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ASEAN Tech 6 min MAS's SAFR Framework Puts the Safeguard Where the Money Moves — At the Point an AI Agent Acts Singapore's MAS and industry partners published SAFR on 3 July, a voluntary framework that governs AI agents i... PR Priya Nair 11 Jul ASEAN Tech 6 min MAS Is Building an Institute to End the Pilot Era — Singapore's Bet That the Hard Part of Fintech Is Deployment MAS announced on 25 June it will establish a Future of Finance Institute to move AI and tokenisation from expe... SA Sarah Chen 11 Jul ASEAN Tech 6 min MAS Opens an AI-Themed 2026 Global FinTech Hackcelerator and SFF Excellence Awards On 29 June 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore opened applications for the 2026 Global FinTech Hackceler... SA Sarah Chen 2 Jul Cloud & Infra 6 min Three Singapore-Based Operators Moved Into South Korea's Data-Centre Market in Two Weeks STT GDC opened its first South Korea data centre this month, days after Keppel and Digital Edge each moved on... KE Kenji Tanaka 19 Jun Health & Wellness 6 min Singapore's Healthy 365 App Gets a 'Wayfinding' Feature From June 2026 — Nudging You to the Park Down the Street From June 2026, Singapore's Health Promotion Board is adding a 'wayfinding' feature to its free Healthy 365 ap... AM Amelia Wong 11 Jun AI & ML 7 min Singapore Refreshes Its National AI Strategy: 10 Priorities, Four Missions, and a Bet Against a Two-Speed Economy Singapore's 20 May update to its National AI Strategy refreshes the priorities across its 10 enablers, adds fo... PR Priya Nair 8 Jun ASEAN Tech 7 min Singapore Bets on Being AI's Neutral Ground — Just as US Chip Rules Put the Middle Under Scrutiny As Singapore AI Week and SuperAI 2026 open with a pitch to be 'neutral ground' for a fracturing AI industry, f... SA Sarah Chen 8 Jun AI & ML 6 min Agentic AI Governance Must Move From Policy Slides Into Runtime Controls As AI agents move from experiments into business workflows, governance can no longer stay at the policy level.... JE Jeffrey Tan 6 Jun ASEAN Tech 5 min Mastercard Switches On AI-Agent Payments in Singapore and Malaysia Mastercard has taken agentic commerce live in its first two ASEAN markets, letting verified AI agents pay on a... DA Daniel Koh 6 Jun ASEAN Tech 3 min 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... JE Jeffrey Tan 1 Jun AI & ML 3 min 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 p... JE Jeffrey Tan 1 Jun Cybersecurity 3 min 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... JE Jeffrey Tan 1 Jun AI & ML 5 min 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... PR Priya Nair 1 Jun ASEAN Tech 13 min Singapore Orders Critical-Infrastructure Cybersecurity Reviews as Frontier AI Cuts Exploit Development From Months to Hours On 5 May 2026, Singapore CSA formally wrote to CII boards requiring AI-resilient cybersecurity reviews — citin... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 22 May ASEAN Tech 8 min MAS Issues Binding GenAI Banking Guidelines — Five-Bank Sandbox, Cross-Border Implications for ASEAN Finance The Monetary Authority of Singapore published its long-awaited binding guidelines on generative AI use by bank... SA Sarah Chen 20 May Health & Wellness 3 min HealthTechX Asia 2026 Convenes 60+ Speakers and 90+ Partners in Singapore — MOH National Digital Health Update Headlined HealthTechX Asia's second edition ran 6–7 May 2026 at Sands Expo, bringing together more than 60 speakers and... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 18 May Cybersecurity 9 min Iran's MuddyWater Used Microsoft Teams to Run a Fake Ransomware Attack — While Quietly Stealing Your Data Iran-linked MuddyWater used unsolicited Microsoft Teams chats, screen-sharing, and credential-harvesting to co... CY Cyber Team 8 May AI & ML 8 min Global AI Adoption Hits 17.8%: Asia Leads the Charge But Digital Divide Is Widening, Microsoft Report Finds Microsoft's State of Global AI Diffusion report shows 17.8% of the working-age population now uses AI globally... AI AI Tools Desk 8 May Developer Tools 9 min Critical GitHub RCE Flaw CVE-2026-3854 Lets Attackers Execute Code With a Single Git Push — Patch Now CVE-2026-3854, a CVSS 9.8 RCE flaw in GitHub Enterprise Server, allows unauthenticated code execution via a si... CY Cyber Team 8 May ASEAN Tech 9 min Singapore's Semiconductor Firms Eye US Expansion as AI Boom Reshapes Global Chip Supply Chains Singaporean semiconductor companies are establishing US operations to capture AI chip supply chain opportuniti... JE Jeffrey Tan 8 May AI & ML 9 min China's Open-Source AI Sprint: Four Labs Drop Frontier Coding Models in 12 Days, Closing Gap With Western AI Four Chinese AI labs — Z.ai, MiniMax, Moonshot, and DeepSeek — released open-weights coding models within 12 d... AI AI Tools Desk 8 May ASEAN Tech 8 min ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers Chart Unified Cross-Border Payment Future as Tokenisation Emerges as Next Frontier The 29th ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers' Meeting endorsed connected cross-border payment architecture and tokenisat... JE Jeffrey Tan 8 May ASEAN Tech 8 min From Johor to the World: How the JS-SEZ Is Becoming Southeast Asia's AI Infrastructure Powerhouse The Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone is rapidly evolving into Southeast Asia's primary AI infrastructure... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 8 May AI & ML 8 min Cohere and Aleph Alpha Merge to Build Europe's "Sovereign AI" Champion — But Can It Really Challenge the US-China Duopoly? Cohere and Aleph Alpha have merged with backing from the Canadian and German governments to create a "sovereig... AI AI Tools Desk 8 May