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Why Singapore’s AI finance race is now about data, not models

For many finance chiefs, the first wave of AI was about testing tools: automating reports, speeding up reconciliation, or asking software to spot anomalies in spreadsheets. In Singapore, that phase is quickly giving way to a more difficult question: how to make AI work across the messy reality of regional finance operations.

Musk and Zuckerberg claw back into AI race with new model momentum

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have muscled their way back into AI's elite ranks, defying early obituaries to close the gap on a new generation of Silicon Valley startups. Why it matters: Recent gains by tech giants SpaceX and Meta — long stuck in AI's second tier — are putting new pressure on a hierarchy dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic.

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