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AI product launches, platforms, and model releases with SG relevance.
Sea eyes public listing for Monee, plans separate AI unit Sea Cloud
Sea Limited plans to list its payments arm Monee and launch a business AI platform called Sea Cloud, per an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
iCapital Adds Singapore Engineers Even as AI Writes Three-Quarters of Its Code
iCapital keeps hiring product and engineering staff in Singapore while AI writes most of its code, and its Asia survey shows advisers chasing analytics over plain market access.
DBS, OCBC and UOB push AI from pilots into daily banking
DBS, OCBC and UOB have pushed hundreds of AI deployments into production, from agentic credit memos to wealth avatars, just as MAS starts enforcing new AI risk rules.
Google, Singapore team up on AI tools to catch scams before they land
Singapore and Google deepen their cyber partnership, pairing an autonomous vulnerability-fixing programme with an on-device AI scam detector trained on local data.
BCG: AI, digital assets and sovereign rails reshape payments
BCG's September report argues AI, digital assets and state-built rails will slow payment revenue growth, forcing firms to cut costs, find new income and defend their place in the chain.
Tookitaki names Isabel Ridad CEO as founder takes chairman's seat
Tookitaki's president Isabel Ridad steps up to chief executive in September, with founder Abhishek Chatterjee shifting to executive chairman as the Singapore anti-financial-crime vendor scales.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Ships Self-Calibrating Fraud Engine
Emailage Adaptive learns from confirmed fraud cases and industry signals, promising sharper risk scores with far less manual tuning.
Anthropic report maps Claude abuse from spy ops to weapons work
Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report maps seven ways Claude was abused over the past year, from state-linked intrusions and election meddling to spyware, weapons engineering and fraud.
SEON Widens Address Checks to 240-Plus Markets as AI Fakes Multiply
SEON now checks addresses in over 240 countries inside its existing fraud-screening flow, betting broader data beats extra customer friction as AI cheapens fake identities.
Ant International rolls out close to 100 AI tools for payments and treasury
Ant International has released close to 100 AI products covering payments and treasury, betting that conversational interfaces and autonomous agents can take over routine finance work.
Singapore's retailers race into AI while shoppers hold back
Nearly all of Singapore's retailers now use AI, but more than half of consumers still won't let an autonomous agent buy on their behalf — and a fresh survey shows why.
Anthropic to open Singapore office in October, hiring locally
Anthropic is assembling a local team for a Singapore office opening in October, as the city-state places second of 121 markets for Claude usage at 5.81 times the expected rate.