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Singapore firms expect agentic AI ROI to double but gaps remain: SAP study
Singapore businesses expect their returns from agentic AI to double within two years — yet almost none say they are ready to actually run it. That is the central tension in SAP's Value of AI Report 2026, compiled with Oxford Economics from a 2,600-leader global survey that included 200 respondents.
July PMI Hits Eight-Year High as AI Chip Demand Powers Singapore's Growth Upgrade
Singapore's electronics PMI hit 52.4 in July, its highest in more than eight years, as AI-related demand and the chip supercycle extended a 14-month expansion. Nomura now expects the government to lift its 2026 growth forecast to 3-5% at the final Q2 GDP release on 11 August.
The AI Squeeze: Fewer Juniors, Exiting Seniors, and a Burned-Out Middle in Singapore
Singapore's AI debate has mostly been about the young and the old: graduates struggling to land first jobs, and experienced workers choosing to leave early. A NUS academic argues the real pressure is landing on the middle — the mid-career workers absorbing the work that both groups used to do, at a moment...
'AI slop' or not? 2 Singapore films set for National Day release spark debate
Singapore's National Day weekend is doubling as a proving ground for AI filmmaking — and the internet has opinions. Two locally made films created with generative AI, Bersama Majulah and Trace Project, both premiere on Aug 9, and both have already drawn the kind of social media fire the phrase "AI slop" was...
SGX Lands Two AI Hardware Listings in Seven Months — and One of Them Came Home
Singapore's exchange has quietly become a landing spot for AI hardware companies. Within seven months, two firms with very different reasons for being there have started trading on the SGX mainboard — and the more recent arrival, Ambiq Micro, did so with one of its largest R&D hubs already planted in...
DBS CEO says AI is beginning to contribute to fee income growth
Artificial intelligence is beginning to contribute to fee income growth at DBS, with early benefits showing up across wealth management and corporate banking. CEO Tan Su Shan told CNA the bank is seeing “green shoots” of AI-driven ideation that generates fees, after DBS posted a record second-quarter profit.
AI-Generated Sci-Fi Film Trace Project Premieres in Singapore on National Day, Creator Hits Back at 'AI Slop' Critics
National Day weekend is becoming an unlikely showcase for Singapore's AI filmmaking experiments. Hot on the heels of the zombie-apocalypse short Bersama Majulah comes Trace Project, a full-length AI-generated sci-fi feature that premieres on Aug 9 with a single screening at Golden Village VivoCity.
Singapore Finance Teams Hit the Scaling Wall: Forrester Study Finds Adoption Outpacing Expansion
Singapore's finance teams have largely crossed the AI adoption threshold — the harder question now is what comes after the pilot. A new Forrester study commissioned by fintech AirWallex, surveying more than 1,200 finance decision-makers across 11 markets including 105 in Singapore, finds.
Singapore Studio's AI Short Film Reimagines NDP Under Zombie Attack — Out Aug 9
Singapore's National Day has its rituals — the parade, the fireworks, the flag fly-past — and AI now has a stake in them. On Aug 9, a Singapore studio will release an AI-assisted short film in which the National Day Parade comes under attack by a lethal spore pathogen that turns people into zombie-like...
Xinterra's Former CTO Says AI's Real Frontier Is Atoms, Not Chatbots
Singapore's AI conversation is dominated by chatbots, model releases and funding rounds — but the entrepreneur behind one of the country's more unusual deep-tech bets thinks the real opportunity is in atoms, not information. Jatin Kumar, former Chief Technology Officer of Xinterra, the Singapore startup...
Singapore's Tourism Boom Rides on an Invisible Layer of AI Security
Singapore's tourism engine runs on a layer of infrastructure most visitors never see. The Singapore Tourism Board logged 16.9 million arrivals in 2025, and every sold-out stadium show or Formula 1 weekend quietly depends on a coordinated web of communications networks, command centres, video security and...
Grab's H1 Profit Surges to US$355M as Its AI Layer Touches Every Part of the Superapp
When Grab reports numbers like these, it stops being just another Southeast Asian tech earnings call. The Singapore superapp posted US$1.95 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, up 23 percent year on year, with profit of US$355 million — a leap from US$30 million in the same period last year.