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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...

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1 Jun

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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...

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Jeffrey Tan

1 Jun

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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...

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Priya Nair

1 Jun

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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...

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1 Jun

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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...

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1 Jun

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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...

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Priya Nair

1 Jun

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AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max Debuts as Top-Ranked Chinese AI Model, Built to Run Autonomously for Dozens of Hours

Alibaba's Qwen 3.7 Max placed fifth globally on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at launch — the highest-ranke...

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1 Jun

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NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex 2026 — 550B-Parameter Open-Weights Model Targets Enterprise Agentic AI

NVIDIA unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex 2026 in Taipei — a 550B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 55B active...

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1 Jun

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GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex Reach General Availability on Amazon Bedrock

AWS customers can now run GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex inside Amazon Bedrock at OpenAI's standard per-token rates. The GA...

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1 Jun

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AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

UAE Government 4.0: 80,000 Officials to Train in Agentic AI as Cabinet Greenlights Drafting of Federal Healthcare AI Law

The UAE Cabinet has approved the world's largest government agentic AI training programme — 80,000 federal employees acr...

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Priya Nair

1 Jun

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AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

FPT and Charoen Pokphand Foods Deploy Agentic AI Across Vietnam's Largest Agri-Food Supply Chain

FPT Corporation and Charoen Pokphand Foods signed an MoU in Bangkok on 28 May 2026 to wire agentic AI and industrial IoT...

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Sarah Chen

1 Jun

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AI & ML · 1 Jun 2026 —

HUMAIN ONE: Saudi Arabia's PIF-Backed AI Firm Ships an Enterprise Operating System for Autonomous Agents, Built on AWS

Saudi Arabia's PIF-owned HUMAIN launched HUMAIN ONE on 4 May 2026 — a five-module platform billed as the industry's firs...

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1 Jun