The S Curve Daily Briefing

Singapore will judge public service AI training on competency, application and lasting workflow change rather than courses finished. Go1, Commerzbank and Bosch each show a different route from content to skills that stick. Plus OpenAI's GPT 6 Cyber for authorised security research, Google's backstop on Anthropic's Kentucky data centre lease and new school controls that turn Gemini and Search off by default.

Goldman Sachs limits AI coding tools to engineers while HSBC, Kier, Services Australia and Singapore's Accountant-General's Department each take a different route to AI skills. Canva and NICE announce major job changes. Plus CrowdStrike's AI agent kill switch, AMD's data centre surge and OpenAI's search claim.

Singapore's NCS plans to triple its forward-deployed AI engineers while YCH redesigns 600 roles and UOB puts a S$900 million value target behind training 32,000 staff. A US law firm is teaching lawyers AI in small coached cohorts. Plus Marvell's deal for Lumentum, a newspaper lawsuit against Brave over AI scraping and new data on how exposed Brisbane's office work is to automation.

WPP says AI amplifies healthy teams and scales the noise in broken ones while YuLife and the British Red Cross show why order and trust decide adoption. A new benchmark finds frontier models score zero on finance and legal tasks and Gartner predicts many workers replaced by AI will be rehired at a higher cost. Plus Anthropic's huge compute commitments, OpenAI's Abu Dhabi deals and a graduate hiring squeeze in Hong Kong.

Walmart, Bank of Ireland, BT, Godrej, HKU, Telstra and OCBC share how their people are learning and building with AI. Alphabet has its worst day ever as AI Mode weighs on search ads and AI stocks slide while the wider market hits a record. Plus Claude flags its own conversations, banks block personal agents and Apple Intelligence heads to China on Qwen.