Artificial Intelligence

SINGAPORE BUDGET 2026

Budget 2026: AI boost a shot in the arm, but funding alone won’t drive transformation, says industry

Expanded support lowers barriers to adoption, but scaling will depend on guidance and workforce readiness

On the whole, Budget 2026 plays to Singapore’s clear strengths while exemplifying the country’s focused strategy for a new era of growth.
COMMENTARY

Budget 2026: Accelerating Singapore’s growth in a fragmented world

As global trade fractures, Budget 2026 doubles down on AI integration while reinforcing the social compact

The new set of national AI missions will be focused across advanced manufacturing, finance, healthcare and connectivity sectors.
SINGAPORE BUDGET 2026

Budget 2026: Quick takes on Singapore’s new National AI council, AI missions

The missions will focus on four sectors – advanced manufacturing, finance, healthcare and connectivity

Singapore will also build a larger AI park at one-north to catalyse ideas, forge collaborations and translate AI initiatives into practical solutions.
SINGAPORE BUDGET 2026

Budget 2026: Tailored programmes, tax deductions to support AI use in businesses; bigger AI park to be built at one-north

The Champions of AI programme will include enterprise transformation and workforce training

From left: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind; Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief, The Economist; and Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder, Anthropic.

The lab leaders want to slow down on AI. Someone needs to help them

Here is why ‘middle powers’ like Singapore may hold the key to coordinating the advance of AI

Classified networks are used to handle a wide range of more sensitive work that can include mission-planning or weapons targeting.

Pentagon pushing AI companies to expand on classified networks: sources

Military officials are hoping to leverage AI’s power to synthesise information to help shape decisions

The US’s unilateral capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and Trump’s push for American control over Greenland took investors by surprise this year.

Geopolitics and AI to fuel volatility in 2026, JPMorgan finds

CLASHES between global powers will fuel further market swings over the coming year, according to a JPMorgan Chase survey, with developments in artificial intelligence (AI) also top of traders’ minds.

Valued at roughly US$18 billion, Zhipu is the first major global LLM builder to list on a stock market.

China’s Zhipu unveils new AI model, jolting race with DeepSeek

GLM-5 has been measured directly against Anthropic’s Claude Opus series

From left: McKinsey & Company senior partner Daniel Pacthod and Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo at the launch of the "State of AI in Southeast Asia" report on Wednesday. Teo likened the current wave of AI adoption among individuals to assembling flat-pack furniture.

Firms must move beyond AI ‘Ikea moment’ as most remain stuck in experimental stage: Josephine Teo

While there is high enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, more than half of South-east Asian companies remain in the piloting stage, says a new report

The company’s chip efforts date back to at least 2022, when it began hiring chip-related staff in earnest.

ByteDance developing AI chip, in manufacturing talks with Samsung: sources

Global tech giants have developed their own AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia