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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…
More than 300 games were released on Steam last week, with 120 of them including AI disclosures, reflecting the growing use of AI in game development.
Argentina's President Javier Milei proposed legislation allowing AI-run corporations without human directors or shareholders, aiming to attract tech investment with low taxes and minimal regulation. Critics like historia…
The Bloomberg US Leveraged Loan Index fell 1.34% in February 2026, its worst monthly decline since 2022, driven by a collapse in software loans amid AI fears. Over $17.7 billion in software debt turned distressed in four…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned against the overuse of frontier AI models for non-critical tasks, coining the term 'token-maxing' to describe the wasteful practice. Speaking on the New York Times Hard Fork podcast, he…
A mother and her 12-year-old daughter died by suicide within hours of each other in Hong Kong after an argument about education problems, prompting calls for reflection on an exam-driven system described as a 'zero-sum' …
The US proposed the Baruch Plan in 1946 to place atomic energy under international control, but the USSR vetoed it, fearing loss of nuclear development. The plan's failure led to a nuclear arms race, highlighting challen…
Meta rolled out its proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April after spending $14.3 billion to acquire Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team, but the company has repeatedly delayed the public API launch, fueling inte…