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Australia's official music charts will ban wholly AI-generated tracks starting this week, following a dispute over a Madonna cover by Queensland DJ Josh Fawaz that reached No. 4 on two ARIA charts in July. The Australian…
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, 73, confirmed he used artificial intelligence to write a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's plan to double government debt buybacks, sayin…
China has implemented the world's most sweeping national rules banning AI companions for minors and restricting chatbots marketed to adults, effective 15 July, prompting ByteDance to shut down the companion feature of it…
The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is trialling an AI tool called 'Investigations Assistant' to speed up investigations into financial abuse concerns involving lasting power of attorney cases. The tool, powered by M…
An opinion piece by Suh Chung-ha, former Korean ambassador and head of the ASEM Global Ageing Center, published in the Korea Times on 19 August 2026, argues that while assistive AI like Intuition Robotics' ElliQ helps ol…
Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, giving AI agents the ability to make payments with spending caps enforced by the platform. The system uses an Account Wallet for funds and Virtual Wa…
A conference in southern China heard that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) framework could help develop a fairer artificial intelligence governance system, as the economic gap between rich and poor nations is…
Mexican Foreign Secretary Roberto Velasco Alvarez said Mexico is committed to resuming free trade agreement (FTA) talks with South Korea, which stalled in 2008, and aims to strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligen…
Peter Doolan is returning to Salesforce from OpenAI, adding to a list of executives who have moved between the two companies. Kaylin Voss, former VP of Sales at OpenAI, resigned in mid-August 2026 to rejoin Salesforce af…
Databricks Inc. published a FISC Customer Capabilities Mapping Matrix linking Japan's FISC Security Guidelines for banking and financial institutions to specific Databricks Data Intelligence Platform capabilities, enabli…
Microsoft is Brazil's top employer for 2026, according to TIME and Statista's annual ranking, which surveyed 900,000 employees across Brazil. The top four employers are all U.S. tech companies, including SAP, Alphabet, a…
Elastic will host its first Elastic{ON} event in Mumbai on 30 September 2026, focusing on search, full-stack observability, and security as the foundation for agentic AI. The event comes as India's regulators, including …
National Cabinet met in Sydney to discuss Australia's new artificial intelligence laws, among other priorities, and agreed that large data centres bring material energy, water and land-use impacts that need to be managed…
Microsoft Presidio's default English NER pipeline misidentified a Greek tax number (ΑΦΜ) as an organization label, masking the words 'tax number' while allowing the actual number to pass through to logs, according to Pet…
Generative AI is already widely used in marketing, but companies must navigate complex legal layers including tool licenses, input materials, generated output, and advertising use, according to a practical guide for mark…
A 2026 census of eleven hosted model APIs found that free AI tiers often carry different data terms than paid tiers, with Google and Mistral explicitly stating their free tiers use prompts for training by default while p…
Z.ai revealed on August 26, 2026, that the anonymous model `stealth/ox-alpha` on OpenRouter was GLM-5.3-Flash, publishing MIT-licensed weights the same day. The named listing, `z-ai/glm-5.3-flash`, entered OpenRouter's c…
On August 25, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnered with the DFINITY Foundation, the non-profit behind Internet Computer ($ICP), to develop government-based AI and cloud systems. The one-year pilot wi…
OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to Russia that supported a covert influence campaign promoting the International Burke Institute, a think tank that republished copied academic papers and praised Russia…
Binance Holdings, the world's largest crypto exchange, hired Antonio Alvarez and Duncan DeVille from Crypto.com for senior compliance roles on August 25, 2026, as it works to satisfy a deferred prosecution agreement from…