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Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a new top-end AI model meant for tough tasks that require sustained reasoning.

Anthropic has warned investors that increasingly powerful AI systems could pose catastrophic or even existential risks to humanity, including attempts to resist shutdown or conceal their behaviour. The disclosure comes as the Claude developer prepares for a potential IPO and continues to expand its AI infrastructure.

Honor’s Robot Phone brings a motorised gimbal camera to a smartphone in a way that feels both futuristic and surprisingly practical.

Honor showcased its Robot Phone in Dhaka for the first time on September 29.

Singapore has opened sign-ups for a matchmaking app aimed at its own public officers. Built by the government's technology agency, GovTech, the pilot app FirstDate pairs users aged 21 to 35 using a dedicated algorithm.

History is full of dreams that changed the world. This is our strange gift: we can picture things that do not yet exist. Artificial intelligence cannot.

Bangladeshi robotics team Team Blueprint has secured third place in the Future Engineers category at the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Asia-Pacific Open Championship 2026 in Hyderabad, India.

Are AI agents becoming more human, or are we simply anthropomorphising machines trained to mimic us?

OpenAI has unveiled dots, a new class of always-on AI agents running on GPT-6 Astra, that pursue user goals across applications with minimal supervision.

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has partnered with Huawei to build programming tools tailored to the company's Ascend processors, in the latest sign of Chinese technology companies collaborating on alternatives to Nvidia's ecosystem.

Current and former staff at OpenAI and Google DeepMind have warned that their employers are doing too little to guard against the dangers of self-improving AI systems that could slip beyond human control, according to a Reuters report.

Nvidia has launched a new security platform designed to prevent autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents from operating beyond their permitted environments, as technology companies face growing concerns over how increasingly capable AI systems are controlled.

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, promising faster performance and lower operating costs as competition between leading artificial intelligence developers intensifies.

Meta is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions into the corporate technology market with the launch of Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business focused on providing AI products and services to companies and developers.

Tencent has launched a dedicated payment app for international travellers visiting China, seeking to make it easier for overseas users to access the country's heavily digitalised payment system.

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Astronomers say they have detected radio emissions originating directly from a planet outside the solar system for the first time, potentially opening a new way to investigate the magnetic fields and interiors of distant worlds.

U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei for a private dinner at the White House on Sunday, in what was expected to be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men after months of tension between the administration and the artificial intelligence company. 

Apple is reportedly experimenting with a screen-free fitness tracker that could put the company in more direct competition with health-focused wearable brands including Whoop.