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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Singapore’s AI Rise Takes Spotlight at Tech in Asia Conference as Funding Hits $9.3 Billion

The 15th Tech in Asia Conference in Singapore focused on the region’s accelerating shift toward enterprise AI adoption.

Singapore’s AI funding lead comes as Southeast Asian businesses increasingly move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale, a shift reflected at the 15th Tech in Asia Conference in Singapore.

AI Flags Potential GLP-1 Symptoms in 400,000 Reddit Posts: Pennsylvania Study

A person uses an injection pen to administer a GLP-1 medication into the thigh. The image is illustrative and does not depict a specific drug or individual.

Researchers examined more than five years of Reddit posts involving nearly 70,000 users discussing semaglutide and tirzepatide and found reports of menstrual changes and temperature-related symptoms among the main classes of symptoms identified.

Xi Jinping Unveils BRICS AI Open-Source Community to Challenge US Tech Dominance

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, where he proposed establishing a BRICS AI open-source community.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has proposed establishing a BRICS AI open-source community to promote cooperation on large language models, AI training and applications, as Beijing seeks a greater role in shaping the Global South’s artificial intelligence ecosystem

AI Could Make the Economy Much Richer and Cognitive Workers Much Poorer by 2030

Anthropic’s economic scenarios suggest AI could dramatically increase GDP by 2030 while putting significant pressure on cognitive jobs.

Anthropic’s new study finds AI could dramatically boost economic output by 2030 while disproportionately hurting cognitive workers, with its extreme scenario projecting 32% higher GDP and 17.9% unemployment among cognitive workers.

Dubai Targets Agentic AI Adoption with Training for Over 14,000 Firms

Dubai Chambers has launched Agentic AI training for more than 14,000 member companies as part of a programme to accelerate AI adoption across Dubai’s private sector.

The programme is part of Dubai’s broader effort to transition the private sector towards Agentic AI, with training delivered through Dubai Chambers Academy to help businesses apply the technology and create sustainable value.

UK AI Politics Heats Up Over Frontier Model Access, Superintelligence Ban Bill

The UK House of Commons, where Labour MP Alex Sobel introduced the Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill seeking to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI in the UK.

Anthropic’s decision not to give the UK AI Security Institute pre-release access to Claude Mythos 5.1 has intensified concerns over Britain’s role in frontier AI safety, as MP Alex Sobel introduces a bill seeking to prohibit the development of superintelligent AI in the UK.

Anthropic Researcher Quits Warning AI Could Kill Humanity; His Alignment Lead Agrees

Illustration representing concerns over AI safety, self-improving artificial intelligence and the potential risks of superintelligence.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has resigned over concerns that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safeguards. Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger backed Coxon’s warning that AI could kill all humans and said he personally puts the risk above 10% within the next decade.

“Would Meaningful Work Still Exist?” AI Job Losses Fuel Tension on Labor Day in Church, Senate & Silicon Valley

As US Labour Day 2026 marks 162,000 August jobs added, a Cardinal, Bernie Sanders and David Sacks clash over AI's toll on young and entry-level workers.

On Labor Day, as Cardinal Robert McElroy asked congregants at Washington’s St Matthew’s Cathedral whether meaningful work can survive the AI age, the question found an uneasy echo across America — from union marches to a public spat between Senator Bernie Sanders and White House adviser David Sacks.

Seattle Times and Newsday File Lawsuit Against OpenAI, Microsoft over AI Copyright Use

The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement over the use of news content in AI models.

Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies copied copyrighted and paywalled journalism to train and operate AI models.

K2 Horizon: Institute of Foundation Models Launches 6 Fully Open AI Models

The K2 Horizon family includes six AI models ranging from 0.9 billion to 375 billion parameters.

IFM said the K2 Horizon models target reasoning, mathematics, coding and agentic tasks, with the 0.9B, 3.7B and 7B models achieving state-of-the-art results in their respective size classes.