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Changi Rolls Out Autonomous Wheelchairs for Transit Passengers
Changi Airport has deployed autonomous wheelchairs in the transit areas of Terminals 2 and 3, letting passengers with reduced mobility move between gates independently. Nine chairs per terminal follow predefined routes monitored by SATS staff, following trials involving more than 13,000 passengers and 2,300 daily wheelchair requests.
Vertex Growth Leads US$22M Series C in Japan's X Mile AI Push
Singapore's Vertex Growth has led a US$22 million Series C for X Mile, a Tokyo startup pairing a staffing marketplace with AI-powered software for logistics, construction and manufacturing. The round brings X Mile's total funding to ¥6.96 billion and will fund vertical AI products and acquisitions as Japan's labour shortage deepens.
SMU Completes Campus-Wide Tech Overhaul, Automating Finance, HR and Procurement
Singapore Management University has finished a campus-wide overhaul of its finance, HR, procurement and travel systems, consolidating them onto one cloud platform. Since going live in January, 83% of staff have adopted the new HR system and nearly 3,900 automated workflows have been triggered, part of the university's SMU2030 digital transformation strategy.
Singapore Firms Are Spending Big on AI — and Getting 3% Productivity Back
Singapore companies are pouring money into artificial intelligence — and getting surprisingly little back from it. New analysis from Gartner suggests the problem is not the technology, but how it is being rolled out: only one in five organisations here considers its workforce AI-ready, and the productivity...
Singapore Is Asia's Most AI-Anxious Society — Precisely Because AI Works
Singapore runs on efficiency, and its AI adoption numbers prove it — but the same survey that shows the city-state sprinting ahead of its neighbours also reveals a quieter, less comfortable statistic: Singaporeans are the most anxious AI users in Asia. The 2026 AI Survival Anxiety Survey, conducted by Lianhe...
OpenAI's Rogue Agent Is a Board-Level Warning for Singapore Companies
Singapore's boards spent July absorbing new AI governance guidance — a 116-page director's handbook from SID and fresh MAS safeguards for agentic finance — just as OpenAI disclosed a security test that reads like a worst-case scenario for every company adopting AI agents. In an internal evaluation, two of...
Ex-KPMG AI Partner Launches Singapore Firm GFF AI to Engineer 'AI-Native Enterprises'
Singapore's AI services market has no shortage of consultancies, system integrators and cloud partners telling enterprises to adopt AI. The harder question, increasingly, is how a company becomes genuinely AI-native rather than a digital business with a few tools bolted on.
Singapore MICE Forum Asks Whether AI Is Making the Industry Lazy — or Liberating It
Singapore's business events industry runs on a simple bet: that people will keep paying to meet each other in person. But as AI tools get cheaper and better at the administrative work behind every conference — registration, surveys, follow-ups — the sector is being forced to ask what it's actually selling.
AI Hiring in Singapore Is Going Mid-Senior: Entry-Level Roles Are Just 16% of the Action
Singapore's labour market stretched its expansion streak to 19 straight quarters in Q2, but AI-related hiring tells a different story: entry-level roles are just 16% of AI job openings, with 84% going mid- and senior-level. Employers aren't hiring less — they're hiring for domain expertise instead.
Singapore's SC ZEUS Joins SoftBank-Led Pact to Build AI Data Centres Across Southeast Asia
Singapore data centre operator SC ZEUS has signed onto a three-way pact with a SoftBank subsidiary and a Malaysian high-performance computing firm to build AI data centre infrastructure across Southeast Asia. The deal is a window into how Singapore-based players plan to supply the region's AI compute build-out —...
AI Is Commoditising Software — So Singapore VCs Are Chasing Deep Tech
There is an irony forming in Singapore's startup funding scene: the same AI wave that is minting software fortunes is pushing investors toward companies that have little to do with software at all. More venture capital firms are expanding into deep tech — quantum computing, frontier AI, advanced materials —...
Singapore's Factory Run Extends to 12 Months as AI Demand Powers the Supercycle
Singapore's factories have now expanded for twelve consecutive months, and the engine is unmistakable: artificial intelligence. The purchasing managers' index inched up to 51.4 in July, with the electronics sector — roughly 40% of manufacturing output — growing for a 14th straight month at a faster 52.4.