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NUHS Rolls Out AI Platform to Strengthen Medication Safety Across Western Singapore
Singapore's healthcare system is staring down a demographic reality: an ageing population with increasingly complex medication regimens, served by pharmacists who spend over 1,000 combined hours each week on manual reconciliation, triage, and verification work. The National University Health System (NUHS)...

Singapore Polytechnic Launches Industrial AI Governance Framework with Nine New Partnerships
When a company drops an AI model into a factory production line or a semiconductor fabrication process, the stakes are not theoretical — a bad prediction means scrapped wafers, halted assembly lines, or safety incidents. That is the problem Singapore Polytechnic (SP) is tackling head-on by becoming the...

Okta to Acquire Permiso Security to Expand Identity Threat Detection
Okta has agreed to acquire Permiso Security as enterprises face growing threats from human, machine and AI identities. Financial terms were not disclosed.

OCBC Deploys Agentic AI Platform to Halve Wealth Client Onboarding Time
Singapore's wealth management boom has a bottleneck: onboarding a new private banking client typically takes six weeks or longer, a timeline that frustrates relationship managers and wealthy clients alike in a market where speed increasingly determines who wins the mandate. OCBC is betting that agentic AI —

STAMPEDE Creates 11,000 Free AI-Powered Business Pages to Bring Singapore's Billion-Dollar AI Push to Hawkers and Cafés
Singapore is pouring over S billion into AI research and talent between 2025 and 2030, but for the thousands of hawkers, café owners and small restaurant operators fighting to stay afloat, that national ambition can feel a world away. Homegrown loyalty platform STAMPEDE is trying to close that gap — by...

72% of Singapore Shoppers Now Use AI to Decide What to Buy, Adyen Report Finds
Artificial intelligence has quietly become a shopping companion for most Singaporeans. More than seven in ten consumers here (72%) used AI assistants to support their shopping in the past year, according to the Adyen Index 2026 Singapore Retail Report — and the habit is clearest among the young, with 85% of...

SNTUC Deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot to 1,300 Employees and Builds AI Agents for Industrial Relations Work
Singapore's labour movement is running one of the more unusual AI rollouts in the country — on itself. SNTUC, the national trade union congress representing more than 1.4 million workers, has moved Microsoft 365 Copilot from a 50-person trial in January 2025 to a full deployment across its 1,300 employees,...

AI Is Speeding Up Software Delivery in Singapore — But Governance Is Falling Behind
Nearly 90% of Singapore organisations now use multiple AI tools in software development, but 60% admit to shipping untested code. As AI accelerates delivery, the governance frameworks designed for slower cycles are struggling to keep up, making quality a boardroom issue.

Singapore Startup Earlybird AI Uses Agentic AI to Automate Accounting for SMEs
A new wave of AI-native financial tools is reshaping how small businesses manage their books, and Singapore-based Earlybird AI is at the forefront. The startup, founded in 2024 by former Visa executive Bhavana Ravindran, uses AI agents to automate accounting for small and medium enterprises — turning bank...

After Early AI Failures, Businesses Ground Efforts in Operations and Governance
After 18 months of rushed AI pilots and forced employee adoption, businesses are discovering that the path to meaningful AI value runs through operational foundations, not flashy experiments. New research from automation vendor ServiceNow, shared at its World Forum event in Sydney, paints a picture of an...

Gemini Spark Lands in Singapore — Google's Always-On AI Agent Aims to Change How You Work
Google's vision of an AI that works for you around the clock is quietly becoming real in Singapore. Gemini Spark — the company's always-on personal AI agent that first appeared at Google I/O in May — is rolling out to Pro subscribers here over the coming weeks, after launching for Google AI Ultra subscribers...

1 in 3 Singaporeans Now Use AI for Financial Decisions, MDRT Survey Finds
More than a third of Singaporeans are now using artificial intelligence tools to manage their money, according to a new survey by the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), a global insurance and financial services trade association. The figure — 35% of 2,000 respondents — reflects a rapid shift in how everyday...