Heading AI news this week, AI moved from "chatting" to "contributing to GDP." While Google shipped Gemini 3  and Antigravity  to help developers build agents, the real story in Singapore was macroeconomic: AI demand is now visibly lifting national growth. Below we break it down into Research and Industry, with a specific lens on what matters for organisations in Singapore and Southeast Asia. 🧪 Research – Agentic systems step into sports, science and safety 1. DeepSport: agentic multimodal...

This week, agentic AI moved from a "tech trend" to a "regulatory agenda." While global research focused on giving agents dynamic tools and social personas, the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF)  dominated local conversations with a clear message from the top: Agents are the future of finance, but they need guardrails. For teams in Singapore and the region, the signal is consistent across sectors: We are moving past simple chatbots to autonomous workflows —whether that’s transcribing Singlish...

Reasoning, risk – and agentic AI as real infrastructure This week’s developments push in three clear directions: Reasoning, not just prediction  – especially in complex, regulated domains like cities. Evaluation and risk  – more serious work on what our benchmarks and educational deployments are actually doing. Agentic AI as infrastructure  – from data clouds and healthcare research to energy, sports and regional transformation programs. Here’s our curated view across Research  and Industry &...