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Singapore budget: Lawrence Wong unveils AI ambitions in uncertain world

February 12, 2026 at 08:30 AM
By Jean Iau,Kolette Lim
Singapore budget: Lawrence Wong unveils AI ambitions in uncertain world

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Singapore’s leader and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong has announced that the country will move aggressively to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) with help extended to businesses and workers to adapt, even as he warned that growth will be harder in a changed world. Opening his annual budget speech on Thursday by pointing to the wider world, he noted that America was reassessing and in some areas, “undoing key elements of the very system it once helped to build [...] trade rules that were once...

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Singapore’s leader and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong has announced that the country will move aggressively to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) with help extended to businesses and workers to adapt, even as he warned that growth will be harder in a changed world. Opening his annual budget speech on Thursday by pointing to the wider world, he noted that America was reassessing and in some areas, “undoing key elements of the very system it once helped to build [...] trade rules that were once... This article provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of current events.

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Singapore’s leader and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong has announced that the country will move aggressively to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) with help extended to businesses and workers to adapt, even as he warned that growth will be harder in a changed world. Opening his annual budget speech on Thursday by pointing to the wider world, he noted that America was reassessing and in some areas, “undoing key elements of the very system it once helped to build [...] trade rules that were once...

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