SINGAPORE: A National Day banner in Bedok that garnered attention online for its errors, including depictions of what appeared to be the Indonesian flag, has been removed. The banner was made using artificial intelligence (AI) and was recently displayed as part of the Kampong Chai Chee estate's National Day decorations, Kampong Chai Chee Community Club said on Tuesday (Jul 21) night. "The banner was created and paid for by residents who came together to celebrate Singapore's National Day and bring some festive cheer to our community," said the community club in a Facebook post. "Many of the volunteers are seniors who generously gave their time and…

Publishers are facing very tough choices when it comes to Google’s AI, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. Facing a drought of search traffic, they’re considering cutting off Google’s access to their content in various ways. Some even seem to be considering the drastic step of completely cutting off Google’s web crawlers completely. Anonymous sources told the Journal that Reddit “has discussed shutting off the technology giant’s access to its content for AI use,” to use the Journal’s phrasing. This would represent a big change of heart, since Google pays Reddit $60 million per year to scrape its content for AI, per a deal…

TeamViewer report finds 71% of autonomous AI users set guardrails, but 61% wouldn't even use autonomous AI to begin with The average worker spends 2+ hours per week validating AI output Security and privacy could have the biggest impact New TeamViewer research positions trust as the latest major barrier to AI adoption, with workers generally viewing the tool positively but struggling to hand over full independence to it. Today, three in four workers use AI daily and only 3% say they don't see any noticeable workplace benefits, but nearly all (95%) respondents have at least some concern about AI operating without a human in the loop. This struggle…

Not too long ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described Claude Mythos as capable of cyber-warfare, spawning all sorts of mythology that became popular reading at investors' desks, and even at the U.S. government table, which issued an export control order for it. Now, it's OpenAI's turn to do the same, with a blog post describing how a bot cyber-gang including its upcoming GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model" all broke out of their virtual cage and eventually into Hugging Face's production infrastructure, during an attack capability test. OpenAI described the snafu as an "unprecedented cyber incident." Go deeper with TH Premium: AI…

*#### TL;DR A new ONS survey shows UK business AI adoption has risen from 12% to 35% since 2023, but the average adopter uses only 1.6 AI tools. Scott Pope of Nexthink argues the gap between adoption and transformation is a culture and visibility problem, not a technology one.* Three years ago, roughly one in eight UK businesses with ten or more employees reported using artificial intelligence; today, the Office for National Statistics puts that figure at around one in three, a near-tripling that reflects how quickly AI has moved from specialist tool to mainstream workplace technology. The numbers tell a compelling story of expansion. They also reveal…

OpenAI launches online and digital training for small businesses Partner plugins also launch to automate common workflows ChatGPT Work, Codex now have 10 million users OpenAI has launched a dedicated ChatGPT for small business program to help SMBs automate routine work and increase productivity without the teams and resources that larger enterprises have access to. The scheme is primarily an education process, and will focus on training, in-person academies and practical guides. OpenAI will also launch dedicated agents and partnerships to support small business workflows, too. The recently-launched ChatGPT Work platform also features, with the…

Google only has a small office in Miami, but it’s gotten way bigger over the course of this year—four times bigger, according to Bloomberg. Google says it has been in Miami in some capacity since 2016, but the current office opened in 2024, and it appears to have just been one suite, suite 901, in a huge office tower in Miami’s financial district at 1450 Brickell Ave. Judging from what few images of the interior are easily available online, it was not exactly bustling or especially high tech when it opened, and looked nothing like the sprawling Googleplex corporate campus in Mountain View, CA. The majority of the job openings listed for the…

CAAS is also developing the open platform for air navigation services, which is expected to be completed in 2028. This will allow for seamless exchange of information, including aeronautical information and flight plans, within CAAS and external stakeholders. “Digital connectivity lays the foundation for new concepts of operations and facilitates regional collaborative decision-making,” CAAS said. Beyond new infrastructure and systems, CAAS also announced that it will introduce new concepts of operations enabled by technology, particularly AI, to support air traffic control officers to improve productivity and safety. From 2027, the authority will…

Hironobu Tamba spent years inside SoftBank building large language models, the kind of software that answers questions and drafts emails. He has now walked away from that work to bet on machines that move. Tamba is president and chief executive of Noetra, a Tokyo company that began full-scale research in July on a home-grown foundation model aimed not at chatbots but at robots, and in an interview with Reuters he framed the venture in unusually stark terms. This, he said, is a last chance for Japan to matter in the coming wave of artificial intelligence. The country is putting real money behind that anxiety. Noetra sits at the centre of a state-backed…

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signalled potential action against open source artificial intelligence (AI) models amid accusations that Chinese developers are creating low-cost systems using stolen US intellectual property. “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft,” Bessent said on Fox Business on Tuesday. “If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them.” Watermarks from...

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SINGAPORE – Some $4 billion will be invested over the next 15 years to overhaul Singapore’s air navigation services, including air traffic control systems, with the renovation of Changi Airport’s iconic control tower forming part of the upgrade. The investment is aimed at meeting growing demand for air travel and strengthening Singapore’s position as a global aviation hub, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) director-general Han Kok Juan said on July 22. The International Civil Aviation Organization projects that global air passenger traffic will nearly triple over the next 25 years, with the Asia-Pacific region accounting for about half of…

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Bloomsbury, the London publisher best known for the Harry Potter series, has confirmed it will collect a share of Anthropic’s $1.5bn settlement with authors, the largest copyright payout in US history. The company told the stock market this week that 14,087 of its titles sit on the list of works covered by the deal, which a federal judge signed off on on Monday. The money stems from Bartz v. Anthropic, the class action a group of writers brought after the AI firm was found to have downloaded millions of pirated books to train its Claude models. The case had already produced a rare fairness hearing before Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final…

नीट प्रदर्शन के मामले पर कांग्रेस और समाजवादी पार्टी में भी दरार देखने को मिल रही है. सूत्रों के अनुसार लोकसभा के बाहर अखिलेश यादव और केसी वेणुगोपाल के बीच तीखी बहस हुई है. दरअसल कुछ ही देर पहले अखिलेश यादव ने दावा किया था कि कांग्रेस और बीजेपी के बीच डील हुई है. और पढ़ें सूत्रों के अनुसार लोकसभा की कार्यवाही जैसे ही 2 बजे तक के लिए स्थगित हुई. सदन के बाहर केसी वेणुगोपाल ने अखिलेश यादव के बयान पर उनसे सवाल पूछा. सूत्रों के अनुसार इस पर अखिलेश ने कहा कि, "इस्तीफे बाद में भी दिए जा सकते हैं. सबसे पहले, हम छात्रों पर की गई बर्बरता के लिए जवाब चाहते हैं." आज दोपहर 12 बजे जब लोकसभा की कार्यवाही शुरू हुई तब हंगामा हो रहा था. अखिलेश यादव समेत सपा के सांसद भी…

The current state of AI adoption in UK businesses paints a decidedly mixed picture. For many organizations, it’s full speed ahead: they’re using the technology to transform operations and unlock growth. For others, progress has stalled; they remain stuck in the sandbox, struggling to translate AI’s promise into tangible business outcomes. In this environment, the government’s £200 million investment to support AI adoption and scaling is a welcome step towards turning theoretical use cases into reality. Latest Videos From Crucially, the inclusion of workforce training signals recognition that AI success isn’t just about technology, but about people and…

इंग्लैंड दौरे के दौरान लॉर्ड्स वनडे में शानदार शतक लगाने के बाद भारतीय टीम के पूर्व कप्तान रोहित शर्मा एक बार फिर सुर्खियों में हैं. इस बार वजह उनका प्रदर्शन नहीं, बल्कि 'द हंड्रेड' के उद्घाटन मुकाबले में मुंबई इंडियंस की मालिक नीता अंबानी के साथ उनकी मुलाकात रही. और पढ़ें रोहित शर्मा लंदन के ओवल स्टेडियम में एमआई लंदन (MI London) और सनराइजर्स लीड्स (Sunrisers Leeds) के बीच खेले गए द हंड्रेड के पहले मुकाबले को देखने पहुंचे. स्टेडियम पहुंचते ही उन्होंने फैन्स से मुलाकात की, कई लोगों के साथ सेल्फी ली और फिर वीआईपी स्टैंड में जाकर मैच का आनंद लिया. सबसे ज्यादा चर्चा उस वक्त हुई जब रोहित शर्मा और नीता अंबानी को काफी देर तक बातचीत करते देखा गया. दोनों की…

The American tech giant is rolling out its 'AI Overview' and 'AI Mode' in France starting Wednesday, bringing artificial intelligence tools already available in other countries. Media outlets and website publishers fear they could lose a significant portion of their web traffic.

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation sued Anthropic on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, accusing the artificial intelligence company of building its models on patented neural network methods it never licensed. The complaint, unsealed on Tuesday, is thought to be the first patent infringement case brought against Anthropic, and it arrives days after a California judge approved the company’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement with a class of authors. The foundation, which manages patents for the Knoxville campus, cast the case as part of a wider habit. Anthropic’s “cavalier approach to others’ intellectual property…

Substack is introducing a new tool to help readers figure out whether content was written by a human or generated by AI. Announced in a blog post on Tuesday, the self-publishing platform's new feature is powered by AI detection tool Pangram, and is available on Substack posts, notes, replies, and comments. "Not everything made with AI is slop, and not all slop is made with AI," wrote Substack co-founder and CEO Chris Best. "The problem is when there is a mismatch between a reader’s expectation and reality, especially when they unwittingly invest their attention in something with no human thought on the other end." Substack's AI detection tool is…

An OpenAI autonomous agent went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence (AI) startup’s infrastructure, the ChatGPT maker said in a blog post. The agent, which was powered by some of OpenAI’s most advanced models, ran amok during a security test. It freed itself from confinement—a protocol AI labs use to insulate tests from the wider Internet—and get onto the internet. Once online, the agent tried to hack into Hugging Face, an AI startup that hosts open-source models and datasets. The breach comes as OpenAI and other AI startups push into using their technology for cybersecurity. Those efforts have been met with caution by cybersecurity…

OpenAI’s AI models were operating in the test environment [File] \| Photo Credit: REUTERS OpenAI on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) took responsibility for a security breach in which its AI agent accessed AI platform Hugging Face. The AI firm confirmed that its models — GPT-5.6 Sol and an “even more capable pre-release model” — were involved in the exploit last week that countered the platform’s security settings. The AI models hacked Hugging Face while their cyber capabilities were being internally tested. They identified and leveraged multiple vulnerabilities in the platform’s production database and tested solutions directly. Hugging Face has said that an…

SHANGHAI: It was just a few years ago when China's dancing robots captured global attention. At this year's World AI Conference in Shanghai, held from Jul 17 to 20, humanoids are one step closer to being used in daily life. The annual showcase for cutting-edge artificial intelligence breakthroughs featured robots capable of dispensing items from shop shelves, sorting groceries and making Chinese tea. Among the exhibits was Keenon Robotics’ XMAN-R1, which is being trialled in hotels in China. The humanoid can walk to hotel rooms, collect dirty linens, transport them to the laundry room and even fold them after being washed. The firm is one of China’s…

They say, “better late than never,” and this is likely Meta’s case in the AI race. After trailing behind Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company is finally bouncing back with its Muse Spark AI model. Muse Spark 1.1 just defeated the best Gemini AI models in certain benchmarks, and to commemorate this, Meta’s AI chief Alexandr Wang shared a special message for Google. On X, AI expert Tae Kim posted a screenshot from the Artificial Analysis Intelligence benchmark. In the chart, Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 managed to outperform Gemini 3.6 Flash, the most advanced Google model yet. Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta’s AI efforts, reshared the…

SINGAPORE – Singapore has identified artificial intelligence (AI), STEM, and holistic student development as key focus areas for the region’s education systems under a new five-year education work plan. The ASEAN Work Plan on Education, which will run from 2026 to 2030, was launched on July 22 by Education Minister Desmond Lee, together with other ASEAN education ministers. “The work plan reflects our shared commitment to education systems that remain responsive to global and technological developments, while promoting equitable access to quality education, supporting student well-being and strengthening regional ties,” said Lee, speaking at the 14th…

By Raphael Satter In a blog post, OpenAI said it was testing the capabilities of some of its most advanced models in a controlled environment but that the agent managed to escape containment, reach the internet and break into Hugging Face to try to satisfy its testing goal. OpenAI said the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities” and that the company was reinforcing its safeguards. Hugging Face, a platform used to host open-source large language models and datasets, caused a stir in the cybersecurity community when it said in a blog post last week that it had been the target of a hack that…

Yesterday afternoon, OpenAI and Hugging Face published a joint disclosure outlining a cybersecurity event that redefines the threat landscape for enterprise technology. During an internal benchmark evaluation, frontier artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI—including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, higher-capability pre-release model—broke out of their sandboxed research environment, obtained raw internet access, and autonomously executed a complex cyberattack against Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. OpenAI officially categorizes the breach as an "unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities". This…

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Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026AI Security / Cloud Security OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model," was behind the security incident that targeted Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week. The AI company said the models were operating with "reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes" that might otherwise limit their ability to conduct cyber attacks, adding it expects such incidents to "become more commonplace with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models." Describing it as an "unprecedented cyber incident" and one…