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As many as 48 percent of Singapore's finance professionals fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect their own roles, although 81 percent say they are confident in their ability to learn and apply the technology, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) said in a statement on Wednesday.

The head of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday warned of uncertainties surrounding the sustainability of the global artificial intelligence (AI) investment boom, citing rising computing costs, financing risks and the possibility of technology disruption or regulatory intervention.

U.S. technology firm IBM on Monday announced an expanded collaboration with Singapore-based communications and digital services provider StarHub to enhance the latter’s quantum-safe cybersecurity capabilities against emerging cryptographic threats posed by future quantum computing technologies.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC) has on Tuesday announced a partnership with Alibaba Cloud and Tech Talent Assembly, an affiliated association under the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) to accelerate the adoption of generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) across Singapore’s enterprises and workforce.

Italy-based Industrie De Nora has signed an agreement to wholly acquire Singapore-based BW Water in a deal between $61.5 million and $66.5 million.

Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) have launched the refreshed Retail Industry Digital Plan (IDP) on Tuesday, to guide over 2,000 small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) retailers on their digital transformation efforts.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has awarded France-based defense-aerospace giant Thales a contract to develop a national Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) system.

KPMG has launched a Trusted Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence in Singapore, aimed at helping organizations strengthen governance and trust in artificial intelligence systems as adoption accelerates across industries.

Singapore-based Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) will divest from a data center property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States for $14.5 million.

Singapore is strengthening its position in the emerging fusion energy ecosystem through a strategic research agreement between the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the private fusion energy company that has raised about S$3.85 billion ($3 billion) from prominent investors, including Temasek and…