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A point-of-sale tablet on a small retail shop counter, illustrating SME digital and cyber readiness.

ASEAN Tech Featured 3 min read

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

Singapore is spending to make 12,000 SMEs AI- and cyber-ready. Here is what they actually need.

IMDA has lined up Grab and RSM to bring AI training and cyber drills to 12,000 small businesses. I have built tools for shops like these, and the announcement gets one thing right that most do not: it treats phishing as the real threat. The gap it will struggle with is the one no programme fixes easily — time.

Jeffrey Tan 1 Jun 2026 Read analysis →

Conceptual image of a headset and a glowing login screen on a dark desk — illustrating the voice-phishing-to-single-sign-on chain behind these breaches.

Cybersecurity 7 min

CYBERSECURITY · 2 Jun 2026 —

No Zero-Day Required: ShinyHunters' Salesforce Vishing Spree Snares Charter and Carnival in One Week

Two major consumer brands confirmed breaches days apart — Carnival began notifying nearly six million people, and Charte...

Cyber Team

2 Jun

Developer at a screen of code in a dark workspace, illustrating the rise of autonomous AI coding agents.

AI & ML 3 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Cognition raises US$1 billion at a US$26 billion valuation as Devin clears US$492 million in revenue

The maker of the AI software engineer Devin has raised US$1 billion, valuing the company at US$26 billion after the mone...

AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

Server racks in a secure data centre, illustrating government AI agents running on an air-gapped cloud.

AI & ML 3 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Singapore tested government AI agents in a sandbox. The hard part was trust, not capability.

Singapore and Google ran AI agents against real government work for four months, on an air-gapped cloud, and published w...

Jeffrey Tan

1 Jun

A hand holding a brass padlock, illustrating identity and access security.

Cybersecurity 3 min

CYBERSECURITY · 1 Jun 2026 —

This week's breaches needed no zero-day. The perimeter is identity now.

A phone call took millions of records out of two large companies this week. A firewall bug let attackers walk past the e...

Jeffrey Tan

1 Jun

Stock chart trending sharply upward on a trading screen, illustrating Snowflake's one-day share rally.

Finance 3 min

FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —

Snowflake jumps 36 per cent in a day on an earnings beat and a US$6 billion AWS chip deal

Snowflake had its best day as a public company on 28 May, closing up 36 per cent after a clean first-quarter beat and a...

Daniel Koh

1 Jun

Empty office desks at dusk, illustrating the question of AI-driven job displacement.

AI & ML 3 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

OpenAI Foundation commits US$250 million to workers displaced by AI

The OpenAI Foundation has pledged an initial US$250 million for research, grants and programmes to help workers and econ...

Priya Nair

1 Jun

Network server room with rack cabling, illustrating a firewall vulnerability at the network edge.

Cybersecurity 2 min

CYBERSECURITY · 1 Jun 2026 —

CISA orders agencies to patch an actively exploited Palo Alto firewall flaw by 1 June

Attackers are exploiting a flaw in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS that lets them slip past security controls and open an una...

Cyber Team

1 Jun

OpenAI and Singapore government representatives sign the OpenAI for Singapore MOU at ATxSummit on 20 May 2026

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

OpenAI Announces First Applied AI Lab Outside the US in Singapore, Backed by S$300 Million Commitment

OpenAI signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore's MDDI on 20 May 2026, committing more than S$300 million and...

AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

Parcels moving along an e-commerce sorting line, illustrating Shopee's record quarterly order volume.

ASEAN Tech 3 min

ASEAN TECH · 1 Jun 2026 —

Sea's three engines fire at once: Shopee, Monee and Garena drive a 47 per cent revenue jump

Singapore's Sea Limited posted first-quarter revenue of US$7.1 billion, up 47 per cent, as its e-commerce, fintech and g...

Sarah Chen

1 Jun

NVIDIA Singapore AI research lab and Punggol Digital District robotics testbed announcement May 2026

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

NVIDIA Opens Singapore AI Research Lab as City-State Launches Singapore's First Multi-Operator Robotics Testbed, Planned for Later in 2026

Singapore announced two linked moves on 20 May: NVIDIA confirmed its first research lab in the city-state, and the gover...

AI Tools Desk

1 Jun

Singapore skyline with digital overlay representing IMDA agentic AI governance framework version 1.5 published May 2026

AI & ML 5 min

AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

IMDA's Agentic AI Governance Framework v1.5 Names 60-Org Case Studies and Targets Multi-Agent Risk

Singapore's IMDA published Version 1.5 of its Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI on 20 May 2026 — a 51-page up...

Priya Nair

1 Jun

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