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[Search](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/search) [](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/global?ref=logo "The Business Times")  / Sign up for free [Subscribe](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/subscribe?eshop_ref=subscribe-header&article_id=9783775) # Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon testifies at New York City Council AI hearing This comes as lawmakers are weighing safeguards for the technology [Summarise](https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/pulse/article/9783775?ref=pulse-article-top)  Share ![Image 4: play icon](blob:http://localho

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Every year, IEEE recognizes individual researchers, innovators, and collaborative teams whose technical achievements and leadership have made a lasting impact on technology, engineering, and society worldwide with its Technical Field Awards . The honorees are selected by the IEEE Awards Board based on their extraordinary technical achievements, societal impact, and leadership in specialized engineering disciplines and are approved by the IEEE Board of Directors . “The 2027 IEEE Technical Field Award recipients embody the relentless spirit of innovation and ingenuity that defines our global community,” said Mary Ellen Randall , 2026 IEEE president and CEO in a news release . “Across microelectronics, artificial intelligence, medical robotics, wireless networks, energy conversion, and techni

This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears to have failed? As AI and robotics continue to advance at an unprecedented pace, modern robots perceive through multimodal sensors, interpret context using AI models, and translate those interpretations into physical action. As they move into dynamic environments, their safety increasingly depends on the integrity of the data guiding their decisions. That dependence creates risks that conventional safety assessments may not fully capture. Recent research has demonstrated that manipulating what a robot sees, hears,

We recently identified and disrupted a coordinated campaign designed to extract protected reasoning from our models, with the earliest observed activity occurring in the first week of July. This activity is consistent with adversarial distillation: the systematic and unauthorized use of one model’s outputs or reasoning to help train, reproduce, or improve another model. Protected reasoning is the model’s internal record for working through a task; extracting it can reveal information withheld from the final answer and help others reproduce the model’s capabilities. The operators did not break our encryption, compromise a database, or gain direct access to stored user conversations. Instead, they manipulated model interactions so that protected reasoning could be reproduced in forms visible

Small businesses are built on ambition: a craft you’ve perfected, a skill to share, a better way to serve a community. But turning that ambition and expertise into a business also means finding customers, managing finances, and handling marketing, often with a small team and little time to spare. AI can extend a team’s capacity, but figuring out where to start takes time too. A trusted advisor can make that first step easier. Today, OpenAI is announcing a partnership with [America’s SBDC⁠(opens in a new window)](https://americassbdc.org/)—the national network of small business development centers serving 1 million entrepreneurs each year—to help more small businesses use AI at work. In this initial phase, through [OpenAI Academy’s Community Trainer Program](https://openai.com/index/two-yea

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Financial markets have always relied on timely information, and the drive for timeliness has always adapted to the latest technology. From clipper ships transiting the oceans to telegraph wires connecting cities to fiber-optic cables conducting trades in microseconds , traders have embraced any advantage to get the most up-to-date information. Indeed, the history of finance is really a story about how fast you can move information and who controls the interface. It’s only natural that people also figured out a way to profit by supplying that market intel. In 1841, for example, the Mercantile Exchange (predecessor to Dun & Bradstreet) began selling proprietary business information to its U.S. clients. The following decade, Paul Julius Reuter began selling news services and stock price infor

Sep 02, 2026 | Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity. * * * Raluca Ada Popa Gemini Security Lead, Google DeepMind * * *  Building on the momentum of [3.7 Flash](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/) from three weeks ago and marking our third Flash release in only six weeks, today we’re introducing Gemini 3.8, our best reasoning and coding model yet, at the same speed and low cost of 3.7. Gemini 3.8 introduces 2 variants: * **Gemini 3.8 Flash:** our most intelligent work

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Pearson will acquire the AI skills platform Workera in H2 2026. * A recent Workera report in ZDNET indicated gaps in AI upskilling. * Together, the firms hope to develop the future of AI skills training. * * * [Pearson](https://www.pearson.com/en-us?), a global learning and assessment company, announced on Sept. 29 that it has agreed to acquire [Workera](https://www.workera.ai/), the AI-native skills platform used by organizations such as ServiceNow, Accenture, and the United States Space Force to verify what their employees can do and where they may need to improve. **Also: [73% of tech job listings require AI skills now: How to show off yours](https://www.zdnet.com/article/73-of-tech-job-listings-require-ai-skills-show-off-yours/)** The announcement comes less

Sep 30, 2026 | Gemini 4 Argon delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense. * * * * * *  In this article * [Introducing Gemini 4 Argon](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-4-argon-our-next-era-of-frontier-intelligence/#gemini4argon) * [Changing how we work and build at Google](https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-4-argon-our-next-era-of-frontier-intelligence/#changing) * [Working harder on your most complex problems](https://deepmind.google/blo

September 30, 2026 Science Pushmeet Kohli, David Stutz, Ali Cowen-Rivers and Jeremy Ratcliff Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function. Today, we’re introducing SynthID Bio to bring watermarking technology to synthetic biology. SynthID Bio embeds an imperceptible signature directly into the biological code, ensuring the watermark is verifiable not just on a digital model but on the synthesized, physical protein itself – all while preserving its biological function in laboratory testing. Generative AI is helping scientists address critical biological challenges, from predicting the structure of proteins ([AlphaFold](https://deepmind.google/blog/alphafold-five-years-of-impact/)) to designing entirely new proteins ([AlphaProteo](https://deepm

September 23, 2026 Responsibility & Safety Google Private AI Compute Team A technical update on our Private AI Compute architecture, which will enable persistent, cross-device AI memory with on-device privacy standards. AI is becoming more capable and intuitive — remembering what matters, understanding the world around you, and acting at your direction. Privacy and trust are core to making that possible, ensuring your data stays private and protected as AI systems evolve to provide more continuous assistance across your devices. Today, we are sharing how we will bring private, server-side memory to our [Private AI Compute](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/google-private-ai-compute/) platform. This breakthrough resolves a longstanding dilemma in modern AI: how to give an assis

Sep 23, 2026 | Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet. Generate custom character voices and direct scene dialogue across Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Notebook, and Google Vids. * * * Leland Rechis Group Product Manager Alan Cowen Director, Research Science, on Behalf of the Gemini Audio Team * * *  Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio. These models enable creators,

Sep 02, 2026 | Today, we’re launching our Fairwind Program, a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our most advanced cyber defense capabilities. * * * Four Flynn Vice President - Security and Privacy * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86130_umbriel_2026_09_02_20_40_39.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Defenders wanting to use advanced AI have faced a difficult dilemma: adopt enormous frontier models that could be expensive to deploy and difficult to control across

Aug 26, 2026 | Our latest speech-to-text model designed for precise and intelligent real-time transcription. * * * Diego Melendo Casado Senior Director, Engineering, Gemini Audio Luke Leonhard Chief of Staff, Gemini Audio, on behalf of Gemini Audio Team * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86035_umbriel_2026_08_27_14_23_14.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, our most precise speech-to-text model yet, designed for

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * Apple has unveiled a new security option called Impersonation Risk Detection. * Added in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, this tries to protect you from social engineering scams. * Apps that support the feature will warn you of a potential threat. * * * Social engineering scams often succeed because they evade traditional security protections to trick you into doing something that puts you at risk. Now, Apple has created a new defense designed to protect iPhone and iPad users from these types of scams: [Impersonation Risk Detection](https://cc.zdnet.com/v1/otc/00hQi47eqnEWQ6T9d4QLBUc?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fen-us%2F127906&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Ftech%2Fios-27-impersonation-risk-detection-security-feature%2F) **Also: [A stranger can learn a lot about y

### ZDNET’s key takeaways * openSUSE Leap is getting an immutable mode. * openSUSE already includes plenty of security features. * This addition should make Leap one of the most secure distros. I’ve been a fan of [SUSE](https://www.suse.com/) and [openSUSE](https://www.opensuse.org/) for a long time. I actually remember SUSE Linux before it was SUSE Enterprise Linux or SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop. Even back then, the distribution was a power user’s dream come true. One reason for this was its security. openSUSE has been, for a very long time, one of the more secure of the “mainstream” Linux distributions. And in German-speaking countries, openSUSE is [quite popular](https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/16dduy9/opensuse_you_should_try_it/) due to its ties to the German company SUSE.