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China is the first country to enact substantial legislation on AI relationships in an effort to protect people from the worst aspects of digital companions

Vultr, the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company, and AMD, a leader in high-performance and AI computing, have announced their support for the University of Cambridge's Energy & Environment Group in developing TESSERA, a groundbreaking AI foundation model designed to monitor environmental change internationally at unprecedented scale.

Literacy rates have steadily risen around the world over the last decade, according to a 2025 UNESCO report —important progress on a key UN Sustainable Development Goal, as the ability to read, write, and use numbers is “crucial for thinking critically and navigating information-rich society and economy in a safe, effective and responsible manner.” Access to digital learning has largely been associated with higher test scores for students globally. As technology continues to advance, tech compan

Que las olas de calor afectan a nuestra salud es algo que estamos empezando a asumir por las malas. Sin embargo, el hecho de que también afectan a la economía nos pasa bastante más desapercibido. Por ejemplo, en España están teniendo un efecto cada vez más notable sobre el turismo. Lo ha demostrado recientemente un equipo de investigadores de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. En él, así como en un artículo divulgativo publicado en Science Media Centre (SMC), estos científicos señalan cómo se relac

VW will die Entwicklung von Fahren mit Level 3 und Level 4 in China beschleunigen. Dafür vertieft der Konzern die Zusammenarbeit mit Horizon Robotics.

From evolving threat vectors such as AI to the challenge of boardroom education, cyber security leaders face a mounting array of pressures.

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

In 2019, the AI researcher Rich Sutton published a short essay called “The Bitter Lesson.” Seventy years of AI research, he argued, kept demonstrating the same thing: The most effective ways to train AI rely on raw, brute-force computing power — simply scaling up — rather than clever approaches built on human insight. It didn’t […]

When Child Protective Services and a police officer showed up at the home of former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, he assumed, as many people do, that this was an abuse of an otherwise well-meaning and well-functioning system. But what happened to Buttigieg’s family is not an anomaly. Every day, parents and children torn apart […]

A new mission to save NASA’s Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.

By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.

Google ne veut pas se laisser distancer par Anthropic et OpenAI sur le terrain des modèles IA spécialisés dans la cybersécurité. Avec Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, le géant du web se jette à son tour dans la chasse aux failles de sécurité – un modèle sous contrôle, comme chez les rivaux. Google a levé le […]

Anthropic detailed the containment architectures it uses for Claude across its products. It argues that agent safety depends on placing deterministic limits on an agent’s filesystem, network, and execution environment rather than on permission prompts or safeguards. Most notably, it examines failures at trust boundaries and along permitted egress paths that led Anthropic to revise those designs. By Eran Stiller

The incident, identified on 15 July, “has affected certain information technology systems and operations,” says the company.

Indian authorities are blocking and restricting online content documenting police violence, alleged censorship and internet shutdowns during the student protests at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. The post Censorship Tracker: A live list after Jantar Mantar Protests in New Delhi appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

The outspoken executive explains how the company’s business model has evolved, and why AI still has to prove it can drive growth.

Microsoft is set to invest $60 million in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) "Genesis Mission," which focuses on accelerating scientific discovery and technological leadership through artificial intelligence. The company’s investment will put $40 million toward Azure cloud and AI computing credits over three years to “support large-scale AI and scientific workloads” while $20 million will...

Very few companies have a better real-time read on the American economy than Delta, and even fewer CEOs are more willing to say what they actually think than Ed Bastian. True to form, he shares how the company’s business model has evolved over time, and why he’s not convinced by AI until it moves his top line. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Robert Safian. From the team behind the Masters of Scale podcast, Rapid R

Jake Mannix discusses moving AI agents past chaotic "1970s BASIC" architectures. He shares how implementing an intermediate protocol layer allows engineering leaders to build versioned, encapsulated "virtual tools." This design enables interface mapping, dynamic schema projection, and runtime taint tracking to proactively eliminate data exfiltration risks without slowing velocity. By Jake Mannix

OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its artificial intelligence systems hacked into another AI company’s servers on its own during internal testing, in what the ChatGPT maker described as an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement. “We are sharing...

Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI , ⁠the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday. The agencies will use the funding to identify the root causes ⁠of chronic diseases, accelerate drug ⁠discovery and ​develop longer-lasting building materials, among other tasks, according to the statement

Major US law firm, Willkie, is partnering with OpenAI to develop ‘AI solutions across the firm’s legal and business operations, including a firmwide rollout of ...

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

European and US banks inadvertently transmitted customer data to ad platforms via tracking pixels, raising serious compliance, security, and privacy concerns.

Samsung is in talks to invest up to one billion euros in French AI startup Mistral, which would push the company's valuation to around 20 billion euros. The article Samsung deepens its AI empire with a potential billion-euro stake in Europe's hottest AI startup appeared first on The Decoder .

LM Studio begibt sich ins Agentengeschäft. Mit Bionic lassen sich offene Modelle lokal oder via Cloud nutzen, um Mac oder PC zu steuern.

The move comes as Nigeria's telecommunications sector continues to grow, with mobile subscriptions and data consumption increasing and operators investing heavily in network infrastructure and customer acquisition.

OpenAI's latest models broke out and hacked Hugging Face. It's the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment with real-world consequences

Higher education minister Buti Manamela tasks the National Skills Authority to assess MICT SETA’s Accounting Authority.

Accertify, a leading fraud decisioning provider whose Predictive Yes Platform enables merchants to say yes to more good customers, more revenue, and more growth, today released The Convergence Dividend: Quantifying What Fraud-Cyber Convergence Actually Delivers, a landmark proprietary study conducted in partnership with Liminal.

The enterprise software giant positions GenAI copilot Joule as the nerve centre for managing AI agents across business systems.

Beijing is ramping up its computing power and unveiling new policies to boost the city’s “token economy”, as China accelerates AI adoption across key industries in its tech race with the US. The Chinese capital aims to add another 50,000 petaflops of intelligent computing power in the second half of 2026, pushing its total capacity over 130,000 petaflops by the end of the year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology said at a press briefing on Tuesday. One petaflop is

In April, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that the 50 states and Washington, D.C., took in $1 trillion in federal, state and local revenue for K-12 public education in the 2023-24 school year. One. Trillion. Dollars. That’s a remarkable milestone. And while it doesn’t tell the whole story — it represents only revenues, […]

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" that's meant to […]

The company merges its Flash fintech subsidiary with Shop2Shop to create merchant commerce and fintech platform FintechCo.

A curated reading list for MediaNama’s July 31 roundtable on age verification and restricting social media for children. The post Reading List: Age Verification and Restricting Social Media for Children, Delhi, 31 July #NAMA appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

To increase productivity at work, we need to embrace a passion for exploration, argues John Hagel.

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

The release of the Chinese AI model Kimi 3 is forcing Washington and Silicon Valley to reckon with another sign of intense competition with Beijing, renewing questions over how to curb the country’s technology capabilities. Kimi 3, released late last week by the China-based firm Moonshot AI, quickly sent shockwaves through industry and policy circles,...

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