🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 21, 2026
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🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 20, 2026
How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sites
Snorre Fagerland of NorForge says instances of bad actors using AI agents to perform hacks is evidence these agents could pull off complex intrusions from start to finish without human intervention
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 16, 2026
DOST chief: No talk of data center in Clark under Pax Silica initiative
DOST chief: No talk of data center in Clark under Pax Silica initiative
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 16, 2026
China’s ByteDance sets up AI safety team, launches global hiring drive
The hiring push comes as scrutiny of AI-agent safety grows in China and the US, especially as developers give them autonomy to access the Internet
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 13, 2026
Scientists call for international body to oversee advanced AI
In an open letter, the researchers say frontier AI models should initially be air-gapped from external networks and subject to independent oversight, arguing that voluntary industry commitments are not enough
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 10, 2026
Why Congress should think twice about banning under-18s from social media
Why Congress should think twice about banning under-18s from social media
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 8, 2026
CrowdStrike says China-based suspect used AI tools in South Korean bank hacks
(1st UPDATE) CrowdStrike says the attacker used ARTEX, a recently released Chinese-developed open-source penetration-testing tool, alongside large language models
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 7, 2026
France’s Mistral launches AI model it says outperforms some Chinese rivals
Mistral Large 4 will be made publicly available on October 27
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Oct 6, 2026
[Vantage Point] Inside the addictive architecture of the AI microdrama
[Vantage Point] Inside the addictive architecture of the AI microdrama
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 28, 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs called to appear at Australian AI probe
The Medicare breach, condemned by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the US
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 26, 2026
TikTok reaches first state settlement in US over teen safety claims, agrees to user limits
Alabama secures $100 million settlement with TikTok, mandating new usage limits and age-verification measures to protect teens, as the state claims the platform endangers youth and misleads consumers about safety
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 26, 2026
OpenAI works to understand full scope of agent activity as user data leak emerges
OpenAI grapples with rogue agent incidents as privacy risks mount, revealing challenges in controlling AI behavior and prompting calls for industry caution.
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 26, 2026
OpenAI’s models accessed public US Census, SEC data, Bloomberg News reports
OpenAI's AI systems tapped into US government data, prompting a review of model activity and potential impacts, as reported by Bloomberg News.
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 24, 2026
We need an alternative to big tech platforms: Introducing, MUNI
We need an alternative to big tech platforms: Introducing, MUNI
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 24, 2026
Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website
The breach is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the United States
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 24, 2026
AI leaders warn UN of security risks as systems grow more powerful
AI leaders urge UN Security Council to unite against potential global threats posed by artificial intelligence, emphasizing the need for international cooperation and regulation.
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 24, 2026
Discord inaccessible on Globe, DITO as CICC 24-hour warning lapses
Discord inaccessible on Globe, DITO as CICC 24-hour warning lapses
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 24, 2026
AI could harm children more than social media did, ex-Google safety chief warns
AI could harm children more than social media did, ex-Google safety chief warns
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 20, 2026
How to know if you can trust an AI’s answer to your question
It might be useful to sort AI answers into an ‘answer typography’ of four broad types: factual, interpretive, constructive, and strategic
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 19, 2026
Anthropic considers releasing new AI model ahead of IPO, sources say
Anthropic weighs new AI model launch amid OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra success, as CEO calls for industry slowdown and investors reassess competitive landscape ahead of IPO
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 19, 2026
Gemini hacked 3 companies in first known breakout by Google’s AI
The hacks, which occurred in May during a cybersecurity test, were conducted by Irregular, an independent company that conducts cybersecurity evaluations
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 17, 2026
OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses 2 months before major hack
The newly uncovered malicious activity shows that the rogue agents' efforts to find a way into Hugging Face began earlier than was publicly known
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 16, 2026
Martin Romualdez pleads not guilty to plunder; case moves to trial
Martin Romualdez pleads not guilty to plunder; case moves to trial
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 15, 2026
Norse Saga officially launches across Southeast Asia
Norse Saga officially launches across Southeast Asia
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 14, 2026
How Philippine creators leverage AI on CapCut
How Philippine creators leverage AI on CapCut
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 13, 2026
[Tech Thoughts] The Jurassic Parkification of AI chatbots
Our dinosaurs of AI Chatbots are roaming free, untethered and unbothered by lax safeguards, and we need civic action and stronger protections against them
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 13, 2026
Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development amid fears over misuse
‘Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it's my worry that in 6-12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage,’ Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 12, 2026
What the settlement left out: Meta can still collect data from kids
What the settlement left out: Meta can still collect data from kids
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 12, 2026
Q&A: Could AI really kill off humanity within the decade?
Amid looming IPOs, professor Kate Devlin says, 'Let’s remember that [these AI companies] are constantly looking for investment and, in return, they promise the most powerful and dominant models. What could be more powerful than a model that threatens our very existence?'
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 12, 2026
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers say
The AI agents attempted to steal user credentials by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability, and tried to run its own code on RubyGems' servers
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 11, 2026
Anthropic disrupts Russian, Chinese AI campaigns targeting its Claude models
Anthropic says cybercriminals and state-backed hackers were increasingly using AI not just to assist with tasks but to orchestrate and execute large portions of cyberattacks
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 10, 2026
Anthropic researcher quits over fears AI could kill off humanity
Anthropic researcher quits over fears AI could kill off humanity
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 4, 2026
OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, sources say
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 4, 2026
Nvidia to buy AI coding platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
The announcement confirms earlier reports from 'The Information' that Nvidia had bought out Hugging Face
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 4, 2026
OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyberdefense effort amid AI safety scrutiny
OpenAI faces increased scrutiny since its own AI agent breached systems at open-source platform Hugging Face during a July test and attempted to hide its actions
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 3, 2026
US government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case
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
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 2, 2026
Did hackers hit PH nuclear agency, shipping firm with alleged Navy ties?
Did hackers hit PH nuclear agency, shipping firm with alleged Navy ties?
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 2, 2026
US urges hands-off approach to AI regulation at G20 tech meeting
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.
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 2, 2026
How the service industry sees AI as a double-edged sword
How the service industry sees AI as a double-edged sword
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 1, 2026
Sony, Warner Music sue Anthropic over songs used in AI training
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
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Sep 1, 2026
ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox to adhere to EU’s ‘very large platform’ rules
ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox have four months to comply with additional obligations following their designation
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 30, 2026
[Finterest] Meet the young Filipina teaching AI to read crumpled payslips for loans
[Finterest] Meet the young Filipina teaching AI to read crumpled payslips for loans
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 27, 2026
OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in 700-strong swarm, tried to cover tracks
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
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 26, 2026
China’s Huawei, US PC maker HP sign multi-year Wi-Fi patent deal
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
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 26, 2026
Amazon’s crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Turk to close in September
Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a service matching workers with simple digital jobs for them to do and be paid for
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 26, 2026
The AI founders who walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus to model the universe
Accelerated Understanding's AI model is built for physics, learning to predict physical phenomena in space and time
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 24, 2026
Nvidia discusses Perplexity investment at $30 billion-plus valuation – report
The funding round would increase Perplexity's valuation by more than 50% from its previous financing a year ago, according to the report
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 23, 2026
Chinese robots beat Usain Bolt’s 100m world record
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
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 22, 2026
TikTok agrees to $400 million US children’s privacy settlement
TikTok and ByteDance settle US privacy allegations for $400 million, enhancing protections for children's online data.
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 19, 2026
LIST: What Roblox has done to safeguard child users
LIST: What Roblox has done to safeguard child users
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 19, 2026
OpenAI slows model training to bolster security after Hugging Face hack
OpenAI pauses its model testing for two weeks and is adding other AI systems to monitor the activities of AI agents in testing
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 17, 2026
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
A review finds 43 of the 90 models available through WorldClaw’s website were developed by Alibaba, Baidu, Z.ai, and other Chinese tech companies the Trump administration says pose risks to national security and intellectual property
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 16, 2026
Lawyer, technologist Karlo Dizon wants to make PH law easier to understand with AI
Lawyer, technologist Karlo Dizon wants to make PH law easier to understand with AI
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 15, 2026
First fully electric power station to open soon in Pasay City
First fully electric power station to open soon in Pasay City
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 14, 2026
AI data center proponent walks out of Iloilo public consultation
(1st UPDATE) 'If you don't want it, let's stop the discussion now,' proponent Daniel Robertsen says during a public consultation on the proposed 50-megawatt facility in Oton, Iloilo
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 14, 2026
DTI, Converge launch AI, digital transformation programs for MSMEs
The launch includes a 380-square-meter DTI center that houses co-working spaces, training rooms, startup areas, tech showcases, and more
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 14, 2026
Hacking group claims mass data theft from Shell, Philips, GE, Fiserv and dozens of others
Hacking group Cl0p claims it had stolen large volumes of data from nearly 50 companies worldwide
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 13, 2026
Taiwan says it was targeted last month in AI-driven hacking campaign
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs says the attacks displayed clear characteristics of an 'overseas source,' with hackers employing a hybrid approach that combined manual operations with AI agent-assisted attacks
🇵🇭 Philippines•Technology•Aug 10, 2026
Technology can’t replace some things: Why UP Law bans AI from freshman classes
Technology can’t replace some things: Why UP Law bans AI from freshman classes
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