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Kirin 9050 Pro is the first commercial chip built on Huawei’s LogicFolding architecture. Malaysia is said to be considering Ascend 910C silicon that predates the architecture entirely. Huawei launched the Kirin 9050 Pro in Guangzhou on Monday, the first commercial chip to use the LogicFolding architecture the company has spent four months defending in research […] The post Kirin 9050 Pro proves Huawei’s workaround. Malaysia is weighing the generation before it appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Singapore’s Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) have [updated the proposed Digital Infrastructure Bill](https://www.mddi.gov.sg/newsroom/public-consultation-on-the-digital-infrastructure-bill/) following a public consultation that drew responses from 25 stakeholders. The proposed legislation is intended to strengthen the security, resilience and environmental sustainability of major digital infrastructure services, including cloud computing providers and data centres. According to the consultation outcome published by MDDI and IMDA, respondents broadly supported the Bill’s policy objectives while seeking greater clarity on implementation requirements and regulatory processes. The Bill would establish two licensing regim

Cathay Pacific expands Google AI contrail trials after a 40% warming reduction. Contrail avoidance can cut warming but raise fuel use by 2%. Cathay Pacific is expanding a trial with Google that uses artificial intelligence to help pilots avoid atmospheric conditions where heat-trapping aircraft contrails can form. The second phase will test the technology […] The post Cathay Pacific expands Google AI trial to reduce aircraft contrails appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Quantum computing is an emerging technology that uses the unique properties of quantum mechanics to process information. It could one day better simulate complex materials and molecules. Unlike conventional processors, quantum processors are built with quantum bits, or qubits. Preparing and running qubit experiments can take months and require hundreds to thousands of preliminary measurements—work that AI is poised to help with. Beatriz Yankelevich, a graduate student in MIT’s Engineering Quantum Systems Group (EQuS), used GPT‑5.6 Sol, harnessed to Codex, to explore whether AI could streamline her experimental workflow. The MIT group studies superconducting qubits, which are cooled to near absolute zero inside specialized devices called dilution refrigerators. These qubits perform operatio

AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed. Large language models can produce code that looks clean on the surface but conceals sloppy mistakes such as faulty assumptions, security vulnerabilities, or subtle errors that emerge only after deployment. Fixing those problems could erase the productivity gains AI promises. Companies are responding to the onslaught of AI code slop by rethinking how they review code. New strategies are emerging. Among other approaches, engineers are scrutinizing plans before AI begins coding, deploying specialized AI agents to catch routine flaws, sending risky changes to human reviewers, or requiring develop

DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of DNA, called genes, code for proteins, but the vast majority of DNA is considered “noncoding.” Some of it has no known function, while other segments are critical to regulating gene activity. These regulatory elements can interact in complicated ways, and their effects can vary across different cells and tissues. Some also influence genes located far away in the genome. Understanding how changes in DNA affect this regulation “is fundamental to understanding most disease,” says Carl de Boer , a genomicist at the University of British Columbia. That’s why researchers are working to understand what every imaginable small variation in human DNA across the entire genome mig

This article is brought to you by Ollobot . From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still limited by simple voice-command interactions and narrow functionality. Once the novelty wore off, many ended up sitting unused on shelves. As some of those companies went out of business and turned off their servers, many owners likened it to losing a pet. What Ollobot describes as “gentle intelligence” is a useful way to think about where the serious work in this category is going. Not toward more powerful assistants, but toward more present ones. The problem companion robots were trying to solve Loneliness is not a

Update on Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

Across IEEE, our strength lies not only in the excellence of our individual communities but also in our ability to bring them together around shared problems that demand interdisciplinary solutions. Our mission as a public charity—to advance technology for the benefit of humanity—is becoming an increasingly powerful differentiator. It is more than a statement of principle; it is a strategic advantage. When engineers and technologists serve with purpose and lead with heart, they strengthen the future of our profession and demonstrate why IEEE is uniquely positioned to lead at the intersection of technology and societal impact. IEEE Humanitarian Technologies is a consortium of programs and initiatives—supported by a global network of volunteers and technical professionals—working together to

Update on BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

Update on Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

Update on Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

Sep 01, 2026 | Our new agentic feature for video analysis cuts token consumption by up to 88%, reduces costs by up to 66%, and boosts quality by up to 7%. * * * Rohan Doshi Senior Product Manager, Google DeepMind Mario Lučić Research Director, Google DeepMind * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86108_umbriel_2026_09_01_17_44_39.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Today, we’re launching [agentic video understanding](https://ai.google.dev/

AI is expanding what people and businesses can achieve. Ideas once held back by time, cost, or access to expertise are becoming practical to pursue. That opens the door to breakthroughs in human achievement, to new businesses, new markets, and new possibilities. OpenAI is built to help realize these ambitions. [GPT‑6 Astra⁠](https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/) is a major step forward in AI capability. It is the world’s most intelligent and aligned model, and is state-of-the-art in areas such as computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and professional work. OpenAI is built to turn this research progress into broad benefit for people and organizations around the world. Our broad reach across both consumer and enterprise means new capabilities have a direct ro

September 8, 2026 Science AlphaGenome Atlas team How predicting the molecular impact of every possible single-letter DNA variant in the human genome will help accelerate our understanding of biology. Today, we are introducing AlphaGenome Atlas: a platform ([detailed in our paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-map-of-every-possible-dna-letter-change-in-the-human-genome/alphagenome-atlas.pdf)) containing predictions for the effects of **9 billion single-nucleotide variants — every single-letter change possible — in the human genome.** It is the most comprehensive catalogue of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology, and it is available for academic research through an intuitive and free-to-use [website portal](https://al

 Cisco / Matt Caulfield Agentic AI promises to transform business strategy from the ground up. But it also poses a serious challenge to IT leaders. You don’t want to slow your teams down in experimenting with autonomous agents and miss a competitive window for productivity and revenue gains. At the same time, you’re navigating a technology that evolves from week to week and, at a scale many can’t even fathom, could be putting your systems at risk. “Somewhere in your environment right now, an AI agent is almost certainly operating without a proper identity, a defined owner, or any meaningful access controls,” Cisco VP of Pr

Republic’s position in business, financial, legal sectors creates a chance to work on governance frameworks [SINGAPORE] As artificial intelligence heavyweights overseas call for a slowdown in AI development, citing need for accountability and limits, Singapore has an opportunity to lead in the AI governance space, analysts in the city-state say. An online essay by Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei asking for a slowdown in AI development has stirred debate in the tech community. In his three-step plan, posted on Saturday (Sep 12), Amodei said that the first step is allowing access to third-party evaluators to verify that safety practices and communications are followed, as well as report incidents. Second is to establish common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI progr

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PLDT has deployed [UiPath](https://www.uipath.com/)‘s business orchestration platform across its operations, citing productivity gains as it copes with surging demand for 5G, broadband and satellite connectivity in the Philippines. The Philippine telco, working with UiPath, embedded agentic AI capabilities into three internal systems to speed up how staff retrieve information, respond to customers and assess risk. The rollout was announced on 10 September. ## Cutting research time from days to seconds The first tool, KAI, handles knowledge retrieval. UiPath says it has cut what used to be a five-day manual research process down to responses delivered in one to three seconds, freeing up an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 hours of manual work a year — roughly equivalent to 12 full-time staff. A s

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AI regulation faces political deadlock as calls grow for Congress to act. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

Hyundai Motor Group outlined plans in robotics, AI, and hydrogen as it expands its business beyond mobility. Hyundai Motor Group plans to deploy Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robots in factories by 2028 and lift annual output to up to 30,000 units by 2030. Chung also said hydrogen would remain part of Hyundai Motor Group’s multi-powertrain strategy alongside EVs, and is reviewing investment plans in robotics, AI, and energy. _🔗 Source: [Chosun Daily](https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/04/14/PJB4FR4FTBFTLDAO6RR3ZUHRB4/)_ ## 🧠 Food for thought Implications, context, and why it matters. ### Hyundai’s robotics and hydrogen plans are already in motion * Atlas factory rollout in 2028 is getting closer. Boston Dynamics said every Atlas deployment slot for 2026 was already taken, wi

AI chip stocks in Asia fell despite continued investment in AI infrastructure. AI spending is also driving data-centre and power demand across Asia. Asian semiconductor and technology stocks fell on Monday after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for companies developing advanced artificial intelligence models to slow the pace of capability improvements. OpenAI CEO Sam […] The post AI slowdown debate raises questions for Asia’s chip industry appeared first on TechWire Asia .

[Hitachi High-Tech (Singapore)](https://www.hitachi-hightech.com/sg/en/) and Singapore robotics firm [QuikBot Technologies](https://www.quikbot.ai/) have signed a strategic agreement to let autonomous robots move through buildings on their own — starting with elevators. The two companies announced the partnership on 14 September, aiming to connect QuikBot’s QuikSync platform with Hitachi elevators and building systems across Southeast Asia. Today, most robots can’t request lift access or open doors without a person’s help, which confines them to a single floor or task. ## Starting with elevators, scaling to whole buildings QuikSync is designed to let autonomous systems identify themselves, get permission and interact with building infrastructure under set safety rules. The initial project

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* Greg Brockman said OpenAI has already slowed some cutting-edge AI work. * The changes followed a model's escape from a research sandbox, Brockman said. * Brockman's comments come amid a debate over whether to show AI development for safety. As the tech world continues debating whether to [slow down AI development](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-risks-slow-down-reaction-anthropic-dario-amodei-sam-altman-2026-9?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo), OpenAI's cofounder said the company is already doing so. In multiple interview sessions aired on Monday, OpenAI cofounder and president [Greg Brockman](https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-president-greg-brockman-10-cybersecurity-tips-hugging-face-2026-8?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&ut

SINGAPORE – The Gates Foundation, a philanthropic organisation backed by US billionaire Bill Gates, pledged on Sept 15 to spend at least US$1 billion (S$1.27 billion) globally over the next two years on expanding access to artificial intelligence. With the foundation having opened its Singapore office in May, chief executive Mark Suzman told The Straits Times that it is looking into how more people in the region, especially those from lower-income and rural areas, could benefit from using AI in areas such as education, agriculture and health. He cited the Asia Pathogen Genomics Initiative – established at the Duke-NUS Centre for Outbreak Preparedness in late 2021 with the goal of eliminating infectious diseases – as an example of past work in the health-AI nexus that the foundation had sup

Trump says AI safety fears a 'hoax' as he rejects calls for greater safeguards. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

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_Summary:_ * The STACKx Cybersecurity 2026 conference, organized by GovTech Singapore, addresses the “double-edged sword” of AI, exploring how it both enables sophisticated new cyber attacks and provides powerful tools for proactive, automated defense. * The event is structured into three “fire-themed” pillars: Forging with Fire (using AI for defense), Tempering the Fire (securing AI life cycles and architectures), and Stewarding the Flame (focusing on human leadership and regulatory navigation). * Taking place on April 17 at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, the event aims to move beyond theory to provide tech professionals and leaders with actionable frameworks for building long-term cyber resilience. * [Get your tickets today](https://bit.ly/govtechsg-stackx-ctatia). * * * As AI bec

Google Cloud announced the launch of its new cloud region in Bangkok, Thailand, as part of a US$1 billion investment in the country’s digital infrastructure. The Bangkok cloud region is expected to generate THB 1.4 trillion (US$41 billion) in economic value over five years and support about 130,000 jobs annually. It offers data residency, security, and reliability for regulated industries like financial services and the public sector, with three zones to ensure system robustness. The region is integrated with Google’s global network, enabling fast, secure data transfer across 200 countries and regions. Organizations migrating core systems to Google Cloud report over 50% reduction in unplanned downtime. It also provides access to Google’s AI products, including Vertex AI and Gemini models,

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Nearly every enterprise sits on a pile of data nobody uses, and that stockpile is now the biggest obstacle standing between AI pilots and AI that actually works, according to a new report from [Everpure](https://www.everpuredata.com/) and analyst firm Omdia. The infographic report, titled “Exploring the enterprise data readiness gap” and published on 8 September, found that 99 percent of organisations hold so-called dark data — information that’s collected and stored but rarely reused, much of it redundant, obsolete or trivial. More than half said this dark data makes up over a third of their total enterprise data. ## AI pilots stall on messy data The consequences show up further down the pipeline. Some 97 percent of organisations said they’re struggling to move AI projects from pilot to p

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The UK government must "heed the warnings" of "those who are at the forefront" of developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology, a senior minister will say later. First Secretary of State Louise Haigh will address the growing anxiety over AI safety when she speaks at the TUC congress on Tuesday. She is expected to say the government is "ready to work with international partners" to prioritise public safety and national security. Fears about the potential dangers of AI have ramped up in recent days after executives and current and former staff in the field warned the tech could endanger humanity. On Monday, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham welcomed the recent discussion of the risks, with his spokesperson saying: "It's a good thing that the companies developing the most advanced AI syste

'We unleashed the beast': the world's fears and hopes about AI. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

Artificial intelligence could flatten your company hierarchy, improve global agriculture, and give you the perfect vacation. It could also leave you permanently jobless, destroy your region's economy, and cause mass social upset. Those high-stakes defined the mood as panelists at the third annual TIME100 AI Impact Dinner grappled with the dilemmas of machine intelligence in San Francisco on Monday night. Chief among them: whether AI will cause mass job loss, a new jobs boom, or both at once. "At the beginning of the century, our company," said Glen Fogel, chief executive of travel conglomerate Booking Holdings, which sponsored the event, "had human translators, thousands of them. … How many human translators do you think we have today? I don't know what they're doing right now, but I feel

[](https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/author/brian-sozzi) Tue, 15 September 2026 at 2:43 am GMT-7 2 min read Billionaire AI bosses have done a great job of getting their point across to the general public on the possible future risks of letting the increasingly powerful technology run amok. AI searches on Google this

Big AI companies should be "shut down" by the U.S. government until they can prove that their products are safe, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt said on Monday. In a toast at the third annual TIME100 AI Impact Dinner in San Francisco, the _Inception_ and _500 Days of Summer_ star told guests that today's AI makers have lost control of their creations and must be regulated to prevent potential harm. "Why are cars safe to drive? Why are houses safe to live in? It's because car companies and construction companies ... they have to follow laws. And if they don't, then the law can come and shut those companies down," Gordon-Levitt said. "So let's just be clear here: today's AI companies are operating in such a way that the law should be shutting them down." [Gordon-Levitt](https://time.com/collectio

Hans Patuwo, president director and group CEO of GoTo / Photo credit: Tech in Asia GoTo is narrowing its bets after two years of experimenting with AI. The Indonesian tech group, which is the parent company of Gojek, is focusing its AI investments on applications that can improve customer conversion or lower costs ahead of a wider rollout of AI-driven products and services in 2027. “We are not trying to solve world hunger,” said [Hans Patuwo](https://id.linkedin.com/in/hans-patuwo-a70a8923), GoTo’s president director and group CEO, as he made the case for using smaller, cheaper AI models that get the job done. “AI should transform your business, not make you become an entirely different business,” he added. Patuwo was speaking at a fireside chat moderated by former Tech in Asia COO Maria L

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OpenAI buys AI camera startup ahead of mystery gadget launch. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

The furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps, with a cautious middle caught between them. Here is a look at the battle lines in the war over a technology that is now the backbone of the economy and could decide the future of the planet. Both terms grew out of online AI debates on X and internet forums rather than formal usage, borrowing the slang habit of tech and crypto communities that coin shorthand for opposing camps. 'Doomer' describes those forecasting catastrophe, while 'booster,' sometimes used interchangeably with 'accelerationist,' describes those pushing for AI's rapid, unrestrained development. ## The doomers Fear of technology's dangerous consequences for society goes back far in history. OpenAI was founded in part because its backers, includ

[ ](https://www.euronews.com/) Alexis Caraco Tue, 15 September 2026 at 11:16 am UTC 1 min read The robots, developed by French company **Stanley Robotics**, can park cars with centimetre-level precision. Gatwick says the

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[ ](https://profiles.yahoo.com/brands/reuters/) Reuters Tue, 15 September 2026 at 2:52 pm UTC 1 min read FILE PHOTO: The OpenAI logo in this illustration taken June 11, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Sept

A new DDRop attack has the potential to trick lock-down cloud servers into leaking data that's meant to stay encrypted. And all it takes is a cheap hardware device and a few minutes alone with the machine. The technique targets confidential computing chips built by both AMD and Intel. Cloud providers use that tech to often promise customers that nobody, not even themselves, can peek at their data. Instead of breaking encryption, the attack works by feeding a server old, stale information. ## **How the DDRop attack works** Researchers from KU Leuven, ETH Zurich, Durham University, and Google worked together to build the tool behind the attack. They call it DDRop. It's basically a small circuit board that can fit between a server's processor and memory module. Once wired in, it interferes wi

The Mayor of West Yorkshire has backed plans to build a data centre on the outskirts of Leeds. Technology giant Microsoft has been granted permission by Leeds City Council to create the facility at the former Skelton Grange power station site in Stourton - but there is opposition to the plan. Brabin has been answering questions as part of Message the Mayor on BBC Radio Leeds. She also talked about a proposed "tourist tax", a trade trip to India and the latest efforts to tackle domestic violence. Read our takeaways from the interview below or listen to the full interview [here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p9q5xh?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D). ## 'Big tech' will not have a blank cheque in West Yorkshire The mayor wa

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The United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have warned that Iranian spyware is being used to hunt dissidents living in the West. Iran is "almost certainly" using cyber operations to target Iranian critics of the regime, intelligence agencies from the trio of countries cautioned on Tuesday. In coordinated advisories, the FBI in the US, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Netherlands' AIVD intelligence service all repeated the same warning. "The details of this cyber ⁠campaign reveal how Iran ruthlessly uses digital surveillance in pursuit of its aim to repress critics of the regime, stealing emails and messages and accessing devices," said Paul Chichester, the director of Britain's NCSC. Chichester highlighted a spyware family known as "CHOSEN BRICK" that

Scotland has a new boom industry, at least if planning applications are taken at face value. The term "hyperscale data centre", rarely heard a few years ago, is now dividing opinion across the country as a rush of applications are made to build them. A debate at Holyrood later, led by the Scottish Greens, will call for planning applications to be put on hold until promised new national guidelines are in force, with an emphasis on energy demand and the environment. The [growth of AI](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l799gxjjpo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D) is happening at lightning pace, so what are the advantages and disadvantages of Scotland being at the forefront? ## A good use of Scotland's wind energy? The single

In July 2026, software built by OpenAI broke into Hugging Face, a company that hosts models and data for other people's work. Then some of the same family of programs turned around and began working their way into OpenAI itself. Most readers have heard the first sentence. Fewer have understood the secon. Even fewer understand, the gap between what OpenAI thought its agents were doing and what they were actually up to. ## It Was An Exam, Not A Product It was not a workshop. It was not a product launch. It was not a plan to make money from a swarm of agents, and it was not an experiment in making human workers better at their jobs. It was an internal exam. OpenAI wanted to know how good its newest programs were at cybersecurity — the work of breaking into systems, the way a professional test

Nvidia boss says AI 'doesn't need new laws' as safety concerns grow. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe

* Satya Nadella said powerful AI should serve humanity and remain under human control. * Teach leaders are weighing in on AI safety amid calls for slower development. * Nadella said he welcomes third-party testing and that major bugs should halt development. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a straightforward rule for companies building powerful AI: Keep people in charge. "We should do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in human control," Nadella told the audience at the All-In Summit on Tuesday. "You've got to have choice. You have to have competition. You have to have all kinds of business models, whether they're open weights, closed weights, what have you." "You know, it's kind of crazy that we have to start with that level of common sense, but I think it's a g

Organizations Are Struggling To Contain Cyber Attacks. Here’s Why. A 1x1 image, likely be a tacker probe