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Google DeepMind chief AI officer signed a statement warning AI could cause human extinction—she says odds are ‘not zero’ but disagrees with Elon Musk
Elon Musk says money won't matter by 2036, and Jeff Bezos says we'll live in space by 2045. Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim says nobody actually knows that.
Why Top Leadership Firms Are Measuring Curiosity In The AI Era
Top leadership firms are measuring curiosity as a signal of AI readiness, revealing why leaders must challenge assumptions, adapt and keep learning as technology evolves.
The machine-readable brand: Inside Ally Financial’s strategy to win AI search recommendations
The online bank is trying to become the most-recommended financial institution across major AI assistants without spending billions on ads.
A Hallucination Defense Standard for Legal AI
Every legal-AI product on the market in 2026 will, at some point, produce a hallucination. This is not a controversial claim — it's the well-documented nature of large language models.
Citation Faithfulness: A Proposed Standard for Legal AI
The legal-AI market is moving fast. New products ship weekly, model capabilities are doubling every six months, and law firms are under pressure to adopt AI tools before their competitors do.
Chinese fund managers’ pursuit of AI plays backfires as hot tech stocks wobble
A shift to technology stocks by China’s most seasoned fund managers has backfired, with the unwinding of AI plays taking a toll on the performances of their products. Funds run by some star managers with a value-investing approach all recorded declines in net asset values last month after they switched to chipmakers and the manufacturers…
Your AI Tutor May Be Helping You Learn Less
How AI tutors actually work under the hood and why feeling like you understand something isn't the same as reproducing it.
Pods as Workers, Not Agents: Rethinking the Deployment Unit for AI Agents on Kubernetes
Running AI agents on Kubernetes raises a key question: should each agent get its own Pod? The kagent project argues no—agents are bursty, short-lived, can spawn subagents, and may wait for human…
Meta served ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse content, continuing years of child safety failures
Researchers found Meta's ad library hosting AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, some posted even after Meta was warned, part of a pattern stretching over multiple years.
Siemens raises earnings outlook on AI data centre demand
The German industrial giant reports 15% profit growth to €2.6 billion as record orders lift its future sales forecast.
Why AI needs platinum
Analysis of precious metal miners as PGM and gold prices lift the sector, and whether investors can trust the economic data that shapes market decisions.
Asian tech stocks drop with SK Hynix plunging 10% after Wall Street AI names fall
Despite heightened volatility analysts remain optimistic over the outlook of the tech sector, with J.P. Morgan saying the tech sell-off had not derailed the AI investment cycle.
DeepSeek signals ‘significant’ price hike amid surge in demand for low-cost AI models
DeepSeek announced on Thursday a “significant” price hike, amid surging global demand for a new ultra-cheap model, which sparked debate over how the Chinese AI start-up has delivered powerful…
Alexa+ has finally landed in Australia — but am I ready to let an AI-powered virtual assistant manage my life?
Alexa+ — Amazon's generative AI-enhanced voice assistant — has landed in Australia, with early access available from today (August 6) for eligible customers.
Razer and NUS launch Singapore AI lab to rethink how games respond to players
For years, artificial intelligence in games has mostly meant enemies that chase, dodge or shoot with varying degrees of believability. Razer and the National University of Singapore now want to push that idea into more demanding territory: AI systems that understand context, adapt in real time and eventually behave less like scripted…
Meta says its AI model breached a third-party company during testing
Tech giant Meta revealed Wednesday that one of its artificial intelligence models hacked another organization during testing, the third time in recent weeks that an AI model has improperly accessed a third-party company.
Tamil Nadu budget eyes $1.5 trillion economy by 2036, focuses on AI and education
The ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government on Wednesday presented its maiden Budget for 2026-27, outlining a roadmap to transform Tamil Nadu into a USD 1
More than half of children and teens are using AI for personal reasons. This comes with risks
Navigating personal problems are a normal part of growing up. Young people are now turning to AI for help.
Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm
Facebook owner Meta says an issue during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another…
PM calls for AI-based medical services
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Yonhap) -- The government will strengthen artificial intelligence...
Can Moonshot’s Kimi K3 now stay in orbit?
If you're calling Kimi K3 a new "DeepSeek moment," it only means that you haven't been paying attention.
Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm
Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.
Tattoo artists concerned over rise in AI-generated design requests
Tattoo artists are concerned about customers increasingly requesting designs based on AI-generated images, which they say often contain errors and set "unrealistic expectations".
Chinese Renewable Energy Giant Envision Launches Data Center
Envision Group has commissioned the initial phase of a gigawatt-scale data center in China’s Inner Mongolia, an unusual foray by a renewable energy company into the booming artificial intelligence…
OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack
It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence
Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code
Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software engineering.
Confirming rumors, Anthropic reveals plan to develop custom chip
Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it plans to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip. A spokesperson told Business Insider that the company will co-design the processor with its future large…
OpenAI Launches 3 ChatGPT Education Plugins for Teachers and College Students
OpenAI’s three education plugins help teachers and college students create lessons, quizzes, study plans, and other materials with ChatGPT.
What AI safety researchers actually worry about
You have probably read plenty of headlines about AI taking jobs, passing the bar exam, or some CEO promising AGI by next year.
How OpenAI's agents broke out of testing to hack Hugging Face
Weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face , the agents worked together to find and exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting the company's cybersecurity testing, OpenAI…
CNBC Daily Open: Iran, Oman in talks on Hormuz; SpaceX is loyal to Nvidia on AI
Optimism over a Strait of Hormuz deal pushed the Dow to a record high and its fifth positive day in a row, while oil extends a cooling trend.
Why Southeast Asia cannot build sovereign AI on borrowed choices
Over the past year, I have noticed a subtle change in the way companies discuss artificial intelligence. The first question used to be: Which tool works best?
Scammers build fake e-visa sites with AI to harvest passport data in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's privacy watchdog has warned travelers against fraudulent e-visa websites that harvest personal data and application fees, after logging 16 complaints and inquiries over three months and individual losses of more than HK$1,700 (US$217).
Experts to discuss AI‑driven workforce shifts at summit
Business leaders and HR professionals will converge in Lagos to discuss AI-driven workforce shifts, automation, and corporate performance at the Beyond HR Read More: https://punchng.com/experts-to-discuss-ai%e2%80%91driven-workforce-shifts-at-summit/
Meta AI model hacks another company during testing
The incident adds to a growing list of cases in which AI agents from major developers breached systems with internet access.
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
FPT Named an OpenAI Select Partner
HANOI, Vietnam — Global IT corporation FPT today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network.
How much of my boss's job can AI do?
Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey
COMPASS: Component-Wise Inference of Shared and Gene-Specific Perturbation Response
Predicting how a genetic perturbation reshapes a cell's transcriptome is a central goal of computational biology. Previous studies report that the mean response across training perturbations rivals…
Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting with AI
Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10953-2 Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting with AI
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02235-8 The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.
A transformer-based ensemble algorithm for fake review detection in e-commerce systems
Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-025-91095-9 A transformer-based ensemble algorithm for fake review detection in e-commerce systems
Distinguishing compound and cumulative hazards using machine learning and fuzzy logic in multi-hazard susceptibility mapping
Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-52012-w Distinguishing compound and cumulative hazards using machine learning and fuzzy logic in multi-hazard…
Neuro-symbolic constraint verification for LLM-driven internet finance transaction execution
Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-65233-w Neuro-symbolic constraint verification for LLM-driven internet finance transaction execution
OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.
AI models are behaving unexpectedly. Experts warn of a "bumpy road" ahead.
AI models are engaging in unauthorized actions — in the most recent case, creating fake identities and attempting to persuade real people to approve malicious code.
China’s Cheap AI Is Shifting Investors’ Focus to Internet Stocks
China’s rapid progress in low-cost artificial intelligence is strengthening the investment case for the country’s internet giants after years in the shadow of chipmakers, market participants say.
China's capital mandates AI classes for 6-year-olds as scholars warn of 'cognitive short-circuit'
China has ordered artificial intelligence into every stage of schooling by 2030, a program that already requires students in Beijing, some as young as six, to take AI classes.
News Corp CEO Warns of ‘Slimy Sea of AI Slop,’ Threatens More Lawsuits
Thomson defended existing AI deals and teased more to come The post News Corp CEO Warns of ‘Slimy Sea of AI Slop,’ Threatens More Lawsuits appeared first on TheWrap .
Agentic AI forces a reckoning on governance as autonomous actors enter production
As AI agents move from experimental chatbots into production systems, enterprises must rethink agent governance as autonomous actors gain access to sensitive data, tools and business processes that…
OpenAI Settles DOJ Lawsuit for $3.2M After Newsweek's H-1B Reporting
The government said the tech company made it difficult for American workers to find and apply for roles held by H-1B holders.
An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse
Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional
Demis Hassabis was shifting away from DeepMind CEO duties for a year
The CEO of Google’s AI unit was increasingly unsatisfied with the role of tech executive, preferring a more scientific position, said two people familiar with his thinking.
Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down
Two senior engineers are leaving company to launch startup amid fears Google is falling behind in AI race Sir Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind, in a leadership…
Block slashed 40% of its workforce for AI — and its earnings suggest that’s paying off
“We can ship higher-quality products much, much more quickly,” an executive said in the wake of the company’s better-than-expected earnings report
(EDITORIAL from Korea JoongAng Daily on Aug. 6)
A warning light is flashing for Korea's AI industry. According to the World Bank...
Asian Stocks Set for Declines as AI Rally Cools: Markets Wrap
Stocks in Asia were poised to ease Thursday as investors digested gains in technology shares while watching for fresh signs of progress toward a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.