South Korean lawmakers are moving to criminalize AI-generated sexual content featuring entirely fictional personas after the Uijeongbu District Court acquitted a man who distributed deepfake nude imag…
Amazon Web Services has added three new foundation models to its SageMaker JumpStart service, including Z.ai's GLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA's Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2, and Z.ai's GLM-OCR, targeting agentic enginee…
Singapore's economy grew 5.9% in the second quarter of 2026 from a year earlier, surpassing the advance estimate of 5.7%, and the Trade Ministry raised its full-year growth forecast to 4.5%–5.5% from …
MIT CSAIL and Tsinghua University researchers developed GeoPT, an AI pre-training method that learns physics from 1.3 million synthetic particle interactions, cutting labeled data needs by 60% and ach…
Senator Bernie Sanders demanded that Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic immediately pause advanced AI development, citing autonomous hacking incidents and AI-assisted virus design as proof that safety thresh…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay on August 10, 2026, titled 'The Future is for Everyone,' advocating for open-source AI models to democratize technology, but Reuters Breakingviews…
Nvidia is in advanced talks with Wall Street firms including Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to as…
Microsoft published a guide on August 10, 2026, showing that anyone can build AI agents using plain language in Microsoft 365 Copilot, without coding. The tutorial, authored by Samantha Kubota, arrive…
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 …