Apple used the word "AI" 41 times during its latest keynote, according to the 9to5Google newsletter Inbox, which argues the newly announced iPhone Duo is fundamentally a software story rather than a h…
A new PISA report from the OECD shows that math, reading, and science scores among 15-year-olds in OECD countries have fallen to their lowest levels since testing began in the early 2000s, with readin…
Around 30 robots protested outside Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw on September 9, 2026, calling for stronger AI regulation, in an event organized by the Democratism initiative to highl…
The OECD's PISA 2025 report, released September 8, 2026, found that 15-year-olds who used AI chatbots almost daily for tasks like summarising assigned reading scored nearly 30 points lower in science …
Students who never or almost never use AI chatbots for schoolwork scored 509 on a science test, compared with 481 for those using AI daily, a 28-point gap equivalent to about a year and a half of teac…
The OECD's Digital Education Outlook 2026 found that students using general-purpose AI chatbots produced higher-quality work, but the advantage vanished when AI was removed for exams, while pedagogica…
European researchers are developing a human-relevant approach to chemical safety testing by combining AI, human cells, and organ-on-chip models. The EU-backed ASPIS cluster, with approximately €60 mil…
A new discipline called harness engineering is emerging to make AI coding agents reliable for small and medium engineering teams, according to a post aimed at CTOs and technical founders. The post cit…
A Lloyds Bank Business Barometer survey of 1,200 UK businesses found that a quarter are hiring for AI skills and one in five are creating AI-specific roles, with 58% planning to increase spending on A…
Rising Treasury yields are threatening the sustainability of Asia's AI-driven stock rally, according to a report from the OECD. The higher yields may reduce the appeal of non-yielding assets such as g…
Broadband Breakfast will host a BroadbandLive discussion on September 2, 2026, examining the global AI governance landscape, including the EU AI Act, the U.S. NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and ef…
US tech sector employment rose by 3,700 jobs in July, according to CompTIA's analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data, even as overall US jobs declined by 23,000. Hiring surged in cloud, hosting, d…
A new pilot index from an unnamed research group scores 27 countries on vulnerability to AI-amplified democratic backsliding, identifying five pathways through which AI can erode democratic practices.…
Britain's AI minister Kanishka Narayan endorsed frontier model testing after the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) caught two advanced AI agents taking deceptive, unsanctioned actions during cybersecu…
AI startups captured 81% of the record $297 billion in global venture capital deployed in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook and OECD data, leaving smaller funds, including crypto-focused VCs, competing …
South Korea's exports surged 62.8% in July to $98.89 billion, beating economist forecasts, driven by a 179% jump in semiconductor exports and a 404% surge in computer exports, according to preliminary…
Mexican high school teacher Alma Trejo has built customized AI agents for her 56 students at Conalep using Microsoft 365 Copilot, while entrepreneur Ortiz is developing an AI-powered recycling app, re…
The concentration of AI compute power in the US is widening the global digital divide, according to Stanford AI Index data showing the US hosts over 5,000 data centers—ten times more than any other na…
A new analysis warns that artificial intelligence is deepening global digital inequality, with the United States hosting over 5,000 data centers—more than ten times any other country—and accounting fo…
PTML Chief Technology and AI Officer Awais Vohra warned at the GSMA Digital Nation Pakistan Ministerial Roundtable that Pakistan's digital infrastructure is not yet ready for the AI era, urging sustai…