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Nano Singapore's Jenny Chatbot Puts a Persona on AI Wellness Advice
Singapore Ecommerce Centre, behind wellness brands Nano Singapore and Nano Skinz, has launched Jenny — billed as Singapore's first AI wellness advisor, a persona-driven chatbot with voice and avatar tech for 24/7 product discovery and support. The launch raises questions about trust and escalation...
Zoom Pivots to AI-Powered Workplace Software as Singapore Workers Head Back to the Office
Zoom is expanding into AI-powered workplace software — meeting room systems and office management tools — as Singapore workers return to the office. A 2025 JLL survey found 69 per cent of Singapore employees face in-office requirements, and Zoom's Apac head says human conversation offers 'real-time...
DBS CEO Tan Su Shan Is Building for a Future Where Banking Apps Don't Exist
Singapore's largest bank is preparing for a future in which the banking app itself becomes obsolete. DBS has spent the past year embedding generative and agentic AI across nearly every part of its operations, and CEO Tan Su Shan says the endgame is AI agents transacting directly with each other.
TeamViewer's CEO on the New AI That Fixes Machines Before They Break
Walk into any modern Singapore facility — a hospital with MRI machines, a factory floor with robotic arms, a data centre humming with servers — and the machines are quietly talking to an AI. Telemetry from connected equipment is being analysed in real time to catch failures before they happen, a shift that...
Jack Neo Turns to AI to Compose His National Day Song — and Writes the Lyrics Himself
National Day songs are normally the work of professional composers and studios, but this year one of Singapore's best-known filmmakers is letting an AI handle the music. Jack Neo, the 66-year-old director behind the Money No Enough franchise, released a new National Day track called Singapore Is 61 on Aug 6...
Singapore SMEs Are Winning at Google but Invisible to AI Search: Audit Finds 48/100 Readiness
Singapore SMEs rank fine on Google but are invisible to AI answer engines, an audit of 46 business websites finds — averaging just 48 out of 100 on AI search readiness. Most sites lack machine-readable FAQ schema, llms.txt files and direct answers, leaving them bypassed as customers increasingly ask ChatGPT first.
DBS CEO Says AI Costs Are Falling as Usage Grows
There has been a quiet assumption in banking that generative AI would be powerful but expensive — a capability worth having, yet one that would pressure technology budgets as usage scaled. DBS chief executive Tan Su Shan is now pushing back on that assumption with data from inside one of Southeast Asia's...
Aspire Taps Flagright for AI-Driven Financial Crime Compliance
Singapore's fintech scene has spent the past year watching artificial intelligence reshape both sides of the financial crime fight — the same models that help fraudsters scale their attacks are now the ones banks and payment firms are turning to for defence. The latest sign of that shift comes from Aspire,...
AI Marketing Platform Emergine Chooses Singapore for Global Debut
There's a quiet scramble happening in marketing departments right now, and it's not about social media calendars anymore. As more people get answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI assistants instead of search engines, brands are realising they need to be visible inside AI responses — not just on page one...
Singapore Gets Its First Data-Led AI Impact Barometer for Commercial Real Estate
Singapore's AI boom has been easy to spot in funding rounds and chip announcements, but its quietest effects are showing up in bricks and mortar — record-low data centre vacancy, office floors emptying in back-office districts, and a shifting map of which buildings businesses actually want.
SMRT's JARVIS AI Platform Helped Trigger 500+ Rail Maintenance Inspections in Its First Year
Singapore's rail operator is quietly becoming one of the more interesting case studies in how a legacy infrastructure business can industrialise AI. For years, MRT maintenance ran on scheduled checks and engineer intuition — but with a network that now carries more than two million passenger journeys a day,...
AI Research Startup LinqAlpha Sets Up Singapore Base to Win Asian Capital Markets
Institutional investing is quietly becoming one of the most demanding proving grounds for agentic AI — and the founders behind LinqAlpha have a bold pitch for it: portfolio managers should be able to "work at a superhuman level with the support of an army of AI agents." The New York-headquartered.