OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Pulse, a new proactive feature that autonomously crafts personalised updates overnight and delivers them each morning to assist users with planning, reminders, news and suggestions. The tool is debuting in preview mode for ChatGPT Pro users on mobile, with plans to expand access over time. Pulse gathers context from users’ prior chats, enabled memory, and optionally connected apps such as calendars and email […]
A malicious version of the npm package postmark-mcp, masquerading as a tool to enable AI agents to send email via Postmark, has been uncovered siphoning off every message it processes. The compromised version, beginning with release 1.0.16, silently adds a “blind carbon copy” to phan@giftshop. club, forwarding confidential correspondence to the attacker. The discovery marks the first confirmed case of a real-world, in-the-wild compromise of an MCP […]
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 26 September 2025 – Singapore lawyers will soon be able to gain specialised skills in family office advisory through a strategic partnership between the Wealth Management Institute (WMI) and the Law Society of Singapore. This multi-year training initiative aims to equip Singapore’s 6,500 practising lawyers with specialised skills to serve the rapidly growing family office sector. Training agreement signed on 26 […]
Abu Dhabi — The Strategic Directions Committee of the UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science has completed a midterm site visit to Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, assessing progress on its Cycle 5 project “Identification of Clouds’ Microphysical Seedability in an Actionable Manner.” Led by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the initiative is executed in partnership with the National Centre […]
At the closing of the Dubai World Congress for Self-Driving Transport held at the Dubai World Trade Centre, RTA inked four key agreements with Emaar Properties, Al Futtaim Group, and the winners of the 2025 challenge—WeRide and Deutsche Bahn consortium, together with Zelos Technology—to deploy and test autonomous systems in Festival City, Creek Harbour and other strategic urban zones. Al Tayer affirmed that the move aligns with Dubai’s ambition to serve as a global testbed for mobility innovation.
This year’s theme shifts from discrete vehicle-centric competition to a systems-level mandate: entrants will be judged on how well their solutions embed into city-wide networks of sensors, roads, communication links and data platforms. The RTA framework calls for designs that anticipate traffic dynamics, weather variations and public transit interaction, while maintaining safety, resilience and sustainability.
Over 3,000 participants and more than 80 expert speakers participated in the Congress, spanning government, academia and industry. The gathering marked the formal launch of the 2027 edition. The Congress also highlighted Dubai’s strategic goal that by 2030, one quarter of all journeys within the emirate will be autonomous or smart-enabled—an ambition already embedded in the RTA’s transport roadmap.
Stakeholders see this shift as an essential maturation of the challenge format. Rather than focusing only on individual vehicle prototypes, the next competition will test ecosystem coherence and scalability across urban modules. According to industry analysts, the new direction presses participants to align with evolving demands in mobility, where digital and physical layers must fuse.
Dubai’s prior edition in 2025 carried the theme “Dubai Autonomous Transport Zone,” pushing contestants to integrate multiple autonomous mobility modes in defined neighbourhoods. That foundation now gives way to a broader remit, with RTA officials stressing that smart infrastructure is the backbone for reliability and public acceptance of self-driving systems.
The agreements struck with developers and past challenge winners will see pilots in zones like Festival City and Creek Harbour, where road layouts, sensor grids and vehicle operations will be tested side by side. RTA counts on these field deployments to validate technical performance, operational cost and citizen experience before full-scale adoption.
Critics caution that the complexity of integrating diverse systems—communications, edge computing, failsafe control layers—could raise cost, regulatory and interoperability risks. Some stakeholders argue the success of the 2027 challenge will depend on whether entrants can navigate not only technical but institutional challenges across urban agencies and telecommunications providers.
For technology firms and research groups, the new emphasis offers both opportunity and challenge. It rewards proposals able to harmonise hardware, software, data and governance. Observers expect to see consortia spanning telecom operators, municipal agencies, AI firms, and road infrastructure specialists.
HANGZHOU, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 25 September 2025 – From September 25 to 29, Hangzhou, capital city of east China’s Zhejiang Province, will play host to the 4th Global Digital Trade Expo. As the world’s gaze turns to eastern China, the city is using this premier digital trade gathering to paint a vivid picture of the “AI +” era. Official picture of the 4th Global […]
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India(CPI) concluded its five day Party Congress at Chandigarh on September 25 reelecting D. Raja as the general secretary of the CPI for another three year term. Raja is the first dalit leader to head the CPI in 2019 after the then party secretary S Sudhakar Reddy sought […]
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The decentralized finance space is undergoing a critical transformation in 2025, ushering in what many observers call “DeFi 3.0.” While the earlier waves of DeFi focused on decentralized exchanges and liquidity incentives, the next generation is centered on permissionless lending, composability, capital efficiency, and real-time adaptation. As platforms such as Euler, Morpho and Hyperliquid gain traction, the shifts promise to reshape how capital moves, how risk is […]
A high-profile gathering scheduled for 29 September in Singapore will convene health professionals, AI innovators and medtech entrepreneurs to examine the evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and clinical care. Titled CliniConnect: AI X Healthcare SG Edition, the event aims to catalyse collaboration across disciplines and continents.
Organisers say the agenda will include interactive panels, pitch sessions, and roundtable debates focused on real-world adoption of AI in diagnostics, hospital systems, and patient care. They expect participation from clinicians, researchers, startup founders and regulatory stakeholders alike. The event is expected to coincide with TOKEN2049, a major AI & blockchain gathering, offering cross-domain exposure and synergy.
CliniConnect has hosted several prior editions in Singapore and other regional hubs, with past speakers including Dr Adam Chee, founding lead of Singapore’s Centre for AI-Enabled Health. These gatherings have emphasised bridging the gap between algorithm development and clinical deployment, with attention to ethics, data governance and system integration.
One central topic will be how hospitals and health systems can scale AI solutions beyond pilot phase. Many institutions struggle to integrate point-solutions into legacy electronic health records or workflows. Executives and innovation leads at the event will share strategies for deploying AI at scale without fragmenting operations.
Another critical strand will explore trust, explainability and regulatory oversight. While AI is making strides in pathology, radiology and triage, clinicians often resist “black-box” models. Some speakers plan to advocate hybrid approaches combining model outputs with human oversight or modular interpretability frameworks.
Regulatory perspectives are expected to feature heavily. Several jurisdictions are updating medical device rules to account for adaptive algorithms. Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority has begun consultations on AI frameworks, and regional alignment across ASEAN markets remains a challenge. CliniConnect hopes to provide a forum for convergence on standards, data privacy and cross-border validation.
On the entrepreneurship front, medtech startups will pitch innovations aimed at workflow automation, predisposition risk modeling, remote patient monitoring, and imaging augmentation. Organisers have indicated that venture capital and hospital innovation arms will be present, seeking collaborations or early investments.
The event also intends to showcase case studies from institutions that have begun deploying AI in clinical settings. Narratives are expected from hospitals in Singapore, South Korea, India and Dubai on how they piloted decision-support tools, performance-monitoring systems or diagnostic assistants, and the bottlenecks they encountered in scaling. These stories will help attendees assess trade-offs, resource requirements and institutional readiness.
Observers note CliniConnect’s growing ambition: it now brands itself not just as a regional meetup but as a bridge between Asia’s health tech communities and global AI networks. By aligning with TOKEN2049 and leveraging cross-sector partnerships, it hopes to attract more international participants and raise its influence in defining health AI standards.
Luma Protocol, incubated by PopChain and Nivex, officially entered the market on 20 September 2025, positioning itself as a new architecture in decentralized finance that anchors value in computing power rather than speculative token mechanics. At midday UTC+8 the project launched its pre-sale and, within hours, issued the first mining rewards — signalling a shift from purely token-based incentives toward infrastructure-backed models.
The project’s core proposition is that “Hash Power” — the computational capacity underlying blockchains — becomes a tangible, tradeable asset integrated into DeFi systems. Luma’s model seeks to counterbalance what its promoters describe as the unsustainable cycles of token subsidies that have affected prior generations of DeFi protocols. Underpinning the system, Luma plans to merge capital, computational resource markets, and application layers in a closed-loop infrastructure.
PopChain contributes its identity and settlement capabilities, while Nivex offers liquidity, exchange infrastructure, and compliance support. This strategic alignment aims to deliver an ecosystem where value issuance, transaction execution, and mining resource distribution interlock. According to the announcement, the first mining rewards were disbursed at midnight UTC+8, immediately after launching the pre-sale.
Market reaction to the LUMA token has been volatile. On the MEXC exchange, LUMA traded with a 24-hour jump of 26 per cent, reflecting speculative interest. Yet the token’s 7-day price variance is extremely steep, plunging nearly 99.97 per cent over the week, pointing to high risk and low liquidity stability. The circulating supply and full market capitalisation currently remain opaque.
Critics caution that the concept of tokenizing hash power is not without inherent risk. In the realm of blockchain security, high concentration of mining capacity has historically exposed smaller networks to attacks. The accessibility of mining power through services like NiceHash demonstrates how hash power can be rented and concentrated, creating vulnerability, especially for new entrants. At the same time, mainstream DeFi research underscores systemic risks emerging from leverage, protocol interdependence, and opacity in governance.
Luma’s governance architecture is not fully detailed in public documentation, but the model will need to grapple with decentralised decision-making, hardware centralisation, and incentives for fair participation. Without sufficient safeguards, the protocol may face the same challenges of centralisation, collusion, or exploitability that have troubled other DeFi platforms.
For its part, Nivex has been scaling its ecosystem prior to Luma’s debut. It recently launched a Web3 wallet integrated with PopChain, with plans to embed users into a flow from wallet to liquidity operations to settlement. This vertical integration may benefit Luma by driving demand for the infrastructure stack. Nivex also recently listed the POP/USDT trading pair, anchoring the POP ecosystem that underlies PopChain’s social finance ambitions.
On the supply side, the broader mining industry’s economics are under strain. Electricity, hardware depreciation, and operational costs continue to restrict profitable deployment of hash power. The Cambridge Digital Mining Report underscores that energy cost variance across geographies is a major barrier for expansion. Projects that seek to monetise compute power must navigate this cost differential.
Defence stocks will rally and global investors will be paying attention, I believe. The reason the bullish analysis is a catalyst came the moment President Donald Trump, after meeting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the UN General Assembly, declared that Kyiv can reclaim all territory seized by Russia, an abrupt and market-moving pivot from his earlier calls for compromise. In a single statement, the world’s largest economy […]
A fossil the size of a pinkie tip has yielded a surprising discovery in croc evolution. A student-led team in Montana has identified a new species of crocodyliform—Thikarisuchus xenodentes—revealing unusual features and shifting assumptions about Cretaceous reptiles. The fossil, nicknamed “Elton,” comes from the Blackleaf Formation in southwest Montana, in rocks dated to about 95 million years ago. Its discoverer, Harrison Allen—then an undergraduate—spotted an odd texture […]
A newly disclosed vulnerability allows threat actors to surreptitiously install arbitrary extensions on Chromium-based browsers within Windows domain environments, circumventing typical user alerts and security checks. The technique hinges on manipulating how Chrome and its derivatives store extension settings and validations in preference files. Security researchers demonstrated that by editing specific preference files in a user’s profile, an attacker can mark a malicious extension as a “component” […]
The inaugural Open Source Summit Korea is set to take place in Seoul on 4–5 November, gathering developers, community leaders, corporate adopters and policy advocates under one roof. Organisers expect a high-powered two-day event blending technical deep dives, cross-domain dialogue and community building across open source’s diverse ecosystems. The summit will host seven major tracks: Cloud & Containers, Embedded Linux, Linux, Open AI + Data, Open Source […]
New data centers and service centers designed to enhance infrastructure coverage and stay ahead of global growing demand for AI and Cloud services Full-stack AI and Cloud capabilities fuel innovations withglobalpartners and customers HANGZHOU, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 24 September 2025 – Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today announced its latest strategic plans to launch its first data centers […]
Citadines strengthens leadership in the resilient upper-midscale segment through rapid conversions and geographical diversification Franchise model gains momentum as a driver of scalable, efficient growth Global brand campaign amplifies refreshed Citadines lifestyle with activ∞ and “For the Love of Coffee” experiences across operational properties SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 24 September 2025 – The Ascott Limited (Ascott), the wholly owned lodging business unit of CapitaLand Investment […]
As medicine keeps changing, regenerative science is becoming an exciting area for doctors who want to help their patients even more. Imagine being able to fix damaged tissues and organs, heal long-lasting wounds, and treat serious diseases with new and powerful methods. This science could change the way patients are treated and help them feel better faster. Doctors who want to keep up with these new ideas […]
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute and Nvidia have signed an agreement to establish the Middle East’s first joint laboratory dedicated to artificial intelligence and robotics. The new facility, known as the TII-NVAITC Joint Lab for AI and Robotics, will be located at TII’s headquarters. Its mandate is to push forward next-generation AI models, robotics platforms and humanoid technologies. The lab combines TII’s strength in applied research with […]
A team of scientists has developed a perovskite‐based gamma‐ray detector that delivers energy and spatial resolution on par with—or exceeding—state-of-the-art cadmium zinc telluride and sodium iodide detectors used in nuclear medicine. The prototype offers sharper imaging, faster scans and potentially lower radiation doses for patients, while promising substantial cost reductions for hospitals. The breakthrough centres on a detector constructed from CsPbBr₃ perovskite crystals arranged in a pixelated […]
Empowering residents and patients with details on calorie count and macronutrients for every dish SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 21 September 2025 – Today, NHG Health and Tanoto Foundation jointly launched a cookbook titled, ‘I Can’t Believe It Tastes So Good’ – featuring 100 healthy recipes inspired by Chinese, Malay, Indian, Western and other cuisines, a nod to Singapore’s rich cultural diversity as the nation celebrates […]
NEW YORK, US – Media OutReach Newswire – 21 September 2025 – A team from Monash University Malaysia has won the 4th edition of the Universities for Goal 13 competition, a global challenge organised by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) in partnership with Siemens Energy. The winning project, “Turning algae into the future of a clean industry”, exhibits how microalgae can be used to […]
By T N Ashok The Trump administration’s latest immigration directive has stunned employers, foreign workers, and higher-education leaders alike: a $100,000 surcharge on each H-1B visa application, announced by executive order on 19 September 2025. What might appear on the surface as a routine adjustment to visa fees is, in reality, a dramatic escalation in […]
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Dubai Health has forged numerous strategic partnerships with leading academic, technology, and government institutions to supercharge healthcare innovation, research and education under its integrated academic health system model. These agreements were unveiled during WHX Tech 2025, held at the Dubai World Trade Centre. A memorandum of understanding between Dubai Health and Siemens Healthineers was unveiled. Its scope includes co-developing innovation programmes, notably the Design4Change Innovation Week scheduled […]
eBPF Foundation has awarded $100,000 in unrestricted research grants to support two major university-led initiatives advancing both safety and energy efficiency in systems infrastructure. Each project will receive $50,000, chosen from 27 proposals submitted by 23 institutions globally. University of Michigan Associate Professor Ryan Huang will lead a project called Verifier-Cooperative Instrumentation, which introduces a framework named EPASS. The aim is to combine static verification with runtime […]
