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Singapore Jumps to 4th Globally in Startup Rankings, Leads Asia Pacific in Ecosystem Growth
Singapore ranked 4th globally in the Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2026 by StartupBlink, leading Asia Pacific as the only economy in the global top five. The city-state recorded 24.4% annual ecosystem growth — the highest among the top 10 — with 19 unicorns and an ecosystem valued at US$292.1 billion.
GIC Broadens AI Investment Strategy Beyond Chipmakers to Companies Leveraging AI
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC is shifting its AI investment lens. After years of concentrating on semiconductor companies and AI developers — the infrastructure layer of the AI boom — the fund is now broadening its focus to include companies that can use AI to transform their businesses, according to...
NTUC Partners Digital Defence Alliance to Train 10,000 Workers in AI and Cybersecurity
Singapore's workforce upskilling push is getting a significant boost from an unusual alliance. The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has partnered with the Digital Defence Alliance Singapore (DDAS) — a ground-up organisation focused on strengthening the city-state's digital defence pillar — to equip more...
Shadow AI Outpaces Governance Controls in Singapore as Employee Adoption Surges Past Corporate Policies
Singapore companies are finding themselves in an uncomfortable position: their employees are adopting AI tools faster than anyone can govern them. New research from JFrog and Splunk paints a picture of an enterprise landscape where the gap between AI usage and AI oversight is widening, with 60 per cent of...
GovTech's STACK Conference Returns in November 2026 with AI Autonomy, Cloud, and Developer Velocity Themes
GovTech Singapore has opened registration for its biennial STACK conference, returning from November 3 to 5 at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre with an expanded programme that reaches well beyond its developer roots. Themed "Advancing Tech for Public Good," this year's edition introduces the inaugural...
Singapore Finalises AI Training Data Guidelines, Launches Federated Learning Guide and PET Sandbox Expansions
Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission has finalised its Advisory Guidelines on Personal Data in Generative AI, covering the full AI lifecycle from training data collection through model deployment. Alongside the guidelines, the PDPC released a new Federated Learning Guide enabling privacy-preserving collaborative AI training, while IMDA expanded its PET Sandbox with new health data and payment processing use cases.
AI Career Optimism Lags in Singapore Despite 89% Adoption Rate, Robert Walters Survey Finds
Singapore has one of Asia's highest AI adoption rates at 89%, but only 67% of professionals believe AI will positively affect their careers — one of the lowest confidence levels in the region. Robert Walters' report reveals that 48% fear automation-driven job displacement.
Temasek Sees AI Breakthroughs Slashing Energy Demands as Data Centre Power Needs Surge
Temasek believes AI's energy equation could shift dramatically as more efficient architectures, better chipmaking, and materials discovery breakthroughs arrive. Speaking at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit, Temasek's Russell Tham called current AI architecture 'fundamentally ineffective' while data centre energy demands continue to rise.
GIC invested in Anthropic 3 times in a year, AI behemoth valued at S$1.2 tril...
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC has been quietly building one of the most concentrated AI investment portfolios among global institutional investors, and its latest annual report offers an unusually detailed look at how it picks winners in the space. The fund backed Anthropic three times in under a...
GIC Posts Lowest Return Since 2020 as It Restructures Around AI as Key Investment Focus
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC released its annual report on Friday with a 20-year annualised real return of 3.4 per cent — the lowest since FY2019/2020 — and used the occasion to unveil a restructured investment framework that places artificial intelligence at the centre of its strategy for
Singapore to Invest S$4 Billion in AI-Powered Air Traffic Control Overhaul
Singapore is committing S$4 billion over 15 years to upgrade its air navigation services with AI-powered traffic management tools, including a renovated Changi Control Tower, a new air traffic control centre with predictive analytics, and a 40 per cent increase in air traffic controller workforce.
Singapore Physical AI Startup Ropedia Raises US2M for Embodied AI Data Infrastructure
Singapore-based Ropedia has raised US2 million in pre-Series A funding to scale its wearable hardware and data platform for embodied AI training, bringing its total funding to US0 million as physical AI demand surges across Southeast Asia and North America.