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72% of Singapore Shoppers Now Use AI to Decide What to Buy, Adyen Report Finds
Artificial intelligence has quietly become a shopping companion for most Singaporeans. More than seven in ten consumers here (72%) used AI assistants to support their shopping in the past year, according to the Adyen Index 2026 Singapore Retail Report — and the habit is clearest among the young, with 85% of...
AI Occupiers Push Singapore's Office Vacancy to Region-Low 3.3%
Artificial intelligence companies are now shaping Singapore's skyline as much as its tech policy. Prime office vacancy in the city-state fell to 3.3% in the second quarter of 2026 — the lowest among 24 Asia-Pacific cities tracked by Knight Frank — as AI-related occupiers expand their footprint in the central...
DBS's First Group COO on Making AI Transformation Stick: Lead with the 'Why'
Singapore's biggest bank is betting that the hardest part of an AI transformation is not the technology — it is persuading 36,000 employees to come along. That is the argument Derrick Goh, DBS's first-ever group chief operating officer, makes as he oversees the execution of the bank's artificial intelligence...
Ambiq Micro's SGX Debut Gives Singapore Investors a Direct Stake in Edge AI
Singapore's semiconductor story has mostly been told through fabs, foundries and data centres — the heavy infrastructure of the AI boom. But the technology's next phase is moving to the edge: running AI on the battery-powered devices people actually carry, from smartwatches to industrial sensors.
An SG Intern Was Told to 'Just Use ChatGPT' — and the AI Workplace Debate Flared Up Again
Ask a Singaporean professional whether AI has become an unwritten job requirement and you will get very different answers depending on generation and industry. A viral Reddit thread this week has brought the question to the surface again: an intern at a global multinational company said he was "snubbed" at...
Raffles City's New AI Exhibition Turns Image-Making Inside Out, Factory Floor and All
Most conversations about AI and art in Singapore have centred on the anxiety: whether machines will replace human creators, whether anything can still be called original. A new exhibition at Raffles City wants to change the frame entirely.
Singapore Regulators and Insurers Move to Protect Human Financial Advice as MAS Nears Finalising AI Risk Guidelines
Singaporeans are increasingly happy to let AI shape how they save and budget — but they draw a firm line when the stakes climb to long-term planning. That trust gap is now moving two markets at once: regulators are tightening AI governance for financial institutions while the advisory industry adds human...
SNTUC Deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to 1,300 Employees and Builds AI Agents for Industrial Relations Work
Singapore's labour movement is running one of the more unusual AI rollouts in the country — on itself. SNTUC, the national trade union congress representing more than 1.4 million workers, has moved Microsoft 365 Copilot from a 50-person trial in January 2025 to a full deployment across its 1,300 employees,...
Ennoconn Signs Pact With Singapore Manufacturers at AI Forum in Google's Singapore Hub
Singapore's manufacturing sector has talked about AI adoption for years; the gap has always been between the industrial computing giants that build smart-factory systems and the local companies expected to run them. That gap narrowed on July 29, when Taiwanese industrial computing group Ennoconn — a Foxconn...
Singapore Panel Urges Feature-Level Social Media Reform Over Age Ban, Targeting Algorithmic Feeds
When governments reach for a response to social media's harms, a minimum-age ban is the bluntest and most popular tool — Australia, France, the UK, Malaysia and Indonesia have all raised the age floor. Singapore is deliberately going the other way.
AI Is Speeding Up Software Delivery in Singapore — But Governance Is Falling Behind
Nearly 90% of Singapore organisations now use multiple AI tools in software development, but 60% admit to shipping untested code. As AI accelerates delivery, the governance frameworks designed for slower cycles are struggling to keep up, making quality a boardroom issue.
How Schneider Electric Is Rewriting the Rules for Older Workers in the Age of AI
Schneider Electric's Singapore office has seen the share of workers aged 51 and older grow to one in five. Instead of seeing this as a problem, the company built Experience Forward, a programme that sorts older staff into four pathways — from pushing ahead to mentoring to winding down — and pairs their experience with AI tools.