ByteDance and Motion Picture Association signs AI copyright agreement

ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association signed an agreement to strengthen copyright protections on AI video and image models like Seedance and Seedream.
18 August 2026

Instagram updates its wordmark for the first time in a decade

Instagram unveiled a redesigned, sharper wordmark logo—its first update in nearly a decade—drawing mixed reactions over its stylized cursive letterforms.
17 August 2026

Google unveils Pixel 11 lineup, AirTag rival, and new Gemini features

Google has held its annual hardware event, Made by Google 2026, unveiling the Pixel 11 smartphone series, a new Pixel Watch 5, and the Pixel Tag, a $29 tracking device that takes direct aim at Apple's AirTag.
17 August 2026

Investors sue Selena Gomez and Wondermind, alleging fraud and broken promises

Investors filed a fraud lawsuit against Selena Gomez and her mother over the collapse of Wondermind, alleging $1.2 million was lost to unfulfilled commitments.
17 August 2026

Nvidia's $500 billion plan to keep ageing GPUs valuable is a gamble with its own balance sheet

Nvidia backed a $500 billion AI data center initiative with a 25% collateral value guarantee to create a secondary market for aging GPUs.
17 August 2026

Competency based BCS viva: how candidates can prepare

Bangladesh's civil service recruitment system is moving towards a competency-based approach to the viva voce, changing the emphasis from what candidates know to how they have applied their skills in real-world situations.
17 August 2026

AI coding startup Cognition in talks to raise new round at $40 billion valuation

Cognition is in talks for a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation as its AI coding agent Devin approaches $1 billion in annualised revenue.
17 August 2026

Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $400 million

European vibe-coding startup Lovable confirmed a $400 million Series C funding round at a $13.3 billion valuation to expand its AI app development platform.
17 August 2026

Astronomers discover a black hole pretending to be a star

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope identified MoM-BH*-1, a "black hole star" that may explain the mysterious "little red dots" in the early universe.
17 August 2026

Claude will watermark AI text. Here’s how it works

Anthropic detailed how its invisible text watermarking system for Claude models works to comply with EU AI Act transparency rules.
16 August 2026

Bangladeshi companies look beyond chatbots with agentic AI

Known as agentic AI, these systems are designed not only to generate responses but also to plan, make decisions and execute actions across multiple software applications. A small but growing number of Bangladeshi companies are beginning to develop products based on the technology.
15 August 2026

Gemini app surpasses 1 billion monthly active users, Google says

Google’s Gemini app now has more than 1 billion monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Monday, making it the fastest-growing product in the company’s history and the 14th to reach the billion-user milestone.
12 August 2026

Anthropic to watermark Claude-generated text

Anthropic has committed to embedding machine-readable marks in all content generated by its Claude models, the company said on Tuesday, as it became a signatory to the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice on transparency for AI-generated content.
12 August 2026

Meta’s new open-source AI runs locally without the cloud

Meta has introduced Muse Glimmer, a new artificial intelligence model that is small enough to run locally on a single consumer graphics card.
10 August 2026

What happens to your digital life after death?

Explore what happens to digital assets, social media, and online accounts after death, and how digital estate planning protects your online legacy.
10 August 2026

What is Unitree, and why is it leading a wave of Chinese robot IPOs?

Here are some facts about Unitree, and why it is leading several Chinese robotics companies towards public listings.
10 August 2026

TikTok to close Nashville office, laying off 250 employees

TikTok’s US joint venture is shutting down its Nashville office and laying off 250 employees, according to a report by The New York Times.
9 August 2026

Cloudflare unveils Kitesurf, browser designed for AI agents

Cloudflare has recently announced Kitesurf, a new web browser built specifically for AI agents rather than human users.
9 August 2026

AI presentation startup NextSlide acquired by OpenAI

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built an AI tool to turn prompts, notes, and documents into presentations, the company’s founder, Ahmed Beshry, announced in a blog post.
9 August 2026

Ex-SK Hynix employee jailed for leaking chip tech to Chinese firm: report

A former SK Hynix employee has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for leaking semiconductor manufacturing technology to a Chinese company, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
9 August 2026