AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoAI & Creative Industry: Singapore arts schools are wrestling with how to teach craft while GenAI enters assignments, with some students choosing to avoid it and institutions setting guidelines and requiring AI use declarations. AI Safety & Research: IMDA is partnering with Microsoft to test and strengthen safety and security for frontier AI models. Energy & Decarbonisation: Singapore is adding clean power capacity by covering a reservoir with 122,000 solar panels, while alternative diesel is flagged as a resilience-and-decarbonisation bridge. Industrial & Data Centres: Singapore plans to transform an industrial island into an AI-ready data centre hub, and there’s also momentum in data-centre logistics and warehousing. Food & Consumer Trade: Frozen Singapore hawker food is expanding into US supermarkets, and pig blood curd is back on local menus after a long absence. Regional Trade & Policy: Sri Lanka’s potential RCEP entry is framed as a big production and trade opportunity, but with major system changes needed. Local Life & Compliance: A maid agency in Singapore was ordered to pay after falsely claiming a helper could speak Mandarin.
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