1. Spotlight on the NCS AI Playbook

Media coverage highlighted the launch of the NCS AI Playbook, a practitioner-led blueprint drawn from over 100 enterprise projects that targets the hidden costs and common pitfalls holding back AI returns.

Outlets featured insights from Sam Liew, CEO, NCS and Edward Chen, Chief AI Officer, NCS, on how optimising token economics, leveraging open-weight models from both East and West, and shifting from basic productivity to 10x value creation can help businesses overcome the five key causes of stalled AI programmes.

• The Edge: NCS' new AI playbook targets hidden costs holding back AI returns
• CRN Asia: NCS AI Playbook sets the bar for leveraging AI tools from both east and west
• FutureCIO: Singapore wants organisations to be deliberate about AI use
• Frontier Enterprise: The AI pilot-to-production gap: NCS’ approach

2. Driving real world impact via Sunshine.AI and ecosystem partnerships

Media covered the expansion of NCS’ Sunshine.AI suite, featuring new agentic AI, physical AI, and security platforms – such as Sunshine.core, Sunshine.commanderAI, and Sunshine.guardian – designed to deliver sovereign, enterprise-grade deployment. Stories also focused on strategic sector partnerships with Alibaba Cloud, DISG, and major healthcare players like IHH Healthcare and Fourier Rehab, demonstrating how NCS is combining proprietary tech with global ecosystems to transform clinical, educational, and operational workflows.

• Tech Edition: NCS builds out Sunshine.AI as enterprises look for clearer AI returns
• Tech Coffee House: NCS Launches Sunshine.AI Suite, Partners Alibaba Cloud
• FutureCIO: NCS expands Sunshine.AI suite of sovereign, enterprise-grade AI platforms and products
• The Edge: NCS targets healthcare AI scale with IHH, NHG partnerships

3. NCS as an AI-led tech services organisation, and East-meets-West AI leadership

Articles discussed how NCS is rewiring itself into an AI-led tech services organisation, moving past surface-level productivity to achieve 10x structural transformation by pairing every employee with AI agents and launching rapid AI-native "speedboat" teams. Outlets also spotlighted NCS’ unique competitive advantage in bridging Eastern and Western AI ecosystems, leveraging cost-effective Chinese open-weight models alongside Western cloud stacks to support multinational enterprise needs.

• CRN Asia: NCS launches enterprise AI platforms and products as it transitions to an AI-led tech services company
• Tech Edition: NCS Impact 2026 puts enterprise AI’s live operations challenge in focus
• Computer Weekly: NCS: Chinese open AI models gaining ground in Singapore
• News on Tech: Beyond pilots: Singapore enterprises chase 10x AI gains
• HRM Asia: Where AI takes over, where humans stay – and where work simply changes