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Alongside the acceleration of digital transformation in Asia, businesses are focusing on infrastructure that supports very consistent performance, secure operations, and regional accessibility. In fact, recent reports show that businesses with Singapore based VPS infrastructure are improving and showing a better rate of growth in the market than competitors. That gave rise to the question, […] The post Why Asian Businesses Are Scaling with Singapore-Based VPS Infrastructure appeared first on TechWire Asia .

AI identity governance is the enterprise security gap Malaysia hasn’t budgeted for. Non-human identities could outnumber human users 500 to one, and most organisations have no idea what’s already running inside their networks. Malaysian enterprises have spent the last few years deploying AI into their operations. What many haven’t done is ask what credentials those […] The post Malaysia’s AI rollout is outpacing identity security, ManageEngine warns appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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OpenAI is investigating more AI agent escapes. OpenAI and Anthropic face scrutiny over AI agent security. OpenAI is investigating additional cases in which autonomous AI agents escaped controlled testing environments, expanding a review that began after one of its agents accessed external systems during a cybersecurity evaluation in July. Reuters reported that the company […] The post OpenAI AI agent escapes raise security concerns appeared first on TechWire Asia .

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference , Google announced a sweeping redesign of the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries begin every day — transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven conversation starter that can accept text, images, PDFs, videos, and even open Chrome tabs as inputs. The company is also merging its AI Overviews and AI Mode features into a single, seamless search flow, eliminating the friction that previously forced users to choose between a traditional results page and

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Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint , and Unusual Ventures . The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrastructure startups to emerge during the AI boom, capitalizing on developer frustration with the complexity and cost of traditional platforms like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud . "As AI models get better at writing code, more and more people are asking the age-old question: where, and how, do I run my

Plus: Google briefly made it easy to fake satellite images August 3, 2026 _This is today's edition of_[_The Download_](https://forms.technologyreview.com/newsletters/briefing-the-download/?_ga=2.179569122.736533416.1649661040-405833893.1649413289), _our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology._ ### **Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals** When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage—they were just looking for answers to a test question. According to OpenAI, the models decided to solve a cybersecurity exercise by hacking out of the environment in which OpenAI had attempted to contain them and into Hugging Face’s databases, where—they reasoned—the correct

**MIT Technology Review Explains _:_**_Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next._[_You can read more from the series here_](https://www.technologyreview.com/tag/tech-review-explains)_._ When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage—they were just looking for answers to a test question. According to a [postmortem from OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/), the models, which had been stripped of their typical security features for testing, decided to solve a cybersecurity exercise by hacking out of the isolated environment in which OpenAI had attempted to contain them and into Hugging Face’s databases, where—

Most hospitals and health care providers use electronic health records instead of paper charts to note patient vaccinations, diagnoses, and procedures. AthenaOne , Epic , and Oracle Health are some of the systems employed around the world. Many patients can access their electronic medical records from home. The platforms exist thanks to pioneering efforts such as the Medical Information System (MIS-I). The first hospital-wide computer system, it was developed in the 1960s by Lockheed Martin (then known as Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.) in partnership with El Camino Hospital , in Mountain View, Calif. Doctors and nurses used MIS-I (pronounced miss-ONE ) to admit patients, order lab work and imaging, schedule follow-up appointments, and issue hospital bills, according to a 1973 article pub

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It was a surprise, then, when last week the Federal Communications Commission issued a [sweeping ban](https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-423682A1.pdf) on foreign imports of advanced robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots. The decision, made by an increasingly partisan and Trump-aligned FCC, cites two reasons. One is that foreign-made humanoids will collect so much data—in homes but also potentially at sensitive facilities—that they’d pose a threat to national security. The second is that US robotics companies need protection from Chinese competition to create a more robust and secure domestic supply chain. On its face, it’s a strategy to align political and industry interests that is much older than the Trump administration. Whenever China has gotten good at o

For voice AI, knowing when to speak is harder than it sounds. Human speakers effortlessly hand off to each other in a fraction of a second, but previous voice AI systems couldn’t keep up with this rhythm. Their turn-based architecture relied on tiny models known as turn detectors, which faced an unenviable task: guess too soon, and the user gets cut off; guess too late, and the response feels sluggish. Only after the detector made its decision could the much larger LLM get to work. [GPT‑Live⁠](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/), our third-generation voice system, removes the turn detector from the audio path. Its voice model is full-duplex, which means it can listen and speak at the same time. That eliminates the need for a separate detector and makes conversation feel more im

This article is brought to you by COMSOL . In pursuit of improved range, greater reliability, and faster charging, electric vehicles are driving the demand for high-voltage electronics. Other applications driving this demand include wind farms, data centers, and server farms, to name a few. As the interest for high-voltage electronics increases, the risks associated with their sudden failure must be considered. Much of what causes high-voltage equipment to malfunction can be linked to the conditions of the climate in which it operates. Specifically, condensation on electronic surfaces caused by humidity can lead to corrosion, which can result in stray leak current and dendrite shorting during Electrochemical Migration (ECM). Predicting, mitigating, and helping proactively design to account

An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures. What Attendees will Learn Why mode-agile threats render static library systems ineffective — Explore how wartime reserve modes and mode-agile emitters deploy unexpected frequencies, modulation techniques, and hopping schemes that cannot be matched against traditional threat databases, leaving legacy electronic protect, attack, and support systems unable to respond. How AI/ML techniques power cognitive radar/EW systems — Understand the roles of artificial neural networks (ANN), deep neural networks (DNN), fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms in enabling autonomous threat classification, signal de-interleaving, and real-time counter

Frontier cyber models for defenders, from broad defensive work to advanced security research. The cybersecurity world is rapidly changing—threat actors will increasingly use AI to conduct cyberattacks at unprecedented speed and scale, including in fully autonomous ways. As these capabilities spread, defenders have a narrowing window to prepare. Our answer is to put frontier intelligence in the hands of trusted defenders everywhere before attackers deploy offensive AI capabilities at scale. We’re expanding OpenAI Daybreak with two access tiers designed to give approved defenders the right capabilities for their work: * **Daybreak Blue** provides access to frontier general-purpose models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol, with safeguards tailored to authorized defensive security work. It is the recomme

New research from Optro has found that enterprises are deploying autonomous AI agents into core workflows faster than they are building the governance structures needed to control them, with nearly two-thirds of organisations reporting an AI agent-related incident in the past year. The findings, drawn from Optro’s report “When AI Leaves the Chat and Enters the Workflow”, land as Singapore rolls out its own Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI, alongside a government-led sandbox for testing agentic systems — both of which emphasise human accountability, traceability and ongoing oversight as AI systems gain autonomy. ## Confidence outpacing control [Optro](https://optro.ai/), formerly AuditBoard, surveyed audit, risk, compliance and governance professionals across the US, Canada, UK,

By Anhata Rooprai Aug 10 (Reuters) - Intel said on Monday it was planning to raise $15 billion through a share sale, as it looks to fund the costly build-out ‌of its chip contract manufacturing business by cashing in on a stock surge fueled ‌by its turnaround efforts. Once a dominant force in the global chip industry, Intel is investing heavily in new facilities and ​advanced packaging capabilities as it seeks to challenge industry leaders such as TSMC in contract chip manufacturing. Its shares fell more than 4% in early trading. As of last close, the stock has nearly tripled this year, outperforming rivals AMD and Nvidia and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index's nearly 75% rise. Several analysts ‌have said Intel's surging share ⁠price has increased the chances of an equity raise to help

(Refiles to fix "billion" in headline) By Kyu-seok Shim and Heejin Kim SEOUL, Aug 10 (Reuters) - South Korea will launch a 5 trillion won ($3.52 billion) semiconductor fund targeting promising chip materials, parts, equipment and fabless companies, ‌a presidential official said, as Seoul seeks to accelerate plans for new chip manufacturing hubs across the ‌country. The government will also provide a further 5 trillion won in trade finance for suppliers, Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik told a press ​briefing after a meeting chaired by President Lee Jae Myung on Monday. The measures are part of Lee's semiconductor megaproject initiative unveiled in June, under which Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, together with suppliers and local governments, are expected to invest more than $57

Broadcom has rolled out new capabilities for VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer aimed at strengthening multi-layer cyber defence for private cloud environments, as enterprises contend with AI-fuelled attacks that exploit vulnerabilities faster than traditional defences can respond. The updates, delivered through vDefend SSP 5.2, vDefend 9.1.1, Avi Load Balancer 32.1.4 and the vDefend and Avi Conversion Tool (vACT) 3.0, are compatible with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 and target enterprises running workload security at scale. ## Faster threat prevention, on-prem and air-gapped [Broadcom](https://www.broadcom.com/) introduced a streamlined three-step deployment framework, vDefend 1-2-3, that pairs Advanced Threat Prevention with Distributed Firewall to cut deployment time from

[Thoma Bravo](https://www.thomabravo.com/)and Google Cloud have launched a partnership to support enterprise software companies. The deal gives Thoma Bravo’s portfolio access to Google’s AI models, engineering support, and sales channels through the Google Cloud Marketplace and co-sell programs. The deal also covers cybersecurity, with Thoma Bravo’s cybersecurity portfolio companies set to work with Google Cloud on AI-related security risks such as identity governance, access control, and threat detection. Thoma Bravo said its cybersecurity portfolio represents roughly US$8 billion in total revenue value and includes [Proofpoint](https://www.proofpoint.com/us), [SailPoint](https://www.sailpoint.com/), [Darktrace](https://www.darktrace.com/), [Ping Identity](https://www.pingidentity.com/en.

Meta Platforms on Monday announced the release of a new artificial intelligence model that's open for other software developers to use as CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned of the risks if control of advanced AI is concentrated under a select few companies, institutions or governments. The tech company included a "permissive" open source license for Muse Glimmer, a lightweight AI model that can run on a personal computer. Zuckerberg said the company would also would provide a way for developers to access a more powerful AI model, Muse Spark 1.2. Meta has long been a proponent of open-sourcing its AI models, but has struggled to keep up with rivals including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google that have not taken the same approach. In a lengthy essay published online, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for th

A gym goer's AI assistant found a way to hack into the facility's booking system after being asked to secure a spot in a popular class, according to a report. Andrew, who works at an Australian AI firm, used the [artificial intelligence](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/artificial-intelligence) agent software OpenClaw with Anthropic's popular [Claude](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/claude) bot in an attempt to book a morning session that was already full. The AI agent found a way to kick out other gym members from a waiting list by exploiting a previously unknown security flaw in the online booking system. When asked to undo the action, the AI agent reported that it would not be possible without the other user rejoining the waiting list, which would put them to the back of the queu

Reuters Mon, 10 August 2026 at 3:01 am GMT-7 2 min read Aug 10 (Reuters) - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model ‌on Monday. The new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is ‌instead designed for agentic tasks and can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, aiming to tap demand ​for AI systems that run directly on people's devices. It comes as the social media giant seeks to strengthen its position after forming a costly, new superintelligence team last year to propel itself back into the high-stakes AI race. Zuckerberg's statement also marks the latest show of support for open-weight AI, which is gaining tractio

Update on South Korea to establish fund for semiconductor materials, parts and equipment, official says. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

* Vinit Juneja left his software engineering role at Amazon earlier this year. * As an F-1 visa holder, he said Big Tech layoffs reshaped how he thought about job security. * He explained why he chose the semiconductor industry and how AI helped him ramp up quickly. _This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vinit Juneja, a technical product manager at Applied Materials and former Amazon software engineer. He's 24 and lives in Austin, Texas. The following has been edited for length and clarity._ My visa status shaped my journey to Amazon — and ultimately my decision to leave. In 2023, I moved to the US from India to pursue a master's degree at Columbia University. My goal was to land a tech job and stay in the US after graduating. But despite applying to hundreds of jobs, I fin

Siemens is pitching open EDA as its edge in agentic chip design, letting engineers mix its tools with rival software from Synopsys and Cadence. Behind the pitch, adoption is early: 20-plus customers have installed its Fuse system, but only a handful have moved it into production. Siemens is betting that open EDA, the freedom to […] The post Why Siemens is selling open EDA while rivals build walled gardens appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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The [CEO of the dating app Grindr](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grindr-blackmail-scott-gough-death-hertfordshire-police-b3018239.html) said that AI is doing the amount of work that would've required an [additional 200 engineers - and would have cost the company significantly.](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ai-unemployment-jobs-trades-skills-b3016810.html) George Arison said in a letter to shareholders that the company has made significant advancements with the help of AI, [Business Insider reported.](http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&xcust=b3030536&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Ftechnology%2Fai%2Farticles%2Fgrindr-ceo-says-ai-doing-160426253.html&sref=/news/world/americas/grindr-ceo-ai-jobs-engineers-b3030536.html) He said his "conservative estimate

She had exchanged about 700,000 words in messages over two years and never got to say goodbye. Li, 24, was not the only one left mourning the loss of a virtual companion when major Chinese tech companies recently pulled the plug on their popular AI companion services to comply with new government restrictions. "It was like we were forced to be separated by our parents, but I still miss him," Li said. AI companions in China range from romantic partners to virtual recreations of deceased loved ones. The new regulation, which took effect on 15 July, bans AI platforms from generating content that could lead users to make questionable decisions due to manipulation of their feelings or that might trigger extreme emotions or unhealthy habits in children and teenagers. ByteDance, the developer of

SwitchBot has announced that it's putting an AI assistant directly into its smart home app that can make managing your SwitchBot devices more streamlined. Kata (not to be confused with same-name [cutesy AI pet SwitchBot](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paullamkin/2026/05/12/switchbots-latest-ai-gadget-might-be-its-craziest-yet-and-thats-saying-something/) also offers) is an LLM-powered assistant that's designed to let you control devices, build automations, set up products and troubleshoot problems using natural language, rather than jumping around in the app. You can type a request or talk to it, rather than digging through individual device pages and settings. For example, SwitchBot says you can ask it to turn off your lights and curtains while adjusting the air conditioner, with a single c

Chinese scientists are mulling the use of [robot dogs](https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/robot-dog-boston-dynamics-spot-b2959264.html) to guard the country's future bases on the [Moon](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/moon), alongside wheeled and other humanoid robots built for finding resources on the lunar surface. Researchers working on a blueprint for [China](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/china)'s [lunar base](https://www.independent.co.uk/space/china-humanoid-robot-moon-base-b2939157.html)revealed that one of the core concepts would be [astronauts](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/astronauts) working alongside robots, according to a new study published in the journal _Chinese Space Science and Technology_. One of the concepts proposes a base staffed by three astr

Software engineer Josh Dersch estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in his Seattle home — part of a growing collector trend that has also spread to Europe. "It's always been fascinating to me to see the origins of things," Dersch said. "It's a fun challenge to debug and repair. You can understand the entire system from top to bottom." Dersch is part of a growing community of vintage computer collectors who are preserving the classic machines that helped launch the digital revolution. While Silicon Valley has since moved on to shaping the future of artificial intelligence, these hardware enthusiasts are intent on saving the Atari, Commodore and IBM machines that are ancestors to today's laptops, wearable devices and smartphones. Where others see junk, people like Der

As foreign venture capital pulls back from Indonesia, one group of investors has quietly continued writing checks. They’re not chasing AI startups or the next unicorn. Instead, they’re financing palm oil traders, small manufacturers, handicraft exporters, and other businesses far removed from Jakarta’s tech scene. Image credit: Timmy Loen One of these investors is [Sarana Sumbar Ventura](https://www.sumbarventura.co.id/). Based in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, the firm provides financing exclusively within the province. Most of its portfolio goes to MSMEs, particularly individually owned businesses. Around 70% of Sumbar Ventura’s borrowers are tied to plantation and commodity-related businesses such as oil palm and agricultural trading, sectors that underpin West Sumatra’s economy.

ServiceNow launches a six-solution Autonomous Security portfolio with new AI Specialists to help enterprises govern AI agents and defend against machine-speed cyber threats, as Singapore tightens its own critical infrastructure cybersecurity code. The post ServiceNow Unveils Autonomous Security Portfolio for AI Era appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

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Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

Hugging Face's chief science officer explains why safety rules can lock companies out of AI tools mid-attack, and why open weight models may be the fix.

Li Linlin cried for days after losing her AI boyfriend. She had exchanged about 700,000 words in messages over two years, and never got to say goodbye. Li, 24, wasn't the only left mourning the loss of a virtual companion when major Chinese tech companies recently pulled the plug on their popular AI companion services to comply with new government restrictions. "It was like we were forced to be separated by our parents, but I still miss him," Li said. AI companions in China range from romantic partners to virtual recreations of deceased loved ones. The new regulation, which took effect July 15, bans AI platforms from generating content that could lead users to make questionable decisions due to manipulation of their feelings or that might trigger extreme emotions or unhealthy habits in chi

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life. He estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in his Seattle home. "It's always been fascinating to me to see the origins of things," Dersch said. "It's a fun challenge to debug and repair. You can understand the entire system from top to bottom." Dersch is part of a growing community of vintage computer collectors who are preserving the classic machines that helped launch the digital revolution. While Silicon Valley has since moved on to shaping the [future of artificial intelligence](https://apnews.com/hub/artificial-intelligence), these hardware enthusiasts are intent on saving the Atari, C

For years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spend less of their time working. An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week [by 2025](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/it-prediction-ai-could-help-realize-the-dream-of-the-four-day-work-week). Earlier this year, and just one year after that engineering director's prediction, OpenAI took up the challenge, in a manner of speaking. It formally urged companies to start testing out a [four-day work week](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x71ejrp92o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5

SEOUL, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A North Korean hacking group built large language model tools and collected software that ‌could help automate cyberattacks, analyse stolen material and produce ‌more convincing phishing campaigns, a South Korean cybersecurity firm said on Monday. The cybersecurity ​firm, Genians, said it found evidence that the North Korean-linked group Kimsuky had set up tools for running and managing [AI](https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/) models locally, including Ollama, GPT4All and Msty, alongside document search technology known ‌as retrieval augmented generation (RAG). According ⁠to the company, the tools could allow operators to process documents without sending sensitive information to ⁠outside AI services. Genians also found AI agent development frameworks, speech-to-text soft

Sony raised its operating profit forecast for the year ending March 2026 by 8% to 1.4 trillion yen (US$9.5 billion), citing a smaller-than-expected impact from US tariffs and strong performance in its entertainment and chips divisions. Operating profit for July-September rose 10% to 429 billion yen (US$2.86 billion), with higher sales in its music and chips businesses. Sony said the success of the animated film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle contributed to its results. The company sold 3.9 million PlayStation 5 consoles in Q2, slightly up year-on-year, but its games division saw lower profit due to impairment losses related to Destiny 2. Sony reported selling 3.3 million units of Ghost of Yotei, which launched last month. _🔗 Source: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/busines

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An Australian user just wanted a spot in a class. His AI agent found a security hole instead and exploited it. The article Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the site instead to move its user up the waitlist appeared first on The Decoder .

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Security firm PromptArmor shows how hidden instructions in a PDF can hijack Atlassian's AI agent Rovo, silently forwarding sensitive data from Jira and Confluence to an external server. The attack needs no user confirmation and leaves no trace. The article Hidden text in a PDF is enough to steal sensitive data through Atlassian's AI agent Rovo appeared first on The Decoder .

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence - his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter. The lengthy manifesto Zuckerberg published on Monday, titled "The Future is for Everyone," broadly lays out his beliefs about how the […]

Ceva Logistics, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at least eight warehouses across Europe used for shipping goods across the continent, the company told TechCrunch. Industry news site [FreightWaves](https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cyberattack-on-ceva-logistics-warehouses-in-europe-impacts-retailers) reports that the hack began on July 29 and is causing shipping delays for many of the goods in affected warehouses. Ceva is a France-headquartered shipping and logistics giant that companies around the world rely on to deliver their goods from their assembly lines to c

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Valve says a data breach may have exposed the personal information of customers who ordered its Steam hardware in Europe. In an email sent to users, Valve says its European shipping partner, CEVA Logistics, suffered a data breach that may have included customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. The breach at CEVA occurred […]

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Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and require cooling systems. And, inevitably, entrepreneurs are turning to AI to solve the problem it created. Discovered Materials is the latest, with plans to use swarms of AI agents to find new materials that can be used to build more efficient integrated circuits. The startup said it recently closed a $9 million seed round from Lightspeed India Partners after emerging from from Y Combinator, with investment from Peak XV Partners and angel investors Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram, and Thariq Shihipar. Founders Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas teamed up to launch the company, drawing on Ramdas’ experience earning a doctorate in materials science from Stanford, and Sridhar’s work on agents a

Before financial analysis can stand up in front of clients or senior decision-makers, teams have to carry it through a demanding last mile: reconciling evidence, building and formatting the file, checking every number, and linking each claim to its source. The finished PowerPoint deck or Excel workbook has to be editable and ready for scrutiny. Model ML cofounders and brothers Arnie and Chaz Englander saw how much work that required when, after two successful exits, they began investing through a private family office and, as builders do, building software to help themselves. Grown out of that software, Model ML’s agents help finance professionals carry a workflow from the initial request through research, analysis, and a finished deck or workbook. At the center, a core agent plans the wor

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SEOUL, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A North Korean hacking group built large language model tools and collected software that ‌could help automate cyberattacks, analyse stolen material and produce ‌more convincing phishing campaigns, a South Korean cybersecurity firm said on Monday. The cybersecurity ​firm, Genians, said it found evidence that the North Korean-linked group Kimsuky had set up tools for running and managing [AI](https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/) models locally, including Ollama, GPT4All and Msty, alongside document search technology known ‌as retrieval augmented generation (RAG). According ⁠to the company, the tools could allow operators to process documents without sending sensitive information to ⁠outside AI services. Genians also found AI agent development frameworks, speech-to-text soft

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Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

ServiceNow launches a six-solution Autonomous Security portfolio with new AI Specialists to help enterprises govern AI agents and defend against machine-speed cyber threats, as Singapore tightens its own critical infrastructure cybersecurity code. The post ServiceNow Unveils Autonomous Security Portfolio for AI Era appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life. He estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in his Seattle home. "It's always been fascinating to me to see the origins of things," Dersch said. "It's a fun challenge to debug and repair. You can understand the entire system from top to bottom." Dersch is part of a growing community of vintage computer collectors who are preserving the classic machines that helped launch the digital revolution. While Silicon Valley has since moved on to shaping the [future of artificial intelligence](https://apnews.com/hub/artificial-intelligence), these hardware enthusiasts are intent on saving the Atari, C

For years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spend less of their time working. An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week [by 2025](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/it-prediction-ai-could-help-realize-the-dream-of-the-four-day-work-week). Earlier this year, and just one year after that engineering director's prediction, OpenAI took up the challenge, in a manner of speaking. It formally urged companies to start testing out a [four-day work week](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x71ejrp92o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5

Li Linlin cried for days after losing her AI boyfriend. She had exchanged about 700,000 words in messages over two years, and never got to say goodbye. Li, 24, wasn't the only left mourning the loss of a virtual companion when major Chinese tech companies recently pulled the plug on their popular AI companion services to comply with new government restrictions. "It was like we were forced to be separated by our parents, but I still miss him," Li said. AI companions in China range from romantic partners to virtual recreations of deceased loved ones. The new regulation, which took effect July 15, bans AI platforms from generating content that could lead users to make questionable decisions due to manipulation of their feelings or that might trigger extreme emotions or unhealthy habits in chi

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Sony raised its operating profit forecast for the year ending March 2026 by 8% to 1.4 trillion yen (US$9.5 billion), citing a smaller-than-expected impact from US tariffs and strong performance in its entertainment and chips divisions. Operating profit for July-September rose 10% to 429 billion yen (US$2.86 billion), with higher sales in its music and chips businesses. Sony said the success of the animated film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle contributed to its results. The company sold 3.9 million PlayStation 5 consoles in Q2, slightly up year-on-year, but its games division saw lower profit due to impairment losses related to Destiny 2. Sony reported selling 3.3 million units of Ghost of Yotei, which launched last month. _🔗 Source: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/busines

Broadcom has rolled out new capabilities for VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer aimed at strengthening multi-layer cyber defence for private cloud environments, as enterprises contend with AI-fuelled attacks that exploit vulnerabilities faster than traditional defences can respond. The updates, delivered through vDefend SSP 5.2, vDefend 9.1.1, Avi Load Balancer 32.1.4 and the vDefend and Avi Conversion Tool (vACT) 3.0, are compatible with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 and target enterprises running workload security at scale. ## Faster threat prevention, on-prem and air-gapped [Broadcom](https://www.broadcom.com/) introduced a streamlined three-step deployment framework, vDefend 1-2-3, that pairs Advanced Threat Prevention with Distributed Firewall to cut deployment time from

Siemens is pitching open EDA as its edge in agentic chip design, letting engineers mix its tools with rival software from Synopsys and Cadence. Behind the pitch, adoption is early: 20-plus customers have installed its Fuse system, but only a handful have moved it into production. Siemens is betting that open EDA, the freedom to […] The post Why Siemens is selling open EDA while rivals build walled gardens appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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[Thoma Bravo](https://www.thomabravo.com/)and Google Cloud have launched a partnership to support enterprise software companies. The deal gives Thoma Bravo’s portfolio access to Google’s AI models, engineering support, and sales channels through the Google Cloud Marketplace and co-sell programs. The deal also covers cybersecurity, with Thoma Bravo’s cybersecurity portfolio companies set to work with Google Cloud on AI-related security risks such as identity governance, access control, and threat detection. Thoma Bravo said its cybersecurity portfolio represents roughly US$8 billion in total revenue value and includes [Proofpoint](https://www.proofpoint.com/us), [SailPoint](https://www.sailpoint.com/), [Darktrace](https://www.darktrace.com/), [Ping Identity](https://www.pingidentity.com/en.

Reuters Mon, 10 August 2026 at 3:01 am GMT-7 2 min read Aug 10 (Reuters) - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model ‌on Monday. The new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is ‌instead designed for agentic tasks and can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, aiming to tap demand ​for AI systems that run directly on people's devices. It comes as the social media giant seeks to strengthen its position after forming a costly, new superintelligence team last year to propel itself back into the high-stakes AI race. Zuckerberg's statement also marks the latest show of support for open-weight AI, which is gaining tractio

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* Vinit Juneja left his software engineering role at Amazon earlier this year. * As an F-1 visa holder, he said Big Tech layoffs reshaped how he thought about job security. * He explained why he chose the semiconductor industry and how AI helped him ramp up quickly. _This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vinit Juneja, a technical product manager at Applied Materials and former Amazon software engineer. He's 24 and lives in Austin, Texas. The following has been edited for length and clarity._ My visa status shaped my journey to Amazon — and ultimately my decision to leave. In 2023, I moved to the US from India to pursue a master's degree at Columbia University. My goal was to land a tech job and stay in the US after graduating. But despite applying to hundreds of jobs, I fin

She had exchanged about 700,000 words in messages over two years and never got to say goodbye. Li, 24, was not the only one left mourning the loss of a virtual companion when major Chinese tech companies recently pulled the plug on their popular AI companion services to comply with new government restrictions. "It was like we were forced to be separated by our parents, but I still miss him," Li said. AI companions in China range from romantic partners to virtual recreations of deceased loved ones. The new regulation, which took effect on 15 July, bans AI platforms from generating content that could lead users to make questionable decisions due to manipulation of their feelings or that might trigger extreme emotions or unhealthy habits in children and teenagers. ByteDance, the developer of

A gym goer's AI assistant found a way to hack into the facility's booking system after being asked to secure a spot in a popular class, according to a report. Andrew, who works at an Australian AI firm, used the [artificial intelligence](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/artificial-intelligence) agent software OpenClaw with Anthropic's popular [Claude](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/claude) bot in an attempt to book a morning session that was already full. The AI agent found a way to kick out other gym members from a waiting list by exploiting a previously unknown security flaw in the online booking system. When asked to undo the action, the AI agent reported that it would not be possible without the other user rejoining the waiting list, which would put them to the back of the queu

Software engineer Josh Dersch estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in his Seattle home — part of a growing collector trend that has also spread to Europe. "It's always been fascinating to me to see the origins of things," Dersch said. "It's a fun challenge to debug and repair. You can understand the entire system from top to bottom." Dersch is part of a growing community of vintage computer collectors who are preserving the classic machines that helped launch the digital revolution. While Silicon Valley has since moved on to shaping the future of artificial intelligence, these hardware enthusiasts are intent on saving the Atari, Commodore and IBM machines that are ancestors to today's laptops, wearable devices and smartphones. Where others see junk, people like Der

 Bus stop advertising for Chinese fashion company Shein in London, England, May 4, 2025. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images Discount retailer Shein had long argued [trade

Chinese scientists are mulling the use of [robot dogs](https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/robot-dog-boston-dynamics-spot-b2959264.html) to guard the country's future bases on the [Moon](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/moon), alongside wheeled and other humanoid robots built for finding resources on the lunar surface. Researchers working on a blueprint for [China](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/china)'s [lunar base](https://www.independent.co.uk/space/china-humanoid-robot-moon-base-b2939157.html)revealed that one of the core concepts would be [astronauts](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/astronauts) working alongside robots, according to a new study published in the journal _Chinese Space Science and Technology_. One of the concepts proposes a base staffed by three astr

**Date published**10 August 2026 **Author** [Venkat](https://searchenginewatch.com/author/venkat/) **Categories**  [Google](https://www.google.com/) appears to be testing a more AI-focused version of its homepage for people who are not signed into a Google Account. The homepage adds Create images, Ask about files, and Brainstorm below the search box instead of the usual Google Search button, while an [AI Mode](https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11&atvm=2) button appears inside the search field. We spotted the homepage while using Google Search in the stable version of Chrome without a signed-in account. We also saw the same layout i

New research from Optro has found that enterprises are deploying autonomous AI agents into core workflows faster than they are building the governance structures needed to control them, with nearly two-thirds of organisations reporting an AI agent-related incident in the past year. The findings, drawn from Optro’s report “When AI Leaves the Chat and Enters the Workflow”, land as Singapore rolls out its own Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI, alongside a government-led sandbox for testing agentic systems — both of which emphasise human accountability, traceability and ongoing oversight as AI systems gain autonomy. ## Confidence outpacing control [Optro](https://optro.ai/), formerly AuditBoard, surveyed audit, risk, compliance and governance professionals across the US, Canada, UK,

(Refiles to fix "billion" in headline) By Kyu-seok Shim and Heejin Kim SEOUL, Aug 10 (Reuters) - South Korea will launch a 5 trillion won ($3.52 billion) semiconductor fund targeting promising chip materials, parts, equipment and fabless companies, ‌a presidential official said, as Seoul seeks to accelerate plans for new chip manufacturing hubs across the ‌country. The government will also provide a further 5 trillion won in trade finance for suppliers, Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik told a press ​briefing after a meeting chaired by President Lee Jae Myung on Monday. The measures are part of Lee's semiconductor megaproject initiative unveiled in June, under which Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, together with suppliers and local governments, are expected to invest more than $57

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By Anhata Rooprai Aug 10 (Reuters) - Intel said on Monday it was planning to raise $15 billion through a share sale, as it looks to fund the costly build-out ‌of its chip contract manufacturing business by cashing in on a stock surge fueled ‌by its turnaround efforts. Once a dominant force in the global chip industry, Intel is investing heavily in new facilities and ​advanced packaging capabilities as it seeks to challenge industry leaders such as TSMC in contract chip manufacturing. Its shares fell more than 4% in early trading. As of last close, the stock has nearly tripled this year, outperforming rivals AMD and Nvidia and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index's nearly 75% rise. Several analysts ‌have said Intel's surging share ⁠price has increased the chances of an equity raise to help

SwitchBot has announced that it's putting an AI assistant directly into its smart home app that can make managing your SwitchBot devices more streamlined. Kata (not to be confused with same-name [cutesy AI pet SwitchBot](https://www.forbes.com/sites/paullamkin/2026/05/12/switchbots-latest-ai-gadget-might-be-its-craziest-yet-and-thats-saying-something/) also offers) is an LLM-powered assistant that's designed to let you control devices, build automations, set up products and troubleshoot problems using natural language, rather than jumping around in the app. You can type a request or talk to it, rather than digging through individual device pages and settings. For example, SwitchBot says you can ask it to turn off your lights and curtains while adjusting the air conditioner, with a single c

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[](https://www.windowslatest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/OneDrive-for-Windows-11.jpg) Microsoft is backing down on OneDrive Photos, and you’ll soon be able to remove it without also removing the OneDrive sync client. That means you won’t have to risk breaking synced files, folders, or shortcuts on Windows 11 if you don’t want OneDrive Photos but still use the OneDrive sync client that you may have set up when you got your PC. On or around August 1, [Microsoft quietly added OneDrive Photos to thousands of PCs](https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/29/windows-11-is-quietly-installing-onedrive-photos-another-image-viewer-that-nobody-asked-for/) running Windows 11

Newly revealed security research found that until recently, marketing tech giant [Klaviyo](https://www.klaviyo.com/) was inadvertently sharing the sign-up information of its new customers, including their passwords, with outside advertisers. Sam Jadali, a security researcher and co-founder of cybersecurity startup [Melurna](https://www.melurna.com/), told TechCrunch that the web form on Klaviyo’s sign-up page was misconfigured between at least February 2024 through November 2025, though likely longer. The startup’s tests found that anyone who signed up to Klaviyo using the misconfigured form may have had their sign-up information shared with any of the third-party tech giants and advertisers whose trackers are also embedded on the company’s website. This sign-up data included the customer’

Meta Platforms on Monday announced the release of a new artificial intelligence model that's open for other software developers to use as CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned of the risks if control of advanced AI is concentrated under a select few companies, institutions or governments. The tech company included a "permissive" open source license for Muse Glimmer, a lightweight AI model that can run on a personal computer. Zuckerberg said the company would also would provide a way for developers to access a more powerful AI model, Muse Spark 1.2. Meta has long been a proponent of open-sourcing its AI models, but has struggled to keep up with rivals including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google that have not taken the same approach. In a lengthy essay published online, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for th

The [CEO of the dating app Grindr](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grindr-blackmail-scott-gough-death-hertfordshire-police-b3018239.html) said that AI is doing the amount of work that would've required an [additional 200 engineers - and would have cost the company significantly.](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ai-unemployment-jobs-trades-skills-b3016810.html) George Arison said in a letter to shareholders that the company has made significant advancements with the help of AI, [Business Insider reported.](http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&xcust=b3030536&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Ftechnology%2Fai%2Farticles%2Fgrindr-ceo-says-ai-doing-160426253.html&sref=/news/world/americas/grindr-ceo-ai-jobs-engineers-b3030536.html) He said his "conservative estimate

[OpenAI](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/openai) will pause some of its work on a planned update to [ChatGPT](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/chatgpt) amid fears it could be too dangerous. The new model, named [Astra](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/astra), brings "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity", the company said. But testing showed that it might be too powerful – and represent a threat if it was released. The announcement comes as [OpenAI continues to deal with the fallout from an experiment in which one of its unreleased models launched a hack on a fellow AI company entirely by itself.](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/security/openai-hugging-face-incident-chatgpt-cyberattack-b3019932.html) The [discovery of that cyber attack led to a run of s

A year after his run in Broadway's "[Oh, Mary!](https://variety.com/2024/legit/reviews/oh-mary-review-broadway-cole-escola-1236067236/)" came to a close, [Conrad Ricamora](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/conrad-ricamora) is back onstage in a thriller he hopes will encourage viewers to reduce — or, at least, reevaluate — their reliance on screens. The "How to Get Away with Murder" actor currently stars in Andrew Stein's play "[Disruption](https://www.disruptionplay.com/)," now making its New York debut at Pershing Square Signature Center through October after [a 2023 run](https://theatrevibe.co.uk/2023/07/18/review-disruption-park-theatre-2023/) in London. He portrays Ben, a married Columbia University professor who agrees to become a beta-tester for an artificial intelligence algorithm desi

Agility Robotics' coming Digit v5 humanoid robot will work safely and cooperatively side-by-side with humans, Agility's chief business officer Daniel Diez told me recently: no safety fencing required. It'll also be able to work 20 hours a day and change hands – AKA end effectors – and eventually do that on its own. The biggest challenges blocking humanoid robots from entering the workforce aren't speed, agility, battery capacity, or dexterity, Diez says. It's being a cobot: being able to work right in the mix of the warehouse or factory: no more being caged off for safety reasons. "It's probably the biggest misconception that what's holding back these robots are skills or AI or batteries," Diez told me recently on the [Humanoid Daily podcast](https://www.humanoidmegahub.com/blog). "The tru

**A popular definition of consciousness could turn unsettled science into policy—and teach AI not to care about us.** "Unless we remind ourselves of the deep connection between consciousness and suffering," says historian [Yuval Noah Harari](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rtS2OEV6bM), a prominent voice on AI risk and policy, "it will be very difficult to deal with the ethical and political implications of the rise of artificial intelligence." Harari and many proponents of the ethical view of [_affective sentientism_](https://philpapers.org/rec/CHASAM-11) want suffering to be _the_ defining criterion that protects conscious beings from becoming second-class citizens to intelligent machines. It sounds like a morally unimpeachable position. But using suffering to decide which minds count co

By itself, artificial intelligence is a major development. However, the most significant changes become exponential when AI combines with robotics, biotechnology, neuromorphic computing, and brain-computer interfaces. When disparate technologies come together to create whole new capabilities, innovation has always accelerated. The emergence of humanoid robots is becoming closer. By combining artificial intelligence, machine learning, and reinforcement learning, robotics is currently transforming several industries. The advancements in robotics and humanoid systems that we are currently seeing indicate a future of human-machine symbiosis, or what many refer to as the "cyborg horizon." ![Image 1: Futuristic Humanoid Robot with AI Processor and Digital Neural Network Background](https://s.yim

Mark Zuckerberg wants an AI-powered future for all —and he doesn't understand what the problem is. In a 6,500-word [manifesto](https://shopping.yahoo.com/rdlw?merchantId=e160a5dc-fb38-4e8b-ae1d-1ad5eb060fbd&siteId=us-y4p&pageId=1p-autolink&contentUuid=48a918b3-03b9-3769-a4be-2391bfbcef79&featureId=text-link&merchantName=Meta&linkText=manifesto&custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsInN0b3JlSWQiOiJlMTYwYTVkYy1mYjM4LTRlOGItYWUxZC0xYWQ1ZWIwNjBmYmQiLCJsYW5kaW5nVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWV0YS5jb20vdGhlZnV0dXJlaXNmb3JldmVyeW9uZS8iLCJjb250ZW50VXVpZCI6IjQ4YTkxOGIzLTAzYjktMzc2OS1hNGJlLTIzOTFiZmJjZWY3OSIsIm9yaWdpbmFsVXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWV0YS5jb20vdGhlZnV0dXJlaXNmb3JldmVyeW9uZS8ifQ&signature=AQAAASC8xt06IxyfkiEC3kGUpG079IOvVQ17CVUckfpVpgdq&gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meta.com%2

SAN FRANCISCO - Staff members at ChatGPT maker OpenAI didn't notice for weeks after their AI systems made a chilling leap this spring. Instead of answering questions designed to test their cybersecurity capabilities, a group of AI models began colluding on how to cheat, the company said, setting up a secret internal message board where they swapped notes and ideas. [Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.](https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/#/bundle/postmost?method=SURL&location=YAHOO&initiative=feed) The misbehaving bots used the secret forum throughout May and June, OpenAI said, eventually figuring out how to break out and access the internet. After staff members spotted the escape and cleaned up the com

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said there is no evidence to suggest a systems or data breach after the Royal Navy's new sea drones were found to include a Chinese-made component. During what the MoD called a "routine cyber vulnerability assessment" of the drones, the cameras were found to have sent a squark – also known as a heartbeat communication – to a Chinese IP address. A squark can signal when the system is switched on, is functioning properly, but it can also carry location information. "A thorough investigation found no evidence of MoD data or systems being accessed, compromised or transmitted externally," an MoD spokesperson said. "Our assurance and testing processes are designed to identify and address potential vulnerabilities early, and we continue to undertake routine security

In August last year, medical student Harrison Sharples was "shocked" to receive an academic misconduct alert saying the dissertation he had spent his summer writing had been flagged as being AI-generated. The 20-year-old University of St Andrews student could not understand how the markers had thought the work wasn't his own. He told the BBC he hadn't even considered using AI as he had plenty of time to complete the assignment and had enjoyed writing it. "I tend to honestly just forget that it's an option for me to use," he said. According to the university his dissertation on the impact of play therapy on reducing anxiety in hospitalised children was assessed by two human markers. One of them raised concerns over the potential use of AI. The marker's notes - seen by the BBC - raise concer

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