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 …
Anthropic published a technical guide on August 15, 2026, explaining how users can reduce costs and extend session limits in Claude Code, its terminal-based coding assistant, by leveraging prompt cach…
Citi Research analysts led by Yu Xiangrong said US-China AI trade decoupling is 'manageable' and unlikely to materially disrupt China's AI exports, with even a full decoupling putting at most 9.2 perc…
Bumble has abandoned its founding women-first rule, a retreat from the identity that set it apart since 2014, as the online dating industry, estimated at nearly £10 billion globally, bets on AI to rev…
Indian IT stocks have recovered most of their first-half losses, with the Nifty IT index halving its year-to-date decline from 32% on July 1 to roughly 17%, as investors treat the sector as a cheap he…
Nvidia has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to raise over $500 billion for AI infrastructure, with CEO Jensen Huang saying Nvidia may backstop up to $12…
DeepSeek released a developer preview of Harness, a software framework for building autonomous AI agents, on Thursday, August 14, 2026. The framework offers four operational modes—standard, code-focus…
Generative AI has not leveled the innovation playing field, according to a study of 47 innovation teams across 12 industries that found output quality varied by a factor of 3.2 on novelty scores and 2…
Andrew Sheng, distinguished fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, warns that the global AI boom, with annual spending exceeding $200 billion, resembles a 'candyfloss economy' b…