

Generative AI has moved from the courtroom novelty to the lecture hall: all three of Singapore's law schools are now rewriting how they teach and test, with the first changes taking effect this month. The shift is a clear marker of how deeply AI is reshaping professional training here...

Via SMU Newsroom
SAP Pledges 3,000 AI-Bilingual Professionals as Singapore's National Skills Push Goes Corporate
Education5 Aug 2026

SAP Pledges 3,000 AI-Bilingual Professionals as Singapore's National Skills Push Goes Corporate

Singapore's ambition to build an "AI-bilingual" workforce has largely lived in policy documents and government programmes since the phrase entered the national vocabulary. That changed on Wednesday, when SAP turned up at its own Southeast Asia showcase with a corporate commitment that mirrors the state's...

Via SAP News
Singapore's AI Returns Are Climbing — But Only 2% of Firms Are Ready for Agentic AI
News5 Aug 2026

Singapore's AI Returns Are Climbing — But Only 2% of Firms Are Ready for Agentic AI

Singapore's AI conversation has been about investment — how much companies are spending and which sectors are pouring in first. The SAP Value of AI Report 2026, produced with Oxford Economics, suggests the conversation is shifting to returns. Based on 2,600 business leaders across 13 countries, it found local...

Via SAP News
FCM Travel Lets Business Travellers Book by Chat — With AI That Explains Its Picks
Tools5 Aug 2026

FCM Travel Lets Business Travellers Book by Chat — With AI That Explains Its Picks

Corporate travel has long been the last holdout of the old-school booking interface — forms, dropdowns and policy rules buried in fine print. FCM Travel, the global business-travel arm whose regional operations are headquartered in Singapore, is betting conversational AI finally changes that.

Via TTR Weekly
Singapore Firms Trust AI to Fight Cyberattacks — Even After 61% Were Hit by One
News5 Aug 2026

Singapore Firms Trust AI to Fight Cyberattacks — Even After 61% Were Hit by One

Singapore's relationship with AI in cybersecurity is starting to look like a paradox: organisations here trust AI with their defences more than almost anywhere else in the world, yet they are still getting hit — hard. A new report from security vendor Arctic Wolf finds that while more than half of Singapore...

Via Singapore Business Review
ProfilePrint's ISO 42001 Playbook: How a Singapore AI Firm Turned Governance Into a Global Sales Edge
News5 Aug 2026

ProfilePrint's ISO 42001 Playbook: How a Singapore AI Firm Turned Governance Into a Global Sales Edge

Singapore's AI ambitions are usually told through compute, talent and policy — but for a home-grown startup selling AI into a centuries-old industry, the real barrier was blunter: trust. ProfilePrint's portable analyser can assess a batch of coffee beans for defects in ten seconds, yet convincing the world's...

Via The Straits Times