Only 28.5% of Singaporean firms had adopted AI, while 71.5% had not; just 3.8% had integrated it into core processes, showing that the main challenge is diffusion—not widespread job displacement.
iWOW Technology completed its S$11.2 million acquisition of The Gentle Group on 1 July 2026, combining senior emergency response with therapeutic nutrition and care services.
Announced on May 6, 2026, AWS’s Singapore pilot gives eligible learners aged 18 and above 1,000 Kiro credits—20 times the standard free tier—to build working app prototypes.
Singapore’s AIxTech programme aims to equip 40,000 technology professionals and final year Information and Digital Technologies students with practical and responsible AI skills by 2029.
Singapore’s Online Safety Commission began operating on 29 June 2026, initially handling five serious online harms rather than all 13 covered by the law.
Over roughly seven decades, AI has progressed from rules and narrow predictions to generating content and taking actions through tools.
Launched on May 14, 2026, Singapore Space Lab is designed as a commercial gateway—not a satellite factory—connecting local space tech companies with non space customers, investors and international partners.
Since the term artificial intelligence was coined in 1955, AI has broadly progressed from predicting and classifying, to generating content, to planning and taking actions through tools.
After five months of struggling with paper records, Frank Chester Tan used a $30 a month Claude Pro plan and Claude Code to build a personalised baby tracking web app without prior coding experience.
AI may reshape entry level white collar work, but there is no established evidence that it will eliminate half of those jobs.
The proposed S$1.43 billion Simba acquisition of M1 is over: IMDA suspended its review on 18 May 2026 over possible unauthorised spectrum use, Keppel let the agreement lapse on 21 May, and Tuas later termina...
Simba’s proposed S$1.43 billion acquisition of M1’s telecommunications business failed after IMDA suspended its review on 18 May 2026; the agreement then expired on its 21 May long stop date.