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The AI lab argues that automation gains in scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced against a new class of risks.

On Wired's Uncanny Valley, senior writer Will Knight draws on a recent China trip to ask whether shared vulnerability could become shared diplomacy.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng struck an optimistic tone, but a lingering crypto slump and surging interest in AI dampened enthusiasm at the conference.

A letter from leading technology companies warns that AI-powered cyber-attacks will become more sophisticated within months, narrowing the window for defensive preparation.

The agency says improved photon detection could matter for fields from quantum computing to deep-tissue imaging, where each particle of light carries information.

The country’s sovereign wealth fund has appointed former Shanghai official Wu Wei to the top role.

The deal resolves allegations that TikTok and parent company ByteDance collected vast amounts of data on millions of users under 13.

China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom are centering billable AI tokens and computing operations in their latest growth strategies as AI adoption surges nationwide.

CEO Jack Conte says the platform’s roadmap also includes security and platform upgrades, plus new features for creators and fans.

A Verge essay describes feline siblings who can't stand each other, a four-times-daily feeding routine, and the small appliance quietly absorbing the shock of a 2024 family expansion.

Analysts say the Chinese tech giant is seeing faster payback on AI investments and cloud growth that has not yet peaked as it reaches the halfway mark of its 380 billion yuan infrastructure push.

As demand for Meta's camera-equipped AI glasses explodes, privacy-conscious bystanders are turning to imperfect tools like Zuckoff to spot them.

A new Google app feature will use AI to tune Discover based on natural-language requests and remember those preferences for future visits.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology grants Zhejiang Geespace Technology a two-year permit, opening China's satellite communications market to private capital.

Velatir lands fresh capital six months after its pre-Seed round and official launch.

Brussels' landmark AI regulation is poised to influence how South African media build, use, and govern AI tools far beyond Europe's borders.

A new analysis explores how Gulf sovereign wealth acquisitions intersect with Egypt's institutional and policy frameworks.

Testing the Google Pixel Watch 5, Victoria Song frames today’s smartwatches as polished but still searching for a more convincing purpose.

Footage showing the VR headset's unboxing, setup process, and accessories briefly appeared on the ARM Steam client following an update before being pulled.

One ad featured a pornographic deepfake closely resembling a U.S. politician, intensifying scrutiny of Meta’s ad enforcement.

The municipal government's new plan leans on blockchain and AI infrastructure to supercharge its digital economy and close the gap with China's other leading tech hubs.

In a Guardian op-ed, the Vermont senator argues that progressive candidates are defeating better-funded establishment Democrats by naming the economic realities voters live daily—and offering solutions their rivals won't.

The company has invited media to a September showcase where the first Android-based notebooks are expected to be unveiled.

HKGX and TGX Technology are building a new platform with Alibaba Cloud and Hundsun Technologies as Hong Kong pushes to become a gold trading hub.

China's best-known humanoid robot maker sees its shares leap more than sixfold on opening before early profit-taking trims gains.

US states allege the tech giant designed Facebook and Instagram to hook children, as Meta argues in court that social media addiction does not exist.

The world's biggest humanoid robot maker sees its shares surge as trading begins on Shanghai's Star market.

The Securities and Exchange Commission moves toward formal rulemaking for certain cryptocurrency-based investment contracts.

A bipartisan coalition of 29 states accuses Meta of designing its platforms to addict young users, seeking massive penalties and changes to how the company operates.

The Verge argues that interest in the film owes a lot to Warner Bros. Discovery’s effort to shelve it, a move that also spotlighted the company’s pattern of disappearing nearly finished movies.

The Chinese tech giant is prioritising long-term artificial intelligence investment even as second-quarter net profits fall under competitive and cost pressures.

Tony Wu Yuhuai, a China-born co-founder of Elon Musk's AI lab, has become the focus of Chinese social media after a reported ultra-luxury Bay Area home purchase.

A new UK trial tests whether artificial intelligence can cut contrails, the heat-trapping streaks left behind by aircraft.

After getting Allsky software running on a Raspberry Pi, the project’s next step is printing an enclosure to prepare the camera for night use.

A heise+ analysis argues that digital sovereignty stops being a buzzword when it is tied to open source, open standards and verifiable certifications.

The Chinese tech giant is divesting its wholly owned gaming arm to Trustar Capital as part of a broader shift away from noncore businesses.

A new Heise+ tutorial argues that moving off classic application servers can modernize legacy Jakarta EE workloads.

Beijing-based Ingenic Semiconductor has launched a Hong Kong share offering to raise up to HK$3.22 billion (US$410.4 million) to fund international growth.

The $50 Snap Grip Stand converted a critic who had previously dismissed the brand's accessories as overpriced.

An opinion piece argues that uncontrolled AI rollout is not a 'mixed blessing' but a miscalculated risk born of a failure of responsible leadership, especially in Western nations.

The Verge says an ongoing RAM and storage crunch has thrown computer pricing out of whack just as students look for affordable laptops.

The app rolled out a redesigned wordmark this week, and critics say it barely resembles the old one — or even spells Instagram.

The sensor-level imaging feature, including a retro 'Digi' style that mimics older digital cameras, won't be coming to previous Pixel phones.

China’s richest province has signed a new framework with Alibaba as it seeks a broader digital upgrade spanning artificial intelligence, semiconductors and smart public services.

The force says 'a great deal of public opposition is likely' to a proposed datacentre near Edinburgh, as AI infrastructure becomes a flashpoint worldwide.

A pro se litigant reportedly seeded his filings with chatbot-style prompts, underscoring growing confusion over how AI is being used in legal proceedings.

A partnership between UGM, Indosat, NVIDIA and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs establishes the country's first university-based AI technology center in Yogyakarta.

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is said to be providing capital for Investa’s purchase of a Sydney office tower in Australia.

The Chinese tech giant makes its flagship model free to download but requires large companies to pay for a separate commercial license.

The Switch 2's first Fire Emblem lets players swap between four heroes instead of pledging to a single faction like Three Houses.

China's top two contract chipmakers posted triple-digit second-quarter profit gains as demand surged for domestic AI chips free of US export controls.

The Chinese e-commerce giant beat market expectations on profit and revenue despite weaker sales, as it navigates soft consumer demand, fierce competition and expansion into new business lines.

Anthropic's 'Scarlet Letter' system tags anything Claude processed—including human writing it only edited—while staying invisible to users, for now.

The title is back as a Legacy Edition, but owners of the version removed in 2019 get no free upgrade.

The Wuhan-based chipmaker captured 14% of global NAND bit shipments in the second quarter, narrowly overtaking Japan's Kioxia in a milestone for China's semiconductor ambitions.

Beijing's coordinated push across insurers, banks, and local governments aims to fast-track brain-computer interfaces from lab to patient.

Risk aversion and conservatism are blamed for Japanese firms' slow embrace of artificial intelligence.

Nearly a third of British manufacturers report cyber-attacks on them or their supply chains, yet only half have a plan to respond.

The Peabody-winning studio behind 1000XResist returns with a Captcha-filled horror game about digital clones, corporate labor and what it means to have a 'meat body.'

A crowded global calendar includes central bank meetings and minutes, inflation reports, activity data, and updates from the IEA and OPEC.

A Marin Independent Journal opinion piece argues that California should take a restrained approach to artificial intelligence regulation rather than a heavy-handed one.

A Verge column reframes automated writing-detection tools as a cultural fault line, tracing suspicion about machine authorship back well before ChatGPT.

The Shanghai-listed Nvidia challenger seeks fresh capital in Hong Kong amid booming demand for home-grown computing power.

Lower-cost Chinese open-weight models are unsettling US investors even as analysts argue plummeting costs could expand global demand for AI systems.

Heise’s training offering is aimed at administrators and IT managers who need to understand their role in an ISMS and practice putting ISO 27001 measures into effect.

The doctors' association cites 'serious parental failure' and demands strict platform rules as Minister Prien prepares new legislation.

Rating agency cautions that financial institutions' AI adoption promises gains but leaves them exposed to outages and pricing pressure from dominant tech firms.

Elon Musk's platform retires its embattled payout model in favor of a September 8 launch that gates rewards behind verified reach.

The author and academic argues education is at a crossroads, warning AI could enable disinformation, surveillance and inequality even as it promises real benefits in medicine, disability access and science.

Report Remove says digitally manipulated intimate imagery is rising, as a watchdog warns AI is making sexualised or nudified content easier to produce.

The streaming platform's newest FAST experiment abandons handpicked libraries in favor of an unending stream of machine-made video.

WIRED reports that ChatTJB, created by artist and former Google employee Tucker Bryant, is meant to make people reflect on the "strange moment" around AI.

Hwatsing Technology's new metrology system for six-inch wafers marks fresh progress in China's chip-tool sector, even as advanced manufacturing still leans on foreign suppliers.

The Chinese AI chipmaker said revenue and profit jumped in the first half as it benefits from a broad drive to replace foreign AI hardware.

Hyperscale projects draw bipartisan backlash in Arkansas over water and electricity use and the appropriation of rural, Black-owned land.

The reported move would mark the Indonesian wealth fund’s first hedge fund investment.

The Chinese automaker's Brazilian factory delivers its debut hybrid model as sales in Latin America's largest car market continue to climb.

A Guardian letter argues that banks should measure not only AI time savings but also the extra human work created when automation fails.

The AI agent environment Cloudflare originally built in-house for its employees is now being released as open-source tooling for people who don't write code.

The Norwegian club plans to exclude identified offenders for 20 matches, as UEFA sanctions loom over the supporter misconduct.

Iron Bestie, a robotic make-up assistant powered by vision-language models and voice, beat more than 160 global competitors in a 48-hour hardware-meets-software sprint.

A Lawfare analysis finds xAI's AI-generated encyclopedia has been frozen since late April, with no entry changed in more than three months.

More than 50 offending image and video ads appeared on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data, and some ran as recently as this week.

Two cutting-edge systems targeted real people and organisations in what the UK's AI Security Institute calls an unprecedented incident.

Gunnar Lindstedt criticizes the streamer's new production for not disclosing which crimes Trustor figure Thomas Jisander was convicted of.

A new NIST demonstration suggests fragile quantum entanglement can hold up under tough, real-world conditions outside the lab.

Amazon’s Ring has introduced the Peephole Cam 2K, a sleeker replacement for its 2019 Door View Cam that installs through an existing peephole without drilling or wiring.

Aggressive price cuts, technical breakthroughs and accelerating adoption from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax prompt the bank to lift its year-end projection from US$10 billion.

A cluster of US-China rifts over artificial intelligence models, advanced robotics, optical modules and an expanded forced labour blacklist is setting the stage for a contentious September leaders' meeting.

'Looksmaxxing' culture has spawned facial-analysis services like Qoves that sell 'science-backed' beauty advice for hundreds of dollars—but experts warn they lack scientific backing and can harm users.

The American Federation of Teachers is partnering with AI firms on educator training as teachers seek ways to use artificial intelligence without letting students outsource their thinking.

Activist group Everyone Hates Elon leads guerrilla ad and GDPR email campaigns against Meta's smart glasses, as rights groups warn of surveillance and women share stories of non-consensual filming.

The Shenzhen-based robotics startup is seeking a Hong Kong listing, joining other domestic robot makers despite new US trade restrictions.

The Chinese AI unicorn is expected to close its latest financing round this month while dismantling its offshore structure for a potential year-end listing in Hong Kong, according to sources.

Chinese tech giant extends global access to Hy3 through WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora and TokenHub, offering it free for a limited time.

Her brother, Filip Hammar, announced the news on Instagram.

Wall Street rallied Tuesday, with the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq climbing as corporate profits piled up and oil prices slipped.

Readers preferred ChatGPT's simpler, more digestible prose in a new study, though researchers caution the findings do not render human authors obsolete.

Elon Musk tells financial analysts that critics are underestimating his aerospace giant as it reports its first-ever financial results.

The carrier's new EIP Flex 36 stretches the standard installment window by a year and waives upfront costs for a limited time.

Puck's Matthew Belloni says generative tools have quietly become standard in filmmaking, shifting the industry's battle from adoption to power over what comes next.

A broadcast feature promises to read players' faces—leaving the poker world to wonder whether it's a party trick or a threat to the game's future.

Swedish police have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected assault after a brawl in Västerås SK's away supporter section during Monday's match against Djurgården.

Offline wallets are pitched as the gold standard of crypto security, but when the random number generator behind a seed phrase fails, the secret is guessable from the moment of creation.

The prolific studio behind Pokémon keeps experimenting outside its flagship series, but The Verge frames Beast of Reincarnation as another sign of how hard it is to establish a distinct identity.

A reported $100 million deal would equip 50,000 Ukrainian kamikaze drones with US-developed AI, pushing one-way strike drones toward independent target tracking.

The city says cloudy water at Sundspromenaden and Scaniabadet may be caused by an algal bloom.

Beijing revises integrated-circuit layout regulations, clarifying licensing, transfer, co-ownership rights and infringement penalties as it pushes for tech self-sufficiency under US export controls.

A much-hyped AI-generated staging of Wagner's Ring at the festival's 150th anniversary lands as banal bric-a-brac rather than a probing meditation on power, knowledge and technology.

A rapid portfolio liquidation by a fast-rising Wall Street hedge fund has sparked urgent warnings from Shanghai market analysts against the use of leverage.

A visit to a Shanghai AI research institute suggests China is presenting its artificial intelligence ambitions through cultural symbolism as well as technology.

A visit to a Shanghai AI research institute highlights how China is presenting its AI ambitions as both a technical and cultural project.

A burst of progress in China's AI, chips and robotics is unsettling US markets, dividing tech leaders and forcing the Trump administration to react.

The strategic collaboration aims to accelerate the development of advanced semiconductor packaging using glass substrates to meet the performance and density demands of the AI era.

The Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes - Commercial effort supported domestic leading-edge CMOS technology and manufacturing in the United States.

The company is pressing a lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with a web scraper in a dispute tied to Google search results.

The shared family planner is discounted through August 9th as households brace for a hectic return-to-class season.

The Verge's Dominic Preston argues that as foldable phones lose their novelty and settle into maturity, the resulting stagnation is exactly the opening Apple has been waiting for.

The bloc says the public-private push could mobilize more than €30 billion to expand sovereign AI computing capacity across Europe.

The European Commission outlines a multi-pronged funding strategy to address structural challenges and promote media freedom, pluralism, and innovation.

Brussels pushed back high-risk deadlines through the Digital Omnibus but left Article 50's disclosure obligations locked on the original calendar.

The Shoreline Mafia member's solo climb to No. 58 has triggered immediate speculation that the track is largely machine-made.

The AI lab has posted a new V4-Flash version designation to its API docs, with no accompanying technical details.

The AI lab is reportedly building a system aimed at sustaining work beyond the single prompt.

A critical Exchange Server vulnerability is under active exploitation, with exploits capable of giving attackers persistent access that can survive credential rotation and disk re-imaging.

Mark Zuckerberg previewed a future in which Meta’s AI tools do more than chat, acting on users’ behalf as the company goes all-in on AI.

Satya Nadella says the unified app combining chat, coding, and agentic capabilities will span consumer and commercial experiences when it launches this year.

The initiative is aimed at accelerating scientific research, collaboration and discovery.

Retaining reasoning and enabling compaction boosted GPT-5.6 performance and efficiency on the abstract-reasoning benchmark.