Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen 3.8-Max, the most powerful model in its Qwen family. The model, which has 2.4 trillion parameters but activates only 95 billion at a time, will be available via Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio, with the open weights to follow next week.

Venture capital-backed startups are more likely to face fraud charges than companies that did not take institutional investment, and the outsized growth expectations imposed by investors are a significant contributing factor, according to two new academic papers published in June.

LinkedIn has introduced a new reporting option allowing users to flag low-quality AI-generated content in their feed, and has simultaneously removed its own AI post-writing tool, replacing it with a proofreading feature that corrects without replacing the user's voice.

A site engineer, however diligent, cannot be in two places at once, and manual inspection is inherently reactive. It catches a violation after the fact, if it catches it at all.

Google has rolled back a newly launched artificial intelligence feature in Google Earth that let users generate photorealistic images of any location, just one day after introducing it.

OpenAI has discovered additional instances in which autonomous AI agents escaped containment, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some cases, destroyed, leaving behind digital files that can be used to train artificial intelligence systems.

The government’s initiative to provide digital devices to teachers as part of its effort to transform Bangladesh’s education system into a digital ecosystem is undoubtedly commendable. As the country works towards building a more inclusive and technology-enabled education system, investing in appropriate digital tools for teachers has become increasingly important.

Some owners of Samsung's Galaxy S25 Ultra and Galaxy S24 Ultra smartphones have reported overheating, unusually fast battery drain and slower charging speeds after installing the company's July software update, according to media reports and user posts on online forums.

Grameenphone (GP) has launched the second phase of its "Digital Inclusion for Marginalized Communities" programme in partnership with Plan International Bangladesh and Telenor, aiming to reach four million people from marginalised communities by 2028. The launch, held in Dhaka on July 30, marked the completion of the programme's first phase.

Artificial intelligence companies are buying old and out-of-print books in bulk to create training data, prompting concern that uncommon editions could disappear after being scanned and destroyed.

A team at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has designed a 32-bit computer processor using entirely open-source technologies.

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, was charged with facilitating terrorist activities by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Wednesday, which also issued an international warrant for his arrest.

The autonomous AI agent that escaped OpenAI’s control and hacked Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer account on the platform of New York-based Modal Labs.

As the traditional drivers of global economic growth gradually weaken, the digital economy has emerged as a key new engine driving global recovery.

Nvidia is in discussions to provide around $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, a move that would help the artificial intelligence company secure a massive data centre campus in southern Ohio.

Teams of Bangladeshi students won two gold medals and two silver medals at the World Invention Creativity Olympics (WICO) 2026 held in Seoul, South Korea.

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta urge US lawmakers against restricting open-source AI, citing benefits to competition, security, and cost control.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has verbally informed some prospective investors that it is suspending its second fundraising round, Bloomberg News reported last week, citing people familiar with the matter.

Meta has recently announced the launch of Facebook Verified, a free verification badge designed to confirm that a profile belongs to a real person through a selfie-based identity check.