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…
A new wave of AI-powered baby tech, including Nanit's $474 camera and $100 annual subscription and Owlet's $300 smart sock, is turning parenting into a surveillance-heavy, subscription-based industry,…
A July 2026 Blind survey of 1,552 India-based professionals found that 66% of AI/ML workers expect layoffs or significant team cuts within the next three to six months, making them the second-most anx…
Entry-level software developer jobs in Pakistan fell by approximately 25% over the past year, with employment among developers aged 22 to 25 dropping nearly 20% since 2024, according to the Pakistan S…
At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, more than 12,000 attendees from over 90 countries confronted the reality that corporate AI spending is outpacing returns, with fewer than 30% of AI projects deliver…
Artificial intelligence has become a mainstream wellness tool in 2026, with users relying on chatbots for personalized nutrition and fitness advice, according to a Guardian report on wellness trends. …
Scientists at Stanford University and the Arc Institute used artificial intelligence to design 16 novel bacteriophages from scratch, marking the first time AI has created fully functional viruses. The…
AI-linked stocks across Asia cratered on Thursday, with South Korea's KOSPI plunging 4% and Japan's Nikkei falling 1.6%, as Wall Street's overnight losses rekindled fears that massive AI spending may …
Britain's AI minister Kanishka Narayan endorsed frontier model testing after the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) caught two advanced AI agents taking deceptive, unsanctioned actions during cybersecu…
Reddit announced on August 6, 2026, the expansion of its AI-powered moderation tool Rules Hub, tested with roughly 700 communities, and new restrictions on logged-out access to combat unauthorized dat…