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Agentic AI Adoption Doubles to 51% Among Singapore Firms in 2026
Agentic AI adoption among Singapore firms more than doubled to 51% in 2026, according to a ServiceNow survey, making the city-state a leading testbed for autonomous enterprise AI — but data readiness and skills gaps threaten to slow momentum.
Singapore AI-Using Firms See Revenue and Employment Gains, Government Study Finds
A new IMDA study finds Singapore firms using AI report higher revenue and expanded workforces, challenging the narrative that AI primarily displaces workers and supporting the government's pro-adoption policy stance.
LTA to roll out AI bus-camera system to detect encroachments and road defects
Singapore's public transport system is about to lean much harder on computer vision. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will progressively roll out an AI-powered video analytics system from the fourth quarter of 2026 that taps the cameras already sitting on public buses to spot errant motorists, road defects...
Closing the gap between Singapore's enthusiastic AI use and its lingering workplace anxiety
Singapore's numbers on AI adoption look enviable on paper. Roughly 89 per cent of professionals here now use the technology at work, a figure that routinely puts the city-state ahead of its regional peers. Yet those same workers are markedly less convinced the technology is good for their careers...
Why Singapore Stays Optimistic About AI While Wealthy Nations Grow Anxious
Some of the richest countries on earth invented artificial intelligence, fund the frontier models, and stand to capture most of the near-term economic upside - yet their citizens are among the most anxious about it, while poorer nations are comparatively sanguine. Across international surveys by Pew, Ipsos...
ISCA Looks to Extend Singapore's AI Fluency Programme to 1.5 Million Accountants in India
Singapore's approach to AI skills is quietly becoming an export. The Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) has signed a Letter of Cooperation with its Indian counterpart, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), to explore extending the Singapore-developed AI Fluency Programme to...
The AI Boom Is Lifting Singapore's GDP. The Harder Question Is Who Gets Carried Along
There is finally hard evidence that the AI boom is showing up in Singapore's headline numbers, but the country is starting to ask who actually feels it. The economy grew 6.1 per cent year on year in the first half, and the government has lifted its full-year forecast to between 4.5 and 5.5 per cent,...
Singapore Allocates 200MW of New Data Centre Capacity to Four Operators, Anchoring AI Compute
Singapore has quietly kept its hand on the lever for who gets to build the physical backbone of AI in Southeast Asia. In the second competitive exercise of its kind, four data centre operators have been cleared to expand, unlocking 200 megawatts of new capacity in a country where power and land have long...
Singapore Lawyers Can Now Get AI Training as 2,000 Tech Opportunities Open
Singapore’s bet on AI has always come with a staffing problem attached: the hardware and regulation keep getting the flashy headlines, but the people who actually use these systems in specialist professions have been left to figure it out on their own. That gap is now being closed for one of the country’s...
Eaton and Singapore Polytechnic Team Up to Train Engineers for AI Data Centres' Power Crunch
Singapore's push to dominate AI infrastructure runs into a specific bottleneck: not enough people who know how to power the machines. Eaton has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Singapore Polytechnic (SP) to teach the next generation of engineers about emerging power technologies — most notably...
Google Gives Singapore Students a Free Year of AI Plus, Tying Its Pitch to the Back-to-School Rush
Singapore students heading back for the new academic year now have one more AI tool in their bag — and it does not cost them a cent. Google is rolling out a global back-to-school promotion that gives eligible tertiary students a year of Google AI Plus for free, a move that lands at a moment when how...
DBS CEO on AI Agents: Resiliency Must Still Beat Speed as Models Rush to Production
For years, Singapore's banks have treated AI as a way to make internal processes faster — sharper credit decisions, better fraud detection, leaner back-office workflows. But as those same banks push AI agents closer to the systems that actually serve customers, a different kind of question surfaces: how fast...