Google has released Lyria 3.5, a new version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model for generating music, making it available through the Gemini app and Gemini API.

A reasoning technique reportedly being used in OpenAI’s forthcoming Astra model has prompted concern among AI safety researchers who fear increasingly complex systems could become harder to monitor.

Instagram will reduce the visibility of accounts featuring AI-generated people when those profiles fail to identify themselves as artificial, as the social network tries to make synthetic online personalities easier to recognise.

OpenAI says its advertising business has reached a $1bn annualised revenue run rate as the company expands ChatGPT advertising into more international markets.

Learning programming remains essential in the AI era, shifting focus from syntax to system design, core logic, and AI-assisted software development.

Adobe will provide more than 27 million eligible people in Saudi Arabia with a year of free access to some of its artificial intelligence tools under an expanded partnership valued at more than $4bn.

Anthropic researchers have demonstrated an automated system capable of developing techniques to reduce problematic behaviour in artificial intelligence models.

Velaura AI, a chip-design startup focused on reducing power consumption in data centres, said on Tuesday it raised $110 million in Series A funding at a valuation above $1 billion.

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.

Bangladesh built its garment industry on scale, competitive labour costs, and the ability to supply large volumes of basic apparel.

Anthropic has committed to embedding machine-readable marks in all content generated by its Claude models, the company said on Tuesday, as it became a signatory to the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice on transparency for AI-generated content.

Spotify is set to introduce a new system in September that will identify artist profiles whose public identities appear to have been created using generative artificial intelligence (AI), while excluding those profiles from most personalised recommendations by default.

Bangladesh’s healthcare sector has long grappled with severe structural limitations.

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.

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.

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

Like many people working close to technology, I believed AI would become the defining aspect for our generation.

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

A 55-year-old Florida pastor has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, alleging that medical advice provided by ChatGPT discouraged him from seeking urgent treatment and contributed to a near-fatal medical emergency. 

The United States and China plan to hold talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to a report by Reuters that cited people familar with the matter.