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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 .

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 .

Early numbers say the mechanism underlying the search for viable molecules is real IT IS the 19th century. You visit a young physician, Arnold Cahn, about a stubborn stomach complaint. The diagnosis: intestinal worms. His assistant returns from the pharmacy with a bottle of white powder. You swallow it. The worms are unmoved, but your fever breaks. You have just helped discover acetanilide, the fever drug that would lead chemists to paracetamol. And for most of history, breakthroughs like this arrived by luck. But with the rapid development of artificial intelligence in the last few years, scientific discovery in life science has been meaningfully changed for the better. For example, in 2020, DeepMind’s AlphaFold learnt to predict the three-dimensional shapes of proteins, a problem that ha

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

Update on NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

The work that moves your business forward should never have to stop. Teams are using ChatGPT to take on bigger things: organizing inventory, building marketing campaigns, analyzing business performance, improving customer experiences, and developing new products. As that work becomes more ambitious, our top request from ChatGPT Business customers has been an expanded seat option with more capacity and usage built in. That’s why we’re introducing Premium seats for ChatGPT Business. Premium gives your most active teammates 5x more usage than Standard seats and removes the five-hour usage limit, so they can take on larger projects and work with fewer interruptions—all within the same secure Business workspace. Premium seats cost $125 per user per month, or $100 per user per month when billed

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

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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

We’re bringing OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to the security partners protecting organizations around the world. Together, we’re putting frontier intelligence directly into the products, services, and security operations defenders already depend on. More organizations can now find serious vulnerabilities, fix them faster, and stay ahead of threats moving at machine speed.  AI is changing cybersecurity faster than most organizations can respond. Attackers can identify vulnerabilities, develop exploits, and move through complex systems with increasi

OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas | OpenAI August 10, 2026 [Global Affairs](https://openai.com/news/global-affairs/) [Read the letter(opens in a new window)](https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/oai_abbot-texas-letter_8-7-26.pdf) Listen to article 0:19 OpenAI sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott outlining our commitment to responsible AI infrastructure development in Texas. We look forward to working with state and local leaders, utilities, and communities to ensure AI infrastructure delivers meaningful benefits to Texans. [Read the letter⁠(opens in a new window)](https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/oai_abbot-texas-letter_8-7-26.pdf) * [2026](https://openai.com/news/?tags=2026) ## Author OpenAI ## Keep reading [View all](https://openai.com/news/) ![Image 1: A

_By Sarah Friar_ Finance has become a real-time function. To me, the opportunity is much bigger than closing the books faster or refreshing a forecast more often. It is about seeing the business as it changes, helping leaders act sooner, and giving finance teams more time to shape what happens next. When I joined OpenAI two years ago, there was only a small finance team supporting a company growing at extraordinary speed. We needed to build the function from the ground up and make AI fundamental to how we work, make decisions, and support the business. I also saw a familiar starting point. Closing the books and updating forecasts still involved manual, recurring work: finding information, explaining what changed, and assembling the inputs for a decision. We had access to the most advanced

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Update on Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

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

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

Virgin Atlantic is using ChatGPT Work to help its teams understand the airline’s complex customer journey and deliver better experiences faster. From competitive research to product planning and analytics, ChatGPT Work gives employees new ways to bring information together and move from insight to action. For an airline, the customer journey extends beyond just booking a flight. It includes browsing, purchasing, checking in, traveling, the onboard experience, and sharing feedback afterward. Each stage produces valuable information, often held across different systems and reporting tools. Virgin Atlantic is using ChatGPT to connect those signals and help teams decide where to focus. ## Turning weeks of research into hours As Virgin Atlantic developed its new five-year strategy, its digital

At Zapier, the enterprise marketing team is using ChatGPT Work to build automated funnel optimization systems, enabling them to deliver more value to their sales team with less manual effort. ChatGPT Work operates autonomously, giving the enterprise marketing team space to focus on strategic, creative efforts. > “We can do things that we couldn’t possibly have done before, like performing QA/QC on thousands of leads every single month.” —Angela Ferrante, Head of Enterprise Marketing ## Building a system for automatic funnel optimization Angela Ferrante, Head of Enterprise Marketing, found that Zapier experienced a high volume of strong inbound leads but a similarly high drop-off rate. Why? Answering the question required an intensive quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) process

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Two hundred twenty-five years after Alexander Hamilton founded the _New York Post_, an AI chatbot bearing his name is now helping readers decide what to read there. Open the tabloid's mobile app, and there it is at the bottom. Tap on the Hamilton icon, and the user is greeted by name with a new screen offering "more ways to explore the stories that matter to you." That promise includes an interactive summary of the day's news, along with a personalized digest of stories tailored to the user's interests. "For nearly 225 years, the _Post_ has evolved alongside the way people consume news, from print presses to smartphones and now to AI," Sean Giancola, CEO of the New York Post Media Group, said in an announcement about the new tool. The bot named in honor of Hamilton, he continued, is "the n

Stripe unveiled new products and updates focused on stablecoins and AI at its Stripe Tour Singapore 2025 event on August 20, 2025. The company, which provides financial services tools to businesses, introduced over 50 upgrades across payments, revenue, and embedded finance tools. Stripe said nearly half of surveyed Asian businesses plan to use stablecoins within two years, while 20% are already implementing AI agents. The company now processes stablecoin payments from over 120 countries and recently announced stablecoin financial accounts for customers from more than 100 countries. Stripe also debuted the Terminal S710 payment reader and expanded access for businesses to local payment methods in markets like Brazil, India, South Korea, and Indonesia. _🔗 Source: [Stripe](https://dashboard.s

A free tool that strips AI watermarks from Claude's text appeared on GitHub within 24 hours of Anthropic's watermarking feature going live. Within days, several more showed up, targeting everything from invisible Unicode markers to the signed metadata Anthropic attaches to generated files. If AI watermarks can be defeated that easily, are they built to last, or just for show? That's the question worth asking as Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI all move to mark their AI output, and it has a more useful answer than "yes" or "no." ## Why AI Watermarks Are Suddenly Everywhere Article 50 of the European Union's AI Act became applicable on August 2, 2026, requiring companies that build generative AI systems to mark their output in a machine-readable, detectable format. Non-complianc

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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

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OpenAI is awarding grants to 14 projects led by independent organizations to promote economic opportunity and societal resilience as AI advances. The grants follow through on a commitment we made when we published [_Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age_](https://openai.com/index/industrial-policy-for-the-intelligence-age/) in April 2026: to support others in testing, challenging, and building on the ideas we put forward to ensure that advanced AI benefits everyone. AI is quickly becoming more capable, with the potential to transform how people learn, create, and participate in the economy. Its reach is also expanding: ChatGPT is used by 1 billion people around the world, across geographies, income levels, and demographic groups. Users span every major age group; we have more adult us

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A new £20m research hub is being established in Cambridge to help develop new medicines using artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced laboratory models. The site will be based at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Funded by the Medical Research Council, the hub will work with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH). Researchers will use scientific models based on human tissues and diseases to improve the translation of lab-based research into new medicines. CUH said the hub would create "more accurate ways to study, predict and develop treatments for human diseases before they are trialled in patients". It would also further "efforts to reduce dependence on research involving animals". Professor Matthias Zilbauer, hub co-leader and hon

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) unveiled new DDR5 DRAM chips at the China International Semiconductor Expo in Beijing, joining Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in supplying advanced memory products. The DDR5 chips can reach speeds of up to 8,000 Mbps with a maximum die capacity of 24 gigabits. CXMT introduced seven types of memory modules, including UDIMM for desktops, SODIMM for laptops, and MRDIMM for data centers. CXMT also showcased its LPDDR5X series for mobile devices, with models reaching speeds up to 10,667 Mbps. Global demand for DDR5 memory has risen sharply due to increased AI investments, with prices of certain DDR5 chips surging 307% since September, and supply remaining tight, according to market research firm TrendForce. _🔗 Source: [South China Morning Post](https://www.

The [OpenAI-Hugging Face incident⁠(opens in a new window)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY) was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. I’ve spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and one theme is clear: they know they need to fundamentally uplevel their cybersecurity practices with unprecedented speed. In this post, I’ll share what we’re doing to defend OpenAI, concrete steps other organizations can take today, and why now is the time to act. ## An overview of the moment AI models developed around the world are increasingly able to automate parts of real-world cyberattacks, making longstanding security gaps—from bugs buried deep in human-written software to

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The Republic’s AI scoreboard looks strong. But, in many firms, the whole capability rests on one person SINGAPORE will assume the Asean chairmanship in 2027. But before that, however, the bloc’s 11 member states are expected in November to sign the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (Defa), its first comprehensive, region-wide pact dedicated to the digital economy. Defa establishes common rules that facilitate digital trade, enable trusted cross-border data flows, and crucially, build enduring artificial intelligence capability across a region of more than 600 million people. But a framework carries only what its members can supply. Singapore has moved fast on AI adoption, and the numbers are genuinely strong. The next step is making sure that progress is deep enough to travel, and that i

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* Greg Brockman warned that "time is of the essence" for companies upgrading their cybersecurity. * The OpenAI president said AI-powered attackers will soon be able to exploit vulnerabilities. * Brockman said that, at the same time, AI tools can help companies identify what they need to fix. OpenAI's president is ringing the cybersecurity alarm bell. Greg Brockman says companies need to act now to secure their systems [against AI-powered attackers after](https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-people-react-openai-hugging-face-hacking-cybersecurity-incident-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) the "watershed moment for cybersecurity" that was the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. "I've spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and one t

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Cyberattacks across Asia Pacific are going undetected for months at a time, according to a new report from the [Kaspersky Compromise Assessment](https://www.kaspersky.com/enterprise-security/compromise-assessment) division. The report found that in 31% of incidents analysed, malicious activity had persisted for more than three months before discovery, while 52% of high-severity compromises were only uncovered after 90 days. The oldest incident identified over the past year remained undetected for as long as four years. “You cannot defend what you cannot see,” said Adrian Hia, Managing Director for APAC, [Kaspersky](https://www.kaspersky.com/). He said one of the region’s biggest cybersecurity challenges is that AI-backed attackers are moving faster than organisations can see, understand an

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building artificial intelligence decision-making tools for the military, is raising funding to speed production of its flagship product ‌and make wearable AI hardware designed for the battlefield. The $61 million Series B funding round comes months ‌after the Defense Department declared Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" in March, a rupture that sent military branches scrambling to diversify their AI ​vendors and turned startups like Smack from afterthoughts into hot commodities. That Anthropic fallout led to Smack holding conversations in the spring with the Marine Corps and Navy, co-founder and CEO Andy Markoff said, with both branches of the armed forces pressing the company to speed production. T

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Around 20 people made it known to the Scottish FA that they wanted to be considered to replace Steve Clarke as Scotland's new head coach. Not one of them was interviewed. Not because they weren't capable, but because the computer said no. The days of board members sifting through applicants and picking the best are long gone thanks to football analytics and AI. Computers don't choose coaches but they are playing a bigger part in the process than ever before. And so when Steve Clarke called time on his seven years in charge of Scotland, the SFA approached sporting intelligence company Twenty First Group for help. Fans might know little about [Sebastian Pocognoli](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdx75z0ngylo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%

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Bad news for those who get their updates through RSS feeds: [Feedly](http://feedly.com/), the largest standalone RSS reader worldwide, has experienced technical issues for over a week, and paying users are upset that the web app has been “unusably slow.” Some users have also reported that the company has ignored their support requests. _Uh-oh._ Feedly, the [heir to the market ceded by Google](https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/01/now-with-3-million-new-users-google-readers-heir-apparent-feedly-relaunches-on-ios-android-reveals-how-it-plans-to-make-money/) when it [closed](https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/rip-google-reader/) Google Reader in 2013, is today among the most successful RSS newsreaders globally with 15 million users, according to its [website](https://feedly.com/new-features/posts/

Startup Groq has [raised](https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-closes-usd350-million-series-a-building-the-world-s-leading-ai-inference-cloud) $350 million as it continues to pivot from an AI chipmaker to a neocloud company that provides powerful GPUs and AI infrastructure services. The new capital, led by investment firm Disruptive with planned participation from Nvidia, values the company at $3.5 billion. That’s down from the [$6.9 billion Groq](https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/nvidia-ai-chip-challenger-groq-raises-even-more-than-expected-hits-6-9b-valuation/) was valued at last September, just a few months before Nvidia [hired the startup’s founder](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-acquires-ai-chip-challenger-groq-for-20b-report-says/) and CEO, Jonathan Ross, and other top talent as

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Apple reportedly built a China-specific AI model with Alibaba. Apple uses different AI partners in China and other markets. Apple has developed a large language model specifically for China with support from Alibaba, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. The project marks a change from Apple’s earlier plan to rely primarily […] The post Apple builds China-specific AI model with Alibaba support appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Beau Gaston does not describe his robot as a thing of beauty. Standing at around seven feet tall, it is, in Mr Gaston's words, "creepy". Known as the Satyress Threehalves, the device resembles a mythical metal monster. But its frightening aesthetic is offset by its life-saving utility, protecting forestry workers sent into areas devastated by wildfires. It is estimated that last January's [California wildfires](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/california-wildfires), which claimed 31 lives, caused more than $250bn (£185bn) of damage, destroying 18,000 structures. Some of Hollywood's best-known residents, including Sir Anthony Hopkins, Mel Gibson and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, were among those whose homes were destroyed. ![Image 1: The Palisades Fire ravages a neighbourhood amid high winds on the edge

* New Hugging Face data shows a gap between the AI models developers talk about and those they use. * Smaller models dominate downloads even though they get little hype online. * The company compared the most-downloaded models with the most-liked models on its platform. The AI models getting the most attention aren't the ones developers are actually using, according to new data from [Hugging Face](https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-ceo-clem-delangue-openai-rogue-agent-hack-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo). Hugging Face is a platform where developers publish, share, and download AI models. Users can also "like" models, a signal of interest, while downloads offer a picture of actual usage. The company compared the 25 models wit

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By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Aug 17 (Reuters) - AI and alcohol have three main similarities, according to Beijing bar owner Song De: hallucinations, bubbles and distillation. As AI enthusiasm sweeps across China, Song hopes his bar can ride the wave. He opened AGI Bar, ‌named after the concept of artificial general intelligence where AI systems surpass human intelligence, last year in Zhongguancun, the capital's high-tech neighbourhood ‌in Haidian district. It is now a hub for Beijing's AI developers, investors and students. "You'll see people sitting around a table coming from different labs, competing companies, and different universities, all ​chatting about industry trends right here," said Song, an independent AI developer in his thirties who runs the bar in his spare time. Located on Zhon

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text approach" - an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities. This […]

Update on Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree to list in Shanghai on August 19. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

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[Sainsbury's](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/sainsbury's) has suspended its live AI [facial recognition](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/facial-recognition) scanning technology at one of its [London](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/london) stores after a customer was wrongly flagged as a shoplifter. Matt Arnold, 46, was forced to leave the East Dulwich branch earlier this month in an incident described as "human error" by the supermarket giant. Mr Arnold had been trying to purchase alcohol when he was identified by the [AI technology](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sainsburys-facial-recognition-supermarket-cctv-b2818405.html) in connection with an incident that had taken place that week. The comedy promoter described it as a "terrifying glimpse of the future"

Update on ByteDance signs AI copyright pact with Hollywood trade group. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

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OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio. Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the residual value of the facilities and becomes the exclusive chip supplier. According to the Wall Street Journal, nine tech companies now hold around $3 trillion in AI commitments that don't appear on any balance sheet. The article OpenAI signs record Ohio data center lease with Nvidia backing up to $105 billion appeared first on The Decoder .

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* Greg Brockman warned that "time is of the essence" for companies upgrading their cybersecurity. * The OpenAI president said AI-powered attackers will soon be able to exploit vulnerabilities. * Brockman said that, at the same time, AI tools can help companies identify what they need to fix. OpenAI's president is ringing the cybersecurity alarm bell. Greg Brockman says companies need to act now to secure their systems [against AI-powered attackers after](https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-people-react-openai-hugging-face-hacking-cybersecurity-incident-2026-7?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) the "watershed moment for cybersecurity" that was the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. "I've spoken with many organizations over the past few weeks, and one t

Bad news for those who get their updates through RSS feeds: [Feedly](http://feedly.com/), the largest standalone RSS reader worldwide, has experienced technical issues for over a week, and paying users are upset that the web app has been “unusably slow.” Some users have also reported that the company has ignored their support requests. _Uh-oh._ Feedly, the [heir to the market ceded by Google](https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/01/now-with-3-million-new-users-google-readers-heir-apparent-feedly-relaunches-on-ios-android-reveals-how-it-plans-to-make-money/) when it [closed](https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/rip-google-reader/) Google Reader in 2013, is today among the most successful RSS newsreaders globally with 15 million users, according to its [website](https://feedly.com/new-features/posts/

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building artificial intelligence decision-making tools for the military, is raising funding to speed production of its flagship product ‌and make wearable AI hardware designed for the battlefield. The $61 million Series B funding round comes months ‌after the Defense Department declared Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" in March, a rupture that sent military branches scrambling to diversify their AI ​vendors and turned startups like Smack from afterthoughts into hot commodities. That Anthropic fallout led to Smack holding conversations in the spring with the Marine Corps and Navy, co-founder and CEO Andy Markoff said, with both branches of the armed forces pressing the company to speed production. T

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Update on GitHub Copilot Missed A Vulnerability That Wiz’s AI Agent Found. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

Around 20 people made it known to the Scottish FA that they wanted to be considered to replace Steve Clarke as Scotland's new head coach. Not one of them was interviewed. Not because they weren't capable, but because the computer said no. The days of board members sifting through applicants and picking the best are long gone thanks to football analytics and AI. Computers don't choose coaches but they are playing a bigger part in the process than ever before. And so when Steve Clarke called time on his seven years in charge of Scotland, the SFA approached sporting intelligence company Twenty First Group for help. Fans might know little about [Sebastian Pocognoli](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdx75z0ngylo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%

The Republic’s AI scoreboard looks strong. But, in many firms, the whole capability rests on one person SINGAPORE will assume the Asean chairmanship in 2027. But before that, however, the bloc’s 11 member states are expected in November to sign the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (Defa), its first comprehensive, region-wide pact dedicated to the digital economy. Defa establishes common rules that facilitate digital trade, enable trusted cross-border data flows, and crucially, build enduring artificial intelligence capability across a region of more than 600 million people. But a framework carries only what its members can supply. Singapore has moved fast on AI adoption, and the numbers are genuinely strong. The next step is making sure that progress is deep enough to travel, and that i