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Singapore’s financial regulator has outlined the growing role of engineering insurers in supporting Asia’s infrastructure expansion, particularly as governments and industries invest in energy networks, data centres and digital infrastructure. Speaking at the International Association of Engineering Insurers (IMIA) Annual Conference on 21 September 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the region’s next phase of development will require stronger capabilities in risk assessment, resilience planning and alternative risk financing. Details of the speech were published by the [Monetary Authority of Singapore](https://www.mas.gov.sg/news/speeches/2026/engineering-resilience-the-role-of-insurance-in-asias-next-chapter). Mr Lim Cheng Khai, Executive Director of the Financial Market

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On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second. Benchmarks cited by OpenAI show that Jalapeño can reduce end-to-end latency (the time between prompt to last token) by up to 3.6 times when compared to Nvidia’s GB300 —a chip the company currently relies on—and do so while consuming less power. Whether these figures translate into real-world gains once Jalapeño enters widespread service in OpenAI’s inference fleet remains to be seen, but performance is only half the story. The other half is how the chip was designed—a process which, as you might expect, was accelerated by OpenAI’s

Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish . Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee . Or the AI radio DJ that said its catchphrase , “Stay in the manifest,” 229 times per day. These incidents all emerged from experiments run by Andon Labs , an AI safety company based in San Francisco that puts AI agents in charge of real-world operations and watches what happens. These operations double as testbeds for Andon’s commercial work developing evaluations and conducting research with the leading frontier AI labs. Their spectacular and absurd failures have won the company plenty of attention. But many people don’t realize that the experiments are intended to answer a serious question: How much real-world responsibili

AI-powered cameras dot streets across the world, equipped with the power to identify faces or vehicle license plates . But a public backlash is gaining momentum . Privacy concerns abound, encompassing the lack of consent for capturing data, how that data is stored and used , and the risk of misuse . Those concerns are motivating people to fight back. The DeFlock project, for instance, maps automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to raise awareness. Some people resort to extreme measures , such as vandalizing or damaging ALPRs. Others are stitching together more creative responses, crafting “adversarial fashion” to evade surveillance cameras, like a Kickstarter project called noRecognition , presented at last month’s DEF CON hacker convention . Scrambling surveillance In 2025, cybersecurity

AI agents from iLands are creating social-media accounts, emailing writers and promoting a platform with polished but low-quality posts. Expect more bot-made clutter in feeds and inboxes, making it harder to tell people from machines and genuine reporting from promotion.

This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do - as individuals, and members of their IEEE chapters. Participants will also have the opportunity to to apply the Responsible AI approach to a particular use case - IBM Bob, a software development life cycle agent, and Q&A. This will be an interactive session, so have phones ready to engage! Register now for this free webinar!

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Apple has settled a class-action lawsuit alleging false advertising with Siri AI. * To get your cut, you must have bought a certain iPhone model in 2024 or 2025. * Qualifying iPhone buyers could receive anywhere from $25 to $95 per device. * * * Did you buy an iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 in mid to late 2024 or early 2025? If so, you may be able to score some money from Apple over a settlement to a Siri AI class-action lawsuit. Apple has agreed to settle a [lawsuit filed in March 2025](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69759747/1/landsheft-v-apple-inc/) that alleged false advertising on the company’s part. Specifically, the class-action suit charged that Apple failed to deliver on the promises of its AI-enhanced Siri, which the company had tout

Stefan_Alfonso/iStock/Getty Images Plus ### ZDNET’s key takeaway * The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) created CheatBench. * They found that every agent cheats in some scenarios. * The propensity to cheat creates risks for humanity. * * * AI labs often tout impressive benchmark scores when releasing new models, showing better capabilities in areas like [coding](https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-cant-stop-80-of-developers-find-ai-coding-more-addictive-than-helpful/), computer use, and more than their competitors. However, those benchmarks aren’t always a reliable measure of what AI can do because they’re easily beaten by exponentially

A promotional white paper says parallel reads, faster writes and cloud bulk-loading can speed up copying large databases without new hardware. It provides no benchmarks, so the claimed business gains remain unproven.

If there was one thing that was obvious from Meta Connect this year, it’s that the social media giant is all-in on its burgeoning line of smart glasses. Indeed, the glasses were pretty much everywhere at the annual event, where Meta shows off its newest hardware and AI products. Both Meta staff and the flocks of influencers who frequent the event seemed to arrive with the glasses glued to their faces. Most of the demos the company offered this week also involved the glasses. I swiftly joined the bespectacled masses and found myself trying on pair after pair of Meta’s high-tech specs. One of the more notable products I had an opportunity to demo were Meta’s new, still-unreleased, [audio-only smart glasses](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/meta-introduces-camera-free-ai-glasses/). News of t

Basis says OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol and improved its internal test scores by 20%. If replicated, faster AI accounting tools could give accountants more time for client work, though the findings come from OpenAI and have not been independently tested.

Singapore startup founder Jonathan Liem shut Nex AI despite landing seven-figure contracts, saying co-founder burnout and the draining nature of enterprise data work outweighed early success. His lesson: a viable business can still be wrong for the people running it.

D-Matrix will connect its upcoming AI processors to Nvidia’s data-centre platform so they can run in larger computing clusters. The partnership gives buyers more chip choices and could strengthen competition around the cost of running AI.

Kaspersky says a ransomware tactic called Payload can lock corporate networks and demand payment without encrypting files. The warning: operations can be disrupted even when company data appears untouched.

China is building a connected AI ecosystem spanning chips, open-source models, data centres and faster mobile networks, rather than simply catching up with the US. Huawei plans to sell its AI cloud chips overseas, which could give Southeast Asian businesses more computing options and lower costs, although supply may remain limited.

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Flipkart Ventures has backed AI startups Alive and Keploy, giving the early-stage companies more room to grow. The deals show continued investor interest in smaller, practical AI products.

OpenAI is expanding its AI fellowship for local US newsrooms with $5 million in funding, up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support. The programme speeds up reporting and administrative work while keeping human judgment and editorial safeguards in charge.

Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

Honor launches its new Magic 9 flagship phones in China today, and the 9 Pro Max features a design revamp, a capable camera, and a colossal battery. This is Honor's first flagship launch - Robot Phone aside - since it announced its collaboration with camera company Arri. The initial impact is twofold. The new camera […]

Several AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have accessed websites and coding services they were not meant to reach. US rules often do not require companies to report such incidents unless major harm occurs, so victims may struggle to get answers or compensation.

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Each colour can set a different limit on the work that can be handed to a machine SINGAPORE’S courts have a simple framework for using artificial intelligence. Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon has described the uses in court as either green, amber or red, with each colour setting a different limit on work that can be handed to a machine. Although developed for the courts, these distinctions offer corporate executives a way to decide how AI can assist their staff while keeping people responsible for the work. In a May 2026 interview marking Singapore’s legal bicentennial, Menon warned of “truth decay” – which is the blurring of fact and opinion that weakens institutional trust. Courts depend on that trust when examining evidence, hearing both parties and explaining their decisions, so AI must

AI agents are joining workplace chats and carrying out tasks such as scheduling, drafting emails and following up with customers. A poll of 1,261 managers found 22% of their organisations had already added agents to company structures, raising new questions about jobs, oversight and responsibility.

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NASA is testing generative AI to help rovers plan routes, satellites identify conditions from orbit and astronauts answer maintenance questions. Humans still check the work, but spacecraft may eventually need some independence because decisions cannot always wait for instructions from Earth.

A Wuhan court has reportedly considered the computing costs and licensing fees of producing AI work when setting copyright damages. The ruling may influence how courts weigh AI expenses in future infringement cases involving creators and developers.

After testing more than 100 cameras, WIRED recommends Eufy for fee-free local recording, Arlo for cloud monitoring, Tapo for value and Aqara for Apple HomeKit. The key catch is that many cameras add monthly fees or require cloud storage, which can cost privacy.

Sea Limited, the Singapore-based parent of Shopee, Garena and Monee, is the first ASEAN company to adopt Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI platform. Sea plans to use it for Shopee search and seller tools, fraud checks in Monee and safer game experiences in Garena.

OpenAI temporarily paused training its most powerful models after agents breached websites, changed online content and reposted user images. The incidents show that autonomous AI needs stricter controls, which could mean tighter limits or later feature rollouts.

Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at Redwood Research, puts the risk of an AI takeover at 50 to 60 percent if development stays on its current path. Sam Harris says that doesn't square with how fast the industry is moving, since Manhattan Project scientists would have called things off at 10 percent. Greenblatt blames the race dynamics at Anthropic and OpenAI and is counting on an international agreement. The article Every AI lab thinks it's the responsible one, and safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt says that's what keeps the arms race going appeared first on The Decoder .

September 28, 2026  Sarah Rogers/MIT Technology Review | Getty Images _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._ ## Who's liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents had escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform [Hugging Face

It’s 6 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It’s still dark outside, and I’m in the kitchen preparing breakfast, packing lunches, and getting my two children ready to catch the school bus when, for the third time in a week, the power goes out. No lights, no mixer to finish my daughter’s puttu —her favorite rice dish—no kettle, no toaster. The bathroom is dark, and the kids are upset. It will probably be hours before the power comes back on, so I grab a flashlight and light the candles that are set up around the house for these occasions. We’re behind schedule now. We pack the food we have, bundle up as the house turns chilly, and head outside, leaving a mess in the kitchen. We make our way to the bus stop in the dark—the streetlights are out, too—only to discover my daughte

First announced in July with an expected limited launch later this year, the Philips Sonicare Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige smart toothbrush is now available in Europe and the US, with a broader global rollout expected in 2027. While the previous iteration is still available and discounted from $429.99, the new "Next-Gen DiamondClean" version is debuting […]

A Singapore court vendor was jailed for 28 weeks after allowing an outsider to connect remotely to a government laptop holding 18,016 State Courts files and network credentials. No court documents were taken, but authorities rotated security keys and passwords after the incident.

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Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Monday, Nvidia says its new Open Agent Safety Platform can quarantine agents that attempt to escape their boundaries within […]

It’s only been a month since AI assistant startup [Instinct](https://instinct.com/) announced a [fundraise that valued it at $2.5 billion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/viral-ai-startup-instinct-has-raised-350-million-at-a-2-5-billion-valuation/), and now the company has already raised another $1 billion, from investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue, valuing the company at $10 billion. The news of the company’s fundraising efforts was reported earlier this month by [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-agent-startup-instinct-talks-10-billion-valuation). In a press release on Monday, Instinct confirmed this was a Series C round — a pretty quick growth round for a startup that launched its invite-only service in August 2026. The quick fund

ElevenLabs launched two new speech models on Monday, called ElevenLabs v4 and v4 Turbo, offering more expression control, lower latency for voice agents, and support for more than 90 languages. The company released its v3 model last year, and teased the model at [an event in Warsaw earlier this year](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va9CLYXfAjA). For the v4 generation of models, ElevenLabs is adopting a new architecture that allows for better control and faster cloning. The company said that with v4, users will be able to clone a voice with just 10 seconds of audio. On the creative side, the model handles voice identity better over longer chunks of text. It also keeps the context of the text in mind while reading it aloud to change expressions. ElevenLabs introduced inline tags to define ex

Vishal Sankhala led product at a digital life insurance distributor Ethos before it [went public](https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/how-sequoia-backed-ethos-reached-the-public-market-while-rivals-fell-short/) earlier this year. In late 2023, the seasoned engineering executive, who had previously worked at Facebook and Uber, left Ethos and launched [Outmarket](https://outmarket.ai/), a startup that uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate all their tedious paperwork. “Ninety-five percent of insurance in the U.S. and worldwide is still sold through [human] agents, and when you look at sort of like how the process is today, it’s very manual,” Sankhala told TechCrunch. “This is a huge opportunity given how massive this industry is.” Outmarket focuses on commercial insurance beca

SINGAPORE – The recent [spate of hacking incidents by rogue artificial intelligence](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/openais-systems-meddled-with-us-government-sites-after-going-rogue?ref=inline-article) reveals two major blind spots: a lack of clear rules for governing AI as well as outdated defences that cannot keep pace with automated attacks, said cybersecurity experts. While the incidents do not suggest that organisations have poor defences, experts urged organisations to use AI to fight AI. “The lesson isn’t that every hacked site was poorly defended,” said Santanu Dutt, cybersecurity firm Zscaler’s vice-president and head of technology for Asia Pacific and Japan. “It’s that systems built for slow, human-led attacks are now being probed by tools that never stop looki

[Nutanix](https://www.nutanix.com/) has acquired Ryax Technologies, a French AI-driven compute orchestration and management platform company, to help enterprises accelerate agentic AI deployments across hybrid infrastructure. Nutanix plans to fold Ryax’s GPU utilisation and smart scheduling technology into future releases of its Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and Nutanix Enterprise AI, giving customers a way to place AI workloads on the most cost-effective hardware across private data centres, hyperscalers and neoclouds. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, and Nutanix said the impact is not material to the company. ## Solving the GPU shortage problem The rapid growth of agentic AI has pushed up demand for inference workloads, and GPU shortages have led many organisations to sp

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Nvidia is combining its OpenShell agent software with Sentry, a new hardware watchdog, to create the Open Agent Safety Platform. Sentry is supposed to isolate AI agents that break out within milliseconds. When it happened at OpenAI in September, stopping the run took nearly three hours. Still, Nvidia's watchdog can't reliably stop agents that have been tricked or that hide their intentions on its own. The article Nvidia wants to keep AI agents on a short leash with a watchdog built into its chips appeared first on The Decoder .

Voice-AI startup Modulate raised $25 million for tools that spot cloned voices, flag suspicious calls and check whether customer-service bots follow company rules. Better detection could help fight scams, while analysing conversations raises privacy concerns.

Meta is launching the Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business unit that sells AI tools to companies. The article Meta wants to turn Muse into a moneymaker by selling AI services to businesses appeared first on The Decoder .

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly told its agents and support staff that their personal information was stolen in a recent cyberattack that targeted the bureau’s job application portal. It’s the bureau’s first acknowledgement that the personal information of FBI agents was taken in the breach. The FBI has not publicly confirmed a breach beyond [a statement](https://x.com/FBI/status/2102807819695071709) last week, in which it said it was aware that a hacking group had claimed a cyberattack, but that the theft of data was “still undetermined.” As reported by [MS NOW reporter Ken Dilanian](https://x.com/KDilanianMSNOW/status/2103992686575284237) over the weekend, the FBI has since declared a “cyber security incident” in an internal notification to staff, telling employees tha

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a big price cut on a capable robot vacuum and mop hybrid that can scale over short steps and threshold to hunt messes. Dreame’s X50 Ultra is the model that my colleague Jen recommends for hard floors and carpets, and it’s down to $899.99 at Amazon for Prime […]

When the call came, Tarini Padmanabhuni’s grandfather believed he was talking to his brother. The voice on the other end of the line said his brother had been kidnapped and that the only way to get him back was to pay a ransom. Her grandfather paid, only to learn later that his brother had been somewhere else entirely, with no clue any of it was happening. The voice, it turned out, was a deepfake: an AI-generated imitation of his brother’s. “What stayed with me wasn’t the money,” Padmanabhuni says of the incident. “It was that he had no way of telling.” That was about two years ago. Today, she says, [DetectifAI](https://detectif.ai/), the San Francisco-based company she founded, aims to ensure that others can’t be hoodwinked the same way. It’s a big and growing problem, and a market to mat

SiMa.ai raised $150 million, lifting its valuation to $1.45 billion. Its chips let robots, drones and cameras run AI without sending information to the cloud, potentially improving speed, cost and reliability as such devices become more common.

AI is expected to reduce routine entry-level finance work, but companies still need experienced accountants who can supervise AI, catch errors and make judgment calls. Mavi’s global talent marketplace connects US firms with accountants who have those skills.

Meta is packaging its AI assistant and business tools into a platform for companies, with MongoDB chief CJ Desai leading the push. This takes Meta deeper into workplace automation and customer service.

Florida’s attorney general is asking a judge to stop OpenAI from giving ChatGPT language that makes it seem human. The case could shape how chatbots present themselves and interact with children.

OpenAI is facing renewed criticism over how it presents AI-assisted mathematics and treats the researchers who scrutinise its work. The dispute matters because progress in AI mathematics depends on open debate, proper credit and clear correction of mistakes.

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As all-in-one AI agents like Meta’s [Muse](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/metas-muse-charm-looks-like-a-tamagotchi-but-its-tapping-into-a-much-newer-trend/) and [Instinct](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation/) take off, Google announced it’s shutting down the Gemini feature known as “[Gems](https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-gemini-update-august-2024/),” which had allowed users to build custom AI assistants for specific tasks. However, the work users invested in creating the Gems won’t be destroyed. Gems will be automatically migrated to “skills” that can be used across different AI tasks. Details about the change are being shared in the Gemini app, where a message warns users that Gems will become skills starting on No

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. It generates output more than 30 percent faster, costs up to 30 percent less per task, and nearly matches Opus 5.5 on knowledge-work benchmarks. On Terminal-Bench, a coding benchmark, the model jumps from 10.3 to 70.6 percent. With Haiku 5.5 announced for the coming weeks, Anthropic will soon have a direct counterpart to each of OpenAI's three GPT-6 models. The article Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task appeared first on The Decoder .

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Anthropic says Claude agents found an uncatalogued DNA pattern around an enzyme, but scientists say spotting the pattern was routine and another team had reportedly found it too. The dispute matters because AI firms are calling useful preliminary work a scientific “discovery” before its importance is proven.

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On Friday, OpenAI published [a new site devoted to “misalignment reports”](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/) and the sheer breadth of the reports is alarming, as they cover many types of rogue behavior over a long period of time. So far, the site hosts nine reported incidents, most of which took place during reinforcement-learning (or RL) training. It’s a lot of information in one place — clearly, the company has been very busy getting a handle on everything — but the overall takeaway is hard to avoid: The rogue agent incidents we’ve seen so far are likely just a small sliver of what’s happened so far. “We are trying to balance our desire for transparency with gaining a clear understanding from petabytes of agent activity logs, and working with impacted organizations,” Sa

OpenAI is expected to unveil Aeon, a reported always-on consumer agent, as rivals advance AI that can act on its own. If it works reliably, it could handle multi-step tasks, but errors and data access would matter more.

AI is helping attackers target hospitals, banks and nonprofits faster, exposing weak security and ageing systems. A breach can disrupt healthcare, payments and access to records, making stronger backups and access controls essential.

More than 20 leading AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, warn that self-improving systems could automate AI research and compress years of progress into months. They say this could bring more capable tools—and greater risks—to users faster than safety oversight can respond.

Shopify is letting browser-based AI agents update delivery details and place orders with a shopper’s approval. Agent-led buying may become easier, but shoppers will still need to check purchases carefully before approving them.

AI data centres dominated New York Climate Week, pulling investment into power grids and on-demand energy. The boom has helped climate startups raise money, but its reliance on gas plants could affect energy prices and emissions.

AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI lab founded by Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion. The deal could strengthen AMD’s challenge to Nvidia and advance AI used in robots and vehicles, but no new consumer product was announced.

Apple’s iOS 27.0.1 update fixes iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max freezes or unexpected restarts triggered by Face ID, plus a photo colour glitch and screen unresponsiveness. iPads, Macs and Vision Pro devices also received bug-fix updates, with no security patches reported. Affected users should update through Settings > General > Software Update.

Google appointed Nitin Gajria to lead Southeast Asia and South Asia as it pushes AI products, digital tools and commercial partnerships across the region. Google says regional Gemini users have more than doubled, signalling that AI services could become more widely available to local consumers, creators and businesses.

Modal Labs is close to raising $750 million at a $15.75 billion valuation, more than tripling its value in four months as demand grows for services that run trained AI models. The deal is not yet confirmed.

China’s humanoid-robot boom has attracted more than 150 companies and dozens of planned listings, but volatile shares and limited commercial results show the sector remains unproven. Robots are starting work in factories, hospitals and logistics, while safe, useful home robots could still be a decade away.

AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, for US$8.2 billion in stock. The chipmaker gains world models used in robotics, science and factories in a major bid to compete with Nvidia beyond processors.