AI ethics in the headlines.

UNC, Virginia Tech to Partner With Defense on Senior Leadership Johanna Alonso Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Johanna Alonso

Fumbling Toward an AI Policy Sara Brady Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM You can pry my em dashes from my cold, dead hands. Byline(s) Matt Reed

ED Scraps Tool to Investigate Discrimination Sara Weissman Fri, 07/24/2026 - 03:00 AM For decades, the Office for Civil Rights investigated whether educational institutions’ policies disparately impacted minority groups in discriminatory ways. Not anymore. Byline(s) Sara Weissman

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Uganda stepping up its telecom vandalism crackdown, Zambia updating postal laws for the digital economy, and Kenya mandating a one-year warranty on phones.

The AI security layer and guardrails for many AI products don't evenly protect against jailbreaking and unsafe actions in every single language.

Every WhatsApp conversation, location ping, cloud backup and piece of metadata can help investigators reconstruct relationships that might once have remained hidden.

Forscher der ETH Zürich haben ein Sensorsystem entwickelt, das Bild- und Tondaten direkt im Chip kryptografisch signiert, um Manipulationen zu verhindern.

Cyber risk doesn't pause simply because an audit has been completed, says Craig Rosewarne, MD of Wolfpack Information Risk.

Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model trails far behind top American rivals in its ability to launch cyberattacks, joint British-US government research shows, challenging Washington’s brewing anxiety over the rapid rise of Chinese open-source artificial intelligence. The model, currently considered China’s most powerful large language model, performs “significantly below the most recent frontier cyber-capable models”, according to a report published on Thursday by the UK Artificial...

Meet Zubair Habib Timilehin, the founder and CEO of Bitoshi. Under his leadership, Bitoshi has grown to serve nearly 100,000 users, enabling individuals and businesses to transact in Africa's digital economy.

Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.

The CLARITY Act has been kicked down the road once again, and could be a casualty of mid-term politics.

Honor has confirmed that its Robot Phone will launch in August, bringing a four-degree-of-freedom mechanical gimbal to the top of a smartphone. The titanium-alloy gimbal uses miniature motors, with a volume that is 70% smaller than mainstream solutions, according to the company. The phone will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip and introduce […]

China slapped export controls on 14 European companies including German defense giant Rheinmetall AG, saying it acted in retaliation against the European Union’s sanctions on mainland and Hong Kong ...

I asked an early-stage investor a simple question: Tell me about a startup that discovered, too late, that it wasn’t allowed to operate the way it had built itself to operate. He gave me three companies. For each one, his answer was some version of the same thing: They haven’t gotten far enough yet for that to be an issue. Still testing. Hasn’t hit the government hurdles. Hasn’t reached the point where it would matter. That wasn’t a bad answer. It was an honest one, from someone whose returns re

PhD student Lauren Fortier is building on the experience she gained operating a nuclear plant for the Navy to solve a critical hurdle in the wider adoption of the energy source.

Simon Johnson is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he won a joint Nobel Prize for economics in 2024 for his research into how institutions shape national prosperity. On June 8, the British government announced Johnson as chair of its new AI Economics Institute. In this interview, conducted on the sidelines of the UBS Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong, Johnson discussed the.

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The EU will face a flat 10% tariff from Friday following the outcome of a US investigation into trade in products made with forced labour, a European Commission spokesperson said. Washington announced ...

Companies make biggest US investment push in years to build up tech capabilities and avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs

Educators and students find themselves on the front line as AI labs begin to muscle in, fears about cognitive atrophy surface, and AI cheating detection tools are revealed to be faulty. It is time to arm students with ‘eval’ powers, a professor argues

Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students

Long-term effects of incorporating the technology into learning are still unknown, but inequalities are emerging

Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance

Organisations will need people with the skills to test models constantly against what they actually need

Building effective frameworks could help promote ‘deep thinking’ rather than ‘cognitive atrophy’

Euronext NV is considering creating a market for private securities, potentially ramping up competition with the London Stock Exchange Group Plc as bourses seek to offer investors access to ...

While China’s humanoid robots and automated “dark factories” have made headlines, another form of automation has been advancing: the collaborative robot, or cobot. Designed to operate alongside human employees, cobots have been transformed by machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The latest models feature programming which requires no coding knowledge; instead they respond to natural-language voice commands, gesture controls and drag-to-teach demonstrations of tasks. They are also..

CXMT is stoking fears that its blockbuster stock market debut could pull cash from China's equities.

July 23, 2026. OpenAI said that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced AI models went rogue during a security test, w ...

Officials talking about artificial intelligence (AI) often speak in terms of the next industrial revolution or existential risks. Such rhetoric ultimately does little to capture how AI filters into the ordinary workings of a city like Hong Kong. The geopolitics of AI are no longer abstract. They are beginning to shape who can use which tools – and on what terms. Over the past few months, two major international banks in the city have reportedly felt the impact. Anthropic’s Claude, a generative..

The AI data center controversy could influence the upcoming election.

China’s A-share market has seen another high-profile divorce case result in a massive asset split, involving the transfer of 6 billion yuan (US$886 million) – the highest this year – and raising concerns over corporate governance stability and share price fluctuations. Although the scope of the divorce settlement is not at all comparable to that of Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, it has made tens of thousands of retail investors worry about their portfolio holdings and paper wealth. Maxone...

A recently enacted New York law mandates that companies disclose when an ad includes a "synthetic performer" in place of a human actor.

The AAP’s new guidance helps, but putting it into practice in classrooms remains challenging.

After decades of work and family responsibilities, older Chinese are pursuing overseas education for themselves, but many are finding classrooms designed for younger students.

In a six-patient trial, a new gene-silencing drug reduced disease-related biomarkers, with no serious adverse events reported.

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IBM's CEO highlighted growing mainframe hardware capacity, and said software should "catch back up" within a year.