On the afternoon of Tuesday, 20 October, an anonymous post appeared on Hacker News. It claimed that two remote code execution flaws in PHP were about to be disclosed. The post was deleted within hours, but screenshots had already travelled across X and Mastodon. By evening, the security firm watchTo...
Anthropic has appointed Dr Christopher Stubbs, experimental physicist and former Dean of Science at Harvard University, to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, bringing decades of expertise in scientific research, precision measurement and national security to the organisation’s AI governance efforts....
As enterprises move AI from experimentation to operations, the data foundation supporting these systems is emerging as a critical challenge. The latest Modern Data Report: 5 Emerging Trends in Enterprise Data & AI from The Modern Data Company highlights a growing gap between AI adoption and conf...
The United Nations University (UNU) and the University of Bologna signed a framework cooperation agreement to establish a strategic partnership advancing artificial intelligence (AI) research, education and policy. The agreement will help align academic innovation with international governance throu...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called for stronger safeguards and international cooperation to ensure increasingly capable artificial intelligence (AI) systems remain under human control. Addressing the United Nations Security Council, Altman highlighted both the potential of AI to expand human opportuni...
More than half of museums surveyed globally are already using artificial intelligence (AI), but a similar proportion lack internal policies or guidelines governing its use, according to the first UNESCO–International Council of Museums (ICOM) Global Survey on the Use of AI in Museums.
The fin...
The agreement through 2032 provides the high-capacity optical solutions needed to expand nationwide consumer broadband access while scaling a high-density backbone to support Gen AI compute needs.
To meet surging demand for consumer broadband and converged services alongside emerging AI needs, ...
Google and Alphabet have announced a major leadership restructuring within Google DeepMind, appointing Demis Hassabis as Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while promoting Koray Kavukcuoglu to Senior Vice President of Google DeepMind as the company accelerates its artificial i...
Artificial intelligence is enabling 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa, making attacks faster, more scalable, and increasingly difficult for victims and platforms to detect, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026.
With more than 1.1 billion mobi...
At least 20 million children across 10 countries are already using artificial intelligence (AI), with adoption rates more than three times higher than those of adults, according to new estimates released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The findings highlight AI's rapidly expanding r...
As artificial intelligence reshapes enterprise technology strategies, cloud and data engineering have become central to digital transformation initiatives worldwide. In 2026, organisations are accelerating investments in cloud-native architectures, intelligent data platforms, and real-time analytics...
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 ...
Thredd, the AI-first issuer processing platform, announced the implementation of Visa Cloud Connect (VCC) in the Asia Pacific, marking a significant regional milestone in the company’s broader cloud transformation strategy.
The implementation is currently centralised through Singapo...
Somewhere in a Bengaluru shared-service centre, software is closing the books. Not assisting — closing. It pulls the bank statement, matches the receipts, clears the exceptions it recognises, posts the routine accruals, and routes only the genuine oddities to a human who arrives in the morning...
At 5:21pm Eastern on Friday, a letter arrived. By Friday evening, two of the most capable AI models in commercial deployment were dark — not throttled, not patched, not quietly deprecated, but switched off for every customer on Earth. Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, launched only days earlie...
A new study from the MIT Media Lab has raised concerns about the long-term impact of relying on artificial intelligence tools for fact-checking and news verification, finding that frequent use of AI assistants may reduce users’ ability to independently identify misinformation.
The open-access...
Apple has unveiled the next generation of Apple Intelligence and introduced Siri AI, a significantly enhanced version of its virtual assistant, as part of a broad software update announced during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
The updates, which will be rolled out across iPhone, iPad, ...
Two numbers, published weeks apart in early 2026, frame the whole story. The first: India is now the single largest market for AI hiring on the planet, with a global-capability-centre workforce of 2.36 million and the world’s second-deepest bench of AI researchers, behind only the United State...
