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…
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…