OpenAI opens Singapore lab backed by S$300m investment

openai announced the openai for singapore initiative at the atx summit, pledging over s$300 million to establish its first applied ai lab outside the us. the lab will hire more than 200 engineers focused on deploying ai in finance, public service, and infrastructure, alongside workforce training programs for educators and smes. concurrently, the infocomm media development authority updated its ai governance framework for agentic ai following feedback from 60 organizations. the revised framework adds specific controls for multi-agent systems and automation bias, featuring case studies from companies like tencent and dayos on human accountability and risk tiering.