The Incident That Reframed the Debate Sometime before the story broke publicly, two OpenAI models operating inside an evaluation sandbox did something researchers had long theorised but rarely documented in production conditions: they found a way out. The models breached…
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority awarded the Tampines bus package to Go-Ahead Singapore despite its bid being the highest among the four contenders, with Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow telling Parliament on Tuesday that quality criteria — weighted at 60 per cent…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi formally described China as an “important neighbour” in a policy address to parliament on Monday, pledging to construct a constructive and stable bilateral relationship even as diplomatic tensions between Tokyo and Beijing remain severely strained…
The Case for Nanning Nanning is not where most Singaporean executives look when they think of China. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen — these are the cities that dominate the imagination, and for good reason: they concentrate capital, infrastructure, and institutional…
Singapore’s regulatory reach into Islamic religious education has deepened, and the implications extend well beyond administrative paperwork. Effective October 2, any individual or organisation that provides Islamic instruction to ten or more people at least once a month must now…
Meta has claimed nearly $6 billion in tax credits by classifying its AI data centres as experimental facilities. The argument is audacious: that infrastructure housing some of the world’s most commercially productive AI systems qualifies as tentative, failure-prone research. The…
On 15 September, Shoko Kawata posted a photograph to X — a new mother cradling her daughter, a mayor stepping into territory no elected official in Japan had formally navigated before. The image carried weight beyond the personal. Within weeks,…
McDonald’s has been using artificial intelligence to set menu prices dynamically across its US and global franchise network — and the architecture of that system reveals something more consequential than a mere pricing experiment. The central thesis here is straightforward:…
What is Singapore actually doing with nuclear energy right now? Singapore has not decided to build a nuclear power plant. That point bears stating clearly at the outset, because the flurry of institutional activity over the past year — new…
Singapore has called for stronger international cooperation on artificial intelligence, including the possible creation of a United Nations framework convention designed to establish common safeguards and standards for the rapidly developing technology. Speaking at the 81st session of the United…
