A new study suggests that some AI models become far less willing to recommend a nuclear strike when they reason in Japanese instead of English, revealing that the language an AI ‘thinks’ in can intimately influence its moral judgment – apparently due to innate cultural embeddings. New research from France suggests that Japan’s collective memory…
Future-proofing online exams amid rising demand and tightening privacy laws. The global online exam software market, valued at $9.4b in 2025, is expected to reach $28.7b by 2034, as training providers, professional bodies and educational institutions increasingly shift assessments online. The popularity of online exams is easy to understand, as educational institutions are managing funding…
The World Cup recently wrapped, and for fans, the excitement of a month’s worth of matches is still fresh. For cybercriminals, it meant something else: an open window of opportunity, and one worth looking back on now that the games are behind us. The 2026 tournament was the largest World Cup to date, with 48…
OpenAI on August 18, 2026 launched ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated version of its chatbot that automatically applies to users aged 13 to 17 (and to anyone its age-prediction system estimates is under 18), combining default safety protections with a set of learning tools built around Study Mode. The experience, described in OpenAI’s announcement, differs…
Progress in science, like all major human achievements, accelerated through collaboration. In 1665, Philosophical Transactions was founded in London, becoming the world’s first scientific journal. It established a principle that changed everything: claims should be evaluated by a community, not merely asserted by an individual. Scientific reasoning paired with open collaboration allowed knowledge to compound…
LG Electronics hosted senior NVIDIA officials at its new robot Data Factory in Seoul on August 18, 2026, announcing an accelerated robotics collaboration built around a target of 100,000 hours of robot training data by year’s end. The meeting came four days after LG Group and NVIDIA signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation…
Estonian skin-analysis vendor Haut.AI is moving from a 24-store experiment to a national retail deployment. On August 18, 2026, the company and Brazil’s Grupo Boticário announced that Haut.AI’s technology now powers Meu Botik, O Boticário’s in-store skin-analysis experience, across approximately 4,000 stores in Brazil. The expansion follows a pilot in which the AI-guided consultation lifted…
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate topped $65 billion at the end of July 2026, Bloomberg reported on August 17, 2026 — a figure Reuters separately attributed to a person familiar with the matter. The number is up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of 2025, and it lands as the…
The Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone has secured a £300 million financing package to expand its data center capacity, with the UK’s National Wealth Fund providing a £202 million guarantee to unlock the lending, the Cabinet Office announced on August 18, 2026. Dell Technologies will separately establish its Scottish base at the zone’s AI Innovation Park….
Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and…