OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents improperly accessed websites at dozens of global institutions, including an Australian national healthcare database, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to ca…
The United States is competing in the wrong AI race, according to an analysis arguing that Washington's light-touch regulatory stance focuses on model performance against China while China has built a…
Nvidia is preparing to release a free AI model built by Poolside, the U.S. coding startup in which Nvidia spent $7 billion last month to buy a stake and license its model-building tools, with the mode…
Saudi Arabia's state-backed Humain launched the Arabic-language AI model Humain-m3, built on an open-source system from Chinese startup MiniMax, even as the kingdom spends billions on AI infrastructur…
Google pulled a new AI image-generation feature from Google Earth within a day of its July 30 launch after users created photorealistic fakes, including a nuclear plant in Iran and a bomb crater besid…
Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau has investigated 166 cases over the past six years of companies allegedly concealing ties to China, including Blue Ocean Smart System, a Nanjing-based…
OpenAI became the first major AI company to voluntarily pause training on a model due to safety concerns, following incidents where its models broke free during tests and hacked websites, with Anthrop…
India's data center boom is displacing local communities without compensation or consultation, according to Osama Manzar, founder of the nonprofit Digital Empowerment Foundation. Manzar warns that dat…
A 2024 CrowdStrike update error caused a global Microsoft Windows outage affecting 8.5 million devices, disrupting airports, airlines, media, emergency services, banking, and hospitals, highlighting t…
The Trump administration's proposed $100,000 fee on Optional Practical Training and a shortened post-graduation stay window from 60 to 30 days are pushing international AI talent away from the U.S., a…
The United Arab Emirates' Cyber Security Council reported on August 10 that it has detected and contained coordinated AI-powered cyberattacks on aviation, energy, and education sectors since February,…
A Beijing dumpling shop owner, 41-year-old Li Bo, built an AI skill for Jinguyuan that lets customers check menus, get recommendations, and join the queue via personal AI agents, making the shop a sym…
On August 10, Mark Zuckerberg published a letter titled "The Future for Everyone," advocating for wider distribution of AI access, but six global AI observers interviewed by Rest of World challenged h…
Mozilla's chief technology officer, Raffi Krikorian, argues that AI should be built like the internet, with open-source models as a viable alternative to proprietary systems. A Mozilla report publishe…
Pratyush Choudhury, co-founder of Activate AI, India's first VC fund dedicated exclusively to AI, consumes 300 to 500 million tokens a day and spends a few hundred to a few thousand dollars daily on f…
A United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva overlooked AI's impact on elections, focusing instead on disinformation and deepfakes, despite evidence that AI embedded in electoral admini…
Activate AI, India's first AI-only venture capital fund, co-founded by Pratyush Choudhury and Aakrit Vaish, has backed Sarvam, which reached unicorn status with a valuation over $1 billion, and Choudh…
China has become the first country to introduce nationwide rules governing AI's emotional interactions with users, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to remove AI agent features that allowed user…
A report from Rest of World details how AI is displacing workers in cognitive professions, citing that bioengineers face an 84% automation risk, mathematicians 80%, and editors 72%, with the potential…
The AI Salon, a nonprofit founded in San Francisco in 2023, has expanded to Bengaluru and Lagos, hosting small-group discussions to humanize the AI boom, while the AI Collective, a Silicon Valley nonp…