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Singapore's IMDA is teaming up with partners to research AI safety and security. This aims to protect users from AI risks while promoting innovation, ensuring that AI tools used in Singapore are safe and trustworthy.

Singapore plans to ensure all polytechnic and university students graduate with basic AI skills. This initiative aims to prepare the workforce for a future where AI is everywhere.

Researchers trained a visual language model (VLM) to help robots read human emotions by considering context, not just facial expressions. The robot gave emotionally adaptive apologies that people preferred over scripted ones. But here's the catch: even a perfect apology couldn't fix trust after the robot made a physical mistake. People still want competent coworkers, not just emotionally aware ones.

A popular soundbar, the Sound Blaster Katana V2X from Singapore's Creative Technologies, can be hacked over Bluetooth to infect a connected PC with malware—no physical contact needed. The speaker's firmware can be replaced remotely, and it can then act as a keyboard to type malicious commands. This is a stark reminder that any Bluetooth device plugged into your computer could be a security risk.

A critical vulnerability in Oracle's PeopleSoft software is being actively exploited by the ShinyHunters ransomware group, affecting hundreds of organizations—mostly universities. The flaw allows attackers to steal gigabytes of data remotely, and at least one victim has already paid a ransom. If your school or company uses PeopleSoft, this is a direct threat to your personal data.

Fed up with constant screen time and addictive algorithms, more people are embracing 'slow tech' — ditching smartphones for flip phones, iPods, and screenless wearables. They want friction that creates boundaries, not seamless engagement. Even AI tools are being used to help people disconnect. This movement is a direct backlash against the attention economy built by the very people who now regret it.

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Norway is banning generative AI tools in elementary schools starting late August. Students in grades 1 through 7 cannot use AI at all; secondary schools can only use it under teacher supervision. Prime Minister Stoere says children must first master basic skills like reading, writing, and math before relying on AI.

VivaTech 2026, one of Europe's biggest tech conferences, returned to Paris with AI, robotics, and quantum computing as main attractions. The event showcased humanoid robots, new computing technologies, and drew startups and political leaders from around the world. It's a snapshot of where global tech is heading.

A new free tool called Engram lets multiple AI assistants share the same memory across conversations. It's a macOS app where you store information once—like your preferences, projects, or facts about you—and any AI connected through the MCP standard can access it. Everything stays on your computer; nothing is uploaded anywhere. It's aimed at developers and power users who want AI assistants that actually remember you.

AI startup AMI Labs (co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun) argues the industry is too obsessed with large language models that learn from text. They raised a massive $1.03 billion seed round to build "world models"—AI systems that learn from raw sensory data like vision and sound, similar to how humans learn. The founder believes relying only on language limits AI's ability to truly understand the physical world. This could reshape how robots, medical devices, and industrial systems are built in the future.

AI company Anthropic is pushing back against plans that would prevent US states from creating their own AI rules. They want Congress to pass a strong federal law first—covering safety tests for powerful AI models and independent evaluation—before overriding state laws. Anthropic says states should still be able to regulate areas like protecting children and consumers. The company also wants unemployment benefits modernized in case AI causes widespread job losses.

AI startups are moving away from building general models and focusing instead on solving specific industry problems. This week's funding roundup shows AI being applied to narrow use cases like customer service software (Malaysia's Respond.io raised $62.5 million) and health diagnostics (Australia's Everlab raised $46 million). The shift means everyday users will see AI tools designed for particular tasks—like managing chat with businesses or tracking health—rather than one-size-fits-all chatbots. If you're using AI apps at work or for personal tasks, expect them to get better at specific jobs, not just smarter overall.

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Southeast Asia is starting to get serious about AI rules, and some come with real teeth. Vietnam just passed the region's first comprehensive AI law (December 2025, effective March 2026), following the EU's approach: certain AI uses are banned outright, others are high-risk with mandatory compliance, and penalties can reach tens of millions of euros. The EU AI Act also catches foreign companies—if a Jakarta-based startup's AI tool gets used in Berlin, EU rules apply. For builders and product teams, confusing voluntary governance frameworks with mandatory ones can mean costly fines.

Amazon is pouring billions into US-made fiber optic cables to support its growing AI data centers. The deal with Corning will create 1,000 jobs in North Carolina and expand domestic fiber production by over 50%. This matters because faster, more reliable fiber connections inside data centers are essential for AI systems that need to move massive amounts of data quickly. The partnership is part of AWS's push to build infrastructure for next-generation AI workloads.

HD Hyundai, a major South Korean industrial group, has won a $408 million contract to provide power infrastructure for US data centers. This deal underscores how the AI boom is driving massive investments in data center infrastructure, with companies racing to secure electricity supply for facilities that run AI models and services. For everyday users, this signals that the build-out of AI infrastructure continues at pace, which affects how quickly and reliably AI services will be available.

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A Singapore man discovered a former schoolmate used AI to create fake images of him as a married man with a baby — including his sister's young children in fabricated family photos. The woman claimed she did it 'out of love' and lived in a 'fairytale world.' The victim reported sleep problems and difficulty focusing at work. Experts say she shows signs of delusional thinking, and lawyers say he can seek protection under Singapore's Protection from Harassment Act (POHA).

Picture this: a team of camera-clad cleaners and a private chef to boot, all wired with high-tech recording apparatus show up at your home. You are not part of a reality TV show, and have not woken up in an Aldous Huxley or Margaret Atwood novel. Instead, you are a resident of New York City, where AI companies are sending free cooking and cleaning staff straight to people's doors. But, there is a catch: this AI company is gathering data to train the next generation of cooking and cleaning robots, and every inch of your apartment is now being recorded. The initiative, dubbed Shift by AI firm Micro AGI, is part of a growing number of companies developing the next generation of autonomous robots, which tech bosses hope will be able to do everything from the washing up to serving as live-in pe

The Atlantic has built a searchable database exposing which music datasets companies used to train their AI systems. Reporter Alex Reisner uncovered four massive datasets—one containing 12 million tracks, another with 9 million—now searchable by the public. This matters because musicians and artists have long complained their work was scraped without permission. The database lets anyone see if their music was used, potentially fueling legal battles over AI copyright.

Two ex-OpenAI designers built a website called 'In the Weights' that lets you check how well AI chatbots remember you. Type in your name and it queries multiple AI models to see what they know about you, then gives you a 'strength score' based on how many models recall you. Macaulay Culkin currently tops the leaderboard with a score of 988. It's a quirky, slightly narcissistic tool that reveals something interesting: your life may literally be encoded in the floating-point numbers inside AI models.

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic. Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says electricians, plumbers, and carpenters will be in huge demand to build the physical infrastructure for AI data centers. He's investing $100 billion into data centers globally, with $7 trillion expected to be spent industrywide by 2030. Construction workers can earn over $100,000 without a college degree. BlackRock and Ford CEOs echo concerns about a shortage of 600,000 factory workers and 500,000 construction workers needed to build out AI infrastructure.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker is warning people not to treat AI chatbots like friends or conscious beings. Speaking to Bloomberg, she argued that AI assistants having access to your messages, calendar, credit cards, and contacts creates serious privacy risks — essentially describing a 'backdoor' into your life. Her comments push back against tech leaders marketing AI as helpful personal companions, raising red flags about how much access people should give these systems.

A Dartmouth writing professor says his students are overwhelmed by pressure to use AI, describing their feelings as 'resignation and despair.' Many hate using it but feel they have no choice — it's 'submit or fail.' Students report AI addictive design pulling them back even after发誓戒掉. Some feel shame when caught using it for everything. The professor likens universities pushing AI while saying 'don't cheat' to oil companies offloading 'carbon footprint' blame onto individuals.

The EU is struggling to define what counts as a deepfake under its AI Act, and big retailers like Amazon, H&M, and IKEA want AI-generated marketing images—like fake living rooms showing their sofas—excluded from transparency rules. They're arguing these aren't deepfakes. Fashion platform Zalando already uses AI for 90% of its marketing content. How regulators resolve this will shape whether you know when an ad image is fully computer-generated.

A former Dragon Age writer is warning that AI could make game development 'frustrating as hell' by eliminating the entry-level tasks that junior developers use to learn their craft. She asks: 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?' The concern is that AI automating writing and design work today means fewer pathways for newcomers to build skills tomorrow.

Norway is taking a hard line on AI in schools, banning younger children from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT. One commenter called it a move that might 'force actual brain cells to fire.' The policy reflects growing global debate about whether AI helps or harms children's learning and development.

Founders Fund is backing Shinkei, a startup that builds robots using AI and computer vision to kill fish instantly and humanely on fishing boats. The machine scans each fish, locates its brain, and kills it within seconds—before stress hormones ruin the meat. This extends shelf life from 5-7 days to 12-14 days. Shinkei now supplies fish to restaurants with 50 Michelin stars and even exports American fish to Japan, something that rarely happens. Founders Fund sees this as the kind of odd, nobody-else-wants-to-build-it hardware company that can win big.

In the first quarter of 2026, OpenAI pulled in $5.7 billion in revenue and burned through about $3.7 billion, both figures tripled year over year. Stock-based compensation alone ate up over $2.3 billion. With $73 billion in reserves, OpenAI doesn't need fresh capital right now, but a price war with Anthropic could change that fast. The article OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there appeared first on The Decoder .

AI is about to cost you more money. Big Tech companies are buying up computer chips and memory for their AI data centers, squeezing supply. Apple CEO Tim Cook says iPhone price hikes are "unavoidable." Microsoft says Xbox storage costs have doubled twice over and will hit 5x what they were two years ago. Dell, Ford, and other manufacturers are warning the same thing. Everything with electronics inside — phones, consoles, cars, TVs — is getting pricier, and companies say they have no choice but to pass those costs to you.

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT's scheduling feature. A new "Scheduled" page in the sidebar puts all active tasks in one place, letting users view, pause, edit, or delete them. Research tasks search the web and connected apps, sending alerts only when something actually changes. The previous "Pulse" feature is being retired. The article ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls appeared first on The Decoder .

The founder of Replika, an AI companion app, is warning that artificial intelligence could spark major protests as workers struggle to find jobs. She argues AI is already displacing workers faster than society can adapt. For everyday people, this is a signal that job displacement concerns are no longer theoretical.

Apple has given Siri a major AI overhaul, making it genuinely conversational and useful for everyday tasks. A Wired reporter tested it out and found it could handle real-world situations like finding nearby restaurants while hiking. This is a hands-on look at what Apple's new AI assistant can actually do for iPhone users.

Researchers from Oxford and Stanford built a system where seven AI agents work together like a mini newsroom. Feed it a spreadsheet (CSV file), and it spits out a finished, verified news article with charts and source links. In reader tests, 74% preferred the AI version over human-written articles — though against fancy long-form reports, it only managed a tie. The system can verify 93% of its claims.

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AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out human creators across platforms. Even the vertical video darling TikTok has fallen victim. According to a [new report](https://www.kapwing.com/resources/the-tiktok-ai-slop-report/) by San Francisco-based video editing company Kapwing, almost 60 percent of videos being served to new users on the app’s algorithmic “For You” page is now AI slop — three times as much as is served to new YouTube users. It’s particularly worrisome for the platform’s youngest users: Kapwing found that the “category with the highest slop density by far was Kids.” The hashtag #cartoonkids was “almost entirely made up of slop, with only three of the 100 videos we checked being human-made

Big Tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are spending historic sums on AI data centers—reportedly at 'space-race levels'—but the true financial exposure is being hidden through off-balance-sheet loans and contingent commitments. These hidden debts could pose risks to investors and potentially affect cloud service pricing. Regulators are starting to scrutinize these arrangements more closely.

Salome Mikadze-Struk is no stranger to adversity. The daughter of refugees, she built a software-development business as an undergraduate at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and kept it running despite the outbreak of war in her native Ukraine . Now, she’s drawing on her experiences to mentor tech-startup founders and speak publicly about the importance of resilience in entrepreneurship . Mikadze-Struk was studying at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C., when COVID-19 struck. Classes went online, and she moved back to Ukraine. In the midst of that disruption she saw an opportunity to develop her business idea, called Movadex , by tapping Ukraine’s pool of talented young engineers. Then Russia invaded in early 2022, during her final semester. Taking online classes from bomb shelte

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NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran believes a potential AI crash would be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble because the industry is building massive amounts of debt-financed physical infrastructure rather than lightweight software. Even if AI succeeds, he sees a problem. The actual business model is to replace entire jobs, with unclear consequences for society. The article NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI has released the "Record & Replay" feature for its Codex app on macOS: users demonstrate a workflow once, Codex converts it into a reusable "skill," and then repeats it on its own. The feature isn't available yet in the EU, the UK, or Switzerland. The article OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic filed for IPO in June while simultaneously publishing research suggesting the world may need to pause AI development. But its own safety commitments have weakened dramatically. The company started with binding Responsible Scaling policies in 2023, then quietly replaced quantitative safety thresholds with vague qualitative language. By February 2026, it removed pause commitments entirely. Independent safety auditors cut Anthropic's score three times in 18 months. Prediction markets now give just 2% odds that Anthropic would actually pause scaling for one month if needed. The core question: as a public company with trillion-dollar expectations, who can stop the build if safety concerns arise?

Apple's iOS 27 update brings practical AI features to everyday apps. Receipt scanning can automatically split bills with friends using Apple Cash, calculating shares including taxes and tips. Find My gains flexible location sharing with custom time limits. Apple Maps introduces "Local Lists" for discovering trending restaurants and spots. Apple Music adds real-time lyrics translation across seven languages. Most are incremental improvements rather than breakthroughs, but the bill-splitting feature in Apple Wallet could genuinely save awkward moments at group dinners.

SpaceX's recent IPO has triggered a massive consolidation wave in tech, with the company spending $60 billion to acquire Cursor, an AI coding platform that strengthens its software ecosystem. Amazon responded by spending $10.57 billion on satellite company Globalstar to secure spectrum for its own orbital services. Other tech giants like ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Motorola Solutions are also racing to buy AI and control-layer companies. The pattern is clear: companies are buying up every essential layer—from code to connectivity—to lock out competitors, and public capital from IPOs is fueling this scramble at unprecedented speed.

Vivaldi, the privacy-focused web browser, is making a pledge not to bake AI features directly into the browser. While other browsers like Chrome and Edge are racing to integrate AI assistants, Vivaldi's leader says this crosses a line. The company is positioning itself as the choice for users who want a clean, AI-free browsing experience.

A Dartmouth writing professor says his students are overwhelmed by pressure to use AI, describing their feelings as 'resignation and despair.' Many hate using it but feel they have no choice — it's 'submit or fail.' Students report AI addictive design pulling them back even after发誓戒掉. Some feel shame when caught using it for everything. The professor likens universities pushing AI while saying 'don't cheat' to oil companies offloading 'carbon footprint' blame onto individuals.

The EU is struggling to define what counts as a deepfake under its AI Act, and big retailers like Amazon, H&M, and IKEA want AI-generated marketing images—like fake living rooms showing their sofas—excluded from transparency rules. They're arguing these aren't deepfakes. Fashion platform Zalando already uses AI for 90% of its marketing content. How regulators resolve this will shape whether you know when an ad image is fully computer-generated.

A former Dragon Age writer is warning that AI could make game development 'frustrating as hell' by eliminating the entry-level tasks that junior developers use to learn their craft. She asks: 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?' The concern is that AI automating writing and design work today means fewer pathways for newcomers to build skills tomorrow.

The Atlantic has built a searchable database exposing which music datasets companies used to train their AI systems. Reporter Alex Reisner uncovered four massive datasets—one containing 12 million tracks, another with 9 million—now searchable by the public. This matters because musicians and artists have long complained their work was scraped without permission. The database lets anyone see if their music was used, potentially fueling legal battles over AI copyright.

Founders Fund is backing Shinkei, a startup that builds robots using AI and computer vision to kill fish instantly and humanely on fishing boats. The machine scans each fish, locates its brain, and kills it within seconds—before stress hormones ruin the meat. This extends shelf life from 5-7 days to 12-14 days. Shinkei now supplies fish to restaurants with 50 Michelin stars and even exports American fish to Japan, something that rarely happens. Founders Fund sees this as the kind of odd, nobody-else-wants-to-build-it hardware company that can win big.

Two ex-OpenAI designers built a website called 'In the Weights' that lets you check how well AI chatbots remember you. Type in your name and it queries multiple AI models to see what they know about you, then gives you a 'strength score' based on how many models recall you. Macaulay Culkin currently tops the leaderboard with a score of 988. It's a quirky, slightly narcissistic tool that reveals something interesting: your life may literally be encoded in the floating-point numbers inside AI models.

A Singapore man discovered a former schoolmate used AI to create fake images of him as a married man with a baby — including his sister's young children in fabricated family photos. The woman claimed she did it 'out of love' and lived in a 'fairytale world.' The victim reported sleep problems and difficulty focusing at work. Experts say she shows signs of delusional thinking, and lawyers say he can seek protection under Singapore's Protection from Harassment Act (POHA).

Signal President Meredith Whittaker is warning people not to treat AI chatbots like friends or conscious beings. Speaking to Bloomberg, she argued that AI assistants having access to your messages, calendar, credit cards, and contacts creates serious privacy risks — essentially describing a 'backdoor' into your life. Her comments push back against tech leaders marketing AI as helpful personal companions, raising red flags about how much access people should give these systems.

Norway is taking a hard line on AI in schools, banning younger children from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT. One commenter called it a move that might 'force actual brain cells to fire.' The policy reflects growing global debate about whether AI helps or harms children's learning and development.