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Senior Minister of State Tan Kiat How said MDDI is running trials on agentic AI in the public sector before setting binding safety rules for autonomous tools.
MAS published AI guidelines on 7 October requiring banks and insurers to inventory third-party models, test for leaks and keep humans accountable when chatbots misstate policies.
Home-grown engineer HOPE Technik will hand over four Light Fire Attack Vehicles to Brunei’s Fire and Rescue Department during Prime Minister Wong’s visit.
MOH will add COVID-19 vaccination to national childhood and adult immunisation schedules from 12 October, rolling out XFG Pfizer and Moderna shots at more than 600 GP clinics, polyclinics and mobile teams.
Gulf Energy Development and Singtel are deploying a new submarine cable between Thailand and Singapore to add bandwidth for cloud and AI traffic across Southeast Asia.
Land Transport Authority engineers are wiring a Punggol crossing with RFID antennas so autonomous delivery and patrol bots can trigger pedestrian lights before large-scale trials with Grab, DHL and other operators begin.
NEA is releasing Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes in Ang Mo Kio this month as coverage reaches roughly half of all HDB households islandwide.
IMDA’s Singapore Digital Economy Report puts the sector at S$144.1 billion in 2025, with enterprise AI adoption rising to 23.5 per cent from 14.7 per cent a year earlier.
GovTech is encoding agency data definitions as version-controlled code so civil-service AI tools query the same “resolved case” rules officers use.
Open Government Products' Scam Vaccine has drawn more than 700 sign-ups since 20 September, sending unscripted simulated scams by phone and WhatsApp to train residents before real variants spread.
GovTech began sending CorpPass login one-time passwords as plain SMS text without clickable links on Thursday, closing a phishing gap exploited in government-impersonation scams.
The 510-kilogram PROTECT unit can stream yard footage to officers and deploy pepper spray on command, but cannot yet detect brawls without human operators.
Grocery apps now show per-kilo and per-litre figures on selected categories, extending CCS’s pilot beyond physical shelf tags.
Channel News Asia found Carousell suppliers still paying S$5 per fake Google review in September 2026, months after listings first offered S$1 to S$2 for misleading five-star posts.
The five-show Tech Week Singapore conference opens Tuesday at Marina Bay Sands with Tan Kiat How on the mainstage and a live vehicle cyber hackathon on the floor.
MDDI and IMDA are advancing the Digital Infrastructure Bill after a July consultation on securing data centres and critical digital services.
Singapore's fourth mobile operator disclosed a September breach affecting identity numbers and contact details while insisting no payment data left its systems.
JTC and Kajima are testing autonomous excavators and compactors at Bulim in Jurong, with phase two adding bulldozers and trucks as Singapore targets live-site deployment from 2028.
MetaOptics is preparing a Level 1 OTCQX American Depositary Receipt programme in the United States while keeping its primary listing and existing share float on SGX Catalist, according to a Zaobao report. The plan is about access, not capital.
From 5 October, DBS, OCBC and UOB shift to ten-share standard board lots on SGX, cutting the cash needed for a starter position from thousands of dollars to a few hundred at recent prices.
Singapore Institute of Technology students and IMDA are trialling hawker-stall ordering chatbots that take orders in Malay, Tamil and Chinese, building on inclusive ordering prototypes tested at NEA-managed centres.
Nvidia’s first Singapore research lab—focused on embodied AI and efficient computing—sits alongside the SIT x NVIDIA centre at Punggol and IMDA’s multi-operator robot testbed gearing up in Punggol Digital District.
The Institute of Digital Government launched Sept 18 to train more than 150,000 public officers in AI, cybersecurity, and data skills by 2028 through MDDI and the Civil Service College.