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Parliament to Scrutinise GovTech's 93 Layoffs as MPs File 20+ Questions on AI's Reach
Singapore's Parliament returns on Tuesday with a sitting that the technology sector will be watching closely — and not just for the housing headlines. More than 20 questions have been filed on GovTech's recent restructuring, alongside a strikingly broad slate of queries on how artificial intelligence is...
MAS agentic finance safeguards push banks to govern AI agents like privileged users
Singapore's banks have been among the fastest in Asia to put agentic AI into real production work — and the Monetary Authority of Singapore has now made explicit what their risk teams have been circling for months: an AI agent that initiates a payment or approves a loan must be governed like.
MAS and ABS Launch AI Cyber Risk Taskforce as Frontier AI Threats Escalate
Singapore's financial regulators are confronting a hard truth: the same frontier AI models powering banking innovation are also giving adversaries a formidable new toolkit. As large language models make it easier to discover vulnerabilities and automate attacks at scale, the Monetary Authority of Singapore...
Singapore Has an AI Strategy, But Where is the Deployment Plan?
Singapore has written the playbook on AI strategy — NAIS 2.0, AI Singapore's 100 Experiments, GovTech chatbots — but a pointed question raised today cuts through the checklist: are any of these efforts actually changing how organisations work? A visit to Beijing showed AI embedded in factories, hospitals, and city systems, not just in pilot reports.
Singapore Launches 116-Page AI Governance Guide for Company Boards
Singapore's corporate governance landscape just got an AI upgrade. The Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), working alongside OpenAI, Microsoft, and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), has released a comprehensive 116-page guide that spells out exactly how company boards should oversee...
SID Launches 116-Page AI Governance Guide for Singapore Boards, Backed by OpenAI and Microsoft
The Singapore Institute of Directors has launched a 116-page AI governance guide for boards, developed with OpenAI and Microsoft, with Minister Josephine Teo warning that no board can afford to be under-invested in AI — framing board-level AI literacy as a fiduciary imperative rather than a technology-committee afterthought.
NTUC's Ng Chee Meng: PMEs Are Tomorrow's Working Class, and AI Could Make Their Transition Painful
Ng Chee Meng sees a future where white-collar professionals become the new working class — and he's racing to put safety nets in place before AI reshapes the job market. His proposal to raise the SkillsFuture Jobseeker Support income threshold and the NTUC's work on job redesign reveal a labour movement preparing for a disruption that's already underway.
Google Earth's AI Image Tool Lasted 24 Hours — Here's What It Did to Singapore's Skyline
Google gave anyone with a browser the power to generate hyper-realistic fake satellite images of any location on Earth — including Changi Airport in flames and a collapsed bridge at Marina Bay. Within 24 hours, the feature was gone, but the damage to trust in satellite imagery may take far longer to repair.
Singapore Polytechnic Launches Industrial AI Framework to Help Manufacturers Deploy AI Safely
Singapore's push to embed AI across its manufacturing sector has always carried a tension: the technology promises enormous productivity gains, but introducing autonomous AI into industrial environments — where a bad decision can halt a production line or compromise safety — demands governance that.
SID's New AI Guide for Boards Aims to Close Singapore's Governance Gap
Singapore's boards are about to get a working manual for the AI era. As companies here push pilots into production, the question is shifting from "should we use AI" to "who is accountable when it goes wrong" — and that is a question for directors, not engineers.
Singapore Regulators and Insurers Move to Protect Human Financial Advice as MAS Nears Finalising AI Risk Guidelines
Singaporeans are increasingly happy to let AI shape how they save and budget — but they draw a firm line when the stakes climb to long-term planning. That trust gap is now moving two markets at once: regulators are tightening AI governance for financial institutions while the advisory industry adds human...
Singapore Panel Urges Feature-Level Social Media Reform Over Age Ban, Targeting Algorithmic Feeds
When governments reach for a response to social media's harms, a minimum-age ban is the bluntest and most popular tool — Australia, France, the UK, Malaysia and Indonesia have all raised the age floor. Singapore is deliberately going the other way.