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NCS Unveils AI Education Partnerships and Plans to Hire 130 Practitioners
Singapore's tech talent pipeline is getting a targeted injection. NCS Group used its annual AI Impact conference to announce a slate of new education partnerships and a substantial hiring commitment — moves that signal the company is betting on homegrown expertise to meet the growing demand for enterprise AI...
Amity Plants Global AI Research Hub in Singapore After US00M Series D
A Thailand-founded enterprise AI company has chosen Singapore as the global home of its AI research following a US00 million Series D round led by EDBI, marking another vote of confidence in the city-state's position as Southeast Asia's AI anchor.
HSBC Joins APAC Push to Set Standards for Agentic AI Payments
The EPAA has launched an APAC working group with HSBC to tackle liability, identity, and fraud risks in agentic payments — an 18-month push to create standards for AI-driven commerce across ASEAN and APEC, with Singapore-based institutions set to play a key role in shaping the rules.
AI Is Making Singapore's Gen Z Workers More Productive — and Raising the Bar on What Employers Expect
There's a quiet shift happening in Singapore's offices, and it's not just about which AI tool teams are adopting. The real story is what happens after adoption: young workers say AI has made them faster, but the time they save hasn't translated into lighter workloads.
Singapore Now Requires Companies to Notify Users When Personal Data Is Used for AI Training
Singapore's approach to AI governance has largely been built on voluntary guidelines and industry collaboration — but that shifted this morning. Starting July 20, companies in Singapore are legally required to inform consumers when their personal data is being used to train generative AI models.
Singapore Fleets Put AI in the Driver's Seat as Logistics Firms Optimise Operations
Singapore's logistics sector is facing a familiar squeeze: vehicle costs keep rising while customer expectations for faster, cheaper delivery only grow. The solution, it turns out, isn't more trucks. It's making existing ones work smarter, and artificial intelligence is the mechanism making that possible.
Rising AI Bills Push Singapore Companies to Chase ROI Over 'Tokenmaxxing'
For the past two years, Singapore's corporate AI playbook has been simple: throw tokens at the problem and figure out the cost later. That era is ending as companies wake up to the reality that AI without clear ROI is a fast track to budget blowouts, and they're responding by getting surgical about which models to use.
OpenAI's Singapore Bet: US$300 Million and a Front-Row Seat to APAC's Startup AI Boom
OpenAI has committed more than US$300 million to its Singapore operations with over 200 roles planned, as APAC startup lead Thomas Jeng describes surging demand that has him spending most of his day triaging and re-prioritising. Singapore has already become a top-five global market for Codex, OpenAI's AI coding agent.
AI-Fuelled Electronics Keep Singapore Exports Resilient but Growth Becoming Increasingly Concentrated
Singapore's export machine is running hotter than it has in decades, but the engine powering it is almost entirely electric. Non-oil domestic exports grew at their fastest pace since 1998 in June, driven by AI-linked electronics shipments, widening the gap between electronics and non-electronics exports.
AI Demand Drives Singapore's Q2 GDP to 5.7% but Chipmaker Market Volatility Flags Growing Risk
Singapore's economy is increasingly writing its own story, one where artificial intelligence isn't just a subplot but the main character driving growth. The latest GDP figures for Q2 2026 show the city-state grew 5.7 per cent year-on-year, powered primarily by AI-related demand rippling through electronics...
Confluent Study Finds Poor Data Infrastructure Is Derailing Singapore's AI Ambitions
Singapore companies are racing to deploy AI, but many are discovering that enthusiasm alone doesn't make up for shaky data foundations. A new report from Confluent — the 2026 Data Streaming Report — surveyed 4,625 IT leaders across 14 countries and found that nearly four in five Singapore IT leaders say...
Singapore's Workforce Blueprint for the AI Era Puts People Before Productivity
Most conversations about AI and work start with the same question: which jobs will disappear? Singapore's government is asking a different one — how do we build a workforce that can evolve alongside AI rather than be replaced by it. That distinction sits at the heart of a new push by the Ministry of...