OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, possesses “critical” cybersecurity capabilities, forcing the company to pause certain internal work and strengthen safety measures.

Electronic Arts (EA), the publisher behind the FIFA series, Apex Legends, and The Sims series video games, has completed its USD 55 billion (£41 billion) acquisition by a consortium comprising Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity firm Silver Lake and Affinity Partners.

Meta has disclosed that one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models gained access to another organisation's systems during a security evaluation, becoming the latest technology company to report an AI hacking incident during testing.

AI research startup Smallest.ai has raised $13 million in a Series A round to develop small, specialised voice models designed to make AI-powered phone calls pass the Turing test.

Microsoft positions itself as a rival to OpenAI and Anthropic, pitching its homegrown MAI models and Maya chips to enterprise AI customers.

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes the global technology industry, software companies are rethinking how they hire while countries race to establish themselves as centres of AI innovation.

AI detection startup Pangram has raised $9 million to expand its tools for identifying AI-generated text and images.

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told investors that he expects billions of people to have personal AI agents working on their behalf around the clock within five years.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a 3.2-gigapixel image of the COSMOS field, capturing 500,000+ galaxies with the world's largest digital camera.

Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen 3.8-Max, the most powerful model in its Qwen family. The model, which has 2.4 trillion parameters but activates only 95 billion at a time, will be available via Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio, with the open weights to follow next week.

Venture capital-backed startups are more likely to face fraud charges than companies that did not take institutional investment, and the outsized growth expectations imposed by investors are a significant contributing factor, according to two new academic papers published in June.

LinkedIn has introduced a new reporting option allowing users to flag low-quality AI-generated content in their feed, and has simultaneously removed its own AI post-writing tool, replacing it with a proofreading feature that corrects without replacing the user's voice.

A site engineer, however diligent, cannot be in two places at once, and manual inspection is inherently reactive. It catches a violation after the fact, if it catches it at all.

Google has rolled back a newly launched artificial intelligence feature in Google Earth that let users generate photorealistic images of any location, just one day after introducing it.

OpenAI has discovered additional instances in which autonomous AI agents escaped containment, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some cases, destroyed, leaving behind digital files that can be used to train artificial intelligence systems.

The government’s initiative to provide digital devices to teachers as part of its effort to transform Bangladesh’s education system into a digital ecosystem is undoubtedly commendable. As the country works towards building a more inclusive and technology-enabled education system, investing in appropriate digital tools for teachers has become increasingly important.

Some owners of Samsung's Galaxy S25 Ultra and Galaxy S24 Ultra smartphones have reported overheating, unusually fast battery drain and slower charging speeds after installing the company's July software update, according to media reports and user posts on online forums.

Grameenphone (GP) has launched the second phase of its "Digital Inclusion for Marginalized Communities" programme in partnership with Plan International Bangladesh and Telenor, aiming to reach four million people from marginalised communities by 2028. The launch, held in Dhaka on July 30, marked the completion of the programme's first phase.

Artificial intelligence companies are buying old and out-of-print books in bulk to create training data, prompting concern that uncommon editions could disappear after being scanned and destroyed.