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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...
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,...
Commentary: Workers shouldn’t have to figure out AI on their own
Singapore's economic transformation will not be felt by workers as a policy headline — it will land as a new system to learn, a job scope that keeps shifting, and a manager asking them to "use more AI". That is the argument of Nanyang Technological University professor Trevor Yu, writing in a CNA.
2025 Had 8,200 AI-Linked Job Cuts. 7 Months Into 2026, It’s 70,000
For most of last year, the tally of AI-linked job losses in banking and fintech looked almost reassuring. Over the whole of 2025, the Fintech News Network's ongoing tracker recorded just seven announcements affecting around 8,200 roles across the sector — a number worth watching, but hardly a sign of...
Singapore-Listed UltraGreen.ai Faces New US Competition as Rival ICG Dye Wins FDA Approval
Singapore's fast-rising surgical imaging company is about to face its first real competitive test. UltraGreen.ai, the homegrown medical device maker that grabbed headlines with a blockbuster SGX listing last month, has enjoyed a near-monopoly position in the US market for its indocyanine green (ICG) dye — a.
Young Singapore Investors Want AI to Help — Not Decide — Their Investments
Singapore's fintech story keeps circling back to the same question: as AI gets better at markets, how much of the decision-making are people actually willing to hand over?
Only 1 in 10 Singapore Firms Have Redesigned Work Around AI, ServiceNow Finds
Singapore's AI headlines keep getting more impressive — agentic AI use has more than doubled in a year and AI budgets are climbing at triple-digit rates. But a new ServiceNow survey suggests the adoption numbers are flattering the underlying reality: only one in 10 Singapore enterprises has actually redesigned its work processes so AI can carry tasks across an entire workflow.
Singapore Named World's Top AI City in Counterpoint's 2025 Global AI Cities Index
Every ranking that puts Singapore on a tech podium is worth a second look, and Counterpoint Research's new one has a more interesting story behind it than the headline suggests. The firm's 2025 Global AI Cities Index, which measured how 100 of the world's largest metropolitan areas actually use artificial...
Anti-AI Art Platform Cara, Founded by Singapore Photographer, Scraped — 12 Million Images Swept Up
Singapore talks often about becoming an AI hub, but the harder question is what happens to the human creators whose work quietly fuels the machines. That tension landed squarely on a Singaporean founder this week, when the anti-AI art platform she built was broken into.
Singapore Business Sentiment Rebounds to 53.3 in Q2, With AI Investment a Key Driver
Singapore business sentiment rebounded two points to 53.3 in the second quarter, with the Singapore Business Federation explicitly crediting AI investment, resilient domestic growth and a contained Middle East fallout for the turnaround. The survey of more than 500 firms found broad-based improvement in profitability and hiring expectations, even as IT-related hiring cooled.
SIA Runs 160+ AI Applications in Push to Become a Leading 'Digital Airline'
Singapore Airlines has long been the benchmark for service in Asian aviation, and the national carrier is now trying to make that edge an artificial intelligence story. More than eight years into a digital transformation that began in 2018, when CEO Goh Choon Phong personally stepped up to champion AI as a...
VivoPower to Spin Off 2.2GW AI Data Centre Assets Into New Singapore-HQ Platform
VivoPower has approved spinning off over 2.2GW of non-Nordic AI data centre assets into a new, independently capitalised platform headquartered in Singapore. The vehicle targets pre-IPO and London and Abu Dhabi listings while VivoPower retains de facto control.