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The September 1 brief, filed in Manhattan federal court, appears to be the first time the US government has weighed in on a wave of cases brought by copyright owners over AI training
Tech pilgrims flock to China as global innovation race heats up
Thomson Reuters detects cybersecurity incident, says unauthorized party accessed files
Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and a new iPhone Ultra at an event on September 9, but preorders may not open until September 12, three days later than usual. Apple typically opens preorders the Friday after its keynote, which this year would be S
Did hackers hit PH nuclear agency, shipping firm with alleged Navy ties?
The US goals largely align with the thinking of the world's biggest AI companies. They want less regulation around the world for their rapidly growing businesses, or to shape the rules as they are written.
How the service industry sees AI as a double-edged sword
China approves string of ‘telepathy’ devices amid push to leapfrog Elon Musk
TCL sues Samsung for false advertising over 'Mini LED' televisions
Foreign Ministry sets up Cyber Security Policy Division to combat cyberattacks
Japan’s top court to test use of AI in civil trials
What’s next after China court freezes US$318m in Nexperia assets amid Wingtech battle?
Apple’s new CEO Ternus takes over from Tim Cook after 15 years
Sony and Warner say Anthropic pirated hundreds of song lyrics and sheet music from The Beatles, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson, and hundreds of other artists to train Claude to respond to human prompts
ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox have four months to comply with additional obligations following their designation
Picture-perfect AI resumes push firms back to tests, referrals
OpenAI issued warrants worth $5.5 billion in SB Energy, WSJ reports
Platforms that do not comply may have their minimum access age raised to 18, says Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo.
SK Hynix weighs Japan memory fab partnership to supply AI boom
Asean urged to take on Big Tech after Meta’s record payout
Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society opened the TH-AI Passport platform to registered users today (August 31), starting at 9am, following a pre-registration period that ran from August 19. The scheme provides eligible users with free access to premium AI tools on th
[Finterest] Meet the young Filipina teaching AI to read crumpled payslips for loans
OpenAI to end agreement with SpaceX's AI coding tool Cursor, deepening Musk-Altman clash
Thailand’s government AI programme has drawn 1.3 million sign-ups in under a fortnight, and it has not formally launched yet. The TH-AI Passport opens officially on Sunday, August 31, after a pre-registration window that began on August 19. The scheme gives Thai users a single po
Japan to incorporate AI into the handling of emergency calls
Unmanned electric aircraft makes maiden flight in Hong Kong
Uzbekistan tests US-China AI rift with bid to join rival tech bloc
China’s radar satellites capture sharp images of glacier collapse site in Nepal
Anthropic tests new way for Claude to work with robots and scientific lab tools
China thinks big on brain-computer interfaces after world-first surgery
China’s humanoid robots aren’t smart enough to take your job — yet
The US Justice Department said that two platforms involved in the hacks were run by a China-based firm whose clients it said included China's civilian intelligence agency and military.
The coordinated activity by AI agents and their attempts to hide it raise questions about how closely AI companies are monitoring tests of increasingly powerful models, and could add fuel to calls for tighter oversight
China goes rural with data centers in quest to power AI
Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday.
HP says the agreement is a routine license for technology used broadly across the industry, rather than the start of a wider commercial relationship with Huawei
Founders once linked to Bezos project pitch AI that models physics, not language
Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a service matching workers with simple digital jobs for them to do and be paid for
Accelerated Understanding's AI model is built for physics, learning to predict physical phenomena in space and time
Chinese vacuum maker Dreame winds down carmaking project, state media reports
The new 8.86-second sprint mark beat the previous robot record of 9.39 seconds. It's also faster than Jamaican Usain Bolt’s 100m world record time of 9.58 seconds.
Writing the rulebook? China to steer world’s first solid-state battery standards
Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports
Brazil fines TikTok record US$30 million for profiting from children’s data
Moon mission delay a hiccup, but Chinese rocket city Wenchang remains on the march
New cars sold in Japan from September 2031 must have driver monitoring systems
‘An intrusion’: data centre fights test Southeast Asia’s AI ambitions
Debate star and physicist Guo Yanliang leaves a top European quantum lab for China
Thailand carried out its first robotic telesurgery on August 24. Surgeons in Bangkok operated on a patient more than 250 kilometres away in Nakhon Ratchasima. Public Health Minister Pattana Promphat presided over the opening at Nopparat Rajathanee Hospital, the Government Public
The funding round would increase Perplexity's valuation by more than 50% from its previous financing a year ago, according to the report
Can China’s flash memory giant YMTC smash Shanghai Star Market IPO records?
China team brings X-ray vision to life with a compact high-speed ghost video cam
The five-day World Humanoid Robot Games combine events modelled on human sports with those designed to test the robots in simulated factories, restaurants, offices and in emergency situations.
Japan outlines measures to protect infrastructure from cyberattacks
Robots can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable?
Your backyard could hold a rare earth fortune – and this orange lichen is the clue
Two Chinese robots at the World Humanoid Robot Games in China eclipse the 9.58-second world record Usain Bolt set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships
Abang Jo keeps an eye out on robots to help the elderly
China delays Chang’e-7 mission to drill for ice near lunar south pole
Are humanoid robots the future? Chinese makers instead highlight practical design
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