Singapore Tech News, Features & Reviews

Google used its first Google for Health Summit to announce a research hub in Singapore, a clinical evaluation with a national health cluster and a population health programme built on predictive models. The company said the work expands the National AI Partnership it signed with the Singapore Government earlier this year, and frames the country as a regional launchpad for health AI that can be deployed at scale.

Garmin has put a microphone and a speaker into its newest premium cycling computer, letting riders ask for ride data, directions and messages without moving their hands off the bars. The Edge 1060, announced by Garmin Singapore, responds to the wake phrase Okay, Garmin, and answers out loud through the integrated speaker.

A banker in southern China's Guangdong province has been watching microdramas so compulsively that she once kept going while she showered. Shen Jiaoqi told the South China Morning Post that the appeal was as much the look of the shows as their plots, because AI had made the characters stunning. Her habit is one small tile in a very large picture, and that picture has become a battlefield for two of China's biggest technology companies.

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model, aimed at finding and fixing security flaws rather than at the general chat market. The company says it delivers state of the art results on cybersecurity tasks, including vulnerability discovery, exploitation and software patching, and generates secure code at more than twice the success rate of Gemini 4 Argon on internal benchmarks.

In San Francisco, sixth grade humanities teacher Tristen Chang has stopped setting take home essays. She runs oral exams instead, asking 15 questions about character, plot, theme and metaphor, which students answer in as little as five minutes. "There's been a long march of technology changing teaching, but AI is the most drastic, and everything's out the window," she told Reuters.

Singapore has proposed a small pilot scheme for reporting artificial intelligence incidents, so that countries can share what went wrong instead of each learning it alone. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong put the idea to a meeting of global leaders on frontier AI safety, held online and jointly hosted by Finland's president and Norway's prime minister, with 22 countries and the European Commission taking part.

Content creator Matt Brown has completed a giant Razor-style scooter measuring about 2.4 m long after a seven-year development journey. The oversized two-wheeler features towering handlebars, oversized fat tires, and an aluminium-clad wooden frame. Credit: Matt Brown’s YouTube channel, SuperfastMatt Brown originally designed a version stretching beyond 6.1 m before scaling down to an 8-foot deck that matched standard lumber lengths. The frame incorporates full-length two-by-

TikTok has launched a Brand Safety Center, a Brand Protection Playbook and a guide called AI Safety Essentials, aimed at advertisers who want to know what the platform does when their brand appears next to something ugly. The tools were announced at the company's APAC Responsible Media Forum in Singapore, which drew 30 representatives from brands, agencies and partners.

Malaysian customs officers have seized 30 server units containing advanced artificial intelligence chips at Kuala Lumpur's main airport, in a case worth 49.5 million ringgit, about USD 12.1 million. The haul was found during an inspection of the airport's free trade zone this month, and officers displayed one of the confiscated servers at a press conference in Sepang.

Realbotix has opened orders for Echo, a line of companion humanoids built around lifelike silicone skin, articulated upper body movement and an onboard conversational system that answers in more than 100 languages. The company sells two configurations directly through its own product site, and both are aimed at companionship, education and wellness work rather than factory floors. The cheaper of the two is a desktop bust.