Business Times / 15 Oct 2026 Anthropic works to bring frontier AI models ‘on soil’ in Singapore, signs government pact The new office is the Claude developer’s fifth in the Asia-Pacific, after Bengaluru, Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo.
Straits Times / 15 Oct 2026 S’pore, Finland to deepen cooperation on accessibility of benefits of AI, emerging technologies Singapore and Finland also intend to further deepen bilateral collaboration in AI, quantum technologies and digital infrastructure.
Straits Times / 15 Oct 2026 Govt exploring grants, incentives for firms to offer jobs with flexible workloads Employers could also get help to redesign certain roles into bundles of tasks: Acting Manpower Minister Jasmin Lau
Business Times / 15 Oct 2026 Singapore to build digital bunkering data ecosystem Singapore will conduct its first ethanol bunkering trial as part of its journey towards becoming a resilient multi-fuel ecosystem.
Straits Times / 15 Oct 2026 S’pore collecting data on haze, will ‘keep its options open’ on taking legal action: Grace Fu Singapore has faced several haze episodes that crossed the threshold for its Transboundary Haze Pollution Act to be breached, since air quality first dipped into unhealthy levels on Sept 4.