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SK Telecom, SoftBank, and the Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies agreed to develop a common framework for measuring the social value of AI and ICT services, aiming to provide objective metrics for AI's societal …
Zhipu, the Beijing-based AI company behind the GLM large language models, raised $4 billion in a Hong Kong share placement on July 8, 2026, at a 13% discount to its previous close, just six months after its IPO. The stoc…
U.S. restrictions on top AI systems are driving developers and buyers toward open-source AI models, local deployment, and multi-provider strategies, according to The Hindu. The shift is linked to White House support for …
Half of parents surveyed by Deloitte are concerned their children rely too heavily on AI, even as usage outpaces school-provided tools and guidelines. Nearly 30% of parents report their children already use generative AI…
Cloudflare is rolling out new rules for 'mixed crawlers' that can be used for both search and AI training, setting a Sept. 15 deadline to block training and agent use by default on ad-supported pages. The move, a year af…
Cloudflare announced new AI traffic controls that will treat mixed-use crawlers according to all of their behaviors, allowing publishers to block bots used for both search and training when a site blocks training, with t…
OpenAI is expanding its advertising pilot to France, Germany, and Ireland, bringing the total to 10 markets, according to a Digiday report. The company is recruiting ad-sales and customer-success roles in those countries…
A comprehensive survey of 1,250 arXiv papers (2024-2026) on AI self-improvement reveals a taxonomy distinguishing bounded self-refinement from open-ended recursive self-improvement (RSI), with the latter constrained by g…
Researchers introduced institutional red-teaming, a methodology for testing deployment rules in multi-agent AI systems, and found that changing only the consequence rule shifts mean fatality by 22 to 58 percentage points…
Researchers propose PRoVeFL, a federated learning framework that combines privacy preservation, Byzantine robustness, and verifiable aggregation using multi-key fully homomorphic encryption across multiple servers. The f…
A quantitative scenario analysis of the AI industry from 2026 to 2030 finds that memory scarcity, open-weight models, and inference efficiency gains will restructure the sector, with incumbent cost advantages persisting …
A new 'humanizer' tool released on 20 June by Jie Ding, a machine-learning researcher at the University of Minnesota, can erase signs of AI-written text in papers and grant proposals. While some researchers praise it for…
GitHub announced on July 8, 2026 that enterprises can centrally manage Copilot settings and telemetry controls for VS Code and Copilot CLI through MDM, server-managed settings, or locked local settings files. The update …
Temasek International CIO Rohit Sipahimalani warned that surging US capital expenditure, particularly in AI infrastructure, could pose risks to global markets. The warning came as Temasek reported a record S$518 billion …
China has eliminated or suspended 12,200 university degree programs between 2021 and 2025, replacing many with new programs in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies as part of a national strategy to ali…
Auxilius, a Germany-based AI governance, risk and compliance automation startup, raised EUR 1.3 million in pre-seed funding led by High-Tech Gruenderfonds with participation from Techstars. The company converts enterpris…
A February 2024 announcement from Swedish fintech Klarna that its AI assistant now handles two-thirds of customer service chats caused the world's largest call center company to lose over a quarter of its value, highligh…
China will allow top AI companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to purchase limited Nvidia H200 chips, easing restrictions on US technology. Companies must specify chip quantities and usage for approval, fol…
The Pentagon awarded AeroVironment an $80.5 million task order for its Titan-MS AI-powered counter-drone system to protect nuclear bases, following unauthorized drone incursions at Barksdale Air Force Base. The system us…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on the same day as OpenAI's latest models, offering a faster, cheaper AI alternative without content restrictions. Musk claims Grok 4.5 outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at a fractio…