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China revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs between 2021 and 2025 while adding 10,200 new ones, with cuts concentrated in arts, humanities, and management, and new programs focused on technology field…
China is cutting university degrees in artificial intelligence and other tech fields to streamline education, while a Miss Hong Kong contestant sparked debate over Cantonese fluency. Other weekend stories included China …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that a few AI winners could hollow out entire industries by capturing all economic value and corporate knowledge, comparing the dynamic to the negative effects of globalization. Nadella…
A new AI agent pre-execution checklist proposes that humans declare intent and boundaries in natural language, which AI converts into executable JSON to operate autonomously but stop when uncertain, enabling safer physic…
South Korea and the United Arab Emirates discussed expanding cooperation in artificial intelligence and digital education during a meeting in Seoul on Monday. Education Vice Minister Choi Eun-ok met with UAE Education Mi…
Students are increasingly using AI to complete school assignments, raising questions about whether this constitutes cheating. The practice undermines both the meritocratic sorting function of schools and the formative go…
A coalition of state attorneys general has launched an investigation into OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, over potential consumer protection violations, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The probe focuses on wheth…
A developer describes the 'loop' pattern for building reliable AI agents: goal, agent acts, verifier checks, state/memory updates, policy decides next action, repeat/stop/escalate. The developer also highlights Fable 5's…
Anthropic announced a pricing change for its Agent SDK, charging heavy async users API rates beyond a monthly credit, which may drive them to OpenAI's Codex. The move affects developers running Claude agents asynchronous…
Researchers at an undisclosed institution found that AI peer reviewers can be manipulated by altering only presentation-level content such as abstracts and narrative structure, achieving a 75.1% attack success rate and a…
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) released GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight coding model with a one-million-token context window, under an MIT license. The launch comes days after the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to disab…
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, is negotiating to buy at least 50,000 AI inference GPUs from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX, as US export controls push Chinese tech firms to diversify away from Nvidia. The company is …
Nvidia has become the central authority in the AI industry, analogous to the Federal Reserve in finance, due to its dominant position in supplying the hardware necessary for AI computation. The company's GPUs are essenti…
Over 100 Stanford students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, chanting 'Free, free Palestine' and booing, to protest Google's cloud contract with the Israeli government under Project Nimbus. Th…
UBS hosted its inaugural Asian Investment Conference Wealth Forum in Hong Kong and Singapore, drawing over 6,200 attendees to discuss AI, global connectivity, and investment strategies amid geopolitical and technological…
Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, will visit Hong Kong on Tuesday to inspect the city's alignment with the national 15th five-year plan and the development of the Northern Metropolis. The v…
SAP released a gated whitepaper titled 'Reimagining public administration HR leadership in AI transformation' on The Mandarin, targeting public sector CHROs in Australia and New Zealand. The document cites SAP's own rese…
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, establishing a federal AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to coordinate vulnerability scanning and patch distribution, but the order lacks a disclosure pathway fo…
Fraud cases in the UK surged to 4.1 million in 2025, with losses of nearly £1.3bn, as criminals increasingly use AI to manipulate victims, including marrying romance scam targets. UK Finance calls for stronger tech platf…
South Korea's AI ambitions face a growing electricity bottleneck as data center power demands surge, with experts warning that grid capacity—not GPU availability—is now the primary constraint. The government has announce…