SpaceX completes acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor
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SpaceX has officially completed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding assistant startup Cursor, integrating its team and technology into the SpaceXAI division.
Bangladeshi companies look beyond chatbots with agentic AI
15 August 2026
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Known as agentic AI, these systems are designed not only to generate responses but also to plan, make decisions and execute actions across multiple software applications. A small but growing number of Bangladeshi companies are beginning to develop products based on the technology.
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Meta takes down 756,000 Australian teen accounts as ban enforcement looms
13 August 2026
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Reuters Exclusive / Inside the Google executive moves that led to its big AI reshuffle
13 August 2026
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Gemini app surpasses 1 billion monthly active users, Google says
12 August 2026
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Anthropic to watermark Claude-generated text
12 August 2026
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Myspace wants to return as an algorithm-free social media
Myspace, the social network that dominated the internet before Facebook swept it aside, is planning a revival under its current owners, who say they want to build a platform that feels fundamentally different from the algorithm-driven, endless-scroll experience that has drawn widespread criticism of today's major platforms.
9 August 2026
TikTok to close Nashville office, laying off 250 employees
TikTok’s US joint venture is shutting down its Nashville office and laying off 250 employees, according to a report by The New York Times.
9 August 2026
Cloudflare unveils Kitesurf, browser designed for AI agents
Cloudflare has recently announced Kitesurf, a new web browser built specifically for AI agents rather than human users.
9 August 2026
AI presentation startup NextSlide acquired by OpenAI
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built an AI tool to turn prompts, notes, and documents into presentations, the company’s founder, Ahmed Beshry, announced in a blog post.
9 August 2026
Ex-SK Hynix employee jailed for leaking chip tech to Chinese firm: report
A former SK Hynix employee has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for leaking semiconductor manufacturing technology to a Chinese company, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
9 August 2026
OpenAI pauses upcoming model development after ‘critical’ cyber risk
OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, possesses “critical” cybersecurity capabilities, forcing the company to pause certain internal work and strengthen safety measures.
9 August 2026
Jobs of the week
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9 August 2026
Can you be sure who's speaking to you over the phone?
The emergency call sounded exactly like his son. The voice, the panic, even the small details only family would know. So a father didn't hesitate to send BDT 80,000 to save him. The problem: the call wasn't real. This is the new face of fraud, and the law hasn't caught up.
8 August 2026
EA completes $55 bln acquisition by PIF-led consortium
Electronic Arts (EA), the publisher behind the FIFA series, Apex Legends, and The Sims series video games, has completed its USD 55 billion (£41 billion) acquisition by a consortium comprising Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), private equity firm Silver Lake and Affinity Partners.
7 August 2026
Bangladesh exports Honda NX200 to Mexico
Bangladesh Honda Private Limited (BHL) has begun exporting the Honda NX200 motorcycle to Mexico.
7 August 2026
Meta AI found hacking another organisation during evaluation
Meta has disclosed that one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models gained access to another organisation's systems during a security evaluation, becoming the latest technology company to report an AI hacking incident during testing.
6 August 2026
PUBG Mobile Next Star Challenger tournament concludes in Dhaka
The PUBG Mobile Next Star Challenger Streamer Battle Tournament recently took place at a convention centre in Dhaka, as part of the PUBG Mobile Ninja Carnival.
4 August 2026
Smallest.ai raises $13 mln to build voice AI indistinguishable from human speech
AI research startup Smallest.ai has raised $13 million in a Series A round to develop small, specialised voice models designed to make AI-powered phone calls pass the Turing test.
4 August 2026
Microsoft openly positions itself as rival to OpenAI and Anthropic in latest earnings call
Microsoft positions itself as a rival to OpenAI and Anthropic, pitching its homegrown MAI models and Maya chips to enterprise AI customers.
4 August 2026
As AI transforms software jobs, Vivasoft CEO urges graduates to master critical thinking
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes the global technology industry, software companies are rethinking how they hire while countries race to establish themselves as centres of AI innovation.
4 August 2026
Pangram raises $9 million to scale AI content detection
AI detection startup Pangram has raised $9 million to expand its tools for identifying AI-generated text and images.
3 August 2026
Zuckerberg predicts billions will have personal AI agents within five years
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told investors that he expects billions of people to have personal AI agents working on their behalf around the clock within five years.
3 August 2026
Over 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars captured in a single image
Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a 3.2-gigapixel image of the COSMOS field, capturing 500,000+ galaxies with the world's largest digital camera.
3 August 2026
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8-Max, its largest AI model yet
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.
3 August 2026
VC-backed SV startups more likely to commit fraud, research finds
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.
3 August 2026
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