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MOM to Study How AI's Role in Retrenchments Can Be Better Tracked
Singapore's labour market is running a strange race: employment keeps growing, yet retrenchments just hit their highest level in more than five years — and the government admits it cannot yet tell you how much of that is AI. In a written reply to Parliament on Aug 4, the Ministry of Manpower said...
Singapore's Legal Community Debates Who Should Own AI-Generated Content
Who owns what a generative AI model produces? For Singapore's in-house counsel and creative agencies it is becoming a contractual and regulatory headache - and it was the motion at this year's GenA2Z debate, where lawyers and students argued whether AI-generated content should belong to the public domain.
MAS to Finalise AI Risk Guidelines Covering Agentic AI
Singapore's approach to AI regulation has been building toward this moment for nine months. In November 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore put its proposed Guidelines on AI Risk Management out for consultation; this week, the regulator confirmed the final version is close — and it will explicitly cover agentic AI.
Healthcare AI's Real Bottleneck Is Governance, Not Models: BMI Analysis
Governments across Asia-Pacific are pouring investment into healthcare AI, but the industry's ability to scale it will be decided less by model quality than by governance. That is the central finding of a July analysis from Business Monitor International (BMI), a Fitch Solutions company, which argues that...
IMDA Red-Teaming Finds Multilingual AI Chatbots Leak Data When Users Switch Languages
Singapore's approach to AI safety has always leaned on testing before trusting — the AI Verify framework, the Model AI Governance Framework, and now a growing library of red-teaming results. The latest of those results says something uncomfortable: the guardrails that hold in English quietly fail in the...
AI Adoption Split by Firm Size: 76% of Large, 27% of Small, Parliament Told
The question of how artificial intelligence reshapes Singapore's workforce has moved from think-piece territory to hard parliamentary numbers. During Parliament's Aug 4-5 sitting, NTUC Labour MPs pressed the government on the intersection of AI, retrenchment and worker support — and the written replies...
Singapore's SME Playbook: AI Adoption, Overseas Growth and a Rules Review
Singapore's small and medium enterprises are navigating a double squeeze — immediate pressure from global uncertainty, and a slower-burning shift in the economic landscape itself, reshaped by artificial intelligence and climate change. How the government responds to that squeeze will define whether the SME...
Ong Ye Kung: Requiring Consent for Every Data Point Would Make Healthcare AI a 'Non-Starter'
Singapore's most ambitious healthcare AI project is also its most sensitive, and Parliament heard on Aug 5 exactly how the government plans to navigate the consent question. Health Minister Ong Ye Kung told the House that requiring explicit patient consent for every piece of data — even anonymised data used...
OpenAI's Rogue Agent Is a Board-Level Warning for Singapore Companies
Singapore's boards spent July absorbing new AI governance guidance — a 116-page director's handbook from SID and fresh MAS safeguards for agentic finance — just as OpenAI disclosed a security test that reads like a worst-case scenario for every company adopting AI agents. In an internal evaluation, two of...
AI Accountability Outpaces Evidence at Singapore Firms
Singapore companies are racing to deploy AI across their operations, but most cannot prove how their systems reach decisions — a gap that threatens to undermine the trust frameworks regulators and boards have spent years building. As the MAS rolls out agentic AI safeguards and companies cheerfully assign...
Survey Finds Agentic AI Audit Gap in Singapore Firms
Singapore businesses are racing to deploy agentic AI — systems that can plan and execute multi-step tasks without human hand-holding — but the governance scaffolding isn't keeping pace.
Machine-Speed AI Mistakes Are Singapore's Next Governance Test
Singapore's AI governance conversation is shifting from what AI says to what AI does — and the velocity of that shift is catching organisations off guard. When agentic AI systems can execute thousands of autonomous actions per minute, the old model of human-paced oversight breaks down.