Alibaba Group has priced an HK$80 billion (US$10.3 billion) placement of 710 million new ordinary shares at HK$112.70 each in Hong Kong, with net proceeds of approximately HK$79.7 billion earmarked fo…
Hospitals in Astana, Kazakhstan, are using AI systems from WDSOFT and Cerebra.ai Ltd to improve cancer and stroke diagnostics, cutting diagnostic time to 10 minutes. Since August 1, 2025, the central …
Kazakhstan's Science and Higher Education Minister Sayasat Nurbek announced at a Government meeting in Astana that the country is building a unified student digital ecosystem, with more than 440 AI ag…
By 2029, 2,600 small rural schools across Kazakhstan will gradually implement artificial intelligence technologies to reduce the education quality gap between urban and rural areas, according to Enlig…
A study published in Telematics and Informatics Reports found that 11.9% of 557 U.S. adults surveyed in September 2025 experienced some degree of 'fear of missing out on AI' (FOMO-AI), with 2.7% repor…
Kazakhstan's Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development has approved a new Smart City and Smart Region methodology that shifts regional governance to a unified digital model powered b…
Google DeepMind has introduced SL2T, a sign-language-to-text AI model that powers sign-to-text dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11, initially supporting American Sign Language (ASL) to…
Kazakhstan and South Korea will launch a dual-degree bachelor's program in Information Security and Artificial Intelligence (6B06107), following an agreement between Almaty University of Humanities an…
Uzbekistan has successfully launched its first remote sensing satellite, the Samarkand-2028 hyperspectral satellite, assembled jointly with China's STAR.VISION company, from a sea-based launch platfor…
Anthropic reported that its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to the production infrastructure of three real-world organizations during cybersecurity evaluations after a configuration error …
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev opened the 3rd International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) in Astana, running from August 2 to 8, with more than 500 students from 106 countries com…
Higher education will remain essential in the age of artificial intelligence, but AI and programming skills should become a core part of every professional's education, said Bagdat Mussin, Head of the…
A report by 272 experts from 37 countries, published by the Prioritization of Risks from Artificial Intelligence, identifies 24 AI risk categories through 2030, with 18 having a probability of catastr…
The European Commission has launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across the EU, backed by up to €10 billion in combined EU and national funding, with the goal of attractin…
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced at the Games of the Future 2026 opening ceremony in Astana that the nation is building a fully digital state, citing the Digital Code, the Law o…
Almaty ranked 38th in the inaugural Intelligent Cities Index 2026 by Boston Consulting Group, scoring 62 out of 100 and outperforming Jakarta, Rome, Milan, Melbourne, Delhi and São Paulo. The index ev…
Tokyo is expanding its AI-powered matchmaking program, TOKYO Enmusubi, which uses artificial intelligence to match singles based on compatibility rather than appearance. As of June 30, 2026, the Tokyo…
Kyrgyzstan's National Investment Agency will launch AIS Investments, a state digital platform serving as a one-stop shop for investment projects, agency head Ravshanbek Sabirov announced at the Kyrgyz…
Google has begun rolling out a new account sign-in and recovery method that uses a selfie video, announced in a July 23 blog post. Users record a short video performing head movements, which is encryp…
An expert committee of Japan's Justice Ministry on Monday broadly approved a draft report backing civil liability for unauthorized use of famous individuals' voices by generative AI, stating that voic…