Google DeepMind has selected 16 startups, nonprofits and research organisations from across Asia-Pacific for its Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet in APAC, aimed at using advanced artificial intelligence to address environmental and sustainability challenges across the region.
The thre...
Google has highlighted a series of artificial intelligence (AI) developments announced in August 2026, spanning AI models, consumer devices, education, productivity, creative tools and scientific applications.
The company’s latest monthly AI roundup includes the launch of Gemini 3.7 Flash, Ge...
Anthropic is set to introduce text watermarking in future Claude models to enable the detection of AI-generated content, as the company moves to comply with requirements under the European Union’s AI Act.
The watermarking technology is designed to identify the likelihood that a piece of text ...
Anthropic has updated the biology safeguards on its Claude Fable 5 AI model, substantially reducing false positives and enabling the model to handle a broader range of biology-related tasks. According to the company, the update has reduced biology-related fallbacks by approximately 85 per cent acros...
Claude Opus 5 is now available, with Anthropic positioning the model as a major upgrade in intelligence and efficiency for software engineering, knowledge work, problem-solving and scientific research.
The company said Claude Opus 5 delivers performance approaching the frontier intelligence of Clau...
Google has introduced new models in its Gemini Flash series aimed at helping developers and businesses build and scale production-grade AI agents with improved token efficiency, lower latency and more reliable performance.
The new lineup includes Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3...
Anthropic has introduced Claude for Teachers, a new initiative that provides verified K-12 educators in the United States with free access to premium Claude AI capabilities, evidence-based teaching tools, and curriculum resources aligned with academic standards across all 50 states.
The programme i...
OpenAI has announced a limited preview of its next-generation GPT-5.6 model family, introducing three models GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna designed to deliver improved reasoning, coding performance, affordability and safety across a range of AI applications.
The new models will initia...
Meta has unveiled Muse Image, its most advanced AI-powered image generation model to date, while also previewing Muse Video, marking the first media generation models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. The launch expands Meta's generative AI portfolio with agentic capabilities designed to imp...
Anthropic has introduced Claude Sonnet 5, its latest AI model designed to deliver advanced agentic capabilities, enabling developers to build AI applications that can independently plan tasks, use external tools, and execute complex workflows with greater efficiency.
According to the company, Claud...
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase where systems are no longer limited to generating content or answering questions; they are increasingly capable of planning, reasoning, executing complex workflows, and collaborating across business functions with minimal human intervention. As enterpr...
WhatsApp has begun rolling out usernames, allowing its users to reserve a unique @handle and connect with new contacts without exposing their phone number. The move, announced by the Meta-owned platform on June 29, marks one of the most consequential identity changes in the app's history and brings ...
For the past two years, most enterprise AI tools have been sophisticated autocomplete. You type, they respond. You prompt, they draft. The work still lands back on the human. That's changing fast and a new category of AI workspace has emerged that doesn't wait for instructions. It takes a goal, figu...
SimplePractice, the leading platform powering independent mental health practitioners, announced Care Aide, an AI-powered clinical workflow assistant designed to help independent practitioners reduce administrative burden and stay focused on care. Developed with input from more than 1,000 menta...
OpenAI has unveiled the OpenAI Partner Network, a new global ecosystem designed to help organisations move from AI experimentation to measurable business outcomes through a network of consulting, systems integration, technology and data partners.
As part of the initiative, OpenAI announced a $150 m...
Google has unveiled DiffusionGemma, an experimental open-source AI model designed to explore a fundamentally different approach to text generation using diffusion techniques. Released under the Apache 2.0 licence, the model aims to significantly accelerate text generation while enabling new types of...
Meta has announced changes to how it uses activity data shared by external businesses, expanding the role of that information beyond advertising to include content recommendations and artificial intelligence-powered experiences across its platforms.
The update will allow Meta to use information alr...
Anthropic has announced the launch of Claude Fable 5, describing it as its most capable AI model released for general use to date. The company claims the new model sets a new benchmark across software engineering, scientific research, knowledge work, vision and complex reasoning tasks, while introdu...
