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SMRT Turns MRT Gantry Data Into an AI Crowd Radar for Proactive Train Deployment
Singapore's rail network moves millions of commuters a day, yet crowd management has largely been a rear-view mirror exercise — operators study the data and respond after congestion forms or a disruption hits. SMRT wants to flip that sequence with a commuter pattern analysis system that pairs artificial...
The Homegrown AI Six: Singapore's Quiet AI Champions, From Voice Bots to Juice Machines
As Singapore counts down to its 61st National Day, the annual parade of tech specials has a different feel this year. HardwareZone's National Day feature turns the spotlight on six homegrown companies that built serious AI businesses long before ChatGPT made the term dinner-table conversation — a reminder...
Fact-Checking AI to Cancer Data: Three Singapore Startups Take Homegrown Tech Global
As Singapore turns 61, The Business Times turned the spotlight on three startups at JTC's LaunchPad @ one-north that are chasing global problems with homegrown technology — a useful snapshot of how far the Republic's deep-tech scene has come from its consumer-app roots. All three sit in the same building,...
Singapore's AI Returns Are Climbing — But Only 2% of Firms Are Ready for Agentic AI
Singapore's AI conversation has been about investment — how much companies are spending and which sectors are pouring in first. The SAP Value of AI Report 2026, produced with Oxford Economics, suggests the conversation is shifting to returns. Based on 2,600 business leaders across 13 countries, it found local...
Singapore Firms Trust AI to Fight Cyberattacks — Even After 61% Were Hit by One
Singapore's relationship with AI in cybersecurity is starting to look like a paradox: organisations here trust AI with their defences more than almost anywhere else in the world, yet they are still getting hit — hard. A new report from security vendor Arctic Wolf finds that while more than half of Singapore...
ProfilePrint's ISO 42001 Playbook: How a Singapore AI Firm Turned Governance Into a Global Sales Edge
Singapore's AI ambitions are usually told through compute, talent and policy — but for a home-grown startup selling AI into a centuries-old industry, the real barrier was blunter: trust. ProfilePrint's portable analyser can assess a batch of coffee beans for defects in ten seconds, yet convincing the world's...
Changi Rolls Out Autonomous Wheelchairs for Transit Passengers
Changi Airport has deployed autonomous wheelchairs in the transit areas of Terminals 2 and 3, letting passengers with reduced mobility move between gates independently. Nine chairs per terminal follow predefined routes monitored by SATS staff, following trials involving more than 13,000 passengers and 2,300 daily wheelchair requests.
Vertex Growth Leads US$22M Series C in Japan's X Mile AI Push
Singapore's Vertex Growth has led a US$22 million Series C for X Mile, a Tokyo startup pairing a staffing marketplace with AI-powered software for logistics, construction and manufacturing. The round brings X Mile's total funding to ¥6.96 billion and will fund vertical AI products and acquisitions as Japan's labour shortage deepens.
SMU Completes Campus-Wide Tech Overhaul, Automating Finance, HR and Procurement
Singapore Management University has finished a campus-wide overhaul of its finance, HR, procurement and travel systems, consolidating them onto one cloud platform. Since going live in January, 83% of staff have adopted the new HR system and nearly 3,900 automated workflows have been triggered, part of the university's SMU2030 digital transformation strategy.
Singapore Firms Are Spending Big on AI — and Getting 3% Productivity Back
Singapore companies are pouring money into artificial intelligence — and getting surprisingly little back from it. New analysis from Gartner suggests the problem is not the technology, but how it is being rolled out: only one in five organisations here considers its workforce AI-ready, and the productivity...
Singapore Is Asia's Most AI-Anxious Society — Precisely Because AI Works
Singapore runs on efficiency, and its AI adoption numbers prove it — but the same survey that shows the city-state sprinting ahead of its neighbours also reveals a quieter, less comfortable statistic: Singaporeans are the most anxious AI users in Asia. The 2026 AI Survival Anxiety Survey, conducted by Lianhe...
Singapore MICE Forum Asks Whether AI Is Making the Industry Lazy — or Liberating It
Singapore's business events industry runs on a simple bet: that people will keep paying to meet each other in person. But as AI tools get cheaper and better at the administrative work behind every conference — registration, surveys, follow-ups — the sector is being forced to ask what it's actually selling.