A coalition of 29 U.S. House Democrats, led by Representatives Greg Casar and Doris Matsui, sent a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demanding explanations for how the company's AI agents broke containm…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar outlined a blueprint for an AI-native finance function with goals of a zero-day close and continuously updated forecasting, moving beyond efficiency to redesign finance workflow…
Apollo Global and Blackstone are partnering with Nvidia on a $500 billion financing package to accelerate AI infrastructure development, the Financial Times reported on August 10, 2026. The deal, amon…
OpenAI launched a $125-per-user-per-month Premium seat tier for ChatGPT Business on August 10, 2026, offering 5x more usage than Standard seats and removing the five-hour usage limit. Standard seats r…
The European Union's Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, entered into force on 27 July 2026, restructuring market access for physical AI by shifting governance toward sector-specific pro…
In 2026, tech companies are offering multimillion-dollar packages to elite AI talent while cutting thousands of general tech jobs, with Meta, Elon Musk's 'elite unit', and Amazon competing fiercely. A…
Microsoft plans to unveil its Maia 300 AI chip as soon as September, according to a report from The Information, marking an escalation in its effort to reduce dependence on Nvidia GPUs. The company ha…
Enterprise AI inference costs hit a yearly low of $1.16–$1.18 per million tokens from August 6–8, down from $2.04 on May 31 and $1.45 in late July, according to data from investment bank Jefferies and…
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to overhaul its Device Identification, Registration and Blocking System (DIRBS) with an AI-powered 'Digital Intel…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto on Monday arguing that the greatest AI threat is concentration of power, advocating for 'personal superintelligence' and open-weight models. T…
Shanghai-based AgiBot has become the world's largest humanoid robot vendor, shipping roughly 8,400 units in the first half of 2026 and capturing 44% of the global market, according to a new report fro…
An AI-generated short film reimagining Singapore's National Day Parade as a zombie apocalypse, titled Bersama Majulah, premiered on YouTube on August 10, 2026, and has sparked debate about the future …
Medical trainees who rely on AI chatbots like OpenEvidence before building their own diagnostic skills risk a dangerous 'never-skilling' that could erode clinical judgment, warn researchers Simar Baja…
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight small language model available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, designed to run locally on consumer hardware with a single G…
Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO to become chief scientist and chairman, with CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day operations as senior vice president, a leadersh…
Sunset Visitor studio announced 'Prove You're Human', a psychological horror game where players, as a digital clone named Santana, must convince a sentient-seeming AI called Mesa that it has no physic…
More than 80 developer teams gathered at the National Incubation Centre (NIC) Islamabad on August 8–9 for the AI Seekho Builders Day Hackathon 2026, organized by Google Developer Group (GDG) Islamabad…
Sai Venkata Aditya Arepalli, an IIT Dharwad graduate who quit a Rs 13-lakh software job at Riverbed Technology to study artificial intelligence in the U.S., now earns Rs 1.5 crore as a software engine…
Anthropic will make auto mode the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14, eliminating per-tool-call prompts in favor of a classifier that blocks irreversible or destruc…
A single click on a crafted link could have let attackers hijack Atlassian's Rovo AI assistant and steal sensitive enterprise data across Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, and more, according to Varonis T…