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'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.
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,...