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Artificial intelligence is becoming a force multiplier for Apple security research. Apple’s latest 26.5.2 software update includes patches for a record number of bugs. many of them identified by security researchers using AI-assisted tools. A record haul of fixes The numbers tell the story.

Operating entirely offline, Kind Local Pro gives individuals local data sovereignty without sacrificing AI performance Synsira Software is addressing the biggest concern with AI: privacy.

In Singapore, DBS Joy now offers agentic features to 350,000 corporate users. Another 100,000 users in Hong Kong are due to get the features in September.

OCBC said HELIOS completes much of know-your-customer due diligence before relationship managers engage prospective clients.

‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger…

China overcomes US ban with AI chip breakthrough Yahoo Finance Singapore

Mark Zuckerberg says US should not ban Chinese AI Financial Times

XRC Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Pano Anthos understands the scale of the issue of AI governance with the insurance industry dropping or excluding AI risk, as companies struggle to manage their internal architectures against outside programs.

Octopusbot banks $1M to weaponise AI grain forecasts 7 months early, helping farmers beat market chaos.

Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.

Progressive faith communities are increasingly leveraging religious freedom laws to protect civil liberties across the US A defining image of resistance in Donald Trump’s second term is a pastor recoiling as he is shot with pepper balls outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.

Some say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI models.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Monday that he has "never advocated" for a ban on open-weight AI models, rejecting accusations that his lab is seeking to shield its closed-model business from competition.

Data: MIT IT FutureTech and the University of Queensland; Chart: Herb Scribner/Axios There is a one-in-five chance of AI gaining dangerous weapons capabilities or causing mass harm that could kill millions in the next five years, per global experts surveyed for a recent MIT study.

The literary world is celebrating Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors. But AI firms may still train models on legally purchased books. What does that mean?

The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion driven by increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems.

US lawmakers introduce a bill aimed at giving the government power to order companies to shut down 'rogue' AI systems.

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps.

AI-powered robotics in Europe: Live demonstrations and strategic debate Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/24/2026 - 14:32 02 September 2026 The European Parliament will host a gathering of policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, alongside live demonstrations of cutting-edge robots, to set the…

Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.

The company is stepping up its push into SA, betting that AI-driven credit scoring can unlock financial services for millions of people.

A new bill would let the US government order the shutdown AI models that pose a major public threat.

A federal judge has approved the $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors who sued the company for using their work to train Claude.

Burger King’s AI assistant Patty has been brought in to ‘support’ the human workers – but some say it is doing the precise opposite. It was the most curt drive-thru greeting I had ever heard.

Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken the dedicated vector databases that define…