The proposed budget for fiscal year 2026-27 provides measured relief in some areas, quietly nudges citizens towards greater financial formalisation, and reveals where policymakers believe Bangladesh's future workforce is headed.

Every generation of nations builds the infrastructure that defines its future. Bangladesh has built roads, power plants and digital payment networks. The budget presented yesterday suggests the country’s next great infrastructure project may be different: human capital, powered by teachers, technology and artificial intelligence.

Google is introducing a new system for managing personalisation across its search-related services, giving users more direct control over how their activity is stored and used to shape recommendations.

Facebook and Messenger went down for users across the globe this evening, with complaints first surfacing around 7:45pm Bangladesh time.

The proposed national budget for the 2026-27 financial year appears to challenge that approach. It does more than offer a handful of incentives: it recognises that startups create value differently and therefore require a distinct policy framework.

Football fans across Bangladesh reported widespread disruptions on platforms streaming the opening matches of the 2026 Fifa World Cup on June 12, raising questions about whether major over-the-top services were prepared for the surge in demand.

The Bangladesh government has proposed appropriate policy formulation in the electronics sector to transform the country into one of the leading global electronics manufacturing hubs within the next five years, as part of its fiscal year 2026-27 budget.

The Bangladesh government has proposed sweeping tax concessions for the semiconductor industry, including reducing import duties on key raw materials to 1 percent until mid-2031, as part of its fiscal year 2026-27 budget.

New systems will assist with offside decisions, create 3D player models, support match analysis and help protect participants from online abuse

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Facebook parent Meta has teamed up with Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries to establish what Meta described as its first AI-enabled data centre in India.

Anthropic recently released a new artificial intelligence model, Claude Fable 5, that is the first publicly available version of what the company calls its 'Mythos class' of models.

Perplexity, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup, is planning to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) in 2028, regardless of how investors respond to the upcoming stock market debuts of rival AI firms, according to comments by chief executive Aravind Srinivas in an interview with CNBC.

Apple said on June 8 that a new artificial intelligence-powered version of Siri will not be available on iPhones and iPads in the European Union (EU) when iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 are released later this year, blaming regulatory requirements under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, according to a recent report by Reuters.

Apple CEO Tim Cook used the closing moments of the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2026 presentation to reflect on his tenure at the technology giant, in what is expected to be his final appearance at the annual developer event as CEO.

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Apple has announced a major update to Siri, positioning the voice assistant as a more capable AI service after acknowledging that user expectations have risen sharply in the generative AI era.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2026 keynote is under way today, Monday June 8, with chief executive Tim Cook and other executives taking the stage at Apple Park to preview the next generation of Apple software.