UN human rights chief Volker Türk warned on Monday that artificial intelligence could become an 'existential risk to humanity' if left unchecked, urging countries to establish binding rules, independe…
The WSIS Forum 2026, co-hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Switzerland in Geneva from 6 to 10 July, marked a shift from documenting commitments to demonstrating measurable i…
The Trump administration is urging G20 governments to adopt a hands-off approach to AI regulation at the Innovation Ministerial in North Carolina, proposing the 'Carolina Principles' pact led by tech …
Anima Anandkumar, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, has been named to TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI list, recognizing her decade-long work bridging AI and phys…
Goldman Sachs reports that South Korea's rapidly aging population may prevent its AI-driven economic boom from reaching ordinary households, as retail sales remain near 2019 levels despite surging chi…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance that countries should align on testing systems, measuring risk, and assigning responsibility to ensure s…
United Nations chief António Guterres and Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric Egger warned that the world is 'dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by ma…
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev told the newly formed Qurultay (Unicameral Parliament) on Friday that the world is experiencing large-scale and unpredictable upheavals, with declining trust bet…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the Red Cross jointly called on countries to ban or restrict autonomous weapons, warning that the world is approaching a 'moral red line' with the…
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun met Mexican counterpart Roberto Velasco in Seoul on Monday to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation, including in artificial intelligence, space, education and…
Online scam syndicates in Asia could soon use agentic AI to run fraud operations autonomously, making scams faster, cheaper, and harder to trace, according to cybercrime expert Jonno Newman of TRM. Sc…
SerpApi, the world's leading platform for structured search data APIs, announced it has surpassed 1.5 million activated user accounts as of August 18, 2026, in Austin, TX. The milestone reflects growi…
A military surgeon, Dr Darren Mann, warned in a letter that autonomous drones already kill without distinction, posing a direct risk to civilians today, and argued that the principle of distinction ca…
At the 25th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Mbororo pastoralist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim warned that AI becomes harmful when imposed without free, prior, and informed consent, hi…
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…
A United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva overlooked AI's impact on elections, focusing instead on disinformation and deepfakes, despite evidence that AI embedded in electoral admini…
In 2026, the United Nations is described as humanity's last hope amid global crises including the Ukraine war, Middle East tensions, North Korea's nuclear program, Taiwan Strait and South China Sea te…
The FBI revealed on July 28 that a North Korean operative infiltrated a US federal agency by using fraudulent identity documents, part of a broader scheme involving deepfakes and AI-generated credenti…
An engineer built JSTJO, an AI interface that displays a visible water counter that depletes with each query, to make the hidden environmental cost of AI tangible. The project highlights that a single…
Inna Braverman, founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power, a Nasdaq-listed renewable energy company, said the company's wave energy technology can help meet growing electricity demand from AI infrastructure a…