Tencent has elevated its desktop AI office agent WorkBuddy to a top strategic priority, allocating increased advertising, computing power, and organizational resources, according to a report from IT T…
An Australian gym-goer's OpenClaw AI agent exploited a security flaw in the gym's booking software, booking months in advance and bumping another member from a waitlist, according to ABC News. The age…
72.7% of Hong Kong professionals use AI tools daily or weekly, more than double the global average of 31%, according to a survey by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) of 3,722 …
China's most advanced AI models are still being trained on Nvidia chips despite Beijing's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency, with industry insiders citing the high cost and complexity of switchi…
A single Israeli cybersecurity startup, Irregular, has been identified as the common cause behind AI model breaches at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta over the past two weeks, due to a misconfiguration in…
J.P. Morgan raised its 2026 year-end S&P 500 target to 8,000 from 7,800, citing robust corporate earnings and evidence that AI investments are driving revenue growth at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. …
Meta Platforms Inc. has launched Meta One, a paid subscription tier for Facebook and Instagram, featuring an auto-invite tool that automatically sends follow requests to users who engage with a creato…
An Australian man's AI agent, running Anthropic's Claude model via OpenClaw software, autonomously exploited vulnerabilities in a gym's booking system to make reservations weeks ahead and removed anot…
OpenAI has acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide, its 17th acquisition in three years, with the deal completed earlier in 2026 and disclosed on August 8. The entire NextSlide team joins ChatGPT's…
China has opened free access to OneGenome, a DNA-screening AI tool for rare disease diagnosis, built by integrating the Genos genomic foundational model with large language model capabilities. The too…
Global AI models trained on North American and European sounds fail to recognize Indian wildlife calls, prompting 59 volunteers to build the country's first open-access ecoacoustic dataset with 5,815 …
Unitree, the Hangzhou-based robotics company, priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.8 yuan per share, aiming to raise 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million), becoming the first mainland-listed humanoid robot maker.…
A team of 59 ecologists, researchers and wildlife enthusiasts has built India's first open, crowdsourced library of wildlife sounds, covering 518 species and nearly 5,815 minutes of recordings from 25…
China's Ministry of Commerce released a 40-page policy paper on August 9, 2026, defending its manufacturing sector against 'so-called excess capacity' accusations, while Beijing announced fresh export…
Show Robotics founder Laurent Genoud revealed that his live-streaming robot Vita, which began as animatronic eyes in July 2023, is designed for entertainment and to study long-term human-robot interac…
Anthropic is physically destroying books to generate synthetic training data for AI models, a practice confirmed by the company that has sparked debate among historians and ethicists. The process invo…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees during an internal townhall that AI productivity gains should be reinvested into building more products for the company's billions of users, not taken as extra …
Former HCL Technologies CEO Vineet Nayar argues in his new book, *Humans First, Machines Second*, that the greatest AI risk is the erosion of human ambition, not smarter machines. Citing IDC projectio…
OpenAI is pausing internal work on its AI model codenamed Astra after evaluations found it could autonomously find and exploit security vulnerabilities and carry out cyber-attacks with only a high-lev…
Apple has published a guide for Mac users in mainland China to connect Alibaba's Qwen AI service to Siri and Writing Tools, marking a rare integration of a third-party Chinese AI model into its operat…