Category: Biz Tech

Artificial intelligence is accelerating both cyber attacks and defensive capabilities across India’s securities market, prompting the Securities and Exchange Board of India to warn that gaps in technology, skills and third-party security could expose the wider financial ecosystem. SEBI Executive Director Avneesh Pandey has described cybersecurity as an escalating contest in which attackers repeatedly probe financial systems while gaining access to increasingly sophisticated AI-enabled tools. The technology is effectively “supercharging the cyber arms race”, strengthening automated threat detection and response

xAI’s Grok chatbot has begun producing nonsensical strings of words for some users, exposing a reliability problem at a time when the company is rapidly expanding the capabilities and reach of its artificial intelligence models. The malfunction has affected a subset of people using Grok Lite through Grok. com, with complaints emerging from Wednesday, August 19. Instead of answering prompts normally, the chatbot has returned paragraphs consisting of apparently unrelated words assembled into grammatically meaningless sentences. One user who asked Grok to

GitHub Actions has slipped well below the 99.9% availability level widely associated with enterprise-grade cloud services, sharpening concerns over the resilience of a platform that has become central to software development and deployment worldwide. The continuous integration and delivery service recorded 99.33% uptime over the 90 days to August 19, equivalent to roughly 14.5 hours of unavailable time. By comparison, GitHub’s core Git Operations service, covering fundamental activities such as pushing, pulling and cloning code, maintained 99.99% availability over the same

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai CodeRabbit has raised $143 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation, giving the AI code-review company fresh capital to expand into software governance, security and international markets. The San Francisco-headquartered company is broadening its focus beyond reviewing individual code changes as businesses confront a sharp increase in software produced by artificial intelligence agents. Its newly introduced Agentic Change Management platform is designed to help engineering teams decide which changes require attention, assess their wider

Telegram has applied to operate the. gram top-level internet domain, setting up a potentially significant expansion of the messaging platform into personal web identities and AI-generated websites for its billion-plus user base. The application, if approved through the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ 2026 programme for new generic top-level domains, could allow Telegram usernames to function as internet addresses. A user with the handle @durov, for example, could potentially use durov. gram, while another account could receive a matching

[caption id="attachment_121402" align="alignleft" width="539"] Dr. Rohan Nasser Obied, Founder of IZIENG – The International Studying Center.[/caption] For many Arab students in Israel, the idea of pursuing a Master’s degree or PhD abroad can seem distant long before the application process even begins. Choosing the right academic path, meeting international academic standards, working confidently in English, preparing research interests and understanding unfamiliar university systems can all become significant barriers. For Dr. Rohan Nasser Obied, founder of IZIENG - The International Studying Center, the

LG Electronics has integrated stc tv more deeply into its webOS television platform, giving viewers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain direct access to the streaming service from the home screen of compatible LG Smart TVs. The new Quick Access feature is designed to reduce the number of steps required to reach stc tv content. Viewers can enter the service directly from the webOS interface, while selected programmes, new releases, popular titles and personalised recommendations can appear on the television

Google has introduced a short course designed to teach people how to build functional applications with artificial intelligence, lowering the technical barrier for workers who want to create software without conventional programming skills. The “AI for App Building” course is built around the emerging practice of “vibe coding”, in which users describe what they want an application to do in everyday language and an AI system generates the underlying code. Google says no previous coding or AI experience is required, making

A new benchmark of handwritten medical prescriptions shows that compact modern optical character recognition systems can decipher doctors’ handwriting far better than established OCR engines, while remaining well short of the accuracy needed for autonomous clinical use. The April 2026 test compared PP-OCRv5, GLM-OCR, Tesseract and EasyOCR on cropped handwritten prescription words. GLM-OCR produced the best character-level performance, recording a Character Error Rate, or CER, of 0.328. PP-OCRv5 delivered the lower Word Error Rate, or WER, at 0.789, compared with

Anthropic’s plan to embed invisible watermarks in text generated by future Claude models has triggered a sharp debate among heavy AI users who fear their reliance on the chatbot could become detectable in professional, academic and creative work. The company says the technology will allow authorised detection systems to estimate whether Claude was involved in producing a passage, without inserting hidden characters, altering its visible appearance or attaching information identifying the user. The watermark will instead be created through subtle statistical

OpenAI has introduced Computer History, an opt-in macOS feature that lets ChatGPT and Codex draw on a record of activity across selected applications and websites, extending AI memory beyond conversations and into users’ everyday computer workflows. The feature creates memories and a chronological timeline from interaction events generated as people type, click, switch applications and navigate websites. Users can subsequently ask ChatGPT about work they were doing earlier, retrieve the context surrounding a document or project, or allow Codex to

China’s artificial intelligence race has intensified with Z. ai unveiling a coding model with powerful cybersecurity capabilities and DeepSeek pushing an upgraded flagship into wider commercial use, reinforcing the country’s growing challenge to leading US developers. Z. ai’s GLM-5.3 has emerged as the more striking of the two launches because of its ability to identify software vulnerabilities. The company said the model scored 84.5 per cent on CyberGym, a benchmark that tests whether AI systems can inspect code, locate security weaknesses

Google Cloud has set the end of 2027 as its first major deadline for protecting customer workloads and sensitive data flows against attacks enabled by future quantum computers, marking a significant step in its wider plan to make its cloud infrastructure post-quantum ready by 2029. The timetable places so-called “store now, decrypt later” attacks at the front of the company’s security migration. Under that threat model, attackers collect encrypted information today and retain it until sufficiently powerful quantum computers become

Firebird has opened a large-scale artificial intelligence computing facility in Armenia, launching an ambitious expansion that is expected to deploy more than 70,000 NVIDIA Blackwell and Rubin GPUs by the end of 2027. The facility at Hrazdan marks the operational debut of Firebird’s international AI infrastructure platform. The company plans to expand the Armenia operation to 300 megawatts of computing capacity through a three-phase programme, potentially establishing the country as one of the larger AI computing centres serving Europe and neighbouring

Anthropic is negotiating a possible $6 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence infrastructure company Decart AI, a transaction that could become the Claude developer’s largest takeover and strengthen its ability to reduce the soaring cost of running advanced AI models. The discussions remain unfinished and could still collapse. The proposed deal centres less on expanding Anthropic’s consumer product portfolio than on improving the economics of computing. Decart develops software designed to extract greater performance from existing AI chips, potentially allowing Anthropic

[caption id="attachment_121281" align="alignleft" width="774"] Photo by CDC on Unsplash[/caption] The global race to develop new medicines is entering a new phase, and the UAE is positioning itself as one of the regions investing heavily in that transformation.  Biotechnology companies, artificial intelligence researchers, healthcare providers, and government institutions are increasingly working together to accelerate drug discovery, improve clinical research, and reduce the time it takes for promising treatments to reach patients. For decades, medicine development has been a slow and expensive process. Discovering a

North Korean operatives are using stolen identities, artificial intelligence and networks of overseas facilitators to secure remote technology jobs at US companies, exposing weaknesses in corporate hiring systems while generating money for Pyongyang. A year-long investigation into the operation found that workers linked to North Korea have infiltrated American businesses by assuming the identities of US citizens, creating convincing professional profiles and using AI tools to help them pass recruitment checks. Thousands of suspected operatives are believed to be seeking positions

Minimal Company has unveiled its second-generation smartphone with an AMOLED display, 5G connectivity and significantly faster hardware, while retaining the physical QWERTY keyboard that distinguishes the device from mainstream touchscreen handsets. The Minimal Phone 2 marks a sharp change from the original model’s 4.3-inch E Ink screen. The new handset uses a 3.92-inch AMOLED panel with a 1080 by 1240 resolution and 90Hz refresh rate, giving users smoother scrolling, richer colours and much faster visual response. The change addresses one

Meta has deactivated 756,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts suspected of belonging to Australians under the age of 16 as enforcement of the country’s landmark social media restrictions intensifies. The company said 462,000 Instagram accounts and 294,000 Facebook accounts were removed between the period immediately before the rules took effect in December 2025 and June 2026. The figures represent one of the clearest indications yet of the scale of enforcement required under Australia’s world-first minimum-age regime for social media accounts. The restrictions came

The UAE’s new restrictions on social media access for children under 15 could reach far beyond conventional social networks, drawing gaming, streaming, education, ecommerce and other digital services into a widening child-safety compliance regime. Cabinet Resolution No. 106 of 2026 sets 15 as the minimum age for maintaining a personal social media account. Children below that threshold cannot create, use or operate covered accounts or access features such as posting, commenting, sharing and participating in public interactive spaces. Users aged

Cloudflare recorded a sharp escalation in high-bandwidth distributed denial-of-service attacks during the second quarter of 2026, mitigating 805 network-layer attacks that exceeded 1 terabit per second as attackers increasingly deployed overwhelming bursts of traffic against online infrastructure. The figure was more than six times the 130 terabit-scale attacks recorded during the first quarter. It brought the total number of attacks exceeding 1 Tbps during the first half of the year to 935, illustrating how traffic volumes once regarded as exceptional are

Swedish artificial intelligence start-up Lovable has raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in less than a year as demand grows for tools that let employees build software using natural-language instructions. The Series C financing was led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, with participation from investors including Balderton Capital, Carmignac, Tencent, World Innovation Lab and Regent. The transaction lifts Lovable's valuation from $6.6 billion in December 2025 and places the Stockholm-based company among Europe's

Google has unveiled its Pixel 11 smartphone range with higher starting prices, a new Tensor G6 processor and deeper Gemini integration, placing artificial intelligence at the centre of its latest challenge to Apple and Samsung. The Pixel 11 starts at $899, while the Pixel 11 Pro is priced from $1,099 and the larger Pixel 11 Pro XL from $1,299. All three models are available for pre-order and are scheduled to reach stores on August 20. The prices represent increases of about

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.6, pushing its flagship artificial intelligence model into the top tier of independent performance rankings and intensifying competition with OpenAI and Anthropic on advanced reasoning, coding and autonomous agent tasks. The model, released on 12 August, scored 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol at its highest tested setting. Grok 4.6 improved by five points over Grok 4.5, which had scored 56, while Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 remained ahead with 63 and Claude

Cognition AI has opened preliminary discussions with investors over a fresh capital raise that could value the fast-growing artificial intelligence coding company at at least $40 billion, marking another sharp escalation in investor expectations for autonomous software development tools. The talks remain at an early stage and the size, valuation and investor line-up could change before any transaction is completed. A $40 billion valuation would nevertheless represent an increase of more than 50% from the roughly $26 billion level established when

Google has opened Google Earth’s flight simulator to users worldwide through the web, bringing a feature that spent almost two decades largely confined to its desktop application directly into the browser. The experimental tool allows people to fly across Google Earth’s satellite imagery and three-dimensional terrain without installing separate software. The simulator is available from the Tools menu after users launch the web version of Google Earth and select “Explore Earth”. Google has classified the feature as experimental, indicating that

Snowflake and Anthropic are expanding the use of AI agents across corporate workflows as businesses shift from experimental generative AI projects towards systems capable of analysing governed data and carrying out multi-step tasks inside production environments. The collaboration is increasingly centred on Snowflake Cortex Agents, which combine Anthropic's Claude models with Snowflake's enterprise data, governance and security infrastructure. The approach allows organisations to build agents that retrieve information, reason across structured and unstructured data and take actions through connected business

Rackspace Technology posted modest second-quarter revenue growth as stronger private cloud sales offset weakness in its larger public cloud business, while higher costs and investment in artificial intelligence pushed the company deeper into the red. The San Antonio-based cloud and technology services group generated revenue of $670.1 million for the three months ended June 30, up 0.6% from $666.3 million a year earlier. Private Cloud revenue climbed 5.5% to $263.3 million, while Public Cloud revenue fell 2.3% to $406.8 million. The

Mark Zuckerberg has laid out his most expansive case yet for putting powerful artificial intelligence into the hands of billions of people, arguing that widely available “personal superintelligence” can improve education, work, healthcare and creativity while preventing control of advanced AI from becoming concentrated among governments and a handful of companies. The Meta chief executive’s essay, titled “The Future is for Everyone”, runs to more than 6,400 words and ranges from personalised tutors and AI lawyers to data centres, biological threats,

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight artificial intelligence model designed to run agentic workloads on consumer hardware, while preparing an open-weight version of its flagship Muse Spark 1.2 model for release within weeks. The launch marks a renewed push by Meta to make downloadable AI models a central part of its strategy after its Muse family initially moved towards controlled access. Muse Glimmer, released on August 10, can be downloaded and modified by developers and is designed to operate

Aptoide Games has become the first rival Android app store to be distributed directly through Google Play in the United States, marking a significant change in the mobile software market after years of legal challenges to Google’s control over app distribution. The Portugal-based company’s games marketplace can now be installed from Google Play like a conventional application, removing the need for users to sideload the store or change device settings. The shift follows court-ordered changes arising from Epic Games’ antitrust case

OpenAI has restricted development work involving its upcoming Astra artificial intelligence model after internal evaluations raised the possibility that it may possess cyber capabilities powerful enough to cross the company’s highest risk threshold. The company said preliminary testing showed major advances in autonomous coding and cybersecurity performance. Those results were strong enough that it could not rule out Astra reaching what its Preparedness Framework defines as “Critical” cyber capability, prompting tighter controls around further development and evaluation. Under that framework, a model

Anthropic is introducing invisible, machine-readable markings into Claude-generated text and supported files, adding a new layer of provenance as artificial intelligence companies face tougher transparency requirements in Europe. The system is designed to follow generated material beyond the Claude interface, although the company acknowledges that substantial editing can defeat detection. Claude models launched on or after August 2, 2026 are being designed to support the marking system from launch. Older models are not automatically covered yet, with Anthropic still working to

Atlassian has fixed a security flaw in its Rovo artificial intelligence assistant that could have allowed attackers to turn a single malicious link into a channel for stealing sensitive corporate information from services accessible to a logged-in employee. The vulnerability, dubbed RovoBlast, exploited the way Rovo Chat processed externally supplied information embedded in URLs. An attacker could construct a link containing malicious instructions and persuade an authenticated user to click it. The instructions would then enter the victim’s Rovo session,