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PM Wong Flags 'Unsettling' AI Risks at National Day Rally, Signals New Safeguards Coming

Singapore Updates National AI Strategy for 2026 Growth

Singapore has refreshed its National AI Strategy at ATxSummit 2026 with a new National AI Council chaired by PM Lawrence Wong, signalling AI policy now sits at the highest level of government as the city-state races to maintain its regional lead.

LTA to roll out AI bus-camera system to detect encroachments and road defects

Singapore's public transport system is about to lean much harder on computer vision. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) will progressively roll out an AI-powered video analytics system from the fourth quarter of 2026 that taps the cameras already sitting on public buses to spot errant motorists, road defects...

Singapore Allocates 200MW of New Data Centre Capacity to Four Operators, Anchoring AI Compute

Singapore has quietly kept its hand on the lever for who gets to build the physical backbone of AI in Southeast Asia. In the second competitive exercise of its kind, four data centre operators have been cleared to expand, unlocking 200 megawatts of new capacity in a country where power and land have long...

Singapore Lawyers Can Now Get AI Training as 2,000 Tech Opportunities Open

Singapore’s bet on AI has always come with a staffing problem attached: the hardware and regulation keep getting the flashy headlines, but the people who actually use these systems in specialist professions have been left to figure it out on their own. That gap is now being closed for one of the country’s...

DBS CEO on AI Agents: Resiliency Must Still Beat Speed as Models Rush to Production

For years, Singapore's banks have treated AI as a way to make internal processes faster — sharper credit decisions, better fraud detection, leaner back-office workflows. But as those same banks push AI agents closer to the systems that actually serve customers, a different kind of question surfaces: how fast...

Singapore Weighs Mandatory Age Checks for AI Chatbots as ChatGPT for Teens Debuts

Singapore is weighing mandatory age checks on AI chatbots after OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens with only voluntary age declaration — a gap experts say leaves young users exposed. IMDA’s app-store age-gating precedent and uneven industry practice are driving the regulatory debate.

China Bans AI Companions That 'Please You Too Much'. Singapore's Lighter Touch May Not Be Enough

For a growing number of lonely people — many of them elderly, some of them in Singapore — the most attentive presence in their day is not a person but a chatbot. This month, two governments reached almost opposite rules: China's hard ban on AI companions, and Singapore's voluntary transparency guidelines.

Singapore's 2026 Consensus Gives the World a Shared Playbook for Agentic AI Safety

Singapore has spent the past year positioning itself as the place where frontier AI risk — not just frontier AI capability — gets taken seriously. That bid took an important step forward with the release of the 2026 Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities, a refreshed international...

Singapore Cuts Scam Losses to S$913M, but Shanmugam Warns AI Is the New Frontline

Singapore finally saw scam cases and money lost fall last year, but Senior Minister Shanmugam warns AI is the new frontline threat. Behind the headline S$913.1 million in 2025 scam losses lurks a stark example: one victim lost S$4.9 million to a deepfake and AI figured in the radicalisation of two youths.

Singapore Orders Facebook, Instagram and TikTok to Verify Advertisers' Identities Under New Anti-Scam Code

Singapore's fight against AI-fuelled scams is moving from chasing individual fraudsters to holding the platforms that carry their ads accountable. In its latest push under the Online Criminal Harms Act, the police are forcing Facebook, Instagram and TikTok to verify every advertiser's identity against...

IMDA Accredits AI Security Firm Abnormal, Fast-Tracking It Into Singapore's Public Sector

Singapore has been steadily turning its own government procurement into a proving ground for AI adoption, and the latest step came as IMDA accredited Abnormal AI under its vetting programme for technology vendors. The accreditation gives the US behavioural-security firm a formal channel to pursue government and enterprise customers.