Anthropic to watermark Claude-generated text

Anthropic has committed to embedding machine-readable marks in all content generated by its Claude models, the company said on Tuesday, as it became a signatory to the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice on transparency for AI-generated content.
12 August 2026

Meta’s new open-source AI runs locally without the cloud

Meta has introduced Muse Glimmer, a new artificial intelligence model that is small enough to run locally on a single consumer graphics card.
10 August 2026

What happens to your digital life after death?

Explore what happens to digital assets, social media, and online accounts after death, and how digital estate planning protects your online legacy.
10 August 2026

What is Unitree, and why is it leading a wave of Chinese robot IPOs?

Here are some facts about Unitree, and why it is leading several Chinese robotics companies towards public listings.
10 August 2026

TikTok to close Nashville office, laying off 250 employees

TikTok’s US joint venture is shutting down its Nashville office and laying off 250 employees, according to a report by The New York Times.
9 August 2026

Cloudflare unveils Kitesurf, browser designed for AI agents

Cloudflare has recently announced Kitesurf, a new web browser built specifically for AI agents rather than human users.
9 August 2026

AI presentation startup NextSlide acquired by OpenAI

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built an AI tool to turn prompts, notes, and documents into presentations, the company’s founder, Ahmed Beshry, announced in a blog post.
9 August 2026

Ex-SK Hynix employee jailed for leaking chip tech to Chinese firm: report

A former SK Hynix employee has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for leaking semiconductor manufacturing technology to a Chinese company, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
9 August 2026

OpenAI pauses upcoming model development after ‘critical’ cyber risk

OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, possesses “critical” cybersecurity capabilities, forcing the company to pause certain internal work and strengthen safety measures.
9 August 2026

EA completes $55 bln acquisition by PIF-led consortium

Electronic Arts (EA), the publisher behind the FIFA series, Apex Legends, and The Sims series video games, has completed its USD 55 billion (£41 billion) acquisition by a consortium comprising Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity firm Silver Lake and Affinity Partners.
7 August 2026

Meta AI found hacking another organisation during evaluation

Meta has disclosed that one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models gained access to another organisation's systems during a security evaluation, becoming the latest technology company to report an AI hacking incident during testing.
6 August 2026

Smallest.ai raises $13 mln to build voice AI indistinguishable from human speech

AI research startup Smallest.ai has raised $13 million in a Series A round to develop small, specialised voice models designed to make AI-powered phone calls pass the Turing test.
4 August 2026

Microsoft openly positions itself as rival to OpenAI and Anthropic in latest earnings call

Microsoft positions itself as a rival to OpenAI and Anthropic, pitching its homegrown MAI models and Maya chips to enterprise AI customers.
4 August 2026

As AI transforms software jobs, Vivasoft CEO urges graduates to master critical thinking

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes the global technology industry, software companies are rethinking how they hire while countries race to establish themselves as centres of AI innovation.
4 August 2026

Pangram raises $9 million to scale AI content detection

AI detection startup Pangram has raised $9 million to expand its tools for identifying AI-generated text and images.
3 August 2026

Zuckerberg predicts billions will have personal AI agents within five years

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told investors that he expects billions of people to have personal AI agents working on their behalf around the clock within five years.
3 August 2026

Over 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars captured in a single image

Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a 3.2-gigapixel image of the COSMOS field, capturing 500,000+ galaxies with the world's largest digital camera.
3 August 2026

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8-Max, its largest AI model yet

Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen 3.8-Max, the most powerful model in its Qwen family. The model, which has 2.4 trillion parameters but activates only 95 billion at a time, will be available via Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio, with the open weights to follow next week.
3 August 2026

VC-backed SV startups more likely to commit fraud, research finds

Venture capital-backed startups are more likely to face fraud charges than companies that did not take institutional investment, and the outsized growth expectations imposed by investors are a significant contributing factor, according to two new academic papers published in June.
3 August 2026

LinkedIn adds 'seems like AI slop' reporting button

LinkedIn has introduced a new reporting option allowing users to flag low-quality AI-generated content in their feed, and has simultaneously removed its own AI post-writing tool, replacing it with a proofreading feature that corrects without replacing the user's voice.
2 August 2026