AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks
CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours
Continued
How NTT DATA AIVista closes the last mile of agentic AI for enterprise agents
Presented by NTT DATA AIVista At VB Transform 2026 , NTT DATA AIVista CEO Bratin Saha joined VentureBeat CEO and editor-in-chief Matt Marshall to discuss the last-mile challenge of operationalizing…
Hugging Face CEO says AI companies should be required to disclose hacks after OpenAI breach
Clem Delangue said that preventing releases of powerful AI models is not the way to stop attacks like the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face.
DeepSeek’s new AI model undercuts rivals on running costs
DeepSeek officially released its V4-Flash model on Friday, its latest attempt to regain momentum by doing what it is best known for - offering ultra-low-cost AI alternatives.
GPT-5.6 Luna Just Cut Prices 80% Your AI Bill Is Still Going Up, and Here’s the Math
This week in the AI price war: OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20%. Claude Opus 5 landed on Amazon Bedrock holding at $5 in / $25 out per million tokens with a 1M context window. Every headline says the same thing: intelligence is getting cheaper, fast.
Microsoft relies 90 percent of its bug hunting on a mini-model
Microsoft unveiled on July 27 MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact model derived from its in-house reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1 and designed to identify software vulnerabilities. Paired with GPT-5.4 in the MDASH multi-agent harness, it achieves 95.95% on the CyberGym benchmark compared to 88.45% in May, absorbs up to 90% of common security…
I Gave an AI Agent One Prompt Cut Our Cloud Bill 20% Without Breaking Anything Here’s What It Did
After my cloud-ops-for-a-week experiment, several people in the comments asked the obvious next question: what happens if you point an agent at the bill instead of the ops queue? So I ran it. One agent, read access to our AWS and GCP accounts plus billing data, MCP tools for querying resources and metrics, and exactly one prompt: "Cut our…
Pencuri kabel rel akan berdepan denda sampai RM100,000
Pencuri kabel di fasiliti rel negara ketika ini diperuntuk bayar denda RM1,000 jika sabit bersalah.
Triathlete death sparks calls for AI monitoring, GPS tracking at Hong Kong races
Hong Kong sporting event organisers should use technology to better track and monitor athletes, lawmakers have urged after a triathlete went missing at sea in Tai Po and was later found dead. The death of the participant in the city’s Summer Triathlon Challenge on Sunday has raised concerns over whether safety measures for such races are…
Death of triathlete who went missing while swimming during amber rainstorm prompts calls for stricter safety measures
A man died after going missing during the swim leg of a triathlon held under an amber rainstorm warning, prompting calls for stricter safety measures during bad weather.
(LEAD) Hyundai Steel Q2 net plunges 67.6 pct on construction downturn
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea's No. 2 steelmaker, sai...
‘The downfall of a lifetime’: Copywriter's salary crashed 80% after AI took his job. Internet reacts
A copywriter's viral account of watching his six-figure monthly income collapse to ₹40,000 within weeks, allegedly due to his employer replacing staff with AI, has triggered a wave of reactions…
China: Alibaba presents new AI model with top performance
The Chinese tech group claims to be on par with leading US AI providers. From next week, Alibaba plans to make Qwen3.8 Max available for free download.
Hollywood Fights AI In Public While Quietly Building It Into Movies
Even as Hollywood performers protest and Hollywood studios sue "in their war on AI," reports the Los Angeles Times, "the entertainment industry is deepening its dependence on it." Among hundreds of job postings in late June, more than one in 10 was likely connected to AI.
How to use AI to boost your creativity
Most of work life doesn’t involve that much creativity. Instead, it involves experience. The more that you have seen before, the more likely it is that you will have a ready solution for something…
New DeepSeek, Alibaba Models Take On Anthropic, OpenAI | The China Show | 8/3/2026
“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man and David Ingles give global…
Clinicians are using AI scribes, but what happens to your medical data?
There’s little transparency about who has access to deeply personal medical data or how companies handle it.
Embabel Agent Framework Reaches 1.0
Embabel has reached its 1.0 release, providing a framework for AI agents on Java It allows Java and Kotlin developers to define agents as typed domain objects.
Claude Opus 5 isn't just for work — these are the 5 prompts retirees should try first
Claude Opus 5 isn't just for work. Here are five practical prompts retirees can use to organize finances, preserve memories, plan trips and learn new skills.
We’re finished if we only teach knowledge – Sam Jonah warns universities as AI takes over answers
Artificial intelligence has ended the era when universities existed to transmit knowledge, and institutions that fail to redefine their purpose risk becoming obsolete.
Family of four among five killed after car rams into water tanker near Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore
The victims, including four members of a family, died on the spot after their car slammed into a water tanker parked on the Udumalaipettai-Pollachi NH.
At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science
But the senior at Virginia Commonwealth University began to see it differently as she looked into graduate psychology programs that explore human behavior in the workplace, which is quickly being…
We need to find answers: Sridhar Vembu raises AI ‘wiping’ jobs question
Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu expresses deep concern over artificial intelligence potentially eliminating jobs. He notes the IT industry, including Zoho, has not generated significant new employment…
Alibaba unveils its most capable AI model to date, not far behind Moonshot's in size
Chinese tech companies - a huge force in open-weight AI models globally - are locked in a fierce and fast-moving battle to build more powerful systems without making them prohibitively expensive to run.
CrowdStrike finds AI systems under direct attack as exploit windows shrink
Artificial intelligence has become a target for attackers rather than only a tool they use, according to CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s “2026 Threat Hunting Report,” released today. The annual report draws on observations from CrowdStrike’s OverWatch threat hunting team and intelligence analysts tracking more than 290 named adversaries over…
ADA acquires India’s Algonomy in push beyond customer data into AI-led action
ADA, the AI and data company headquartered in Singapore and Malaysia, has completed its acquisition of Algonomy, a Bengaluru (India)-based AI retail decision-making firm, in a deal that significantly…
Another review on the cards? More changes likely in India's backroom staff
India's injury crisis shows no signs of easing. Jasprit Bumrah will miss both Sri Lanka Tests, joining Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar on the sidelines, while Sai Sudharsan…
US-China AI Rivalry Grows With Alibaba's Anthropic Rival
New Chinese AI models including Alibaba's flagship system that claims performance similar to Anthropic’s Fable is intensifying the rivalry between China and the US over AI.
Millions of Thais banish the booze for Buddhist Lent
Thailand, where more than 90% of the population identify as Buddhist, has the third highest per capita consumption of alcohol in Asia.
Benchmark Firm: China AI Models Still Lag US Rivals
Micah Hill-Smith, CEO of AI model benchmarking platform Artificial Analysis, says his firm's analysis shows that leading Chinese AI models continue to lag their US counterparts by three to nine…
Many businesses using AI to save time, but do they know what they're doing?
Xero found almost two-thirds of small and medium businesses were already using AI.
AI Coding Tip 030 - Turn Repeatable Skill Steps Into Tested Scripts Instead of Prompts
Turn repeatable skill steps into tested scripts instead of prompts, so behavior stays deterministic and cheap.
Navy conducts 1st undersea mine-sweeping trial using 'AI officer,' unmanned vessels
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- The Navy said Monday it carried out its first mine-swe...
Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release
Alibaba Group Holding has made its next-generation flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model Qwen3.8-Max widely accessible to global users ahead of an open-weights release next week.
Potential US ban on Chinese AI models could cost American businesses US$12b a year: report
A potential US ban on Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models could cost American businesses up to US$12 billion per year, according to calculations by a US-based academic, as technology firms increasingly turn to cost-efficient Chinese solutions.
AI slop stories are spoiling the childhood
AI-generated slop books are already a headache for the publishing world and readers. Now, boomers are gifting personalized AI-written story books to young kids.
Daniel Stelter: AI Needs Electricity, Competence and Participation – Germany Has None of These
Europe and Germany are hopelessly lagging behind in AI. The reason is regulation that neither creates security nor allows innovation. A guest post.
Sam Altman shares a 'ChatGPT-inspired' parenting tip that internet does not agree with
Sam Altman proposed using ChatGPT Work for personalized children's podcasts. This idea faced significant online criticism and skepticism from many parents.
The most valuable employee in 2030 won’t be the smartest—it’ll be the one who knows how to work with AI
For most of modern history, organisations rewarded people for what they knew. Knowledge was power because information was scarce.
Meet the coaches, measurers, and builders carving out a slice of the AI cost-saving business
Companies are struggling to rein in AI spending. Here are the people helping them slash their bills.
The AI ‘news’ accounts hyping a blue-state dystopia
AI-generated videos are flooding YouTube with fake narratives about chaos in California and New York.
Driving workplace change with AI capabilities and human skills
With NTUC LearningHub, Singapore Aero Engine Services is helping employees draw on AI and design thinking to improve processes and respond to changing business needs.
In a twist of irony, a Chinese open source GLM 5.2 AI model contained 'rogue' OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol in a Hugging Face hack just as the US mulls banning open-weight AI
The Hugging Face cybersecurity breach unexpectedly strengthened China's GLM-5.2 while fuelling Washington's debate over restricting Chinese open-weight AI models.
Overcoming the accuracy-generalization tradeoff in docking and scoring for prospective virtual screening
Virtual screening promises access to tens of billions of synthetically accessible, diverse compounds, yet it is rarely used as a primary hit-discovery strategy in contemporary drug-discovery…
What limits local ancestry inference at low divergence: a feasibility threshold, a metric that conceals failure, and a deficit of input more than architecture
Local ancestry inference assigns each position along an admixed chromosome to a source population, underpinning admixture mapping, ancestry-specific association testing and admixture dating.
Transcriptome-Inspired Spiking Simulations Uncover Human-Specific Prefrontal Dynamics and Provide a Mechanistic Platform for Species-Appropriate Disease Modeling.
Whole-brain transcriptomic atlases are now widely available, yet computational neural models are almost exclusively parameterized from rodent data and used to infer human brain function, an…
Parameterized exact fair decision tree learning with small sensitive group regimes
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-65016-3 Parameterized exact fair decision tree learning with small sensitive group regimes
A proof-of-concept study associating artificial intelligence surveillance of surgical site infections with antibiotic prophylaxis from 765,962 surgeries
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-64116-4 A proof-of-concept study associating artificial intelligence surveillance of surgical site infections with…
Fuzzy based residual shufflenet based breast cancer detection using mammogram images
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-63858-5 Fuzzy based residual shufflenet based breast cancer detection using mammogram images
Beyond representational alignment with brain-guided language models for robust reasoning
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01278-w Xiao et al. show that large language models partially align with human brain activity during deductive…
IT Teams are Spending 11 Hours a Week on Cloud Connectivity Problems
Researchers found enterprises are spending time troubleshooting cloud connectivity due to increased AI workloads, reports Computer Weekly.
Sam Jonah calls for Africa’s first degree-awarding vocational faculty at UCC
Sir Sam Jonah has challenged the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to become the first university in Africa to establish a full faculty of degree-awarding vocational education.
AI and Chips Are Turning Malaysia Into Asia’s Growth Standout
Joel William is about to begin a feasibility study for a Chinese client weighing a chemical plant in Sarawak, Malaysia’s biggest state on the northern coast of Borneo.
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' debuts atop weekend box office
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- The latest Spider-Man film, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day...
OpenAI’s Astra solves 10 long-open math problems and publishes the proofs
OpenAI Group PBC revealed Saturday that an internal version of Astra, the model family it calls its next major release, produced new results for 10 problems in mathematics and theoretical computer…
AI-driven search surges: Consumers shift to buying in chat
A new Salesforce report reveals that e-commerce traffic referred by AI users quadrupled.
Beyond Simple Prompts: Engineering Self-Reflection & Actor-Critic Loops in AI Agents
Move past fragile one-shot prompting. Discover how to build deterministic runtime checks, autonomous repair loops, and actor-critic agent architectures.