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Arm China's Ex-Co-CEO Came Home to Singapore to Build AI Chips for Agents
Singapore's AI story has mostly been a software story — chatbots, copilots, policy frameworks — while the silicon underneath gets designed somewhere else. A homecoming chip executive is trying to redraw that map. Ken Phua, who spent 25 years abroad building other people's business models,
Google's Pixel Watch 5 Arrives in Singapore From S$569 With Gemini AI on the Wrist
Wearables have become the quiet frontier of AI adoption, and Google is betting that the wrist is where Gemini becomes indispensable. The Pixel Watch 5, unveiled alongside the Pixel 11 phones, lands in Singapore with a familiar design but a fundamentally more proactive operating philosophy: the watch now...
Singapore Startup Intellify Shows AI's Real Retail Job Isn't Replacing Staff — It's Making Them More Valuable
Intellify, co-founded by CEO Alex Ng, built its business on AI for unmanned convenience retail before testing that model somewhere far more demanding — Singapore's Mint Museum of Toys. There, the AI absorbed roughly 80 per cent of routine enquiries, freeing staff for the interactions that actually matter.
Oracle Weighs More Job Cuts as AI Spending Climbs
Oracle could cut more jobs this month as it pours money into cloud and AI infrastructure, according to Business Insider. The process is reportedly targeted for completion before 1 September, with managers asked to flag employees who could be affected.
Revolut Singapore Adds Free ChatGPT Go and foodpanda Perks
Fintechs have spent the past two years figuring out how to make AI subscriptions part of everyday banking — and Revolut's latest move in Singapore shows the playbook crystallising. The digital bank is bundling up to 12 months of ChatGPT Go, OpenAI's step-up tier above the free version, into its Singapore...
NUH's AI Scribes Give Singapore Nurses Back 16 Minutes Per Patient Encounter
Singapore's nurses spend a large share of every shift reconstructing the work they just did — typing up notes, chasing handovers, rebuilding documentation long after a patient encounter ends. As the country's healthcare system absorbs heavier demand, that paperwork has quietly become one of the profession's...
Google Maps' Ask Maps Brings Agentic AI to Singapore's Daily Commute
Google Maps in Singapore is quietly turning into something more than a navigation app. A fresh wave of updates, anchored on the Ask Maps feature, lets users interrogate the map with plain-language questions — "What time should I leave here to get to my lunch appointment at Wisma Atria at 2pm?" — and get back...
Singapore finance leaders are ahead on AI — and now hit the scaling wall, survey finds
Singapore's finance chiefs have moved past the pilot phase. A new study commissioned by payments company Airwallex and conducted by Forrester Consulting finds 86 per cent of Singapore finance leaders have already adopted AI in at least some finance workflows, with 96 per cent expecting investment in...
Singapore's MNDR Builds AI Lab Data Tool Under National AI Cloud Takeoff Programme
A Singapore-headquartered healthtech company is putting government-backed cloud compute to work on one of medicine's quietest problems: clinical data overload. Mobile-health Network Solutions (MNDR), which operates a digital health ecosystem across Southeast Asia and the US, has developed an AI-powered lab...
OCBC's AI Bet on Wealth: GenAI-Trained Advisors, Avatar Bankers and a Doubling by 2030
Singapore's banks have spent the past year proving AI can do real work inside a regulated industry — DBS describing agentic systems across its operations, UOB automating compliance checks, OCBC halving the time it takes to onboard wealthy clients. The next phase of that race is now coming into view, and it...
Inside Crooks: How a Singapore Drama Rebuilt Its Production Around AI After Losing 40% of Its Funding
Singapore's nine-episode drama Crooks from B-01 Films shows what AI looks like when it keeps a production alive: after an investor pulled 40% of its funding, the team rebuilt its workflow around a "control net," cutting costs by around 30% without handing creative control to the machines.
Microsoft Survey: Singapore Workers Lead Southeast Asia in Seeing AI as a Skills Upgrade, Not a Threat
There is a familiar narrative that AI will hit Southeast Asian workers harder than anywhere else, because so much of the region's workforce sits in jobs that automation touches first.