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What is PHP? Why are governments and businesses worldwide going offline?

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems

What are AI neolabs and why are they betting on safe superintelligence?

Superstar AI researchers are leaving tech giants to build independent research laboratories. Interestingly, one theme is emerging as central to the objectives of some of these labs

UK tax authority plans digital ambassadors to counter AI misinformation

HMRC plans to deploy digital ambassadors on platforms such as Reddit and make official guidance easier for AI models to access, amid concerns that chatbots are spreading inaccurate tax advice

Chinese-linked hackers use AI to compromise firms globally: Microsoft

Microsoft said the incident demonstrated how threat actors were using AI agents to automate existing attack methods and attempt to compromise multiple organisations at greater speed

Can AI keep your secrets safe? Eternal's dark.ai to offer encrypted chats

Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal plans to launch dark.ai, a privacy-focused AI assistant for founders, researchers, businesses and governments, globally by the end of 2026

AI-led IPOs may add up to $100 billion to India's market-cap: Goldman Sachs

The investment bank estimates that 25-50 per cent of nearly 70 mid-to-late-stage private AI companies could go public in the next two to five years.

The great bull-market in India is over; prefer bonds, cash: Marc Faber

Foreign investors, Faber said, will reduce their exposure to markets around the world. "That is one reason I am reasonably positive about the US dollar," he added.

DeepSeek unveils open-source tool to cut AI operating costs for businesses

The service, called DeepInfer, is software DeepSeek uses to make its models run faster and use computing resources more efficiently

AI to spur Southeast Asia's digital economy to $368 billion, shows study

Online spending across the region will rise about 17% this year to $368 billion, a report from Google, Temasek Holdings Pte and Bain & Co. showed

Anthropic may spend $750 billion on computing costs as IPO plans advance

The artificial intelligence firm had a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026

Anthropic reports net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026

The loss, up from $13 billion a year earlier, was driven by $72 billion in accounting charges tied to changes in the ‌value of financial instruments Anthropic issued to raise ​money

Agents turned off alerts, weakened system that flags AI misbehavior: OpenAI

In a blog post Tuesday, the company said that it is assessing whether such cases are indicative that its AI models have a wider propensity to avoid being monitored

Global stocks fall as AI spending concerns resurface, oil prices surge

Global equities declined as concerns over AI infrastructure spending resurfaced after a weak South Korean IPO, while Brent crude topped $111 amid renewed geopolitical risks

Visa teams up with billing firms to enable AI-driven invoice payments

Visa is partnering with BILL Holdings and Billtrust to pilot AI agents that can initiate and complete business invoice payments using tokenised credentials without human authentication

China's CXMT swings to profit as AI demand fuels memory chip price surge

Chinese chipmaker CXMT expects a sharp turnaround in profit for the first nine months of 2026 as AI-driven demand pushes up memory chip prices and boosts global sales

AI agents must be given limited access to network: Microsoft V-P Mike Yeh

Microsoft's Mike Yeh warns that enterprises must restrict AI agents' access to sensitive systems, as growing adoption and faster AI-driven attacks heighten cybersecurity risks

China defends DeepSeek after US ban of its AI from government systems

China hit back Tuesday at a US ban on Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek's products for federal civilian agencies, highlighting friction in the two AI powers' heated technology race. The agencies should remove DeepSeek and its affiliated products, as well as third party products and services developed using DeepSeek, from their IT systems, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice made public on Monday. The department's order, dating back to late July, also blocks civilian agencies from procuring DeepSeek products and services. DeepSeek is one of China's leading and best-known AI companies and its open-source models are widely available in countries including the United States. They are mostly free to use. The notice in the Federal Register alleges that DeepSeek's models "present multiple threat vectors." It said concerns include that its servers are located in China and that Chinese authorities' could potentially access private company infrastructure and ..

US bans Chinese AI firm DeepSeek from government agency IT systems

The department is also banning acquisition of DeepSeek products and third-party services developed using DeepSeek by US civilian ‌government agencies

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's 1% Anthropic stake set to pay huge windfall

Schmidt invested tens of millions of dollars in Anthropic's Series A fundraising round

AI tool predicts cancer patients' survival chances from a single face photo

The new model was trained to estimate a person's age or, for those with cancer, their survival chances