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- ServiceNow unveiled six security solutions with AI agents called AI Specialists to enable prevention-first, AI-native cyberdefence - ServiceNow's risk and security business unites exposure management, identity, cyber-physical, incident response, and compliance as one governed motion  ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention, has accelerated its Autonomous Security vision with six solutions that help deliver prevention-first, AI-native cyberdefence. The aspects of security covered include unified exposure management, continuous vulnerability detection, cyber-physical security, identity and access security, agentic incident response, as well as cyber risk and compliance.  With new AI specialists that complete security workflows autonomously, including the Vulnerability Resolution AI Specialist , these capabilities enable enterprises to prevent, contain, and remediate risk at machine speed, before threats become breaches, ServiceNow said. According t...

Source: Singtel YouTube channel. Beyond Connection is Singtel's National Day film for 2026.  Singtel Group has launched its 2026 National Day film, Beyond Connection. The film is a tribute to the spirit of progress that has shaped Singapore over 61 years, charting the country's journey from a resource-poor island in 1965 to today’s global economic success story before looking ahead to how digital infrastructure and AI will support Singapore's next lap as a Smart Nation and regional AI hub. Beyond Connection also tells the story of Singtel's own evolution and the role it has played in nation building, showing how its investments in subsea cables, satellite communications, advanced mobile networks and AI-ready data centres have supported the nation's progress and continue to lay the foundations for Singapore's next chapter. Yuen Kuan Moon, Group CEO, Singtel, said: “The story of Singapore has always been one of looking beyond the horizon and building for the ...

- NUS is the first university in the region to develop a proprietary conversational AI platform which supports academic enquiry by drawing on exclusive NUS research and regionally-focused special collections - AI Sense Maker can generate concise topic summaries, identifying related concepts, curating references for further reading and creating interactive knowledge graphs that show how ideas are connected - The platform will launch with an initial foundation of 150,000 digitised materials Source: NUS. Located on the second floor of NUS’ Central Library, the BookBridge showcases more than 3,000 rare books and artefacts, offering a glimpse into NUS Libraries’ much larger special collections. The National University of Singapore (NUS) has announced AI Sense Maker (ASM), becoming the first university in Southeast Asia to use conversational AI to transform students and academics’ learning journeys. Developed jointly by NUS Libraries and NUS Information Technology (NUS IT), AI Sense M...

Source: Lenovo. Sunset at a sports stadium. Lenovo, FIFA’s Official Technology Partner , has celebrated the successful delivery of its AI-powered technology solutions and an unprecedented technology deployment across a tournament watched by billions of fans around the world. The project also validated Lenovo’s hybrid AI strategy and full-stack portfolio, showing how AI becomes most valuable when combined with infrastructure, devices, services and deep operational expertise to solve real-world challenges at scale. Spanning three host countries, 16 cities, 48 teams and 104 matches, FIFA World Cup 2026 represented an unprecedented operational and technological challenge, Lenovo said. The company provided the devices, infrastructure, services, and solutions that helped support FIFA operations, global broadcasts, team analysis, officiating technology and fan experiences at scale. These solutions were delivered with 99.99% uptime. Across the FIFA World Cup ecosystem, Lenovo deployed an...

- Over 1,500 files uploaded across multiple formats - Nearly 10,000 pages ingested - Over 90% reduction in document screening time Staff from the Singapore Management University’s (SMU’s) admissions office used to spend hours scrolling, copying, pasting, and double-checking student applications to identify qualified candidates. Wanting to speed up these time-consuming manual processes, it turned to automation. But instead of alleviating the situation, new problems emerged. Automations frequently broke down due to minor user interface changes, leading to high maintenance effort and frequent disruptions. The problem with typical AI agents is that while they can understand and process simple templated documents, they struggle to read documents that come in varying formats, or which contains elements like embedded tables, graphs, and inferred values. What SMU needed was intelligent document processing, where agents can operate effectively in unstructured environments, tackle complex prob...

A new cyber resilience simulation from Commvault lets participants create and experience a frontier AI cyberattack before one hits their organisation.  Commvault, a unified resilience at enterprise scale provider, has introduced Commvault Minutes to Recovery – a scenario-driven cyber resilience simulation that lets participants act as a hacker and run their own attacks using frontier AI tools. Participants are then challenged to defend against and recover from an incident under pressure to test their resilience against the AI-driven cyberattacks. The window between vulnerability discovery and active exploitation, once measured in days, has narrowed to 29 minutes in 2025, 65% faster than the year before*.  As attacks become significantly quicker, organisations need more than recovery plans – they need proven recovery readiness. Commvault Minutes to Recovery is a hands-on, live simulation that allows security and IT teams to stress test their readiness for frontier AI threats ...

Salesforce, the world’s No. 1 AI customer relationship management (CRM) has reported Singapore's desk workers are among the least sceptical about AI globally, yet rank the lowest for adoption. The gap points to a specific, solvable problem, the company said: corporate rollouts are falling short, leaving workers unable to make the most out of AI in their day- to-day work. The company's survey* of more than 1,500 desk workers spanning four continents found that just 29% of Singapore respondents identify as AI sceptics — well below the global average of 37%, and significantly lower than the 53% recorded in the US, UK, and France. Yet, this has failed to translate for Singapore businesses as a competitive advantage. Only 6% of Singapore desk workers say AI is a core part of their daily work, placing the market among the lowest globally and nearly half the global average of 11%. The data reveals an adoption paradox: willingness without traction. This gap between attitude and a...