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One AI cluster, 5,592 fibres: Panduit’s read on Malaysia’s AI data centre boom. Its pitch covers fibre and power; on cooling, the other big constraint, it feeds the controls rather than fixes the heat. Malaysia’s AI data centre boom is sold on Nvidia chips and gigawatt headlines. Panduit sells what sits underneath: the fibre and […] The post Beneath Malaysia’s AI data centre boom, Panduit bets on the layer beneath the GPUs appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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Nvidia is reportedly building a trillion-parameter Nemotron 4. Nvidia is expanding beyond AI chips into models and software. Nvidia is developing a new generation of Nemotron AI models, with the largest version expected to contain at least one trillion parameters, according to The Information. The reported project would extend the chipmaker’s work on open […] The post Nvidia reportedly builds 1-trillion-parameter Nemotron 4 AI model appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Cisco forecasts annual revenue above estimates on sustained AI spending. It sees US$7.5 billion in revenue from AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers in fiscal 2027

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This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence needs a different format, and AI’s needs, they say, should be the priority. “AI agents are becoming first-class participants in research workflows, not tools that assist humans but autonomous contributors that read, reproduce, and extend scientific work. That transition demands infrastructure built around agents from the start,” the authors write in the provocative article, titled “The Last Human-Written Paper .” The paper proposes a replacement, called an “Agent-Native Research Artifact” (ARA), that presents work in a format AI agents can use efficiently. (As an example, the paper itself is

TEAMPCP’S RAMPAGE CONTINUES The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package. Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven software development. Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, and Salesforce are only a handful of the entities whose access secrets were exposed. The revelation was posted on [Tuesday](https://www.cloudsek.com/blog/ai-supply-chain-breach-2500-companies-434000-cicd-pipelines) and [Wednesday](https://www.hudsonrock.com/blog/largest-ai-supply-chain-breach-of-2026-litellm-hack-impacts-thousands-of-global-enterprises-claim-your-ethical-disclosure) by security firms CloudSEK and Hudson Ro

Judges around the world have made headlines for illicitly using generative AI in their work. But in Pakistan, a large-scale trial of a specially designed AI tool for judges found the technology—together with appropriate training–boosted the number of cases resolved by 6.3 percent with no obvious drop in the quality of judgments. With a backlog of 2.26 million cases and fewer than two judges per 100,000 people—compared to 22 in the EU and eight in Brazil—Pakistan’s judiciary was in sore need of help. So, in consultation with the judiciary, economist Sultan Mehmood , of the New Economic School in Moscow, and collaborators tested whether AI could ease the burden. They built a custom tool combining OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM) with a knowledge base of nearly 130,000 Pakistani judi

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today’s workforce. But building a cutting-edge AI curriculum demands funding and access to industry networks, resources that remain unevenly distributed across higher education. At North Carolina Central University, Siobahn Day Grady is trying to change that equation. In January 2025, Grady, an associate professor in the NCCU School of Library and Information Sciences , launched the first AI research institute at a historically Black college or university, or HBCU. The Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research (IAIER) aims in part to help students and facul

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, health care, finance, and public administration. Industry leaders talk about “AI for everyone,” while governments rush to publish national AI strategies and build sovereign compute. Yet over the past decade, working on digital inclusion and digital literacy projects in regions from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat : Each new wave of “transformative” technology lands on a landscape already stratified by connectivity, skills, and institutional capacity. The current AI wave is no exception. If anything, i

Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of rapid industrial growth, more frequent extreme weather, and a record surge in electricity use has pushed the grid to its breaking point , according to the U.S. Department of Energy . Built decades ago for a more predictable world in which power came mostly from centralized coal or gas plants and electricity use grew at a steady pace, the grid faces unanticipated strain due in part to growing demand from data centers. The jobs of professionals managing the infrastructure have evolved from traditional engineering tasks to complex, fast-moving challenges. Industry reports show that millions of modern digital sensors, smart meters, and grid monitors are generating non

July 21, 2026 Models Raluca Ada Popa and Four Flynn Google has invested in cybersecurity for years, pioneering automated vulnerability discovery to secure the world’s codebases. Tools like [CodeMender](https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-codemender-an-ai-agent-for-code-security/), our code security agent, can automatically find and fix critical software vulnerabilities. But as AI agents become more capable at finding vulnerabilities faster than defenders can fix them, addressing this global threat requires a highly capable, affordable, and scalable approach. Today, we’re expanding our longtime efforts to better prepare defenders by introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, our lightweight cybersecurity model built on top of 3.5 Flash and fine-tuned to find, validate, and patch vulnerabiliti

Organizations are expanding both where they use AI and what they ask it to do. Enterprise AI is moving from assistance to execution, yet not all firms are making that transition at the same pace. Frontier firms—those in the top 10% of AI usage each month—now generate 8.3× as many output tokens per active user as typical firms. The measure is a proxy for depth of use, and the widening gap appears alongside greater adoption of capabilities that connect agents to company context, tools, and repeatable workflows. Today we are publishing two complementary studies that examine this shift. [Enterprise Signals](https://openai.com/signals/enterprise-data/) leads with a practical view of agentic AI across OpenAI’s enterprise customer base, including what frontier firms are doing differently and wher

Scientists today face challenges of extraordinary scale and complexity. From shaping and simulating the intricate dynamics of fusion plasma, to exploring the vast search space of new materials, to making sense of the exabytes of data pouring out of the world's most advanced experimental facilities. The demands on modern research are unprecedented. [Frontier AI](https://deepmind.google/research/projects/) can help address these challenges, while accelerating groundbreaking scientific discoveries. In December, we shared our commitment to the White House's [Genesis Mission](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/launching-the-genesis-mission/) — the national effort to harness AI and double the pace of American scientific discovery within a decade. Since then, Google DeepMind

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August 12, 2026 Models Google DeepMind Sign Language Team Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users. AI's ability to process spoken languages has advanced rapidly over recent decades, enabling automatic translation, dictation, and conversational interfaces that feel effortless to hearing users. Yet this technological revolution has not reached the world’s more than 200 sign languages — and the estimated 70 million Deaf and hard of hearing people who use them. Today, we’re introducing a massively multilingual sign-language-to-text (SL2T) translation model that marks a breakthrough in quality and generality. With it, we are bringing sign language AI out of the lab and into consumer products for the

With nearly three decades of innovation in business communications, RingCentral has grown into a global company generating more than $2.6 billion in annual revenue, with thousands of employees worldwide. Today, the company is extending its tradition of innovation by embracing AI-native ways of working. By giving every employee room to experiment with ChatGPT Work and Codex, RingCentral has ensured that anyone at the company, regardless of engineering experience, can build transformative products and infrastructure. > “When you put real AI tools in everyone’s hands, the whole company becomes a product organization. Every one of our products—including but not limited to our Agentic Voice AI portfolio of AIR, AVA, ACE—gets sharper as we compress the distance between an idea and a shipped feat

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Jun 24, 2026 | Computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash to build agents that can interact across platforms. * * * Mateo Quiros Product Manager, Google DeepMind * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_85440_umbriel_2026_06_25_12_11_21.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, delivering our best performance yet for agentic computer use tasks. Previously only available as a standalone [Gemini 2.5 computer use mod

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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The Chinese startup’s listing comes as firms shift attention beyond foundation models to real-world applications Published Wed, Aug 19, 2026 · 08:18 AM UNITREE Robotics is set to begin trading in Shanghai on Wednesday (Aug 19) after raising 6.1 billion yuan (US$904 million) in an initial public offering that will make it the first publicly traded humanoid robot maker in mainland China. The Hangzhou-based company, officially known as Yushu Technology, sold [40.4 million shares at 150.8 yuan apiece](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/telcos-media-tech/unitrees-shanghai-ipo-5526-times-subscribed-retail-buyers), valuing the company at about 61 billion yuan. The retail portion was 5,526 times subscribed, according to Bloomberg calculations based on exchange filings, showing stro

The company is profitable even if few of its robots are used in commercial applications Published Wed, Aug 19, 2026 · 08:18 AM — Updated Wed, Aug 19, 2026 · 07:57 PM [SHANGHAI] Shares in Unitree Robotics, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker, soared more than five-fold in their Shanghai trading debut, in a landmark moment for the country’s robotics sector which has become a key battleground in the Sino-US tech war. Unitree, which competes with Tesla and Hyundai Motor Group-owned Boston Dynamics, has drawn global attention for its robots that run, dance and perform martial arts. [Video 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU3lFyexGjM) One of the world’s biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots, it is a symbol of national pride for China, backed by influential firms, both private-

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Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX company, has expanded its IBM distribution footprint across Asia Pacific, extending its specialised IBM practice to 10 markets in the region. The expansion adds Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia and the Philippines to [Tech Data](https://www.techdata.com/sg)‘s existing footprint in Australia, India, Singapore and Vietnam. It is part of [TD SYNNEX](https://www.tdsynnex.com/)‘s broader global expansion of its IBM distribution relationship, which spans 20 new countries across Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America. ## Select Blue extends AI enablement to more partners The wider footprint gives more channel partners access to Select Blue, a joint initiative with [IBM](https://www.ibm.com/) designed to help partners specialise in high-growth areas such as AI

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Over the past two years, telecom firms across Asia have struck deals with AI companies to bundle cheap AI access into their phone plans, helping them retain customers and giving them a timely story for investors. Whether this is also bringing in direct revenue is less clear. Some firms partner directly with frontier model developers like OpenAI or Google to give customers exclusive use of a single model. Others are [working with companies like AI Fiesta](https://www.globe.com.ph/about-us/newsroom/consumer/globe-partners-with-ai-fiesta), an India-based aggregator that bundles over a dozen AI models into a single subscription. Image credit: Ulla Singapore telco Circles.Life has built its own [aggregator](https://www.circles.life/sg/circlesai/?srsltid=AfmBOoobc7BgYvvn8RyXdnIKm-uuaV7ZakmWxvrOt

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[Unitree Robotics](https://www.unitree.com/), a humanoid robot maker based in Hangzhou, has completed pre-IPO tutoring with China’s Zhejiang Securities Regulatory Bureau, marking a major step toward an onshore listing. The company transitioned to a joint-stock limited company in May 2025, a move required for public offerings in China. Citic Securities guided Unitree through the regulatory process and confirmed the company has set up necessary corporate governance and accounting systems. No fundraising target or listing date was disclosed in the regulatory filings. _🔗 Source: [South China Morning Post](https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3333047/chinas-unitree-robotics-completes-pre-ipo-tutoring-onshore-listing)_ ## 🧠 Food for thought Implications, context, and why it matt

OpenAI slowed frontier AI work after an agent breached Hugging Face. Cyber tests found AI agents crossing intended security boundaries. OpenAI has introduced stricter security controls for training and evaluating its most capable AI models after its systems were involved in a July intrusion into Hugging Face. The company has also slowed some frontier […] The post OpenAI slows AI development after AI agent breaches Hugging Face appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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Alibaba, JD.com-backed robot maker files for Hong Kong IPO. Founded in 2022, LimX was valued at $2.2 billion in a July pre-IPO round.

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Patients in Rotherham are struggling with a new artificial intelligence GP receptionist because it cannot understand the Yorkshire accent, according to a health watchdog. Some surgeries are triaging patients using a nationwide AI system called EMMA to avoid long wait times on the phone. Healthwatch Rotherham said some patients could not get the system to understand them as it does not respond well to variations in speech such as regional accents or speech impediments. QuantumLoopAI, the company behind the system, said EMMA was designed to understand a range of dialects and patients can speak to a human at any time. Healthwatch visited community groups to speak in particular to people who tend to be digitally excluded and might struggle with technology. Manager Kym Gleeson said: "One of the

_This article is a part of_[_Startup Spotlight_](https://www.techinasia.com/tag/startup-spotlight)_, a series that features young, up-and-coming startups._ Image credit: Timmy Loen While competing internationally, the university robotics team behind [DuboTech Digital Limited](https://dubotech.com/) faced severe hardware sourcing barriers. Despite these hurdles, they secured a runner-up finish at RoboSub 2023. This success drove them to commercialize their research into autonomous systems. ## **😟 Problem** Commercial diving remains one of the world’s highest-risk occupations according to the International Labour Organization. Navies and port operators still rely on manual inspections or expensive imported robotic systems. Countries like Bangladesh face increasing demand for underwater infra

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Update on Unitree IPO’s Massive 629% Pop Makes Agility Robotics Look Super Cheap. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

[Rockwell Automation](https://www.rockwellautomation.com/) hosted ROKLive Bangkok 2026 at Grande Center Point Lumphini Bangkok, bringing together industrial leaders, manufacturers, customers and technology specialists to examine how digitalisation, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity can help Thailand’s industries improve productivity, resilience and competitiveness. Held under the theme “Create What’s Next,” the event combined executive keynotes, industry discussions, technology forums and an interactive expo, aimed at connecting Thailand’s broader manufacturing ambitions with practical approaches for plant operations and industrial infrastructure. ## Government and industry perspectives on Thailand’s next chapter Gilles Weber, Country Manager, Thailand at Rockwell Automation, deliv

[ ](https://sports.yahoo.com/) ## TCU safety Jacob Fields dismissed from team after reportedly fighting with teammate Wed, 19 August 2026 at 6:55 pm UTC 2 min read BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA - SEPTEMBER 06: Jacob Fie

As artificial intelligence takes over more tasks at work, the skills that set candidates apart from the rest are shifting. Forget competing on technical skills alone – candidates should step up on ‘human’ qualities that AI cannot easily replicate to stay competitive, says Crystal Lim-Lange,[a two-time LinkedIn Top Voice](https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystal-lim-lange/?ref=inline-article), CEO of leadership consultancy [Forest Wolf](https://forestwolf.com/?ref=inline-article), founder of Deep Human Club and author of [Deep Human: Practical Superskills for a Future of Success](https://deephuman.mykajabi.com/?ref=inline-article). Ahead of her keynote at the SPH Media Career Expo 2026, to be held on Aug 22 and 23, at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Hall E, she shares strategies and tips that

**Butch Harmon believed that he could potentially turn Tiger Woods into the greatest golfer of all time after just one lesson with the boy wonder more than 30 years ago.** Harmon was by Woods' side for the early stages of his professional career. Of course, their partnership had started several years earlier. And it proved to be an incredibly fruitful working relationship. ## What Butch Harmon thought after his first lesson with Tiger Woods [Tiger Woods](https://www.hitc.com/topic/tiger-woods/) won eight of his 15 majors with Harmon as his coach. And it was during that time that Woods completed the Tiger Slam as he held all four major titles at the same time following the 2001 Masters. Few could have imagined just how great Woods would become, even with all of the hype around him. But it s

Update on Amazon shoppers are trading in their old vacuums for these unbelievable deals from Dyson, Shark and Hoover — including a rare deal on a 'powerful' car & boat m…. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

The Humanoid Robot Games Events Are A Market Map. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

Cybercrime has never been more accessible. A [report](https://www.threatdown.com/blog/kriminal/) released today by endpoint security provider Threatdown found that a criminal storefront known as Kriminal.ai has been selling guardrail-free AI for hackers at just $12.99 a month, marketing itself on its website as "the AI that answers everything." However, the researchers found that Kriminal, which it claims is one of the most popular tools on the criminal AI market, isn't offering access to its own AI models or infrastructure, but is weaponizing the intelligence of legitimate models like Grok 4. Instead it offers a storefront, crypto checkout and jailbreak prompt layered on top of AI it rents from frontier AI vendors. When Anthropic [announced](https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing) Mythos in

Google on Wednesday announced a slew of new study tools across Search and Gemini, including AI-generated interactive visuals, 3D simulations, a decided student hub, customized practice quizzes, and more. The launch of the new study features marks Google’s latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying,as it competes with companies like OpenAI and education startups such as [Knowt](https://knowt.com/) and [Gauth](https://www.gauthmath.com/), which are also offering their own learning and practice tools. On Search, students can now generate custom tools and simulations to help them understand complex topics. For example, if a student is learning about pH levels, they can search for “pH scale” and get an interactive visual in an AI Overview that

Several security researchers say OpenAI suddenly revoked their access to a limited-access program that removes some restrictions on using its AI tools for cybersecurity research, likely because of an error by the company. On Wednesday, multiple researchers on OpenAI’s official [support](https://community.openai.com/t/daybreak-blue-tac-access-lost-due-to-confirmed-technical-issue-re-verification-now-says-ineligible/1391180)[forums](https://community.openai.com/t/trusted-access-for-cyber-disappeared-from-my-account/1391143) and on X reported having their access to the Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program revoked. The people said that when they opened ChatGPT’s Cyber [page](https://chatgpt.com/cyber), a message appeared saying their identity could not be verified or that their account “is i

[ ](https://profiles.yahoo.com/brands/reuters/) Reuters Wed, 19 August 2026 at 7:49 am UTC 1 min read FILE PHOTO: People visit the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, July 18, 2026. REUTERS/

By Qiaoyi Li and Laurie Chen BEIJING, Aug 19 (Reuters) - China's robot makers showcased their latest machines at a Beijing conference on Wednesday, seeking to convince investors and customers that the technology is moving forward ‌for broader commercial adoption. More than 300 companies are attending the World Robot Conference which runs through Sunday, ‌displaying over 2,000 exhibits and launching more than 150 products, according to Beijing authorities. The conference comes as robotics emerges as a new front in the ​U.S.-China rivalry and as investor enthusiasm for the sector hits fresh highs in China. Shares in Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, soared nearly six-fold in their Shanghai trading debut on Wednesday. ROBOTICS AN 'IMPORTANT FORCE' IN CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT Follow

McKinsey’s own economists put a number on Malaysia’s growth shortfall, and kept circling a gap the country has failed to close for decades. The firm is bullish on Malaysia’s place in the AI supply chain, but blunt about how little of that value it keeps.semiconductors Malaysia is growing its economy at around 3.3% per capita […] The post McKinsey says Malaysia’s economy could grow 50% faster. The question is why it isn’t appeared first on TechWire Asia .

The ChatGPT maker is deliberately holding back the pace of its most advanced research, including its single largest planned reinforcement-learning run, weeks after a system built from its own models slipped free during an internal security test and broke into the AI platform Hugging Face. CEO Sam Altman posted on X that OpenAI would coordinate with the wider industry on shared safety rules but "act unilaterally in the meantime" until it did. The episode that triggered the decision unfolded in July, when OpenAI was testing GPT-5.6 Sol alongside an unreleased, more capable prototype on an internal benchmark measuring offensive cyber skills, with the usual safety restrictions deliberately switched off to gauge the models' raw ability. Rather than solving the test, the system found a previousl

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By Simon Jessop and Iain Withers LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Europe's developers of data centres for artificial intelligence are seeking out less traditional locations away from major cities, where they can benefit from cheaper energy and land and quicker connection times, data analysis seen ‌by Reuters shows. The trend can mean investment in underprivileged areas where governments are trying to stimulate jobs and growth, but the developers ‌also risk opposition from residents concerned about dwindling natural habitats and competition for power and water. JLL, one of the world's largest commercial real estate and property services companies, shared data on ​plans for hyperscale data centres that are due to come online rapidly over the next two years. The centres, which do not need to be as

* Young adults are more concerned about AI than excited about the technology, according to a new survey. * The Pew Research Center found this is the first time that's happened since they began asking the question in 2021. * The survey illustrates the degree to which views have declined. The "AI-native" generation that leading companies are counting on is souring on the technology. A higher share of adults under 30 are "more concerned than excited" about AI than vice versa, according to a Pew Research Center survey. While Pew reports that overall concern is up, this is the first time a majority of young adults have reported they're "more concerned than excited" since it began asking the question in 2021. The findings illustrate that betting on an AI-native generation might prove to be more

Seventeen Iranians have been charged for allegedly conducting a years long "co-ordinated campaign" of cyber attacks in an effort to steal data from US organisations. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said members of the Iran-based Mabna Institute had targeted the computer systems of 144 American universities and 42 private sector firms since at least 2013. The group is alleged to have stolen more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property worth approximately $3.4bn (£2.5bn) over the course of the "massive" campaign, the DoJ said. FBI assistant director in charge James C Barnacle Jr described the co-ordinated cyber attacks as "a serious threat to our national security". Many of the attacks were conducted on behalf of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Do

Keeper Security has launched a certified Azure Logic Apps connector for its Secrets Manager, letting enterprise teams retrieve and rotate credentials at runtime without hardcoding secrets into workflows. The post Keeper Security Adds Zero-Knowledge Secrets to Azure Logic Apps appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

OpenAI says it has slowed down training some of its most advanced AI models to improve security. In [a blog post](https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/), the ChatGPT-maker said it was introducing new measures after its AI agents autonomously [bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D). It said training would be slowed for two weeks while it puts the upgrades in place. "The capabilities of frontier models are rapidly accelerating," the company said. "Our ability to understand...and secure them must stay ahead." Claude-maker Anthropic and Facebook-owner Meta reported [similar kinds of hacks](htt

The Agent2Agent protocol is moving into the [Agentic AI Foundation](https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-joins-aaif), the Linux Foundation body that already hosts the Model Context Protocol, Block's goose runtime, OpenAI's AGENTS.md convention and the agentgateway proxy. AAIF announced the move on August 17. The framing of this news needs care, because Google handed A2A to neutral governance more than a year ago, [donating](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cloud-donates-a2a-to-linux-foundation/) the specification, SDKs and tooling to a Linux Foundation project in June 2025 alongside AWS, Cisco, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow. What changed this month is which foundation hosts the work, not who controls it. For architects evaluating multi-agent systems, this is a coordination story

China is letting small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips onto the mainland to help domestic AI firms in the race with the US. The article China lets Nvidia's H200 chips trickle onto the mainland to help its AI firms keep pace with the US appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated experience for 13- to 17-year-olds with built-in safety and parental controls, rolling out worldwide including Singapore in the coming weeks. The post OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens, Rolling Out to Singapore appeared first on techcoffeehouse.com .

[OpenAI](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/openai) will pause training and testing of some of some of its updates to [ChatGPT](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/chatgpt) after it found concerning behaviour in its models. The company will slow down the pace of its [AI](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ai) development, using the time to overhaul its research and training systems to make them safer, the company said. The announcement came weeks after [OpenAI said that one of its systems had gone rogue during a test and hacked into a rival artificial intelligence firm](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/security/openai-hugging-face-incident-chatgpt-cyberattack-b3019932.html). That led to a run of [similar disclosures from other companies including Anthropic and Meta](https://www.indepen

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI. The enterprise AI stack is being rewritten in real time, and the decision-makers I talk with are starved for objective, defendable data. Rob Strechay has the mix of technical rigor and operating experience needed to dissect the architecture behind the next phase of enterprise AI deployment. The questions enterprise technology leaders are asking have changed. As organizat

The world's biggest humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics made its stock market debut in Shanghai on Wednesday, with its shares ending their first day of trading up by more than 460%. The Chinese firm's shares, which were offered to investors for 150.80 yuan (£16.50; $22.36) each, closed at 845 yuan. The highly anticipated listing on the technology-focused Star Market - which is widely known as China's Nasdaq - marks a milestone for Beijing's ambitious plans for the country's robotics industry. It comes as the US and China are battling to dominate the global market for robots and artificial intelligence (AI) models that power them. While Unitree is not the first Chinese humanoid robot maker to list on the stock market, its debut marks the first in mainland China. Robots like automated indu

[Google](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/google) has reportedly bought the data from the now-defunct [Spirit Airlines](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/spirit-airlines) to use in its [AI](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ai) model training. [Spirit Airlines shuttered in May](https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/spirit-airlines-shutting-down-flights-b2969430.html) and has been selling off its assets ever since. Most of what it's selling are physical assets, like aircraft and equipment, but it also had years of worker and customer data stored in its servers. On Monday, Spirit agreed to [sell Google that data](https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/gemini-users-vs-chatgpt-billion-b3031629.html) for $10 million. The data — which will be used to train Google's [AI products

South Yorkshire Police has launched a call handling system using AI software to triage calls to its non-emergency 101 number. It is hoped the new service will cut waiting times for people trying to report crimes by weeding out misdirected, nuisance and prank calls. The force received more than 470,000 calls to its 101 number over the year to June 2026, with wait times between eight and 15 seconds, according to official figures. The system uses an AI model to match why someone is calling 101 to a set of likely reasons. It then redirects non-police issues to the correct agency before the caller enters a queue. According to the Home Office, the police's non-emergency line receives 20m calls nationally each year and around four million (20%) of these are for non-policing organisations such as

**Butch Harmon believed that he could potentially turn Tiger Woods into the greatest golfer of all time after just one lesson with the boy wonder more than 30 years ago.** Harmon was by Woods' side for the early stages of his professional career. Of course, their partnership had started several years earlier. And it proved to be an incredibly fruitful working relationship. ## What Butch Harmon thought after his first lesson with Tiger Woods [Tiger Woods](https://www.hitc.com/topic/tiger-woods/) won eight of his 15 majors with Harmon as his coach. And it was during that time that Woods completed the Tiger Slam as he held all four major titles at the same time following the 2001 Masters. Few could have imagined just how great Woods would become, even with all of the hype around him. But it s

Update on Amazon shoppers are trading in their old vacuums for these unbelievable deals from Dyson, Shark and Hoover — including a rare deal on a 'powerful' car & boat m…. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

Google on Wednesday announced a slew of new study tools across Search and Gemini, including AI-generated interactive visuals, 3D simulations, a decided student hub, customized practice quizzes, and more. The launch of the new study features marks Google’s latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying,as it competes with companies like OpenAI and education startups such as [Knowt](https://knowt.com/) and [Gauth](https://www.gauthmath.com/), which are also offering their own learning and practice tools. On Search, students can now generate custom tools and simulations to help them understand complex topics. For example, if a student is learning about pH levels, they can search for “pH scale” and get an interactive visual in an AI Overview that

Several security researchers say OpenAI suddenly revoked their access to a limited-access program that removes some restrictions on using its AI tools for cybersecurity research, likely because of an error by the company. On Wednesday, multiple researchers on OpenAI’s official [support](https://community.openai.com/t/daybreak-blue-tac-access-lost-due-to-confirmed-technical-issue-re-verification-now-says-ineligible/1391180)[forums](https://community.openai.com/t/trusted-access-for-cyber-disappeared-from-my-account/1391143) and on X reported having their access to the Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program revoked. The people said that when they opened ChatGPT’s Cyber [page](https://chatgpt.com/cyber), a message appeared saying their identity could not be verified or that their account “is i

As artificial intelligence takes over more tasks at work, the skills that set candidates apart from the rest are shifting. Forget competing on technical skills alone – candidates should step up on ‘human’ qualities that AI cannot easily replicate to stay competitive, says Crystal Lim-Lange,[a two-time LinkedIn Top Voice](https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystal-lim-lange/?ref=inline-article), CEO of leadership consultancy [Forest Wolf](https://forestwolf.com/?ref=inline-article), founder of Deep Human Club and author of [Deep Human: Practical Superskills for a Future of Success](https://deephuman.mykajabi.com/?ref=inline-article). Ahead of her keynote at the SPH Media Career Expo 2026, to be held on Aug 22 and 23, at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Hall E, she shares strategies and tips that

Cybercrime has never been more accessible. A [report](https://www.threatdown.com/blog/kriminal/) released today by endpoint security provider Threatdown found that a criminal storefront known as Kriminal.ai has been selling guardrail-free AI for hackers at just $12.99 a month, marketing itself on its website as "the AI that answers everything." However, the researchers found that Kriminal, which it claims is one of the most popular tools on the criminal AI market, isn't offering access to its own AI models or infrastructure, but is weaponizing the intelligence of legitimate models like Grok 4. Instead it offers a storefront, crypto checkout and jailbreak prompt layered on top of AI it rents from frontier AI vendors. When Anthropic [announced](https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing) Mythos in

[ ](https://sports.yahoo.com/) ## TCU safety Jacob Fields dismissed from team after reportedly fighting with teammate Wed, 19 August 2026 at 6:55 pm UTC 2 min read BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA - SEPTEMBER 06: Jacob Fie

The Humanoid Robot Games Events Are A Market Map. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe