New policies, debates, videos, startup profiles, longform, and data fixes.https://sgai.md/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-28-video/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-28-video/Man in the loop a must when using AI in defence; AIxTech Industry Forum: How to Lead in the Era of AI Coding Assistants.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-28-speech/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-28-speech/Address by MOS Rahayu Mahzam at Cisco Connect 2026.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-21-speech/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-21-speech/Address by Minister Josephine Teo at ST Engineering InnoTech Conference 2025; Address by SMS Tan Kiat How at the ATxEnterprise 2026 Opening Ceremony; Closing Remarks by Minister Josephine Teo at Google for Singapore 2026 at Google Singapore (72 total)Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-19-video/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-19-video/NAISC 2026 Highlights.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-10-fix/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-10-fix/The AI Singapore ecosystem profile now carries officially sourced hard facts: the 2017 six-agency launch with up to S$150M from NRF, the S$1B national AI R&D pool for 2025–2030, AISG and NTU co-hosting IOAI 2027, and the NOAI selection pathway. It also clarifies that AI Trailblazers (MCI × Google Cloud) and Kampong AI (a JTC campus) are not AISG programmes. A dead NRF source link was fixed along the way.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-10-fix/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-10-fix/An SEO hardening pass driven by Google Search Console data: removed 20 duplicate MP profile stubs created by Hansard extraction artifacts (stray brackets, honorific prefixes, -2 suffixes) and remapped all debate speaker references to canonical ids; consolidated split ranking signals with rel=canonical across the Cyberport supercomputing pages and three legal-framework/policy-archive twins; enriched the Ong Teng Koon MP profile; aligned the AI-adoption tracker title with what people actually search.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-10-site/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-10-site/The parliamentary section on voice profiles is now a derived "Parliamentary AI record": per-year and per-topic counts plus topic tags per debate, all generated from in-repo Hansard records. Stub MP profiles with 3+ debates get an auto-generated factual summary line (e.g. "Member of Parliament. Spoke in 31 AI-related parliamentary debates (2021–2026)"), replacing the placeholder text on the page and in search snippets.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-10-debate/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-10-debate/MOE Committee of Supply 2026 — Preparing Singaporeans for an AI-Transformed Future; Alternative Singpass Identity Options Apart from Facial Verification.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-09-longform/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-09-longform/A systematic survey of the public record of Singapore's two sovereign funds in AI: GIC backing Anthropic across three consecutive rounds (two at lead level), Temasek holding both OpenAI and Anthropic, plus data centre and Databricks positions. Every deal carries its date, scale, and source tier, with all links verified. Published in all five languages.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-09-video/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-09-video/PM Wong: Singapore can be an AI application hub; ATxSummit: AI Student Developer Conference 2026; AI Ready ASEAN Youth Challenge 2026 Highlights.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-09-debate/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-09-debate/Quantifiable Safety Metrics and AV Standards Governing AI Decision-Making Prior to Commercial Deployment on Public Roads; Data Protection Standards for AI Tools Usage in Schools and Assessing AI's Impact on Student Learning Outcomes; An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Transition with No Jobless Growth (Main Debate) (16 total)Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-09-speech/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-09-speech/Opening Address by Minister Josephine Teo at National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC)'s Launch of ASPIRE 2B Supercomputer; Speech by MOS Jasmin Lau for Parliamentary Motion on “An AI Transition with No Jobless Growth”; MOS Jasmin Lau’s Speech at KPMG Singapore’s Launch of Trusted AI Centre of Excellence.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-02-debate/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-06-02-debate/Energy Crisis, AI Data-Centre Demand and the Impact on Hiring Prospects; Tighter Controls and Real-time Anomaly Detection for SIM Card Purchases, Re-registration Patterns and GSM Gateway Misuse; Review of Singapore's Water Security Due to Rising Demands from Data Centres, Urban Expansion and Climate Variability (8 total)Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-29-longform/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-29-longform/In the country-usage ranking of Anthropic's March 2026 Economic Index, Singapore leads with an AI Usage Index of 5.53. The piece unpacks what the index measures — per-capita adoption intensity, not absolute volume or sophistication — why the formula favors small, rich, English-speaking, knowledge-worker-dense city-states, and how Singapore's policies keep pushing it up. Published in all five languages.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-27-fix/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-27-fix/Based on 5/2–5/24 Google Search Console data (95k impressions / 0.27% CTR), bulk-rewrote metadata across voices / policies / debates / levers / startups / talent / ecosystem detail and listing pages — adding number signals (e.g. "153 debates · 2015–2026"), keyword front-loading, and a brand suffix in all 5 locales. The debates listing now bakes its actual record count + year range into title/desc; voice pages inject debate/policy/video counts into the description. zh-tw branches all route through toTraditional() to keep traditional output clean.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-26-longform/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-26-longform/At ATxSummit on 20 May, Josephine Teo unveiled the NAIS Update and four National AI Missions (Advanced Manufacturing, Connectivity, Finance, Healthcare); the same day brought announcements of the NVIDIA Singapore AI Research Lab and the Punggol Digital District multi-operator robot testbed. News-style long-form, published in all five languages.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-26-fix/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-26-fix/OpenCC s2twp was wrongly converting Singapore ministry names (MDDI, IMDA, MCCY) into Taiwan-style variants in zh-tw rendering. The new src/i18n/protected-terms.ts adds a pre/post placeholder pass that protects ~10 official institutional names, fixing 2000+ occurrences across the site. A new npm run check:zh-tw-misconversion eval prevents regressions.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-25-longform/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-25-longform/The old AI Strait of Malacca essay is replaced with the 2026-05-25 revision, adding method notes, the five transformations, NAIS Update, the Manus risk discussion, and zh/en/ja/ko versions.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-24-policy/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-24-policy/OpenAI for Singapore; Singapore Government × Google AI Agents Sandbox; AI Tester Accreditation Programme (AI TAP).Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-22-speech/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-22-speech/MDDI's Response to PQ on Review of Personal Data Protection Act 2012 to Address Use of Inferred or Derived Data Generated by AI; Opening Speech by Minister Josephine Teo at the International Scientific Exchange for AI Safety 2026 Main Conference; Opening Speech by MOS Rahayu Mahzam at the AI in Health x ATxSummit.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-20-video/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-20-video/AIE Singapore Day 1 ft. Minister, NanoClaw, OpenAI, Google, Vercel, Cursor & more; AIE Singapore Day 2 ft. Google DeepMind, OpenClaw, Adaption, Arize, Cloudflare, Robot Company & more.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-20-policy/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-20-policy/National AI Strategy Update 2026; NVIDIA Singapore AI Research Lab; Punggol Digital District Multi-Operator Robot Testbed.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-20-people/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-20-people/Jermaine Loy.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-20-speech/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-20-speech/Opening Address by Minister Josephine Teo at ATxSummit 2026.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-15-speech/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-15-speech/Remarks by MOS Rahayu Mahzam at the Launch of Lions Befrienders' New Neighbourhood Assistant for Nurturing Ageing (NANA) AI Initiative.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-10-site/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-10-site/Every data record now carries addedAt; a derive function auto-produces the recent-updates feed. The double-source-of-truth manual ledger is gone, killing the bug class that caused the 2026-05-09 miss.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-09-video/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-09-video/Education Minister Desmond Lee: A Calibrated, Purposeful Approach to AI in Education; Masagos: No Vulnerable Group Should Be Left Behind in AI Push.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-05-site/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-05-site/Updates that used to be buried inside each column are now collected in one feed — returning readers see what is new at a glance.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-05-site/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-05-site/Debate entries are regrouped by topic, year, and speaker so long-tail debates are no longer buried.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-04-site/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-04-site/Each core policy now has its own profile page tying the document, issuing ministry, related debates, and levers together.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-04-site/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-04-site/Official research projects and talent programmes graduate from list rows to standalone pages — easier to deep-link and cite.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-03-fix/https://sgai.md/updates/#2026-05-03-fix/The voices backfill pipeline now HEAD-checks every sourceUrl, blocking LLM-fabricated speaker / talk links from entering data.Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT