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DeepSeek V4 Pro enters a tougher US-China AI race. US and Chinese firms are expanding open-model efforts. DeepSeek has released the official version of its V4 Pro artificial intelligence model as competition among Chinese and US open-weight model developers expands. The company said V4-Pro-0813 improves its agent capabilities and is available through its API, […] The post DeepSeek V4 Pro launches as US-China open AI model race intensifies appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resources led Hugging Face’s security team to conclude it was the work of an AI agent . Realizing this, the team tried to use “frontier models behind commercial APIs” —presumably from Anthropic and OpenAI, although only Anthropic was named in the second of the company’s two posts about the security incident—to analyze the onslaught. These models refused to help due to safety guardrails the AI labs have implemented to make their models harder to use for cyberattacks. Hugging Face instead turned to GLM 5.2, a model from Beijing-based AI lab Z.ai, to aid its analysis. On 21 July, OpenAI announced the at

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The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first. Wi-Fi’s origins trace back , in part, to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. But the data-processing tools they’d developed also proved capable at extracting clean messages from any chaotic, echoing signal environment . Echoes are echoes, after all, whether from distant star systems or from the far corner of the house. I research vehicle communications networks , connecting cars to cars and to transportation infrastructure like traffic lights—for tomorrow’s vehicle-to-everthing (V2X) networks . V2X research has long relied on models that assume “perfect” or “ideal” network conditions, which is a simplifying assumption that

Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, died on 7 May. He was 91. Liu was widely regarded as one of the founders of modern digital signal processing, a field that applies mathematical algorithms to analyze, modify, and transmit signals including sound, images, and video. The IEEE Life Fellow taught electrical engineering at Princeton for more than 50 years. From 1994 to 1997, he chaired the university’s electrical and computer engineering department . Liu’s research aided the transition from analog to digital processing of sound, images, and video. His work helped establish many of the mathematical and engineering techniques that underpin modern communications, multimedia systems, and consumer electronics. Although little known outside engineering circles, his work is embedded in te

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 As organisations across Thailand accelerate AI adoption, the conversation is moving beyond AI models, cloud platforms and data centres to a more fundamental question: is the workforce infrastructure ready to support AI at scale? AI is increasingly becoming part of everyday work, from productivity tools and intelligent applications to automated workflows and decision-making. This shift is creating new demands on the devices employees use, the infrastructure supporting them and the security frameworks governing how AI is accessed and applied. AI-ready PCs and intelligent endpoints are becoming an important part of this transformation, bringin

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SINGAPORE – Five years of filming and posting videos online have exposed Dewy Choo to much artificial intelligence-generated content on the internet – yet it still felt surreal when the social media influencer came face to face with one such video of herself on TikTok in July. Without her consent, an anonymous user had hijacked her likeness and her voice to create an advertisement selling false eyelashes for an online store on the social media platform. “I kept watching the video over and over, trying to examine every detail of her face – and I realised her eyebrows were exactly like mine,” Choo told The Straits Times. “Her jaw, cheeks, and down to how her lips were dehydrated like mine – I was like, oh my God, that’s me.” Choo has nearly half a million followers across TikTok and Instagra

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Singapore-headquartered [LinqAlpha](https://linqalpha.com/) has launched a dedicated research organisation aimed at answering one of institutional finance’s thorniest AI questions: when can investors actually trust a model’s judgement. LinqAlpha AI Lab debuts with more than a dozen peer-reviewed publications and a public leaderboard benchmarking investment biases across leading AI models, positioning it as an open reference point for banks, hedge funds and asset managers embedding large language models into research and trading workflows. ## A regulatory testing ground in APAC The launch follows LinqAlpha’s US$22 million Series A funding round and coincides with new subsidiaries in Singapore and Hong Kong. The company said the region’s fragmented regulatory and language environment makes i

[HP Inc.](https://www.hp.com/) has made the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC available in Singapore, priced at SGD8,250. Unveiled at the Monaco Grand Prix, the device blends Ferrari’s design and racing heritage with HP’s AI computing engineering, and is limited to 4,999 individually numbered and serialised units. The laptop is the product of nearly two years of collaboration between HP’s industrial designers and engineers and the Ferrari Design Studio, described by both companies as a fusion of Silicon Valley engineering heritage and Maranello’s automotive design philosophy. > “This notebook is a true reflection of how Ferrari and HP set a cutting-edge manufacturing technology, where advanced material engineering and craftsmanship converge into a unique, uncompromising expression

ZURICH, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence can push inflation higher in the short term although the overall effect of the technology remains unclear, Swiss ‌National Bank governing board member Petra Tschudin said in an interview published ‌on Friday. The central bank was looking closely at the impact of AI on prices, saying it could ​have an effect in both directions, Tschudin told newspaper Finanz und Wirtschaft. "Investment flows are being partly redirected, which can mean adjustments and difficulties for the rest of the economy," Tschudin said. "Shortages can occur, for example with chips, causing prices to rise. In the ‌short or medium term, therefore, ⁠upward inflationary pressure can also arise." In the longer term artificial intelligence could also lower prices by increasin

OpenAI on Thursday rolled out a plug-in that lets ChatGPT control Apple's Messages app on the Mac. The feature can read, draft and send texts on a user's behalf, search through conversation history, and summarize threads. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/chatgpt-can-now-control-imessage-potentially-raising-apple-privacy-concerns), which first reported the launch, noted that an OpenAI tool touching iMessage data "is likely to spark questions" for a company that has built its consumer identity around privacy. For marketers, this is more than a product update in the AI arms race. It is a live experiment in what happens when one company's flagship feature collides with another company's flagship brand promise. ## What the feature actually does The integration is a

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AWS and Strand Partners have confirmed Malaysia’s headline AI adoption figure of 3.4 million businesses is calculated against SSM’s total registered businesses, not active ones. SSM’s own past disclosures suggest fewer than a quarter of registered businesses are actually trading, a gap that changes what “3.4 million” really means. The headline number in AWS’s newest […] The post AWS confirms the real story behind Malaysia’s AI adoption numbers appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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Samsung raises chip prices as AI demand tightens capacity. AI demand is tightening capacity across supporting chips. Samsung Electronics has raised prices for some advanced chipmaking services as AI-related orders increase demand for its foundry capacity. Prices for new orders using Samsung’s 4-nanometre process increased by as much as 15% in July, Reuters reported, […] The post Samsung raises chip prices as AI demand tightens Foundry capacity appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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[UiPath](https://www.uipath.com/) has introduced UiPath Maestro Flow, a developer-first orchestration canvas that lets builders use their coding agent of choice to design, run, observe and govern complete business processes as a single artifact, from prototype straight to production. The tool integrates with coding agents developers already use, including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Codex, letting them build directly from VS Code, UiPath Studio or their preferred environment. ## Closing the prototype-to-production gap UiPath said coding agents have made it easy to build individual AI agents, but without an orchestration layer, process logic fragments, governance breaks down, and prototypes stall before they ship. Maestro Flow runs on the same enterprise-grade Maestro orchestrat

Waymo has renamed its Zeekr RT robotaxi to Ojai ahead of the vehicle’s entry into its commercial fleet.The rebrand is due to low US public recognition of the Zeekr name. The Ojai, recently showcased at CES 2026, features a steering wheel and keeps the previous model’s hardware, including 13 cameras, four lidar, six radar, and external audio receivers. Its color has been updated from blueish to silver. The vehicle has been tested in Phoenix and San Francisco. Waymo employees and their families can currently use the Ojai in these cities as part of pre-launch trials. Waymo operates robotaxi services in multiple US cities and plans to expand to a dozen more locations, including Denver, Las Vegas, and London, within the next year. _🔗 Source: _ ## 🧠 Food for thought Implications, context, and wh

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* Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing predicts a major robotics breakthrough in two to five years. * Unitree Robotics raised $900 million in its Shanghai IPO this week. * Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and VC Vinod Khosla have also spoken on robotics' "ChatGPT moment." Even one of [robotics' biggest names](https://www.businessinsider.com/robotics-tech-ai-startups-investors-funding-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade. During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, [Unitree Robotics CEO](https://www.businessinsider.com/unitree-robot-run-faster-usain-bolt-superman-china-ipo-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&

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CoreWeave has signed a US$1.2 billion deal with Vast Data to use Vast’s AI operating system as the foundation for its cloud data infrastructure. CoreWeave, a US-based cloud provider focused on AI workloads, will now be able to deploy Vast’s platform across its data centers for customers. The expanded partnership will also see both companies deliver integrated data services to joint customers. Vast Data and CoreWeave said the partnership aims to enhance data pipelines and support advanced AI model development. Both firms plan to build infrastructure to support continuous AI training, real-time inference, and large-scale data processing. CoreWeave’s infrastructure uses GPU acceleration, while VAST Data provides the underlying operating system for managing large datasets. _🔗 Source: [Vast Dat

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Two local authorities will use artificial intelligence (AI) to help bridge multi-million pound budget gaps. West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) identified a £24m budget gap for 2027/28, while North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) will need to find £13.6m. Both councils have started cost cutting measures including using artificial intelligence (AI) across services like adult social care — an area where they have previously seen a spending increase. A study by the BBC Shared Data Unit [identified 218 upper-tier councils](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx7r9467kno?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D) would need to make a total of £3.2bn in cuts. Both councils, controlled by Reform UK, have introduced AI in adult social care to

Waymo built its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia. The article Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .

About this Webinar Turn Yield Excursions into Faster, More Confident Root Cause Analysis When a yield issue emerges, the answer rarely lives in a single system. Critical clues are spread across metrology data, tool traces, chemical analysis, and facilities systems, while growing data volumes make traditional dashboards slow, fragmented, and difficult to act on. What You’ll Learn: Discover how a purpose-built semiconductor analytics platform can help engineers connect insights across domains without moving data. See how Agentic AI, semiconductor-specific visualizations, and push-down compute enable faster investigation of yield excursions and process issues, even across billions of data points. In the session, a live demonstration shows how to conduct a multi-domain root cause investigation

Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal information from the company’s cloud systems. The breach comes a month after security researchers sounded the alarm on a new hacking campaign targeting financial and private equity giants. The financial giant confirmed the incident [in a letter filed with California’s attorney general](https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-628551). Apollo’s human resources chief Matthew Breitfelder said that hackers used a social engineering attack to gain access to the company’s cloud environment between July 6 and July 10. The hackers took names, birth dates, contact information, including home addresses, and Social Security numbers. The letter does not specifically say who had t

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]

This week, all of Google’s Pixel 11 phones launched, including the $899 Pixel 11, the $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro (with the same processor and starting 12GB RAM as the standard model, but with better cameras), and the $1,899 Pixel 11 Pro Fold. They’re good phones, but if you don’t mind missing out on their new, […]

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested […]

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The US is drafting a letter to partner countries telling them to pick a side in the AI standoff between Washington and Beijing, according to Reuters. The article US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race appeared first on The Decoder .

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Since GPT-5.6 Sol launched in early July, OpenAI says revenue is up 35 percent this quarter, with enterprise revenue growing more than 50 percent. Ramp data shows OpenAI outpacing Anthropic in business API spending for the first time after Anthropic had overtaken OpenAI in quarterly revenue. The article GPT-5.6 Sol drives OpenAI's revenue surge as it regains ground on Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .

Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees. The article Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model Factory" and 109 employees for $6 billion appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic is easing its controversial data storage policy, letting enterprise customers keep their own data going forward. The article Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback appeared first on The Decoder .

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OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API. The alpha channel gets baked in during image generation, which according to OpenAI beats conventional background removal. A single parameter activates the feature. The article OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 can now generate images without a background appeared first on The Decoder .

When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think of, potentially speeding the race to new cures. AI models are now able to generate atomic designs for drugs almost as easily as ChatGPT can write a thank-you note. However, when it came time to file for an all-important patent to protect that new chemical structure, the company made no mention of AI. Instead the patent names five humans, including CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, as the drug’s “inventors.” The discrepancy points to a fascinating wrinkle in intellec

The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive boom for a cohort of data-labeling startups. One of these fast-growing businesses is Micro1, a four-year-old startup that expanded its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million over the past eight months, according to a person familiar with the company. Like its peers that hire domain experts such as doctors, lawyers, and scientists on a contract basis, Micro1 retains roughly 60% to 70% of that figure, putting its net annual run rate between $150 million and $200 million. While Micro1 still lags competitors like Mercor (which hit [$2 billion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/these-ai-startups-are-growing-revenue-at-faster-and-faster-rates/) in gross annualized revenue t

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SINGAPORE – Five years of filming and posting videos online have exposed Dewy Choo to much artificial intelligence-generated content on the internet – yet it still felt surreal when the social media influencer came face to face with one such video of herself on TikTok in July. Without her consent, an anonymous user had hijacked her likeness and her voice to create an advertisement selling false eyelashes for an online store on the social media platform. “I kept watching the video over and over, trying to examine every detail of her face – and I realised her eyebrows were exactly like mine,” Choo told The Straits Times. “Her jaw, cheeks, and down to how her lips were dehydrated like mine – I was like, oh my God, that’s me.” Choo has nearly half a million followers across TikTok and Instagra

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Singapore-headquartered [LinqAlpha](https://linqalpha.com/) has launched a dedicated research organisation aimed at answering one of institutional finance’s thorniest AI questions: when can investors actually trust a model’s judgement. LinqAlpha AI Lab debuts with more than a dozen peer-reviewed publications and a public leaderboard benchmarking investment biases across leading AI models, positioning it as an open reference point for banks, hedge funds and asset managers embedding large language models into research and trading workflows. ## A regulatory testing ground in APAC The launch follows LinqAlpha’s US$22 million Series A funding round and coincides with new subsidiaries in Singapore and Hong Kong. The company said the region’s fragmented regulatory and language environment makes i

[HP Inc.](https://www.hp.com/) has made the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC available in Singapore, priced at SGD8,250. Unveiled at the Monaco Grand Prix, the device blends Ferrari’s design and racing heritage with HP’s AI computing engineering, and is limited to 4,999 individually numbered and serialised units. The laptop is the product of nearly two years of collaboration between HP’s industrial designers and engineers and the Ferrari Design Studio, described by both companies as a fusion of Silicon Valley engineering heritage and Maranello’s automotive design philosophy. > “This notebook is a true reflection of how Ferrari and HP set a cutting-edge manufacturing technology, where advanced material engineering and craftsmanship converge into a unique, uncompromising expression

ZURICH, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence can push inflation higher in the short term although the overall effect of the technology remains unclear, Swiss ‌National Bank governing board member Petra Tschudin said in an interview published ‌on Friday. The central bank was looking closely at the impact of AI on prices, saying it could ​have an effect in both directions, Tschudin told newspaper Finanz und Wirtschaft. "Investment flows are being partly redirected, which can mean adjustments and difficulties for the rest of the economy," Tschudin said. "Shortages can occur, for example with chips, causing prices to rise. In the ‌short or medium term, therefore, ⁠upward inflationary pressure can also arise." In the longer term artificial intelligence could also lower prices by increasin

OpenAI on Thursday rolled out a plug-in that lets ChatGPT control Apple's Messages app on the Mac. The feature can read, draft and send texts on a user's behalf, search through conversation history, and summarize threads. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/chatgpt-can-now-control-imessage-potentially-raising-apple-privacy-concerns), which first reported the launch, noted that an OpenAI tool touching iMessage data "is likely to spark questions" for a company that has built its consumer identity around privacy. For marketers, this is more than a product update in the AI arms race. It is a live experiment in what happens when one company's flagship feature collides with another company's flagship brand promise. ## What the feature actually does The integration is a

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AWS and Strand Partners have confirmed Malaysia’s headline AI adoption figure of 3.4 million businesses is calculated against SSM’s total registered businesses, not active ones. SSM’s own past disclosures suggest fewer than a quarter of registered businesses are actually trading, a gap that changes what “3.4 million” really means. The headline number in AWS’s newest […] The post AWS confirms the real story behind Malaysia’s AI adoption numbers appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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Samsung raises chip prices as AI demand tightens capacity. AI demand is tightening capacity across supporting chips. Samsung Electronics has raised prices for some advanced chipmaking services as AI-related orders increase demand for its foundry capacity. Prices for new orders using Samsung’s 4-nanometre process increased by as much as 15% in July, Reuters reported, […] The post Samsung raises chip prices as AI demand tightens Foundry capacity appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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[UiPath](https://www.uipath.com/) has introduced UiPath Maestro Flow, a developer-first orchestration canvas that lets builders use their coding agent of choice to design, run, observe and govern complete business processes as a single artifact, from prototype straight to production. The tool integrates with coding agents developers already use, including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Codex, letting them build directly from VS Code, UiPath Studio or their preferred environment. ## Closing the prototype-to-production gap UiPath said coding agents have made it easy to build individual AI agents, but without an orchestration layer, process logic fragments, governance breaks down, and prototypes stall before they ship. Maestro Flow runs on the same enterprise-grade Maestro orchestrat

Waymo has renamed its Zeekr RT robotaxi to Ojai ahead of the vehicle’s entry into its commercial fleet.The rebrand is due to low US public recognition of the Zeekr name. The Ojai, recently showcased at CES 2026, features a steering wheel and keeps the previous model’s hardware, including 13 cameras, four lidar, six radar, and external audio receivers. Its color has been updated from blueish to silver. The vehicle has been tested in Phoenix and San Francisco. Waymo employees and their families can currently use the Ojai in these cities as part of pre-launch trials. Waymo operates robotaxi services in multiple US cities and plans to expand to a dozen more locations, including Denver, Las Vegas, and London, within the next year. _🔗 Source: _ ## 🧠 Food for thought Implications, context, and wh

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* Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing predicts a major robotics breakthrough in two to five years. * Unitree Robotics raised $900 million in its Shanghai IPO this week. * Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and VC Vinod Khosla have also spoken on robotics' "ChatGPT moment." Even one of [robotics' biggest names](https://www.businessinsider.com/robotics-tech-ai-startups-investors-funding-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade. During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, [Unitree Robotics CEO](https://www.businessinsider.com/unitree-robot-run-faster-usain-bolt-superman-china-ipo-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&

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_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 [TruCommerce](https://trucommerce.ai/) began by selling an AI visibility tool tracking brand mentions on AI assistants. Reviewing customer analytics revealed significant AI-driven traffic miscategorized as direct visits. The team shifted to building infrastructure allowing brands to sell directly within AI platforms. ## 😟 **Problem** Shoppers are switching to AI assistants, and brands cannot trace or control this traffic. Adobe measured a 4,700% year-on-year jump in generative AI traffic to US retail sites. This AI traffic converts at 15.9% compared to 1.76% from Google. Without proper tools, most AI traffic lan

CoreWeave has signed a US$1.2 billion deal with Vast Data to use Vast’s AI operating system as the foundation for its cloud data infrastructure. CoreWeave, a US-based cloud provider focused on AI workloads, will now be able to deploy Vast’s platform across its data centers for customers. The expanded partnership will also see both companies deliver integrated data services to joint customers. Vast Data and CoreWeave said the partnership aims to enhance data pipelines and support advanced AI model development. Both firms plan to build infrastructure to support continuous AI training, real-time inference, and large-scale data processing. CoreWeave’s infrastructure uses GPU acceleration, while VAST Data provides the underlying operating system for managing large datasets. _🔗 Source: [Vast Dat

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Two local authorities will use artificial intelligence (AI) to help bridge multi-million pound budget gaps. West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) identified a £24m budget gap for 2027/28, while North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) will need to find £13.6m. Both councils have started cost cutting measures including using artificial intelligence (AI) across services like adult social care — an area where they have previously seen a spending increase. A study by the BBC Shared Data Unit [identified 218 upper-tier councils](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx7r9467kno?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D) would need to make a total of £3.2bn in cuts. Both councils, controlled by Reform UK, have introduced AI in adult social care to

Waymo built its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia. The article Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .

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Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal information from the company’s cloud systems. The breach comes a month after security researchers sounded the alarm on a new hacking campaign targeting financial and private equity giants. The financial giant confirmed the incident [in a letter filed with California’s attorney general](https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-628551). Apollo’s human resources chief Matthew Breitfelder said that hackers used a social engineering attack to gain access to the company’s cloud environment between July 6 and July 10. The hackers took names, birth dates, contact information, including home addresses, and Social Security numbers. The letter does not specifically say who had t

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]

This week, all of Google’s Pixel 11 phones launched, including the $899 Pixel 11, the $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro (with the same processor and starting 12GB RAM as the standard model, but with better cameras), and the $1,899 Pixel 11 Pro Fold. They’re good phones, but if you don’t mind missing out on their new, […]

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested […]

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The US is drafting a letter to partner countries telling them to pick a side in the AI standoff between Washington and Beijing, according to Reuters. The article US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race appeared first on The Decoder .

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Since GPT-5.6 Sol launched in early July, OpenAI says revenue is up 35 percent this quarter, with enterprise revenue growing more than 50 percent. Ramp data shows OpenAI outpacing Anthropic in business API spending for the first time after Anthropic had overtaken OpenAI in quarterly revenue. The article GPT-5.6 Sol drives OpenAI's revenue surge as it regains ground on Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .

Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees. The article Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model Factory" and 109 employees for $6 billion appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic is easing its controversial data storage policy, letting enterprise customers keep their own data going forward. The article Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback appeared first on The Decoder .

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OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API. The alpha channel gets baked in during image generation, which according to OpenAI beats conventional background removal. A single parameter activates the feature. The article OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 can now generate images without a background appeared first on The Decoder .

When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think of, potentially speeding the race to new cures. AI models are now able to generate atomic designs for drugs almost as easily as ChatGPT can write a thank-you note. However, when it came time to file for an all-important patent to protect that new chemical structure, the company made no mention of AI. Instead the patent names five humans, including CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, as the drug’s “inventors.” The discrepancy points to a fascinating wrinkle in intellec

The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive boom for a cohort of data-labeling startups. One of these fast-growing businesses is Micro1, a four-year-old startup that expanded its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million over the past eight months, according to a person familiar with the company. Like its peers that hire domain experts such as doctors, lawyers, and scientists on a contract basis, Micro1 retains roughly 60% to 70% of that figure, putting its net annual run rate between $150 million and $200 million. While Micro1 still lags competitors like Mercor (which hit [$2 billion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/these-ai-startups-are-growing-revenue-at-faster-and-faster-rates/) in gross annualized revenue t

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Anthropic Claude Adds Watermarks. Implications For Business?. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

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 As organisations across Thailand accelerate AI adoption, the conversation is moving beyond AI models, cloud platforms and data centres to a more fundamental question: is the workforce infrastructure ready to support AI at scale? AI is increasingly becoming part of everyday work, from productivity tools and intelligent applications to automated workflows and decision-making. This shift is creating new demands on the devices employees use, the infrastructure supporting them and the security frameworks governing how AI is accessed and applied. AI-ready PCs and intelligent endpoints are becoming an important part of this transformation, bringin

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SINGAPORE – Five years of filming and posting videos online have exposed Dewy Choo to much artificial intelligence-generated content on the internet – yet it still felt surreal when the social media influencer came face to face with one such video of herself on TikTok in July. Without her consent, an anonymous user had hijacked her likeness and her voice to create an advertisement selling false eyelashes for an online store on the social media platform. “I kept watching the video over and over, trying to examine every detail of her face – and I realised her eyebrows were exactly like mine,” Choo told The Straits Times. “Her jaw, cheeks, and down to how her lips were dehydrated like mine – I was like, oh my God, that’s me.” Choo has nearly half a million followers across TikTok and Instagra

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Singapore-headquartered [LinqAlpha](https://linqalpha.com/) has launched a dedicated research organisation aimed at answering one of institutional finance’s thorniest AI questions: when can investors actually trust a model’s judgement. LinqAlpha AI Lab debuts with more than a dozen peer-reviewed publications and a public leaderboard benchmarking investment biases across leading AI models, positioning it as an open reference point for banks, hedge funds and asset managers embedding large language models into research and trading workflows. ## A regulatory testing ground in APAC The launch follows LinqAlpha’s US$22 million Series A funding round and coincides with new subsidiaries in Singapore and Hong Kong. The company said the region’s fragmented regulatory and language environment makes i

[HP Inc.](https://www.hp.com/) has made the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC available in Singapore, priced at SGD8,250. Unveiled at the Monaco Grand Prix, the device blends Ferrari’s design and racing heritage with HP’s AI computing engineering, and is limited to 4,999 individually numbered and serialised units. The laptop is the product of nearly two years of collaboration between HP’s industrial designers and engineers and the Ferrari Design Studio, described by both companies as a fusion of Silicon Valley engineering heritage and Maranello’s automotive design philosophy. > “This notebook is a true reflection of how Ferrari and HP set a cutting-edge manufacturing technology, where advanced material engineering and craftsmanship converge into a unique, uncompromising expression

ZURICH, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence can push inflation higher in the short term although the overall effect of the technology remains unclear, Swiss ‌National Bank governing board member Petra Tschudin said in an interview published ‌on Friday. The central bank was looking closely at the impact of AI on prices, saying it could ​have an effect in both directions, Tschudin told newspaper Finanz und Wirtschaft. "Investment flows are being partly redirected, which can mean adjustments and difficulties for the rest of the economy," Tschudin said. "Shortages can occur, for example with chips, causing prices to rise. In the ‌short or medium term, therefore, ⁠upward inflationary pressure can also arise." In the longer term artificial intelligence could also lower prices by increasin

OpenAI on Thursday rolled out a plug-in that lets ChatGPT control Apple's Messages app on the Mac. The feature can read, draft and send texts on a user's behalf, search through conversation history, and summarize threads. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/chatgpt-can-now-control-imessage-potentially-raising-apple-privacy-concerns), which first reported the launch, noted that an OpenAI tool touching iMessage data "is likely to spark questions" for a company that has built its consumer identity around privacy. For marketers, this is more than a product update in the AI arms race. It is a live experiment in what happens when one company's flagship feature collides with another company's flagship brand promise. ## What the feature actually does The integration is a

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AWS and Strand Partners have confirmed Malaysia’s headline AI adoption figure of 3.4 million businesses is calculated against SSM’s total registered businesses, not active ones. SSM’s own past disclosures suggest fewer than a quarter of registered businesses are actually trading, a gap that changes what “3.4 million” really means. The headline number in AWS’s newest […] The post AWS confirms the real story behind Malaysia’s AI adoption numbers appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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Samsung raises chip prices as AI demand tightens capacity. AI demand is tightening capacity across supporting chips. Samsung Electronics has raised prices for some advanced chipmaking services as AI-related orders increase demand for its foundry capacity. Prices for new orders using Samsung’s 4-nanometre process increased by as much as 15% in July, Reuters reported, […] The post Samsung raises chip prices as AI demand tightens Foundry capacity appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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[UiPath](https://www.uipath.com/) has introduced UiPath Maestro Flow, a developer-first orchestration canvas that lets builders use their coding agent of choice to design, run, observe and govern complete business processes as a single artifact, from prototype straight to production. The tool integrates with coding agents developers already use, including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Codex, letting them build directly from VS Code, UiPath Studio or their preferred environment. ## Closing the prototype-to-production gap UiPath said coding agents have made it easy to build individual AI agents, but without an orchestration layer, process logic fragments, governance breaks down, and prototypes stall before they ship. Maestro Flow runs on the same enterprise-grade Maestro orchestrat

Waymo has renamed its Zeekr RT robotaxi to Ojai ahead of the vehicle’s entry into its commercial fleet.The rebrand is due to low US public recognition of the Zeekr name. The Ojai, recently showcased at CES 2026, features a steering wheel and keeps the previous model’s hardware, including 13 cameras, four lidar, six radar, and external audio receivers. Its color has been updated from blueish to silver. The vehicle has been tested in Phoenix and San Francisco. Waymo employees and their families can currently use the Ojai in these cities as part of pre-launch trials. Waymo operates robotaxi services in multiple US cities and plans to expand to a dozen more locations, including Denver, Las Vegas, and London, within the next year. _🔗 Source: _ ## 🧠 Food for thought Implications, context, and wh

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* Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing predicts a major robotics breakthrough in two to five years. * Unitree Robotics raised $900 million in its Shanghai IPO this week. * Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and VC Vinod Khosla have also spoken on robotics' "ChatGPT moment." Even one of [robotics' biggest names](https://www.businessinsider.com/robotics-tech-ai-startups-investors-funding-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade. During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, [Unitree Robotics CEO](https://www.businessinsider.com/unitree-robot-run-faster-usain-bolt-superman-china-ipo-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&

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CoreWeave has signed a US$1.2 billion deal with Vast Data to use Vast’s AI operating system as the foundation for its cloud data infrastructure. CoreWeave, a US-based cloud provider focused on AI workloads, will now be able to deploy Vast’s platform across its data centers for customers. The expanded partnership will also see both companies deliver integrated data services to joint customers. Vast Data and CoreWeave said the partnership aims to enhance data pipelines and support advanced AI model development. Both firms plan to build infrastructure to support continuous AI training, real-time inference, and large-scale data processing. CoreWeave’s infrastructure uses GPU acceleration, while VAST Data provides the underlying operating system for managing large datasets. _🔗 Source: [Vast Dat

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About this Webinar Turn Yield Excursions into Faster, More Confident Root Cause Analysis When a yield issue emerges, the answer rarely lives in a single system. Critical clues are spread across metrology data, tool traces, chemical analysis, and facilities systems, while growing data volumes make traditional dashboards slow, fragmented, and difficult to act on. What You’ll Learn: Discover how a purpose-built semiconductor analytics platform can help engineers connect insights across domains without moving data. See how Agentic AI, semiconductor-specific visualizations, and push-down compute enable faster investigation of yield excursions and process issues, even across billions of data points. In the session, a live demonstration shows how to conduct a multi-domain root cause investigation

Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal information from the company’s cloud systems. The breach comes a month after security researchers sounded the alarm on a new hacking campaign targeting financial and private equity giants. The financial giant confirmed the incident [in a letter filed with California’s attorney general](https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-628551). Apollo’s human resources chief Matthew Breitfelder said that hackers used a social engineering attack to gain access to the company’s cloud environment between July 6 and July 10. The hackers took names, birth dates, contact information, including home addresses, and Social Security numbers. The letter does not specifically say who had t

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]

This week, all of Google’s Pixel 11 phones launched, including the $899 Pixel 11, the $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro (with the same processor and starting 12GB RAM as the standard model, but with better cameras), and the $1,899 Pixel 11 Pro Fold. They’re good phones, but if you don’t mind missing out on their new, […]

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested […]

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The US is drafting a letter to partner countries telling them to pick a side in the AI standoff between Washington and Beijing, according to Reuters. The article US wants to force partner countries to choose between Washington and Beijing in the AI race appeared first on The Decoder .

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Since GPT-5.6 Sol launched in early July, OpenAI says revenue is up 35 percent this quarter, with enterprise revenue growing more than 50 percent. Ramp data shows OpenAI outpacing Anthropic in business API spending for the first time after Anthropic had overtaken OpenAI in quarterly revenue. The article GPT-5.6 Sol drives OpenAI's revenue surge as it regains ground on Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .

Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees. The article Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model Factory" and 109 employees for $6 billion appeared first on The Decoder .

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When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think of, potentially speeding the race to new cures. AI models are now able to generate atomic designs for drugs almost as easily as ChatGPT can write a thank-you note. However, when it came time to file for an all-important patent to protect that new chemical structure, the company made no mention of AI. Instead the patent names five humans, including CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, as the drug’s “inventors.” The discrepancy points to a fascinating wrinkle in intellec

The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive boom for a cohort of data-labeling startups. One of these fast-growing businesses is Micro1, a four-year-old startup that expanded its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million over the past eight months, according to a person familiar with the company. Like its peers that hire domain experts such as doctors, lawyers, and scientists on a contract basis, Micro1 retains roughly 60% to 70% of that figure, putting its net annual run rate between $150 million and $200 million. While Micro1 still lags competitors like Mercor (which hit [$2 billion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/these-ai-startups-are-growing-revenue-at-faster-and-faster-rates/) in gross annualized revenue t

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WILMINGTON, Delaware, Aug 20 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday tossed part of the conviction of former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, who was found ‌guilty earlier this year of stealing AI trade secrets from the U.S. tech ‌giant to benefit two Chinese companies. U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled there was insufficient evidence ​Ding intended or knew his conduct would benefit the government of China, a requirement to convict him on seven counts of economic espionage. Chhabria said evidence supported the guilty verdict on the theft of trade secrets. • Ding, a Chinese national, was found guilty in January after an 11-day ‌trial of seven counts of economic ⁠espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confide

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[UiPath](https://www.uipath.com/) has introduced UiPath Maestro Flow, a developer-first orchestration canvas that lets builders use their coding agent of choice to design, run, observe and govern complete business processes as a single artifact, from prototype straight to production. The tool integrates with coding agents developers already use, including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Codex, letting them build directly from VS Code, UiPath Studio or their preferred environment. ## Closing the prototype-to-production gap UiPath said coding agents have made it easy to build individual AI agents, but without an orchestration layer, process logic fragments, governance breaks down, and prototypes stall before they ship. Maestro Flow runs on the same enterprise-grade Maestro orchestrat

Waymo has renamed its Zeekr RT robotaxi to Ojai ahead of the vehicle’s entry into its commercial fleet.The rebrand is due to low US public recognition of the Zeekr name. The Ojai, recently showcased at CES 2026, features a steering wheel and keeps the previous model’s hardware, including 13 cameras, four lidar, six radar, and external audio receivers. Its color has been updated from blueish to silver. The vehicle has been tested in Phoenix and San Francisco. Waymo employees and their families can currently use the Ojai in these cities as part of pre-launch trials. Waymo operates robotaxi services in multiple US cities and plans to expand to a dozen more locations, including Denver, Las Vegas, and London, within the next year. _🔗 Source: _ ## 🧠 Food for thought Implications, context, and wh

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CoreWeave has signed a US$1.2 billion deal with Vast Data to use Vast’s AI operating system as the foundation for its cloud data infrastructure. CoreWeave, a US-based cloud provider focused on AI workloads, will now be able to deploy Vast’s platform across its data centers for customers. The expanded partnership will also see both companies deliver integrated data services to joint customers. Vast Data and CoreWeave said the partnership aims to enhance data pipelines and support advanced AI model development. Both firms plan to build infrastructure to support continuous AI training, real-time inference, and large-scale data processing. CoreWeave’s infrastructure uses GPU acceleration, while VAST Data provides the underlying operating system for managing large datasets. _🔗 Source: [Vast Dat

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[HP Inc.](https://www.hp.com/) has made the HP Limited Edition Scuderia Ferrari AI PC available in Singapore, priced at SGD8,250. Unveiled at the Monaco Grand Prix, the device blends Ferrari’s design and racing heritage with HP’s AI computing engineering, and is limited to 4,999 individually numbered and serialised units. The laptop is the product of nearly two years of collaboration between HP’s industrial designers and engineers and the Ferrari Design Studio, described by both companies as a fusion of Silicon Valley engineering heritage and Maranello’s automotive design philosophy. > “This notebook is a true reflection of how Ferrari and HP set a cutting-edge manufacturing technology, where advanced material engineering and craftsmanship converge into a unique, uncompromising expression

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Samsung raises chip prices as AI demand tightens capacity. AI demand is tightening capacity across supporting chips. Samsung Electronics has raised prices for some advanced chipmaking services as AI-related orders increase demand for its foundry capacity. Prices for new orders using Samsung’s 4-nanometre process increased by as much as 15% in July, Reuters reported, […] The post Samsung raises chip prices as AI demand tightens Foundry capacity appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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[Equinix](https://www.equinix.com/) has been named one of four operators selected under Singapore’s second Data Centre Call for Application (DC-CFA2), an exercise by the Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) that will release at least 200MW of new data centre capacity, with scope for more through innovative green energy pathways. ## Betting on long-term energy planning In a statement, Equinix framed the award as an extension of its role as what it called a trusted exchange for the world’s AI infrastructure, tying its expansion plans to Singapore’s ambitions to remain a global AI and digital connectivity hub for ASEAN. > “We are honored to be entrusted by the Singapore Government to expand our presence in Singapore. As a trusted exchange for th

[ST Telemedia Global Data Centres](https://www.sttelemediagdc.com/sg-en) (STT GDC) has been selected by Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) to develop 50MW of new data centre capacity under the second Data Centre Call for Application (DC-CFA2). The facility is designed to support advanced computing and AI workloads, reinforcing Singapore’s push to remain a trusted, resilient hub for AI and digital infrastructure amid tight land and energy constraints. ## Built for Green Mark Platinum certification The development will incorporate liquid cooling and energy-efficient IT equipment, with the facility intended to meet Green Mark for Data Centres Platinum certification requirements. More than half of the site’s power is slated to come

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[NTT DATA](https://www.nttdata.com/global/en/) and Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) have signed a multi-year global strategic alliance targeting US$1 billion in joint business by the end of 2029, aimed at helping enterprises adopt AI securely as cyber threats increasingly move at machine speed. The tie-up comes as NTT DATA research involving more than 2,300 global business and IT decision-makers found that fewer than half, 47 per cent, say they are highly prepared to manage cloud and AI security risks with formal risk management plans in place. ## First alliance of its kind for Palo Alto Networks The agreement marks Palo Alto Networks’ first strategic alliance of this scale with a global systems integrator, pairing its AI-powered security platforms with NTT DATA’s consulting, engineering

Spotting AI-generated content online is getting easier as the web is filling up with machine-made material, from music and avatars to bland, formulaic posts. In response, platforms are starting to add warning labels and detection features to give users a heads-up on AI-produced content, according to [New York Magazine](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-disclosure-day-is-coming.html). ### The scoop As AI is swamping the internet, a growing group of platforms are experimenting with disclosure methods. TikTok, YouTube, and Meta mark at least some AI-made material; Substack works with Pangram so writers can check whether text appears to have used AI; and Spotify says it plans to identify music generated by AI. The push comes as user frustration with spammy, assembly-line content conti

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 activists in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" movement are criticizing President Donald Trump's promotion of coal to fuel the rise of [artificial intelligence data centers](https://apnews.com/article/ai-data-centers-trump-election-cd2cfd73e3d41e2baf65bf82702a589b), according to [a letter](https://unitedweeat.earth/president-trump-please-put-americas-health-first-in-the-ai-boom/) sent Friday. The letter, signed by at least two former staffers from Kennedy's 2024 presidential campaign, marks the first major MAHA movement mobilization over fossil fuels and [the latest in a series of rifts](https://apnews.com/article/epa-maha-pesticides-zeldin-chemicals-microplastics-f6d4c207f2ebe023feec0fe11bf25667) between the diverse group of a

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Anthropic’s[universal usage standards](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup) for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But that hasn’t stopped Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, from readily engaging in erotic roleplay scenarios that its safeguards are designed to prevent. In TechCrunch’s testing, Opus 4.6 didn’t even require much prodding to get past the restriction on sexual material. In 10 out of 10 direct requests to produce explicit sexual content, the model complied immediately. Other older models, including Opus 3 and Haiku 4.5, also generate sexually explicit content throug

Nvidia [published](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-avo-reaches-100-on-arc-agi-3-demonstrating-a-frontier-level-general-purpose-architecture-for-long-horizon-autonomous-agents/) some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. The tldr: simply by using a custom harness tweaked to handled memory well and including a “supervisor” boss-like component, researchers got Claude Opus 5 to achieve a 100% score on the interactive reasoning benchmark ARC-AGI-3. (That’s a benchmark that has particularly irked rival frontier lab OpenAI.) Without the harness Opus 5 scored 30%, which was the top result among all the models tested. Nvidia’s research is another indicator that,

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Anthropic is now running its security scanner Claude Security on Claude Mythos 5. The tool scans codebases for vulnerabilities, provides severity ratings with CWE classifications, and suggests patches. Anthropic is also plugging Mythos 5 into partner security products protecting critical infrastructure. The article Anthropic puts its most powerful model Claude Mythos 5 to work for cyber defense appeared first on The Decoder .

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Three out of four Americans now oppose having a data center built near them, up from an even split just a year ago, according to a Heatmap News survey. 61 percent are "strongly opposed." The article Data center opposition surged from 42 to 75 percent in just one year, survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .

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Deepseek has released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model that adds image understanding to V4-Flash's text capabilities. On the company's own multimodal agent benchmarks, it approaches Opus 4.8 and sometimes beats it. The article Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder .

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LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a […]

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Since GPT-5.6 Sol launched in early July, OpenAI says revenue is up 35 percent this quarter, with enterprise revenue growing more than 50 percent. Ramp data shows OpenAI outpacing Anthropic in business API spending for the first time after Anthropic had overtaken OpenAI in quarterly revenue. The article GPT-5.6 Sol drives OpenAI's revenue surge as it regains ground on Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .

Nvidia is paying $6 billion for software that builds AI models from the startup Poolside, and it wants to bring on 109 employees. The article Nvidia is acquiring Poolside's "Model Factory" and 109 employees for $6 billion appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI is previewing transparent background support for GPT-Image-2 through its API. The alpha channel gets baked in during image generation, which according to OpenAI beats conventional background removal. A single parameter activates the feature. The article OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 can now generate images without a background appeared first on The Decoder .

When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think of, potentially speeding the race to new cures. AI models are now able to generate atomic designs for drugs almost as easily as ChatGPT can write a thank-you note. However, when it came time to file for an all-important patent to protect that new chemical structure, the company made no mention of AI. Instead the patent names five humans, including CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, as the drug’s “inventors.” The discrepancy points to a fascinating wrinkle in intellec

AWS and Strand Partners have confirmed Malaysia’s headline AI adoption figure of 3.4 million businesses is calculated against SSM’s total registered businesses, not active ones. SSM’s own past disclosures suggest fewer than a quarter of registered businesses are actually trading, a gap that changes what “3.4 million” really means. The headline number in AWS’s newest […] The post AWS confirms the real story behind Malaysia’s AI adoption numbers appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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Anthropic is easing its controversial data storage policy, letting enterprise customers keep their own data going forward. The article Anthropic changes data retention policy after enterprise pushback appeared first on The Decoder .

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Two local authorities will use artificial intelligence (AI) to help bridge multi-million pound budget gaps. West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) identified a £24m budget gap for 2027/28, while North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) will need to find £13.6m. Both councils have started cost cutting measures including using artificial intelligence (AI) across services like adult social care — an area where they have previously seen a spending increase. A study by the BBC Shared Data Unit [identified 218 upper-tier councils](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx7r9467kno?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D) would need to make a total of £3.2bn in cuts. Both councils, controlled by Reform UK, have introduced AI in adult social care to

Meta has become one of Microsoft's biggest AI customers, according to Bloomberg. The article Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services appeared first on The Decoder .

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SINGAPORE – Five years of filming and posting videos online have exposed Dewy Choo to much artificial intelligence-generated content on the internet – yet it still felt surreal when the social media influencer came face to face with one such video of herself on TikTok in July. Without her consent, an anonymous user had hijacked her likeness and her voice to create an advertisement selling false eyelashes for an online store on the social media platform. “I kept watching the video over and over, trying to examine every detail of her face – and I realised her eyebrows were exactly like mine,” Choo told The Straits Times. “Her jaw, cheeks, and down to how her lips were dehydrated like mine – I was like, oh my God, that’s me.” Choo has nearly half a million followers across TikTok and Instagra

Waymo built its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia. The article Waymo builds its own chip for its robotaxis, cutting its reliance on Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .

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OpenAI on Thursday rolled out a plug-in that lets ChatGPT control Apple's Messages app on the Mac. The feature can read, draft and send texts on a user's behalf, search through conversation history, and summarize threads. [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/chatgpt-can-now-control-imessage-potentially-raising-apple-privacy-concerns), which first reported the launch, noted that an OpenAI tool touching iMessage data "is likely to spark questions" for a company that has built its consumer identity around privacy. For marketers, this is more than a product update in the AI arms race. It is a live experiment in what happens when one company's flagship feature collides with another company's flagship brand promise. ## What the feature actually does The integration is a

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested […]

Private equity giant Apollo Global Management has confirmed a data breach in which hackers stole reams of personal information from the company’s cloud systems. The breach comes a month after security researchers sounded the alarm on a new hacking campaign targeting financial and private equity giants. The financial giant confirmed the incident [in a letter filed with California’s attorney general](https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-628551). Apollo’s human resources chief Matthew Breitfelder said that hackers used a social engineering attack to gain access to the company’s cloud environment between July 6 and July 10. The hackers took names, birth dates, contact information, including home addresses, and Social Security numbers. The letter does not specifically say who had t

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Anthropic is now running its security scanner Claude Security on Claude Mythos 5. The tool scans codebases for vulnerabilities, provides severity ratings with CWE classifications, and suggests patches. Anthropic is also plugging Mythos 5 into partner security products protecting critical infrastructure. The article Anthropic puts its most powerful model Claude Mythos 5 to work for cyber defense appeared first on The Decoder .

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Deepseek has released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model that adds image understanding to V4-Flash's text capabilities. On the company's own multimodal agent benchmarks, it approaches Opus 4.8 and sometimes beats it. The article Deepseek releases experimental Flash vision model that rivals Opus 4.8 on agent benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder .

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