Google and Alphabet have announced a major leadership restructuring within Google DeepMind, appointing Demis Hassabis as Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while promoting Koray Kavukcuoglu to Senior Vice President of Google DeepMind as the company accelerates its artificial i...
Artificial intelligence is enabling 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa, making attacks faster, more scalable, and increasingly difficult for victims and platforms to detect, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026.
With more than 1.1 billion mobi...
At least 20 million children across 10 countries are already using artificial intelligence (AI), with adoption rates more than three times higher than those of adults, according to new estimates released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The findings highlight AI's rapidly expanding r...
As artificial intelligence reshapes enterprise technology strategies, cloud and data engineering have become central to digital transformation initiatives worldwide. In 2026, organisations are accelerating investments in cloud-native architectures, intelligent data platforms, and real-time analytics...
WhatsApp has begun rolling out usernames, allowing its users to reserve a unique @handle and connect with new contacts without exposing their phone number. The move, announced by the Meta-owned platform on June 29, marks one of the most consequential identity changes in the app's history and brings ...
Thredd, the AI-first issuer processing platform, announced the implementation of Visa Cloud Connect (VCC) in the Asia Pacific, marking a significant regional milestone in the company’s broader cloud transformation strategy.
The implementation is currently centralised through Singapo...
Somewhere in a Bengaluru shared-service centre, software is closing the books. Not assisting — closing. It pulls the bank statement, matches the receipts, clears the exceptions it recognises, posts the routine accruals, and routes only the genuine oddities to a human who arrives in the morning...
At 5:21pm Eastern on Friday, a letter arrived. By Friday evening, two of the most capable AI models in commercial deployment were dark — not throttled, not patched, not quietly deprecated, but switched off for every customer on Earth. Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, launched only days earlie...
A new study from the MIT Media Lab has raised concerns about the long-term impact of relying on artificial intelligence tools for fact-checking and news verification, finding that frequent use of AI assistants may reduce users’ ability to independently identify misinformation.
The open-access...
Apple has unveiled the next generation of Apple Intelligence and introduced Siri AI, a significantly enhanced version of its virtual assistant, as part of a broad software update announced during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
The updates, which will be rolled out across iPhone, iPad, ...
Two numbers, published weeks apart in early 2026, frame the whole story. The first: India is now the single largest market for AI hiring on the planet, with a global-capability-centre workforce of 2.36 million and the world’s second-deepest bench of AI researchers, behind only the United State...
Carbon Cognition
The day the thinking machine met the living planet — and discovered it had a footprint
Every answer you ask an AI for is paid in watts, water, and weather. On the one day of the year the whole world stops to look at the Earth, it’s worth asking: what does it cost the p...
Artificial intelligence has the potential to significantly improve radiation protection and patient safety across medical imaging and cancer treatment applications, but its safe deployment will require strong human oversight, robust validation processes, and effective regulatory frameworks, accordin...
Anthropic did a strange thing on Monday: it filed a secret document and then told everyone about it.
The company confirmed in a public blog post that it had confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the first formal step towa...
AI safety and research company Anthropic has announced a new partnership with the Gates Foundation, committing $200 million over the next four years to support initiatives in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility. The commitment includes grant funding, Claude AI usage credit...
Artificial intelligence and other strategic technologies are reshaping global investment, concentrating capital in fewer sectors and fewer countries while raising the risk that many developing economies are left behind.
That warning framed the opening of UN Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD)&nb...
A new policy brief titled “Strengthening Information Integrity: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and the Global Information Crisis” has raised concerns that rapid, unregulated adoption of artificial intelligence in advertising is amplifying risks across the global digital ecosystem.
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OpenAI has announced the release of GPT-5.5, positioning it as its most capable and intuitive model to date and a major step toward redefining how users complete complex tasks on computers.
The new model is designed to handle multi-step, ambiguous workflows with minimal guidance, marking a shift to...
