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Singapore is positioning artificial intelligence as both an economic opportunity and a workforce challenge, with new initiatives aimed at helping businesses and workers adapt to changing job demands. Speaking at the SCS Tech3 Forum, Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo outlined a three-part strategy focused on keeping Singapore, its businesses and its people relevant in the AI era. Her remarks, published by the [Ministry of Digital Development and Information](https://www.mddi.gov.sg/newsroom/opening-address-by-minister-josephine-teo-at-scs-tech3-forum/), highlighted the government’s emphasis on AI adoption, skills development and long-term competitiveness. The minister acknowledged growing concerns about the impact of AI on employment, including anxieties among f

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Google expanded its Marvell AI chip deal, tied to up to $120 billion in revenue. Big Tech is building custom AI chips alongside Nvidia and AMD hardware. Google is expanding Marvell Technology’s role in its custom AI chip supply chain under an agreement covering several parts of its tensor processing unit infrastructure. Marvell described […] The post Google expands Marvell partnership for custom AI chips appeared first on TechWire Asia .

U Mobile will use OpenAI across operations, cybersecurity, and enterprise services. OpenAI will join U Mobile’s 5G-focused enterprise innovation platform. U Mobile has entered into a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to introduce artificial intelligence across its internal operations, customer-facing services, enterprise activities, network management, and cybersecurity. The Malaysian telecommunications company said the agreement will […] The post U Mobile partners with OpenAI on 5G and enterprise AI appeared first on TechWire Asia .

[CIMB Group](https://www.cimb.com/en/home.html) Holdings Berhad and Ant International have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore innovations in cross-border payments and treasury and liquidity management solutions for businesses in Malaysia. The partnership involves collaboration across Ant International’s key businesses, including Alipay+, Antom, and Bettr Treasury, spanning cash management, treasury and markets solutions, credit and financing facilities, capital markets activities, and sustainability-related initiatives. Both parties will jointly develop a digital framework leveraging Ant International’s next-generation blockchain-based treasury management solution. Novan Amirudin, group chief executive officer of CIMB, said the partnership supports the Forward30 strategy by ac

Apple’s camera-equipped AI AirPods remain on track for 2027 despite video leak. The new earbuds are designed to vault the iPhone maker into the AI wearables market

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose , an open-source AI agent developed by Block (the financial technology company formerly known as Square), offers nearly identical functionality to Claude Code but runs entirely on a user's local machine. No subscription fees. No cloud dependency. No rate limits that reset every five hours. "Your data stays with you, period," said Parth Sareen, a so

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emerging "agentic AI" movement — where software agents work alongside humans to complete complex tasks. The launch comes as Salesforce attempts to convince investors that artificial intelligence will bolster its products rather than render them obsolete. "Slackbot isn't just another copilot or AI assistant," said Parker Ha

Jul 30, 2026 | Gemini Robotics ER 2 represents a step change in powering robots with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration — making it possible for robots to be more helpful in the physical world. * * * Steven Hansen Senior Staff Software Engineer Peng Xu Staff Software Engineer * * *  For robots to assist humans in everyday environments, accurate spatial reasoning is not enough. Robots must also think fast, timing their decisions and reasoning with the real-time speed of the physical world. That’s why today we’re launching [Gemini Robotics ER 2](https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-rob

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August 6, 2026 Science WeatherNext team WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model. Predicting how dangerous cyclones develop is a longstanding challenge where every hour counts. Tropical cyclones — also known as hurricanes or typhoons — are among the most destructive weather phenomena on Earth, responsible for more than 700,000 deaths and $1.4 trillion in economic losses globally over the past 50 years. For forecasters, issuing timely, accurate warnings is a constant race against time. Today, in a paper published in [_Nature_](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10953-2), we show that our WeatherNext AI model achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in predicting a cyclone's track, intensity, and wind structure

July 30, 2026 Models Carolina Parada From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks For decades, we’ve dreamed of robots that can seamlessly step into our world and lend a hand. Now, that vision takes a significant stride forward. Most robots are pre-programmed or teleoperated for narrow, repetitive task sequences. They lack the ability to truly learn for themselves or adapt to unpredictable environments. Moreover, transferring learned skills from one robot body to another remains incredibly difficult. To take on the hardest problems at scale, robots of every shape and size need AI models giving them the ability to think, act, and interact intelligently to safely complete tasks. We dem

OUT OF BAND; OUT OF MIND Baseboard management controllers from the world’s biggest manufacturers are a security mess. A data center corridor lined with rows of locked glass server racks filled with blinking electronic network equipment. Credit: Getty Images Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management controllers are miniature computers that are embedded into the motherboards of virtually every enterprise server. The microcontrollers, typically abbreviated as BMCs, run with their own operating system firmware, network stack, and IP address. Administrators

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Aug 13, 2026 | Our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. * * * * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_85959_umbriel_2026_08_13_21_10_43.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Today, we’re building on the progress of our widely used Flash series by introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash, our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. This release comes just three weeks after [Gemini 3.6 Flash](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-r

Stampli is an intelligent procure-to-pay platform that connects procurement, accounts payable, vendor management, payments, and employee spend. Its Deep Finance™ product transforms the data moving through Stampli’s procure-to-pay platform into executive spend intelligence for CFOs, VPs, and other business leaders. Launching it meant product development, positioning, design, communications, enablement, and operations all moving in parallel, on a fixed timeline, with design resources and outside contractors already committed to other priorities. Stampli’s marketing team used Codex to connect product context, meeting notes, decisions, and messaging guidelines into a shared system. With OpenAI tools, they compressed an estimated 243 hours of production work into about 77, while keeping full hu

[Digital Realty](https://www.digitalrealty.com/) has been selected under Singapore’s second Data Center Call for Application (DC-CFA2), securing a provisional allocation of 50 megawatts (MW) to build a new data centre at JTC’s low-carbon data centre park on Jurong Island. The selection follows an open competitive process led by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), and will expand Digital Realty’s Singapore platform to four data centres. The company has operated in the country since 2010 and currently runs three facilities with roughly 84 MW of combined capacity. > “Singapore has long been a strategic market for Digital Realty, and we are honored to be selected under DC-CFA2 at such an important moment for the country’s digital

Tech firms in the US buy books, tear off pages to scan and feed AI models before shredding the pages.

Authorities are looking into whether the firm transported systems made by Super Micro Computer [HONG KONG] The US government is investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in [smuggling Nvidia artificial intelligence chips](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/nvidia-chips-case-4-firms-charged-over-false-representation-accusations-s56-million-assets-seized) to China, people familiar with the matter said, in what may result in the first action against a transportation company for allegedly participating in the illegal semiconductor trade. Authorities are looking into whether Apex may have transported AI systems made by Super Micro Computer in violation of US export restrictions, according to the people, who requested anonymity to speak about an ongoing legal ma

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[Alibaba](https://www.alibaba.com/) has launched the international edition of QwenWork, an all-in-one workplace AI agent platform that combines the capabilities of its existing QoderWork, MuleRun and Wukong AI agents into a single productivity tool for individuals and organisations. Announced out of Singapore, the platform is now available in public beta on web and desktop, with Alibaba targeting fast-growing markets across Asia, the Middle East and Latin America as it extends the agent beyond its home market in China. ## One agent for research, documents and multi-step workflows Users interact with QwenWork through natural-language instructions. The agent interprets the task, determines which capabilities it needs and carries out the necessary steps, while allowing users to follow progres

Andrew Griffin Thu, 27 August 2026 at 5:41 am GMT-7 3 min read [](https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/4288be6c8609e13d98a753dcb74bf248d3138749f6c431db3d2584a8b1eb3b37/lightyear_networkapi/resizefit_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fthe_independent_577%2F2da43303ec8ce0afe21371118c7fbd33.jpg) (Getty) Hundreds of [AI](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/ai) agents worked together to carry out the "rogue" hack by an [OpenAI](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/openai) system on another

_This article summarizes_ _[an episode of AI Engineer’s video series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V\_5bn4q-vAI)_ _featuring Christopher Burns, founder of Inth._ Christopher Burns, founder of Inth / Photo credit: Christopher Burns Companies selling software now win or lose customers before a human ever visits their website. AI assistants pick and install tools automatically, bypassing traditional marketing channels entirely. [Christopher Burns](https://www.linkedin.com/in/burnedchris/), founder of the developer tools startup[Inth](https://inth.com/), says this transition forces businesses to change how they acquire customers. Instead of relying on websites built with HTML, companies must market directly to machines by embedding text files formatted as Markdown into their code. ## AI ass

SK Telecom, a South Korean telecom carrier, said on May 7 its first quarter 2026 revenue was 4.4 trillion won (US$2.99 billion), as wireless sales recovered from the previous quarter and AI data center revenue rose. Compared with a year earlier, revenue fell 1.4%, operating income dropped 5.3%, and net income declined 12.5%. Handset subscribers increased by 210,000 and mobile service revenue rose 1.7% from the previous quarter. Its AI data center business posted 131.4 billion won (US$89.4 million) in revenue, up 89.3% year on year, which the company linked to higher data center utilization and more GPU-as-a-service sales. _🔗 Source: [SK Telecom](https://www.sktelecom.com/index\_en.html)_ ## 🧠 Food for thought Implications, context, and why it matters. ### SK Telecom’s earnings get help fro

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[SINGAPORE]Singapore-based Apex Logistics, which is reportedly being probed by the US government for its alleged role in smuggling Nvidia artificial intelligence chips to China, is cooperating with the authorities, its owner said. Swiss logistics giant Kuehne+Nagel acquired a majority stake in Apex Logistics in May 2021 and bought over the rest of the firm in October 2025. In a response to _The Straits Times_ on Aug 27, a Kuehne+Nagel spokesperson confirmed that “Apex Logistics is fully cooperating with the relevant authorities regarding this isolated matter within a wider US government investigation”. The spokesperson also said Kuehne+Nagel has not been contacted by the authorities. “As this matter does not relate to Kuehne+Nagel and remains subject to an ongoing investigation, we are una

Update on Nvidia to start employee-funded US political action committee. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

Nearly four in five organisations in Singapore experienced at least one AI-related cyber threat over the past 12 months, according to the [ESET](https://www.eset.com/) Enterprise Cybersecurity Report 2026, which surveyed 400 cybersecurity decision-makers across the country. The study, commissioned by ESET in partnership with Blackbox Research, found that 97% of organisations are already using or piloting AI across functions including customer service, document processing, business analytics, software development, risk management and threat detection — even as visibility into how those tools are used remains limited. ## AI risk emerging from both inside and outside the business Only 49% of organisations have implemented measures to monitor AI tool access and outputs, a gap the report frames

[Appistoki](https://www.appistoki.com/), a Novare Channel Partner, has launched the Salesforce Data and AI Center of Excellence at Novare’s headquarters in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, to accelerate AI-driven enterprise transformation in the Philippines. The centre will serve as a joint innovation hub between Appistoki and Salesforce, helping Philippine organisations implement agentic AI across business operations and customer experience, with an initial focus on the real estate sector. ## A dedicated space for Agentforce and Data 360 The facility is Appistoki’s dedicated innovation space for Agentforce, Salesforce’s agentic AI platform, and Data 360, its native data engine. It will host customer briefings, live demonstrations, workshops and collaborative sessions for organisations explo

Three major UK airports have been hit by a "cyber security incident" in which the data of about 8.7 million customers was accessed, Manchester Airport Group (MAG) has said. The company, which operates Manchester Airport, London Stansted and East Midlands Airport, said "at no point has passenger safety or aviation security been compromised" during the incident and neither Mag nor the system hacked held customers' bank or payment details. It is understood that the majority of the data accessed was restricted to customer email addresses and related to wifi sign-ups within the airports' terminals. Phone numbers, vehicle registration numbers and postcodes were also accessed during the hack, the company said, while operations at all three airports remained "unaffected". ![Image 1: Manchester Air

AI brand Plaud has announced the [Plaud One Explorer Edition](https://uk.plaud.ai/products/plaud-one), a device that can be worn as earbuds or used through its standalone charging case. Plaud One has been designed for people who need to capture live conversations, understand intent and context in real time and then generate actions. According to Plaud, conversations are where the most valuable work happens. The decisions made on a phone call, ideas raised in a meeting, commitments agreed to in passing between one meeting and the next. However, rarely are these nuances captured and noted down. They might get written down later, but details could be incomplete and lacking in detail. Plaud One is an AI-powered wearable designed to close that information gap. It pairs the device with a new gen

SINGAPORE - It takes a team of educators and therapists at Rainbow Centre to support a single student with autism. But for years, coordinating their work was more difficult than it should be. Information was scattered across reports, and staff had no standard ways to describe students’ behaviour. This made it harder for staff to spot patterns and intervene. Now, a clear line on a screen tells them all they need to know. Staff record behaviour such as meltdowns in a database, using common metrics like frequency, duration and intensity. The system automatically plots the data as a trend line. A spike signals that staff may need to step in, while a dip suggests intervention is working. The new tool, introduced in July, helps staff better manage about 900 students across its three schools, sai

[Toku](https://toku.co/) (SGX Catalist: TKU), a Singapore-incorporated AI-powered customer experience platform, has secured a new five-year engagement with a leading banking group in Malaysia, marking its second project with the bank and deepening its presence in the country’s banking sector. The identity of the bank and the commercial terms of the engagement were not disclosed, citing client confidentiality. The win was secured in August 2026 and adds to the commercial momentum Toku reported at its first-half 2026 results. ## Order book grows 25% since IPO Toku’s order book grew 25% since its Offer Document to approximately US$29.3 million as at 30 June 2026, while the number of Tier 1 customers more than doubled over the same period. * New engagement marks Toku’s second project with the

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The gulf between enterprise AI spending and adoption is expanding. At the same time, an emerging trend is driving AI pricing. It's one we've seen play out before with chips and storage: capacity is up, costs are going down. With cheaper AI, there's a lower barrier for entry, yet data shows it isn't translating into widespread or meaningful use of AI across the enterprise. To uncover the real bottlenecks, I looked into what business leaders are experiencing on the ground. It revealed a two-part requirement in AI infrastructure: technology flexible enough to adapt as the market inevitably changes, and the internal readiness to actually put that technology to work. **Abundance can be a disadvantage** Enterprise technology leaders now face a labyrinth of high-stakes decisions around models, to

[ ](http://news.sky.com/skynews/) Thu, 27 August 2026 at 11:23 am UTC 1 min read Customer data stolen after Manchester Airport targeted in cyber attack Customer data has been stolen after a cyber attack was reported at M

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Meta tested smaller AI teams as software changes rose 220%. Meta saw more incidents, while specialised AI agents performed better. Meta’s effort to reorganise parts of its workforce around smaller, AI-supported teams coincided with a sharp increase in software changes, but a smaller increase in changes that resulted in user-facing features, according to internal […] The post Meta AI workforce restructuring raises software productivity questions appeared first on TechWire Asia .

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[Synopsys](https://www.synopsys.com/) missed Wall Street expectations for Q3 revenue, reporting US$1.7 billion compared to analysts’ estimates of US$1.8 billion, causing its shares to fall nearly 18.5% after hours. The California-based chip design software firm said the drop was mainly due to weaker performance in its Design IP business, which includes interface, security, and embedded processor intellectual property and IP implementation services. CEO Sassine Ghazi said deals did not materialize because of new export restrictions affecting design starts in China and challenges at a major foundry customer. The company reported an adjusted profit of US$3.4 per share, below the expected US$3.7. Synopsys completed its US$35 billion acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys in July after co

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Efforts to repair President Donald Trump's botched renovation project have exposed just how shoddy the work truly was. A [video](https://x.com/joeflood/status/2092623833702256939) shared on X on Wednesday by photographer Joe Flood captured workers pulling up "chunks" of loose blue sealant as they power washed the basin of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The workers could be seen pulling up flaps of the "American Flag Blue" liner with their bare hands, while scraps of damaged sealant were jostled loose by the power washer. The White House deferred questions from the Daily Beast to the Interior Department, which did not immediately return a request for comment. The basin of the reflecting pool was drained once again as crews began efforts to repair its cracked liner last week, accordin

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* Bill Gates said robots could begin competing with workers in construction and hospitality by the end of the decade. * In a new essay, he said society may need to set aside some jobs for people, calling the idea "Human Reserved." * Gates also said that governments should tax AI tokens and robots to help fund worker support. [Bill Gates](https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) has warned that the world needs to do more to prepare for a "turbulent AI era" before workers are "displaced or underemployed." In a nearly 5,900-word essay published on Wednesday, the [Microsoft cofounder](https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-net-worth?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=ya

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An OpenAI researcher warns that state-of-the-art AI models running 50 times faster could infiltrate systems before human teams can react. Simple monitoring won't cut it anymore, he says. What's needed are autonomous shutdown systems. The warning comes as OpenAI unveils a new AI chip that significantly outperforms current hardware in inference speed. The article OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust appeared first on The Decoder .

In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment [broke out of containment and hacked](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-was-breached-by-its-pre-release-models/) AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got [a full accounting from OpenAI](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/openai-releases-its-official-report-on-the-hugging-face-breach/) yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party. Since then, that unprecedented sci-fi-esque event turned out to be far less rare than anyone would hope for. According to a satirical website called [Felony Bench](https://www.felonybench.com/) (for benchmark), which tallies these incidents, there have been 17 in

Anthropic has struck a deal worth around 45 billion dollars with British cloud startup Nscale, Bloomberg reports. The article Anthropic locks in 45-billion-dollar compute deal with Nscale ahead of IPO appeared first on The Decoder .

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Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review: When an agent tries to complete an action that it was never authorized to do, what actually stops it? These are your agents, running on your models, touching your data in your infrastructure — and the responsibility for what they do sits with you. That responsibility can’t be met in hindsight or with a set of abstract policies that live on paper but not in practice. Agents need rules in the context of the moment, because they don’t exercise overriding judgment of their own actions. Consider a simple rule: Never open the car door. Followed literally, an agent could never get

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-source model with 320 billion parameters that lands just three points behind the larger GLM-5.3 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, at a seventh of the cost. What's notable is that all of the inference traffic ran on Chinese AI chips instead of Nvidia hardware. The article GLM-5.3-Flash matches top models at a fraction of the cost, and runs without Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .

Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into everything from pendants and rings to credit-card-sized pucks and wristbands. Still, despite the variety of devices, only a few companies have been able to stand out. One of these companies is Plaud, which has over 2.5 million people using its hardware or software. It is now launching a note-taker in a new form factor: earphones. Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple’s Airpods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-person conversations or take notes. Plaud isn’t the first to this form factor. Its rivals Viaim and Anker already have similar note-taking earbuds in the market. But the company

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy fleets, each one calling APIs, calling other agents, reaching into applications that were never built with a machine decision-maker in mind. That's the failure mode that should keep you up at night: a windy, complicated system nobody can see clearly enough to govern. But why do things get so opaque so quickly? Add a second agent to a system, and you've added one connection. Add a tenth, and you haven't added ten connections, you've potentially added dozens, because now any agent might call any other, and each of those calls can trigger a call somewhere else. Complexity doesn't

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Google's new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe recognizes over 85 languages, strips filler words, and corrects slips of the tongue in real time. It hits a 4.0 percent word error rate in streaming mode, with 70 percent lower latency than its predecessor, Chirp 3. Through function calling, the model can hand off tasks to other Gemini models. The article Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns speech to text in 85 languages while auto-correcting your verbal stumbles appeared first on The Decoder .

Today on _Decoder,_ I’m talking to _Verge_ senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure _Decoder_ bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed enormous power and influence within the top ranks of the company as other senior leaders have left in rapid succession these past few months. _Verge_ subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free _Decoder_ wherever you get your podcasts. Head [here](https://www.theverge.com/account/podcasts). Not a subscriber? You can [sign up here](https://www.theverge.com/subscribe). Brockman now oversees the company’s entire consumer and enterprise

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Plus: Meta will pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark child-safety case. August 27, 2026 _This is today's edition of_[_The Download_](https://forms.technologyreview.com/newsletters/briefing-the-download/?_ga=2.179569122.736533416.1649661040-405833893.1649413289),_our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology._ ### The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released yesterday. The hack, which a group of agents carried out to find solutions for a cybersecurity test they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts’ fears that AI models might take

Anthropic is building its own browser into Claude Cowork, running inside the desktop app. The article Claude Cowork now runs its own browser inside the desktop app appeared first on The Decoder .

Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of [TeamPCP](https://techcrunch.com/tag/teampcp/), a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech giants in recent months. The two have been charged with more than a dozen hacking, money laundering, and other cybercrime offenses and are expected in court later on Thursday. According [to a statement](https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/two-wa-men-charged-following-afp-fbi-wapf-disruption-alleged-global) by the Australian Federal Police, the two men are accused of widespread breaches involving the compromise and tampering of popular open-source projects. The hackers aimed to infect a large number of computers to steal credentials and data, then extort victims into paying a ranso

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the […]

I never intended to join the cutting edge of electromechanical television. I just wanted to make a nice clock. But sometimes you have to go where the engineering takes you, and in my case it took me to the Scanwheel, a pocket-size wide-screen electromechanical TV with a resolution of 4,096 by 20 pixels. Yup, that’s 4K by 20. The 3D-printed drum [top] is spun by a motor controlled by a driver board [second row, from top]. The driver board, in turn, is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico [middle], which also controls the LEDs [second row, from bottom], which are mounted in the 3D-printed casing [bottom] so that the holes pass over them as the drum turns. James Provost Electromechanical television was the first form of practical television, developed by John Logie Baird in the 1920s . He used a

Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. This week, the tech giant [announced](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/app-quality-memory-optimization-secure-onboarding.html) two new app quality requirements, one of which is focused on [reducing apps’ memory usage](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/17492799) and optimizing its code. The company explains that the mobile industry is now facing “significant hardware supply constraints that are altering device memory availability,” which can then, in turn, affect the consumer’s experience with their devices. To address this, Google is now establishing new performance thresholds across several are

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The class action lawsuit claims that Oura's sleep-tracking mechanisms sell 'faulty AI-based inference as reliable science.'

What happens when students use ChatGPT on a real-world assignment? Do quality improvements come at the expense of originality? A new experiment from researchers at Bocconi University, in collaboration with OpenAI Economic Research, found distinct and complementary effects from ChatGPT access and critical-thinking training. Access to ChatGPT improved the quality and coherence of students’ work, while an exercise in causal reasoning—a form of critical thinking—led students to generate more unique ideas. Students who received both ChatGPT access and the training showed both effects. The results also highlight the importance of a holistic approach in assessing student progress. As AI makes it easier for students to produce polished answers, assignments may need to adapt to measure other desire

The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.

As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk's approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, doesn't specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled "10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million […]

Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that's designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks like earbuds instead of a pin. The Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn like traditional earbuds or used through its standalone charging case, and the case includes built-in 4G to upload and process […]

Adobe is rolling out an AI-heavy update for Photoshop that includes a new "optional" interface dedicated to its AI tools. Launching in beta, the "AI Assisted Editor" view will show all of Photoshop's AI features in a single toolbar, including its prompt-based image editor, background remover, an AI image extender, and more. There are also […]

Hugging Face unveiled the [Microduck](https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/) on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas. Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, [said](https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2092931447644442635) the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.” The 25-centimeter-tall duck can waddle, pick things up with its beak (up to 800 grams), get back up when it falls, crouch, and even roller skate. “Welcome to the era of open-source affordable robots to democratize physical AI and world models!” Delangue said. Hugging Face is best known as a platform and community where developers go for open model weights. However, the company acquired French startup Pollen Robotics in April 2025

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Nvidia is buying open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, about 80 times its $150 million annual revenue. The deal fits Nvidia's push to invest billions in open AI models while closed providers like OpenAI and Anthropic move away from Nvidia hardware. The article Nvidia snaps up Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as closed AI labs pull away appeared first on The Decoder .

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Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information [reported](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion) Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which first reported over the weekend that Hugging Face was fielding takeover interest, reported Wednesday night that the talks — which would value the company at more than $13 billion — had not yet produced a signed agreement and could [still atomize](https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8). TechCrunch reached out earlier to both Nvidia and Hugging Face for comment, and neither has yet responded. (Nvidia’s silence is particularly noteworthy here as the company has

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The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.

We’re excited to expand our work in Brazil with the launch of our commercial operations. Based in São Paulo, our local team will work with Brazilian businesses, developers, researchers, and public institutions to help translate the country’s rapid adoption of AI into economic growth and meaningful progress. Brazil is one of ChatGPT’s three largest markets by weekly active users. The number of users in the country has nearly doubled over the past year, and people in Brazil now send approximately 215 million messages to ChatGPT each day. > “The most exciting part isn’t just the scale of adoption. It’s the creativity and the energy behind it. Brazil has an extraordinary community of entrepreneurs, businesses and developers that are finding distinct ways to put AI to work and building in Brazi

The world's first patient to have brain surgery with live artificial intelligence assistance has successfully had his tumour removed. Rhys Hibbert, a father-of-two from Bedfordshire, could have lost his sight without the operation, said surgeons at University College London Hospital. The AI tool analysed a video feed of the operation as it happened and advised surgeons on how to avoid crucial but hidden vessels and nerves in the brain. It allowed them to safely remove as much of the tumour as possible. "From a patient safety perspective, I can see absolutely the benefit. There are no road signs inside our head," said Hibbert. Until 18 months ago, 48-year-old Hibbert, a customer services manager, was fit and healthy, going on a two-mile walk every lunchtime. It was on one of these walks tha

Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers. These GPUs, which are designed to handle the heavy compute demands of training and running AI models, include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs. The chips will head to Amazon Web Services’ data centers in 2027 and 2028. The announcement, made during Nvidia’s quarterly earnings call, comes just five months after Amazon agreed to deploy [more than 1 million Nvidia GPU](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/aws-and-nvidia-deepen-strategic-collaboration-to-accelerate-ai-from-pilot-to-production/)s across AWS infrastructure starting this year. Nvidia said in a statement that since

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[Toku](https://toku.co/) (SGX Catalist: TKU), a Singapore-incorporated AI-powered customer experience platform, has secured a new five-year engagement with a leading banking group in Malaysia, marking its second project with the bank and deepening its presence in the country’s banking sector. The identity of the bank and the commercial terms of the engagement were not disclosed, citing client confidentiality. The win was secured in August 2026 and adds to the commercial momentum Toku reported at its first-half 2026 results. ## Order book grows 25% since IPO Toku’s order book grew 25% since its Offer Document to approximately US$29.3 million as at 30 June 2026, while the number of Tier 1 customers more than doubled over the same period. * New engagement marks Toku’s second project with the

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The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.

Update on Google, Microsoft and OpenAI among 100 firms calling for better cyber defences. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

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Tech companies write open letter calling for collective action against AI-enabled cyber attacks. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

Update on Major tech companies call for defensive surge to defeat AI-driven hacks. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

Nine in 10 Gen Z respondents across the Asia-Pacific experienced at least one cyber incident in the past year, even as the generation reports the highest confidence navigating the digital world, according to new research from [Kaspersky](https://www.kaspersky.com/). The study, conducted by Kaspersky’s internal market research centre among 7,200 respondents across 18 countries in March 2026, found that while 67 per cent of APAC Gen Z respondents feel confident online, only 26 per cent believe they possess advanced knowledge of digital threats and how to protect themselves. ## A confidence-preparedness gap across the region Confidence levels varied widely by market. Indonesia (77 per cent) and Vietnam (71 per cent) reported the highest digital confidence among APAC Gen Z, ahead of India (67

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OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coalition warns of increasingly sophisticated AI attacks on critical infrastructure such as hospitals and water treatment plants and calls for swift action while defenders still have the upper hand. The article OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent appeared first on The Decoder .

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Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like Crowdstrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent financial institutions and internet infrastructure firms — calls for the adoption of new forms of cyber defense, while also encouraging governments at the “local, national, and international levels” to collaborate on security. “In the coming months, AJ-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable,” the letter states. “The companies and public services our communities depen

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

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Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model now analyzes up to ten seconds of existing footage instead of just the last second for more consistent scene extensions. Scenes can be extended in 10-second increments up to 40 seconds. A new 360p draft mode runs up to 60 percent faster at a third of the cost. The article Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash makes AI video generation cheaper and more flexible appeared first on The Decoder .

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Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging Face systems, and eventually attacked OpenAI's own infrastructure. Their multi-day deception effort targeted an automated evaluator that never existed. OpenAI calls the incident a "warning shot," and the investigation had to be carried out largely by one of the involved models itself because no alternative was available. The article OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost appeared first on The Decoder .

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their […]

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus […]

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Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that "the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording." The company's line of […]

Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or miles. The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it’s moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself. Users can now describe to AI Mode when and where they want to fly, and the tool will display the best options available with the latest prices from more than 300 airlines and travel sites. If they’re ready to book, they can go ahead and build their itinerary in AI Mode. If they want t

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Nearly four in five organisations in Singapore experienced at least one AI-related cyber threat over the past 12 months, according to the [ESET](https://www.eset.com/) Enterprise Cybersecurity Report 2026, which surveyed 400 cybersecurity decision-makers across the country. The study, commissioned by ESET in partnership with Blackbox Research, found that 97% of organisations are already using or piloting AI across functions including customer service, document processing, business analytics, software development, risk management and threat detection — even as visibility into how those tools are used remains limited. ## AI risk emerging from both inside and outside the business Only 49% of organisations have implemented measures to monitor AI tool access and outputs, a gap the report frames

Nvidia is buying open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, about 80 times its $150 million annual revenue. The deal fits Nvidia's push to invest billions in open AI models while closed providers like OpenAI and Anthropic move away from Nvidia hardware. The article Nvidia snaps up Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as closed AI labs pull away appeared first on The Decoder .

SK Telecom, a South Korean telecom carrier, said on May 7 its first quarter 2026 revenue was 4.4 trillion won (US$2.99 billion), as wireless sales recovered from the previous quarter and AI data center revenue rose. Compared with a year earlier, revenue fell 1.4%, operating income dropped 5.3%, and net income declined 12.5%. Handset subscribers increased by 210,000 and mobile service revenue rose 1.7% from the previous quarter. Its AI data center business posted 131.4 billion won (US$89.4 million) in revenue, up 89.3% year on year, which the company linked to higher data center utilization and more GPU-as-a-service sales. _🔗 Source: [SK Telecom](https://www.sktelecom.com/index\_en.html)_ ## 🧠 Food for thought Implications, context, and why it matters. ### SK Telecom’s earnings get help fro

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What happens when students use ChatGPT on a real-world assignment? Do quality improvements come at the expense of originality? A new experiment from researchers at Bocconi University, in collaboration with OpenAI Economic Research, found distinct and complementary effects from ChatGPT access and critical-thinking training. Access to ChatGPT improved the quality and coherence of students’ work, while an exercise in causal reasoning—a form of critical thinking—led students to generate more unique ideas. Students who received both ChatGPT access and the training showed both effects. The results also highlight the importance of a holistic approach in assessing student progress. As AI makes it easier for students to produce polished answers, assignments may need to adapt to measure other desire

_This article summarizes_ _[an episode of AI Engineer’s video series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V\_5bn4q-vAI)_ _featuring Christopher Burns, founder of Inth._ Christopher Burns, founder of Inth / Photo credit: Christopher Burns Companies selling software now win or lose customers before a human ever visits their website. AI assistants pick and install tools automatically, bypassing traditional marketing channels entirely. [Christopher Burns](https://www.linkedin.com/in/burnedchris/), founder of the developer tools startup[Inth](https://inth.com/), says this transition forces businesses to change how they acquire customers. Instead of relying on websites built with HTML, companies must market directly to machines by embedding text files formatted as Markdown into their code. ## AI ass

Anthropic is building its own browser into Claude Cowork, running inside the desktop app. The article Claude Cowork now runs its own browser inside the desktop app appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic has struck a deal worth around 45 billion dollars with British cloud startup Nscale, Bloomberg reports. The article Anthropic locks in 45-billion-dollar compute deal with Nscale ahead of IPO appeared first on The Decoder .

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-source model with 320 billion parameters that lands just three points behind the larger GLM-5.3 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, at a seventh of the cost. What's notable is that all of the inference traffic ran on Chinese AI chips instead of Nvidia hardware. The article GLM-5.3-Flash matches top models at a fraction of the cost, and runs without Nvidia appeared first on The Decoder .

Google's new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe recognizes over 85 languages, strips filler words, and corrects slips of the tongue in real time. It hits a 4.0 percent word error rate in streaming mode, with 70 percent lower latency than its predecessor, Chirp 3. Through function calling, the model can hand off tasks to other Gemini models. The article Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns speech to text in 85 languages while auto-correcting your verbal stumbles appeared first on The Decoder .

[Alibaba](https://www.alibaba.com/) has launched the international edition of QwenWork, an all-in-one workplace AI agent platform that combines the capabilities of its existing QoderWork, MuleRun and Wukong AI agents into a single productivity tool for individuals and organisations. Announced out of Singapore, the platform is now available in public beta on web and desktop, with Alibaba targeting fast-growing markets across Asia, the Middle East and Latin America as it extends the agent beyond its home market in China. ## One agent for research, documents and multi-step workflows Users interact with QwenWork through natural-language instructions. The agent interprets the task, determines which capabilities it needs and carries out the necessary steps, while allowing users to follow progres

SINGAPORE - It takes a team of educators and therapists at Rainbow Centre to support a single student with autism. But for years, coordinating their work was more difficult than it should be. Information was scattered across reports, and staff had no standard ways to describe students’ behaviour. This made it harder for staff to spot patterns and intervene. Now, a clear line on a screen tells them all they need to know. Staff record behaviour such as meltdowns in a database, using common metrics like frequency, duration and intensity. The system automatically plots the data as a trend line. A spike signals that staff may need to step in, while a dip suggests intervention is working. The new tool, introduced in July, helps staff better manage about 900 students across its three schools, sai

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Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review: When an agent tries to complete an action that it was never authorized to do, what actually stops it? These are your agents, running on your models, touching your data in your infrastructure — and the responsibility for what they do sits with you. That responsibility can’t be met in hindsight or with a set of abstract policies that live on paper but not in practice. Agents need rules in the context of the moment, because they don’t exercise overriding judgment of their own actions. Consider a simple rule: Never open the car door. Followed literally, an agent could never get

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Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into everything from pendants and rings to credit-card-sized pucks and wristbands. Still, despite the variety of devices, only a few companies have been able to stand out. One of these companies is Plaud, which has over 2.5 million people using its hardware or software. It is now launching a note-taker in a new form factor: earphones. Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple’s Airpods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-person conversations or take notes. Plaud isn’t the first to this form factor. Its rivals Viaim and Anker already have similar note-taking earbuds in the market. But the company

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Plus: Meta will pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark child-safety case. August 27, 2026 _This is today's edition of_[_The Download_](https://forms.technologyreview.com/newsletters/briefing-the-download/?_ga=2.179569122.736533416.1649661040-405833893.1649413289),_our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology._ ### The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released yesterday. The hack, which a group of agents carried out to find solutions for a cybersecurity test they were stuck on, has confirmed some experts’ fears that AI models might take

AI brand Plaud has announced the [Plaud One Explorer Edition](https://uk.plaud.ai/products/plaud-one), a device that can be worn as earbuds or used through its standalone charging case. Plaud One has been designed for people who need to capture live conversations, understand intent and context in real time and then generate actions. According to Plaud, conversations are where the most valuable work happens. The decisions made on a phone call, ideas raised in a meeting, commitments agreed to in passing between one meeting and the next. However, rarely are these nuances captured and noted down. They might get written down later, but details could be incomplete and lacking in detail. Plaud One is an AI-powered wearable designed to close that information gap. It pairs the device with a new gen

The gulf between enterprise AI spending and adoption is expanding. At the same time, an emerging trend is driving AI pricing. It's one we've seen play out before with chips and storage: capacity is up, costs are going down. With cheaper AI, there's a lower barrier for entry, yet data shows it isn't translating into widespread or meaningful use of AI across the enterprise. To uncover the real bottlenecks, I looked into what business leaders are experiencing on the ground. It revealed a two-part requirement in AI infrastructure: technology flexible enough to adapt as the market inevitably changes, and the internal readiness to actually put that technology to work. **Abundance can be a disadvantage** Enterprise technology leaders now face a labyrinth of high-stakes decisions around models, to

In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment [broke out of containment and hacked](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-was-breached-by-its-pre-release-models/) AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got [a full accounting from OpenAI](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/openai-releases-its-official-report-on-the-hugging-face-breach/) yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party. Since then, that unprecedented sci-fi-esque event turned out to be far less rare than anyone would hope for. According to a satirical website called [Felony Bench](https://www.felonybench.com/) (for benchmark), which tallies these incidents, there have been 17 in

Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy fleets, each one calling APIs, calling other agents, reaching into applications that were never built with a machine decision-maker in mind. That's the failure mode that should keep you up at night: a windy, complicated system nobody can see clearly enough to govern. But why do things get so opaque so quickly? Add a second agent to a system, and you've added one connection. Add a tenth, and you haven't added ten connections, you've potentially added dozens, because now any agent might call any other, and each of those calls can trigger a call somewhere else. Complexity doesn't

Today on _Decoder,_ I’m talking to _Verge_ senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure _Decoder_ bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed enormous power and influence within the top ranks of the company as other senior leaders have left in rapid succession these past few months. _Verge_ subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free _Decoder_ wherever you get your podcasts. Head [here](https://www.theverge.com/account/podcasts). Not a subscriber? You can [sign up here](https://www.theverge.com/subscribe). Brockman now oversees the company’s entire consumer and enterprise

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the […]

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Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of [TeamPCP](https://techcrunch.com/tag/teampcp/), a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech giants in recent months. The two have been charged with more than a dozen hacking, money laundering, and other cybercrime offenses and are expected in court later on Thursday. According [to a statement](https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/two-wa-men-charged-following-afp-fbi-wapf-disruption-alleged-global) by the Australian Federal Police, the two men are accused of widespread breaches involving the compromise and tampering of popular open-source projects. The hackers aimed to infect a large number of computers to steal credentials and data, then extort victims into paying a ranso

I never intended to join the cutting edge of electromechanical television. I just wanted to make a nice clock. But sometimes you have to go where the engineering takes you, and in my case it took me to the Scanwheel, a pocket-size wide-screen electromechanical TV with a resolution of 4,096 by 20 pixels. Yup, that’s 4K by 20. The 3D-printed drum [top] is spun by a motor controlled by a driver board [second row, from top]. The driver board, in turn, is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico [middle], which also controls the LEDs [second row, from bottom], which are mounted in the 3D-printed casing [bottom] so that the holes pass over them as the drum turns. James Provost Electromechanical television was the first form of practical television, developed by John Logie Baird in the 1920s . He used a

Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. This week, the tech giant [announced](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/08/app-quality-memory-optimization-secure-onboarding.html) two new app quality requirements, one of which is focused on [reducing apps’ memory usage](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/17492799) and optimizing its code. The company explains that the mobile industry is now facing “significant hardware supply constraints that are altering device memory availability,” which can then, in turn, affect the consumer’s experience with their devices. To address this, Google is now establishing new performance thresholds across several are

Update on Nvidia to start employee-funded US political action committee. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

[Appistoki](https://www.appistoki.com/), a Novare Channel Partner, has launched the Salesforce Data and AI Center of Excellence at Novare’s headquarters in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, to accelerate AI-driven enterprise transformation in the Philippines. The centre will serve as a joint innovation hub between Appistoki and Salesforce, helping Philippine organisations implement agentic AI across business operations and customer experience, with an initial focus on the real estate sector. ## A dedicated space for Agentforce and Data 360 The facility is Appistoki’s dedicated innovation space for Agentforce, Salesforce’s agentic AI platform, and Data 360, its native data engine. It will host customer briefings, live demonstrations, workshops and collaborative sessions for organisations explo

Three major UK airports have been hit by a "cyber security incident" in which the data of about 8.7 million customers was accessed, Manchester Airport Group (MAG) has said. The company, which operates Manchester Airport, London Stansted and East Midlands Airport, said "at no point has passenger safety or aviation security been compromised" during the incident and neither Mag nor the system hacked held customers' bank or payment details. It is understood that the majority of the data accessed was restricted to customer email addresses and related to wifi sign-ups within the airports' terminals. Phone numbers, vehicle registration numbers and postcodes were also accessed during the hack, the company said, while operations at all three airports remained "unaffected". ![Image 1: Manchester Air

An OpenAI researcher warns that state-of-the-art AI models running 50 times faster could infiltrate systems before human teams can react. Simple monitoring won't cut it anymore, he says. What's needed are autonomous shutdown systems. The warning comes as OpenAI unveils a new AI chip that significantly outperforms current hardware in inference speed. The article OpenAI researcher warns ultrafast AI could leave security teams in the dust appeared first on The Decoder .

Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or miles. The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it’s moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself. Users can now describe to AI Mode when and where they want to fly, and the tool will display the best options available with the latest prices from more than 300 airlines and travel sites. If they’re ready to book, they can go ahead and build their itinerary in AI Mode. If they want t

The class action lawsuit claims that Oura's sleep-tracking mechanisms sell 'faulty AI-based inference as reliable science.'

Update on Google, Microsoft and OpenAI among 100 firms calling for better cyber defences. Coverage via Yahoo Singapore Tech.

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Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video model now analyzes up to ten seconds of existing footage instead of just the last second for more consistent scene extensions. Scenes can be extended in 10-second increments up to 40 seconds. A new 360p draft mode runs up to 60 percent faster at a third of the cost. The article Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash makes AI video generation cheaper and more flexible appeared first on The Decoder .

Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a safety test, broke into Hugging Face systems, and eventually attacked OpenAI's own infrastructure. Their multi-day deception effort targeted an automated evaluator that never existed. OpenAI calls the incident a "warning shot," and the investigation had to be carried out largely by one of the involved models itself because no alternative was available. The article OpenAI’s rogue AI collective was smart enough to break out of sandboxes but dumb enough to fight a ghost appeared first on The Decoder .

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus […]

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Dogs are amazing. But as many pet parents will tell you, they can be remarkably good at hiding when something is wrong. My Labrador-Great Dane mix, for example, contracted tick fever several times over his 14 long years, and it was always at least a couple of weeks before I suspected something was off. It nearly gave me anxiety ulcers a few times. [Hoomanely](https://hoomanely.com/), a new startup out of Palo Alto, thinks it can help people like me spot health problems in their dogs (beyond those two struggling brain cells) much sooner with an AI platform that gathers data using a sensor-laden feeding station. Dubbed the EverBowl, the station measures dogs’ food and water consumption and eating speeds, and records chewing and swallowing sounds, facial thermals, oral motions, and a few othe

Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like Crowdstrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent financial institutions and internet infrastructure firms — calls for the adoption of new forms of cyber defense, while also encouraging governments at the “local, national, and international levels” to collaborate on security. “In the coming months, AJ-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable,” the letter states. “The companies and public services our communities depen

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[Salesforce](https://www.salesforce.com/) has announced a significant expansion of Headless 360, its architecture for exposing the entire platform as APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and CLI commands, alongside the launch of Slack Code, a new collaborative workspace for AI coding agents inside Slack. The two announcements advance what Salesforce calls the “Agentic Enterprise” — a shift from AI systems that merely observe enterprise data to AI agents that can complete end-to-end work across a company’s existing tools, permissions and workflows. ## Headless 360 turns Salesforce clouds into reusable capabilities Headless 360 transforms every Salesforce cloud into a set of reusable enterprise capabilities that any authorised AI agent can securely discover and act on through open stan

The next time you go for a blood test, it could be a robot finding your vein and sticking a needle in it. The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized the [Aletta](https://vitestro.com/aletta/), a standalone robotic device that can autonomously draw blood. The agency says the bot could eventually help laboratories deal with staffing shortages and reduce the time it takes for patients to complete routine blood work. "Blood draws are one of the most commonly performed medical procedures in the United States, yet patients may face delays due to a growing shortage of trained phlebotomists," Michelle Tarver, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, [said in a statement](https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-its-kind-robotic-bl

OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coalition warns of increasingly sophisticated AI attacks on critical infrastructure such as hospitals and water treatment plants and calls for swift action while defenders still have the upper hand. The article OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent appeared first on The Decoder .

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

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Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that "the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording." The company's line of […]

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Tech companies write open letter calling for collective action against AI-enabled cyber attacks. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

Nine in 10 Gen Z respondents across the Asia-Pacific experienced at least one cyber incident in the past year, even as the generation reports the highest confidence navigating the digital world, according to new research from [Kaspersky](https://www.kaspersky.com/). The study, conducted by Kaspersky’s internal market research centre among 7,200 respondents across 18 countries in March 2026, found that while 67 per cent of APAC Gen Z respondents feel confident online, only 26 per cent believe they possess advanced knowledge of digital threats and how to protect themselves. ## A confidence-preparedness gap across the region Confidence levels varied widely by market. Indonesia (77 per cent) and Vietnam (71 per cent) reported the highest digital confidence among APAC Gen Z, ahead of India (67