Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company, Neuralink, is preparing to launch a new trial in October aimed at helping people with speech impairments translate their thoughts directly into text using a brain implant. The company’s president, Dongjin Seo, announced the initiative during a recent talk in Seoul, according to a report by Reuters.

The University of Oxford has announced it will provide free access to ChatGPT Edu, an education-focused version of OpenAI’s AI tool, to all students and staff, starting this academic year. This makes Oxford the first UK university to widely deploy the platform following a year-long pilot involving around 750 users.

OpenAI is drawing increasing numbers of employees from Apple as it accelerates work on its first hardware devices, according to a recent report by The Information.

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has published a peer-reviewed paper in the scientific journal Nature, describing its large language model R1, which is designed to handle reasoning tasks such as maths and coding. The company said the system was not trained on the output of rival models, addressing speculation about its data sources.

BYD, the New Energy Vehicle (NEV) manufacturer, has officially launched the upgraded version of its Atto 3, the electric SUV, at an event held on September 20 at the BYD Flagship Showroom in Tejgaon, Dhaka.

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) developer, has recently disclosed that training its flagship R1 model cost $294,000, a figure far lower than the amounts often associated with the development of other AI models.

Nusaiba Binte Mamun, a student at Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), has been named a Kofi Annan Changemaker 2025, becoming the first Bangladeshi to receive this global recognition. The award, presented by the Kofi Annan Foundation, highlights young leaders between 18 and 30 years of age who are implementing measurable solutions to social challenges around the world.

Meta is preparing to introduce its most ambitious wearable device yet at its annual Connect conference this week, with Mark Zuckerberg expected to unveil a new pair of smart glasses equipped with a built-in digital display.

Nvidia’s newest artificial intelligence (AI) chip designed for the Chinese market, the RTX6000D, has received a muted response from major technology firms, according to a recent report by Reuters.

OpenAI has appointed Mike Liberatore, the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Elon Musk’s xAI, as its new business finance officer, according to a recent report by Reuters.

Microsoft is testing a new feature in Windows 11 that allows Xbox controllers to switch between applications more easily. 

Qualcomm has announced its next flagship mobile processor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, set to debut at the company’s annual Snapdragon Summit from September 23 to 25. 

The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (Bida) yesterday announced the integration of five new services from the Directorate of Registration into its online One-Stop Service (OSS) platform, raising the total to 142 services across 47 agencies.

Chinese tech giant Tencent has recruited a prominent artificial intelligence researcher from OpenAI, according to a recent report by Bloomberg News. Yao Shunyu, who previously worked at OpenAI and Google, has joined the Shenzhen-based company to work on integrating AI into its services.

Facebook users across the world are currently unable to search for posts and photos in the platform, after what appears to be a widespread outage affecting the platform’s search function, which began earlier this week.

OpenAI is planning to dramatically reduce the percentage of revenue it shares with Microsoft and partners, cutting from 20% to just 8% by the end of the decade, according to a report by The Information.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has laid off at least 500 employees from its data annotation team, according to a recent report by Business Insider. The workers, who help train the company’s Grok chatbot, were notified of the decision by email on Friday.

Robby Walker, one of Apple’s most senior artificial intelligence (AI) executives, is preparing to leave the company next month, according to a recent report by Bloomberg News.

Nepal’s political crisis took an unusual turn this week when thousands of young protesters turned to Discord, a social media platform more commonly associated with online gaming, to rally behind the country’s next leader. 

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover may have uncovered evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars, according to research published on September 10 in Nature, the scientific journal.