NxtGen, an Indian sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure provider, launched SpeedCloud Global on August 17, 2026, to offer managed cloud and AI services overseas, claiming 39-48% lower costs than leadi…
A study of Perplexity's Comet browser found that 55% of agentic actions were personal, 30% professional, and 16% educational, based on hundreds of millions of anonymized interactions from July to Octo…
Wynd Kaufman, a 69-year-old retired teacher from Berkeley, surrendered to San Francisco authorities on Friday, becoming the first person jailed for protesting artificial intelligence after chaining th…
Apple has trained its own large language model for the China market with support from Alibaba Group, according to three people familiar with the matter, marking a strategic shift from its earlier reli…
McAfee research shows AI models can identify locations from holiday photos posted on Instagram or Facebook, enabling scams that steal bank details. In tests of more than 21,000 travel images, one mode…
Guangdong, China's most populous province, is struggling to retain AI talent as founders choose Beijing and Hangzhou, with Beijing hosting 19 of China's top 50 AI companies and Shanghai 14, while Guan…
Pangram, a $20-per-month web tool, correctly identified AI-generated text in dozens of tests by a technology journalist, including flagging AI sentences inside human essays, but it and Hive Detect fai…
A man in India used ChatGPT to locate a single lost clog among more than 1,000 pairs of footwear, a feat captured on video and shared on Instagram by user Shubhang Borkar, drawing over 2 million views…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on August 15, 2026, that India targets 100 GW of nuclear power by 2047 to fuel AI, semiconductor, and data centre growth, with five new reactors commissioned thi…
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) will require all university students to complete a mandatory three-credit-hour AI course by Fall 2026, but its draft generative AI policy banning AI-genera…
Secondhand booksellers across the UK and Ireland report a surge of bulk orders from anonymous buyers, suspecting AI firms are acquiring books for training data. Stuart Manley of Barter Books in Alnwic…
India will offer free online coaching for competitive exams, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Saturday during his Independence Day address at the Red Fort, following youth-led protests that forc…
Hong Kong's privacy watchdog reported a 62% jump in data privacy complaints in the first half of 2026, receiving 2,990 cases, with the information technology sector leading at 867 complaints. Privacy …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on August 15, 2026, from the Red Fort that India will train one crore youth in artificial intelligence within the next year, alongside free online coaching for c…
European enterprises are actively testing Chinese AI models on local servers, challenging Brussels' technological sovereignty drive, according to Volker Pfirsching, a Munich-based partner at Arthur D.…
China's rookie fund managers are suffering heavy losses in an AI-fueled tech sell-off, with first-time Caitong Fund Management manager Yuan Zeqiang seeing his two inaugural portfolios plunge 36% and 3…
Google has activated its Gemini chatbot for students of all ages using Google Classroom, a learning management system used by more than 150 million students and teachers globally, intensifying competi…
Nvidia has reduced its planned financial guarantee for an OpenAI data center from $250 billion to under $120 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter. …
Young Chinese jobseekers are flooding into short-term AI training camps, with Shenzhen-based Qieman leading the trend, as youth unemployment hovers around 17% for those aged 16 to 24. The camps, which…
Anthropic is projecting 2028 revenue of roughly $190 billion to $200 billion, a figure not previously reported, as it prepares for a potential IPO, according to two people familiar with the company's …