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Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Naver signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop an AI foundation model for defense applications, combining Naver's AI and cloud technologies with KAI's aerospace expert…
An engineering team at an unnamed company audited its autonomous AI agent fleet and discovered 34 user-facing features that had silently failed, returning polite errors while dashboards remained green. The team identifie…
Microsoft laid off approximately 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a broader restructuring to prioritize AI engineering over traditional sales teams. The cuts follow two earlier rounds in 2…
Microsoft laid off about 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a shift toward engineering-led AI customer support. The cuts follow two earlier rounds in 2025 and coincide with the launch of Mic…
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Naver, and Naver Cloud signed a memorandum of understanding on July 6, 2026, to develop a defense-specialized AI foundation model and physical-AI systems for South Korea's future combat …
A 75,000-character resignation letter from DingTalk product manager Teng Yaxin exposed toxic workplace culture at Alibaba's team collaboration platform, leading to CEO Chen Hang's ouster. The letter detailed extreme pres…
A developer examines the extent to which AI systems manipulate human behavior, analyzing mechanisms such as recommendation algorithms and personalized content that shape user decisions without explicit consent. The analy…
Hong Kong cinema faces an existential threat from AI-generated content, which is flooding the market and undermining human creativity. The author argues that without proper regulations to protect intellectual property an…
Microsoft launched Frontier Company, a $2.5 billion initiative deploying 6,000 engineers into enterprise offices to build and run AI systems on-site, following similar moves by AWS, Anthropic, and OpenAI. The model aims …
Teams are rushing to add AI to every workflow without questioning whether it adds value, mirroring the cautionary tale of the film 'Obsession' where a magical shortcut leads to unintended consequences. AI maturity should…
Professor Michael Blumenstein has joined Flinders University as Vice-President and Executive Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, bringing over 20 years of experience in AI and IT. The appointment aims to stre…
Google quietly updated its privacy settings in June to automatically opt all search users into allowing the company to store uploaded media—including photos, audio, and video—for training its AI models. The change, confi…
South Korea policy chief Kim Yong-beom defended a 10-year national AI strategy on July 6, tying semiconductor, AI data-center and physical-AI projects to long-term investment plans from Samsung Electronics and SK hynix. …
Anthropic reported that Alberta's Ministry of Technology and Innovation used Claude Code with Opus and Sonnet models to scan 466 million lines of government code in about 20 hours, flagging vulnerabilities and generating…
Meta now requires a 'Meta One Premium' subscription for extended access to select smart glasses features, including Conversation Focus, which previously was free. The subscription, priced at $20/month, offers 15 hours of…
South Korea's Agency for Defense Development launched Add+i, an in-house generative AI service on its closed internal network, developed by the Defense Artificial Intelligence Technology Research Institute using open AI …
AI-generated UGC ad tools price finished spokesperson clips at roughly $1 to $11, compared to about $185 for a human creator video, but the cost savings come with hidden risks including platform labeling, FTC and EU fine…
AI companies have committed approximately $9.75 billion over 12 months to forward-deployed engineering (FDE), embedding engineers inside customers to deploy AI. FDE job postings surged 42x from 2023 to 2025, driven by th…
The FTC has begun fining companies for deceptive AI claims, including a 'robot lawyer' never trained on legal materials. Security engineers warn that many vendors are 'AI-washing' old products with new labels, and propos…
Meta is monetizing AI infrastructure by releasing open-weight Llama models to capture cloud and hardware spend, while OpenAI shifts focus to acquisitions and government relationships as model performance converges and to…