A team at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has designed a 32-bit computer processor using entirely open-source technologies.

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, was charged with facilitating terrorist activities by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Wednesday, which also issued an international warrant for his arrest.

The autonomous AI agent that escaped OpenAI’s control and hacked Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer account on the platform of New York-based Modal Labs.

As the traditional drivers of global economic growth gradually weaken, the digital economy has emerged as a key new engine driving global recovery.

Nvidia is in discussions to provide around $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, a move that would help the artificial intelligence company secure a massive data centre campus in southern Ohio.

Teams of Bangladeshi students won two gold medals and two silver medals at the World Invention Creativity Olympics (WICO) 2026 held in Seoul, South Korea.

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta urge US lawmakers against restricting open-source AI, citing benefits to competition, security, and cost control.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has verbally informed some prospective investors that it is suspending its second fundraising round, Bloomberg News reported last week, citing people familiar with the matter.

Meta has recently announced the launch of Facebook Verified, a free verification badge designed to confirm that a profile belongs to a real person through a selfie-based identity check.

Apple may be preparing to launch its first foldable iPhone, according to a recent report by Macworld that says newly discovered code in the latest iOS 27 developer beta contains fresh references to a device with two internal batteries.

Samsung just announced three new foldable phones: the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold8, and Galaxy Z Flip8. All three run Android 17 with One UI 9 and integrate Galaxy AI features across their respective form factors.

The United States and China plan to hold talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to a report by Reuters that cited people familar with the matter.

The Trump administration has threatened to sanction Chinese artificial intelligence companies if investigations confirm that their open-source models have been built using stolen intellectual property from American AI developers, marking a potential new front in the ongoing technology war between the two countries.

A US federal judge has given final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, allowing the company to begin paying out compensation, though the ruling does little to settle the broader legal question of whether using copyrighted works to train AI models is lawful.

Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million funding round into Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that uses AI and smartphone cameras to assess vehicle damage, in a deal that also drew strategic backing from tyre distributor US AutoForce and automotive lender Westlake Financial.

Emergent, an Indian startup building AI-powered coding tools for entrepreneurs and small businesses, has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion, becoming a unicorn just over a year after it was founded in June 2025.

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have submitted a joint offer to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4 billion, according to Reuters, with the bid backed by around $50 billion in committed bank financing. Under the proposed terms, Stripe and Advent would each hold an equal stake in the company if the acquisition proceeds.

Uber has agreed to acquire Berlin-based food delivery company Delivery Hero in an all-stock deal valued at $14.8 billion, a transaction that would nearly double the ride-hailing giant's global footprint and create one of the world's largest delivery platforms outside China.

Hackers are actively breaking into websites running outdated versions of WordPress, following the discovery and public disclosure of two critical security flaws that together allow attackers to take full remote control of a vulnerable site.

Instagram has launched a new feature called Replace Audio that allows users to swap out the music on published feed posts and carousels at any time, without needing to delete and re-upload the content.