Microsoft has cut off the Israeli military’s access to cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services it used to run a mass surveillance programme that intercepted millions of Palestinian phone calls daily in Gaza and the West Bank, according to a recent report by The Guardian.

The Taliban administration has recently cut internet access across five provinces in northern Afghanistan, citing the need to prevent what it described as “immoral activities”, according to a recent report by Reuters.

Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah, a Bangladeshi researcher in artificial intelligence and robotics, has been named in MIT Technology Review’s ‘35 Innovators Under 35’ list for 2025. According to the list, he was recognised for his work on building robot intelligence that can operate in unstructured human environments.

NASA has said it intends to send four astronauts on a ten-day journey around the Moon in early 2026, marking the first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century.

WhatsApp has recently announced that the app has begun introducing a real-time translation tool in select languages.

Alibaba, the Chinese company, has recently unveiled its most capable artificial intelligence (AI) model to date, called “Qwen3-Max”, which contains more than 1 trillion parameters, trained on 36 trillion tokens. 

As world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations general assembly, the US Secret Service dismantled a hidden telecom network that investigators say had the potential to cripple cellular service across the city, according to a recent report by The Guardian.

Nvidia has announced plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, forming a major partnership between two leading artificial intelligence companies, according to a recent report by Reuters. The deal will see Nvidia take a financial stake in OpenAI while supplying it with advanced data center chips.

Oracle has officially named company insiders Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as its new co-chief executive officers, replacing Safra Catz, who led the company for 11 years.

An organised fraud scheme has targeted Standard Chartered Bank’s credit card holders in Bangladesh, siphoning off around BDT 27 lakh in a series of unauthorised transactions in the last week of August 2025, according to a recent report by Dhaka Stream.

Asus has introduced a new generation of gaming laptops in Bangladesh, showcasing models from its Republic of Gamers (ROG), TUF Gaming and V Series lines at an event titled ROG Unleashed on September 21.

French luxury group Kering has appointed Francesca Bellettini as the new chief executive of Gucci, replacing Stefano Cantino after nine months in the role. This marks the second leadership change at the brand in under a year as Kering seeks to reverse a significant decline in sales.

Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company, Neuralink, is preparing to launch a new trial in October aimed at helping people with speech impairments translate their thoughts directly into text using a brain implant. The company’s president, Dongjin Seo, announced the initiative during a recent talk in Seoul, according to a report by Reuters.

The University of Oxford has announced it will provide free access to ChatGPT Edu, an education-focused version of OpenAI’s AI tool, to all students and staff, starting this academic year. This makes Oxford the first UK university to widely deploy the platform following a year-long pilot involving around 750 users.

OpenAI is drawing increasing numbers of employees from Apple as it accelerates work on its first hardware devices, according to a recent report by The Information.

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has published a peer-reviewed paper in the scientific journal Nature, describing its large language model R1, which is designed to handle reasoning tasks such as maths and coding. The company said the system was not trained on the output of rival models, addressing speculation about its data sources.

BYD, the New Energy Vehicle (NEV) manufacturer, has officially launched the upgraded version of its Atto 3, the electric SUV, at an event held on September 20 at the BYD Flagship Showroom in Tejgaon, Dhaka.

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) developer, has recently disclosed that training its flagship R1 model cost $294,000, a figure far lower than the amounts often associated with the development of other AI models.

Nusaiba Binte Mamun, a student at Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), has been named a Kofi Annan Changemaker 2025, becoming the first Bangladeshi to receive this global recognition. The award, presented by the Kofi Annan Foundation, highlights young leaders between 18 and 30 years of age who are implementing measurable solutions to social challenges around the world.

Meta is preparing to introduce its most ambitious wearable device yet at its annual Connect conference this week, with Mark Zuckerberg expected to unveil a new pair of smart glasses equipped with a built-in digital display.