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Xinterra's AI Materials Lab Turns T-Shirts Into Carbon Capture Devices
Materials science has a speed problem: getting a new material from lab to market can take years of trial-and-error, which is exactly the wrong timeline for climate change. A Singapore startup spun out of A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering thinks AI can compress that timeline — and its...
Grab's AI Call-A-Ride Lets Seniors Book Rides With a Phone Call, Not an App
For years, the digital divide in Singapore has had a quiet casualty: seniors who never quite took to ride-hailing apps, and who found themselves relying on taxis flagged down the old-fashioned way. Grab's answer, announced Aug 5, is to make the phone call the interface again.
Cloudflare Launches Wallets and Identity Tools for AI Agent Commerce
The internet is quietly getting its first generation of digital butlers — autonomous software agents that shop, book and pay on our behalf. That shift needs a payments layer designed for machines, not humans, and Cloudflare has just stepped in with a wallet and identity system purpose-built for AI agent...
Sumsub and Sumvin Partner to Close the Identity Verification Gap for AI Agents
The next frontier in AI security isn't the model — it's proving who is behind it. As AI agents begin buying things, opening accounts and managing money on behalf of people, Singapore's financial sector is waking up to a question the industry hasn't fully answered: when an agent transacts, who exactly is...
FCM Travel Lets Business Travellers Book by Chat — With AI That Explains Its Picks
Corporate travel has long been the last holdout of the old-school booking interface — forms, dropdowns and policy rules buried in fine print. FCM Travel, the global business-travel arm whose regional operations are headquartered in Singapore, is betting conversational AI finally changes that.
Ex-KPMG AI Partner Launches Singapore Firm GFF AI to Engineer 'AI-Native Enterprises'
Singapore's AI services market has no shortage of consultancies, system integrators and cloud partners telling enterprises to adopt AI. The harder question, increasingly, is how a company becomes genuinely AI-native rather than a digital business with a few tools bolted on.
NUHS Built Four Pharmacy AI Tools in Nine Months — the Data Plumbing Took Five Years
Singapore's public healthcare system processes staggering volumes of pharmacy work every day — 730 medication reconciliations, 13,000 order reviews and counselling sessions across the National University Health System alone — and much of it eats up 173 pharmacist-hours on routine, low-complexity tasks.
Visa Inks US$2.4 Billion Deal to Acquire Israeli Fraud Intelligence Firm BioC...
Singapore's position as a fintech hub means every shift in the global payments fraud landscape eventually reaches its shores. Visa's US$2.4 billion acquisition of BioCatch — an Israeli firm that uses AI to analyse how users type, swipe, and navigate — is the kind of deal that redraws the fraud prevention...
Singapore's Security Sector Goes AI-First, But the Humans Aren't Going Anywhere
Singapore's security industry is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. As manpower constraints tighten and technology costs fall, agencies are racing to deploy AI-powered surveillance, virtual patrols, and automated monitoring — but the conversation is shifting from "can AI replace...
Singapore's Wealthy Investors Are Using AI — But Not to Replace Their Advisers
Three-quarters of Singapore's mass affluent and high-net-worth investors have used AI for finance — but nearly 80% still seek human adviser reassurance before making major decisions, according to an HSBC survey. Banks like DBS and OCBC are deploying AI to strip away administrative friction so relationship managers can focus on the emotional, strategic side of wealth advisory.
Google Brings Gemini Spark to Singapore, Betting on Always-On AI Agents
Google is making a deliberate bet on Singapore as a proving ground for its most ambitious AI agent yet. Over the next few weeks, the company will roll out Gemini Spark to Google AI Pro subscribers in the city-state — an always-on AI agent that continues working on tasks even when a user's laptop is closed or...
US Edge AI Chipmaker Ambiq Micro Lists on SGX, Betting on Asia's Semiconductor Growth
Singapore's stock exchange just landed a significant deep-tech listing. Ambiq Micro, a US-based ultra-low power semiconductor company specialising in edge AI chips, has listed on the SGX Main Board — a dual listing that complements its existing New York Stock Exchange presence.