Australian researchers have developed remotely controlled cyborg cockroaches that could eventually deliver emergency medicine to people trapped during disasters.

Honda and Nissan agreed to jointly develop standardised ECUs and software for software-defined vehicles, targeting rollout from fiscal year 2029.

Anthropic has unveiled a research framework designed to allow artificial intelligence agents to operate laboratory and manufacturing equipment.

Chinese technology group Tencent, maker of hit mobile game PUBG, has released a preview of a new open-source artificial intelligence model aimed at software engineering, research, and financial analysis.

Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global plans to invest more than $200 million in Argentina in 2026 as it expands into smaller cities and develops new safety technology.

Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, and other publishers have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the artificial intelligence company of unlawfully obtaining and using copyrighted material to develop its Claude models.

NASA has launched its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Florida, beginning a mission designed to investigate dark energy, dark matter, and planets beyond the solar system.

OpenAI has hired senior Meta executive Sandhya Devanathan to oversee its business across Southeast Asia and Australia as the ChatGPT developer expands its presence in the Asia-Pacific region.

More than 100 technology, cybersecurity, and financial companies have called for stronger global cooperation to defend organisations and critical infrastructure against increasingly capable AI-powered cyberattacks.

OpenAI is expanding advertising on ChatGPT to India, bringing sponsored placements to users of its Free and lower-cost Go plans as the company develops advertising into a larger source of revenue.

Chinese carmakers are investing heavily in humanoid robots as the industry looks beyond increasingly competitive electric vehicle sales for new sources of revenue.

Google is expanding AI Mode in Search with travel features that can track airfares, compare loyalty-point prices and help users book hotels.

Hollywood actors, producers and investors are increasingly moving into microdramas, betting that short, vertically filmed series designed for smartphones could become a significant new part of the entertainment industry.

EA Motive have acknowledged leaked footage from the long-awaited Marvel’s Iron Man game, confirming the authenticity of an unfinished video that has offered players an unexpected early look at the superhero title.

An unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 technology has leaked through an early-access game build, allowing modders to experiment with the company’s latest AI-powered rendering system months before its expected official release.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has thanked customers and employees as he prepares to leave the company’s top job in September, bringing his 15-year tenure as CEO towards a close.

Anthropic researchers have demonstrated an automated system capable of developing techniques to reduce problematic behaviour in artificial intelligence models.

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, in a deal that would give the US chipmaker control of one of the artificial intelligence industry’s most prominent platforms for sharing open-source models.

AI personal assistant startup Instinct has raised $250 million in a new funding round that values the company at $2.5 billion, highlighting investors' continuing appetite for AI agents designed to carry out everyday tasks on behalf of users.

Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion image-generation model, has raised $76 million in a Series B funding round backed by some of the world's largest entertainment companies.