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Cheaper Chinese AI Models Give Asian Businesses a Cost Break With Strings Attached
Chinese AI models are dramatically undercutting their US rivals on price — MiniMax and Moonshot charge roughly US$2 to US$3 per million output tokens, compared with US$30 for OpenAI's GPT 5.5 and US$15 for Anthropic's Claude 4.5 — but the discount comes with trade-offs that Asian.
Shopee Cuts Hundreds of Developer Jobs as Sea Pivots to AI
Shopee is cutting approximately 8% of its developer workforce globally as parent company Sea Limited restructures toward AI, with product and engineering teams in Singapore among the hardest hit. Severance packages offer one month per year of service plus two additional months.
Meta's Manus Breakup Closes Singapore Loophole for Chinese AI Firms
Meta has completed its operational separation from Manus, the red-hot agentic AI startup, cutting off data sharing and internal system access as both companies work to unwind a US$2 billion deal that Beijing ordered reversed.
Trust Will Decide Whether Singapore AI Bet Pays Off
The primary barrier to AI adoption in Singapore has shifted from access to trust, argues a new analysis from The Edge Singapore. As AI moves beyond low-stakes pilots into core banking, healthcare and public service functions, the question is whether Singaporeans can rely on these systems enough to use them in everyday economic life.
Singapore's Datacentre Hub Under Pressure as AI Hits the Infrastructure Wall
AI's primary bottleneck has shifted from algorithms to physical infrastructure — power, cooling, and grid capacity. Singapore's ST Telemedia Global Data Centres CEO warns that compute constraints are now the main barrier, with 71 per cent of APAC organisations unable to move AI pilots into production.
60% of Singapore Firms Now Ship Untested Code, Tricentis Finds
Three in five Singapore organisations are releasing software with untested code, up sharply from 47% last year, as leadership pressure to ship faster overrides quality checks. Financial services firms are the worst offenders at 71%, and the financial toll of poor quality is estimated at up to S$6.4 million annually per company.
Singapore Employment Grows for 18th Straight Quarter as AI Reshapes Roles
Singapore's labour market extended its expansion streak to 18 consecutive quarters, adding 9,400 jobs in Q1 2026. MOM data reveals AI is reshaping jobs rather than eliminating them — firms are three times more likely to redesign roles than cut headcount when adopting AI.
Singapore's Public Sector Pays 107% More for AI Talent, PwC Finds
Singapore's public sector pays a 107% wage premium for AI-skilled roles, the highest of any sector, according to PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer. AI job postings surged to 5.3% of all listings in 2025, with 84,000 AI-related roles and most demand for AI users rather than AI builders.
Christopher Lee to Star in Singapore's First AI-Hybrid Drama
Singaporean actor Christopher Lee stars in Crooks, Singapore's first AI-hybrid drama that uses AI-assisted environments to expand cinematic scale. The nine-episode series, inspired by Eighteen Chefs founder Benny Se Teo, reskills over 50 crew members in AI-enabled production techniques.
Applied Materials opens S$600M Singapore campus to feed AI chip demand
Applied Materials has officially opened a S$600 million campus in Tampines that more than doubles its cleanroom capacity in Singapore, with Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong officiating a facility that has already been running at volume capacity before its formal launch — a clear signal of how urgently AI chip demand is reshaping global semiconductor supply chains.
Singapore's AI Engagement Gap Leaves Lower-Income Workers Behind
Researchers studying AI inequality among young Singaporeans found themselves facing a revealing data problem: they could barely recruit lower-income respondents because those young adults felt they knew too little about artificial intelligence to participate.
One in Three Firms Pouring Money Into AI With Minimal Oversight, IDC Finds
A new IDC survey of 800 technology leaders across APAC, Europe, and the US has found that roughly one in three companies investing in AI are doing so with little to no formal oversight — no dedicated AI ethics board, no regular model auditing, and no clear governance framework for how AI decisions.