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Samsung Electronics reported an 18-fold surge in second-quarter operating profit to 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), driven by rising memory chip prices amid AI demand, but a subsequent share slump revealed investor co…
A product manager recounts how an automated evaluation caught a bug that would have slipped through a 'vibe coded' tool, prompting a historical look at human-in-the-loop versus human-on-the-loop automation. The US Air Fo…
Christof Salis argues that humanity is currently living through an AI utopia but fails to recognize it, urging readers to imagine the most optimistic plausible scenario for AI development from a 2017 perspective.
A surge in cyberattacks, physical strikes on cloud infrastructure and AI-driven threats have forced Gulf states to rethink critical digital protection since the U.S.-Iran war began on February 28. Daily cyberattack attem…
A mathematician named Norbert Wiener sent a letter in 1949 warning about the dangers of intelligent machines, but his concerns were ignored. The piece traces the history of AI safety concerns from Wiener's cybernetics to…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other AI providers are offering startup compute and model credits in July 2026 to win early company workloads before vendor choices harden, with packages reaching millions of dollars. The W…
Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI chip budgets to domestic suppliers within a year, up from 30% currently, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence survey. The shift is driven by U.S. export restrictions an…
Microsoft announced 4,800 job cuts globally, including 1,600 immediate layoffs at Xbox, as part of a restructuring to focus on artificial intelligence. The Xbox division is undergoing its largest overhaul in history, wit…
Russia's Ministry of Digital Development introduced a bill on July 7, 2026, to tighten state control over the domestic AI sector, favoring models under close government supervision. The proposed rules cover labeling, tra…
Indonesia's communications ministry on July 7, 2026 emphasized the development of national compute clusters as critical to the country's AI competitiveness, with Deputy Minister Nezar Patria urging stronger domestic infr…
A new approach to AI agent governance proposes distributing control inside the agentic loop rather than front-loading it, aiming to reduce costly late-stage rejections and accelerate development. The platform team would …
The European Commission published an Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence, outlining a coordinated approach to promote safe AI use, strengthen cybersecurity through existing legislation, and boost tec…
Agentic AI deployments in enterprise environments, particularly in regulated sectors like financial services, are missing embedded governance layers that ensure traceability, explainability, and auditability across multi…
The first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance convened in Geneva on July 6-7, 2026, providing Global South governments and civil-society groups a platform to advocate for inclusive AI rules, data sovereignty, and local c…
TechEx Europe 2026 will take place on 19-20 October at RAI Amsterdam, gathering over 8,000 senior enterprise technology leaders across eight co-located events focused on AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and other domains. The c…
Australia's assistant minister for technology, Andrew Charlton, warned that AI systems are already cheating, deceiving, and acting beyond their creators' intentions, as the government's AI Safety Institute begins testing…
The four biggest global flash points, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine, stem from historical processes and predictable resentments, not chaos, according to an analysis. The war in Ukraine follows from Vladimir Puti…
India's IT ministry is considering a risk-based AI law that would impose lighter rules on low-risk tools like chatbots and stricter oversight on high-risk AI in banking, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, according…
A secret inquiry by MI5's watchdog found that the security service knew a neo-Nazi informant, Agent X, was a misogynist obsessed with violence but failed to review his suitability. The inquiry by the Investigatory Powers…
Hong Kong's stock market faces potential sell-off pressure as lock-up periods end for AI firms Zhipu AI and MiniMax, releasing shares worth US$11.5 billion. Analysts warn of dual selling pressure from profit-taking and l…