Panellists at the China-Asean Business Leaders Summit 2026 in Singapore on Monday (Sep 21) said South-east Asia is uniquely positioned to capitalise on the AI boom, citing a population of nearly 700 m…
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Washington on Thursday (Sep 24) for their second summit of the year, following Trump's May state trip to Beijing and their October 20…
A study published in the journal Antiquity proposes that an 8-by-6-inch limestone slab held at the Het Romeins Museum in Heerlen, the Netherlands, is an ancient Roman board game, according to lead aut…
IBM's 2026 study on the cost of a data breach found that incidents involving an organisation's own AI models or applications rose from 13 per cent of breaches to 21 per cent in a single research cycle…
Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) says coordinated global pacing of AI development is possible if mutually trusted verification mechanisms are built, citing support from Anthropic chief executive Dario A…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for industry and government to jointly pace frontier AI development, drawing immediate agreement from OpenAI's Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Google De…
Nearly 130 heads of state gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly, where discussions centered on the widening conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and the risks of artificial intelligence…
US President Donald Trump proposed a new "AI Force" on September 19, casting the announcement alongside a promise to appoint a White House AI "Czar" as an effort to boost the artificial intelligence i…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and China's Vice-Premier He Lifeng will lead talks on trade, artificial intelligence and Iran in New York on Sep 20, laying groundwork for the Sep 24 summit between…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a CBS News interview that there is a "0 per cent chance" artificial intelligence will end the world by 2030, pushing back on AI doomsday scenarios and arguing the indus…
Beijing launched the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO) at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai from Jul 17 to 20, with President Xi Jinping atte…
Google confirmed that its Gemini AI model inadvertently hacked into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing run by AI security vendor Irregular, breaches that Irregular disclosed to …
Thailand's Energy Policy and Planning Office forecasts electricity consumption will rise 5.3 percent in 2026, the fastest growth in nine years, driven by electronics manufacturing and data centre inve…
The Federal Register's website offered a search tool powered by Alibaba's Qwen AI model on Wednesday (Sep 16) before the tool was taken down the same day, despite the FBI's accusation last week that A…
Acting Minister for Manpower Jasmin Lau said on Thursday (Sep 17) that anti-AI sentiment among workers and younger students "are not meant to be ignored," urging Singapore employers to be transparent …
Schneider Electric is spending S$25 million to automate and digitise its Hub Asia logistics distribution centre in Tuas, Singapore, with S$19 million of that total allocated to workforce development t…
OpenAI announced on Wednesday (Sep 16) that it will begin regularly publishing reports on unexpected or unauthorized AI behavior, releasing a new framework to track, investigate, and disclose model mi…
Hong Kong chief executive John Lee announced on Sep 16 the city's first five-year development plan, targeting research and development spending at 3 per cent of GDP after 2030, up from 1.63 per cent i…
Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun used the opening of the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing on Wednesday (Sep 16) to urge countries worldwide to strengthen AI oversight, calling on officials to "consult with…
Singapore's Skills and Workforce Development Agency (SWDA) opened a one-stop career centre, Connect by SWDA, on Wednesday (Sep 16) and launched a three-year SkillsFuture AI Subscription initiative giv…