Hackers have broken into a Google database, potentially exposing the accounts of more than 2.5 billion Gmail users to targeted scams, according to a report by The Daily Mail.

Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence company xAI has open-sourced its Grok 2.5 large language model (LLM) and intends to do the same with its latest version, Grok 3, within the next six months.

China has proposed new rules governing the way internet platforms set prices, following years of complaints from merchants and consumers about unfair or misleading practices, according to a recent report by Reuters.

China has unveiled plans to build what it says will become the world’s largest solar farm, a sprawling facility high on the Tibetan plateau covering 610 square kilometres - about the size of Chicago. Once fully complete, the project will host more than 7 million solar panels and generate enough electricity to power 5 million households, according to a recent report by Associated Press.

Brian Armstrong, CEO of US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, recently revealed that he fired software engineers who refused to adopt AI tools following a company-wide mandate.

Bangladesh has introduced a fully digital system for verifying educational and professional certificates, a move set to cut costs and ease the process for students and workers seeking opportunities abroad.

Meta has recently partnered with Midjourney, the generative artificial intelligence startup, to license its “aesthetic technology” for use in the company’s future models and products.

Apple has entered preliminary discussions with Google to integrate the company’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) system into a redesigned version of Siri, Bloomberg News reported on August 22, citing people familiar with the matter.

OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed company behind ChatGPT, will open its first office in India later this year, establishing a base in New Delhi, according to a recent report by Reuters.

Kairan Quazi, the Bangladeshi-American prodigy who became SpaceX’s youngest employee at the age of 14, is leaving the rocket company to join Citadel Securities, an American hedge fund and financial services company in New York.

Google has unveiled its latest smartphones: the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold – followed by the newly unveiled Tensor G5 chip and the Gemini Nano AI model at Made by Google event 2025.

Game Science, the Chinese developer behind last year’s hit video game Black Myth: Wukong, has announced a sequel titled Black Myth: Zhong Kui, at the Gamescom conference in Cologne on August 20 with a short teaser trailer. 

US adults see AI as more of a threat than a promise, with fears ranging from losing jobs to political turmoil, according to a new poll by Reuters and global market research firm Ipsos.

Dhaka witnessed a royal spectacle on Saturday, August 16, 2025, as Royal Enfield owners from across the city gathered for the first-ever Royal Enfield Rideout 2025. 

The first-ever World Humanoid Robot Games was recently held in Beijing, where more than 500 humanoid robots from around the globe went head-to-head in a mix of sporting clashes and practical challenges.

Cybersecurity, for many organisations, has become a checklist. Buy this, subscribe to that, tick all the compliance boxes. There's a sort of psychological outsourcing of responsibility.

Robo Life Technology has won the Bangladesh regional final of the Startup World Cup 2025, receiving a BDT 50,000 in investment funding and securing a place to represent Bangladesh at the Global Startup World Cup competition to be held in San Francisco, USA to compete for a USD 1 million investment prize.

Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic will make its Claude AI models available to all three branches of the US government for just $1, the company announced on Tuesday.

AI search startup Perplexity has made an unexpected $34.5 billion all-cash bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser - a price much higher than its own estimated valuation of $18 billion.

AOL has announced it will officially end its dial-up internet service on September 30, 2025, marking the close of a 34-year chapter in internet history. The US-based online service company shared the news in a brief statement on its website, describing the move as part of a routine evaluation of its products and services.