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Taiwan says AI agents helped hack its government in four days

Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. The island’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its National Institute of Cyber Security, disclosed that government agencies were targeted in July, with alerts going out from around 20 July. What makes the […]

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YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool

Interior design creator Cliff Tan has apologised to his 2.4 million YouTube subscribers for a paid advertisement for Dreamina, ByteDance’s AI creative tool. It is the second creator apology in a week, after Hank Green walked back his use of ChatGPT for research. An interior design creator with 2.4 million YouTube subscribers has apologised for […]

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rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership

Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboarding platform hosting providers use to set up WordPress sites. The plugin currently has just over 3,000 active installations, and arrives as AI Overviews cut click-through rates on top-ranking pages by 58%. A German marketing software company has bought […]

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Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models

Google has launched the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold with Gemini Intelligence acting across apps rather than sitting in a chatbot. It arrives weeks before Apple ships a Siri rebuilt on Google’s own models, and devices chief Rick Osterloh confirmed the memory shortage will push Pixel prices up. Google […]

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Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts

Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest growing product ever” and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. His post has been seen more than 1.5 million times. Google published the engagement […]

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Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and attention layers, with a one million token context window. The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The licence is the part that matters. […]

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Megadeals took 87.5% of US venture dollars, and the rest of the market is priced by vintage

PitchBook published its Q2 US VC Valuations report on 10 August. Megadeals took 87.5% of the dollars deployed in the first half of 2026. PitchBook defines those as rounds of $100m or more. AI is the primary driver of that concentration, though the figure describes deal size rather than sector. The AI premium is real […]

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Zoom fixed three bugs that let anyone on a call take over your machine

Zoom has patched three memory corruption flaws in its annotation feature that allowed any meeting participant to run code on another attendee’s device with no interaction. The fixes shipped in June and July 2026, roughly two months before the research was made public. Zoom has patched three flaws in the annotation tools used during screen […]

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Tencent’s AI compute bill outgrew its cash flow, and the fallback plan is becoming a landlord

Tencent reported second-quarter revenue of 204.8bn yuan ($30.4bn) on Wednesday, up 11% and ahead of forecasts. Net profit came in at 56bn yuan against the 61.8bn analysts expected, CNBC reports. Capital expenditure rose 176% on the year to 52.8bn yuan, about $7.8bn. Free cash flow swung to an outflow of 13.8bn yuan. Those four numbers […]

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ChatGPT and Gemini disagree on the best software in a third of categories, and the review sites have been skipped

GetIntel published its AI Software Index on Wednesday. The study asked roughly 80 buyer-phrased questions in each of 126 software categories, covering 1,825 brands. The questions went to the live ChatGPT and Gemini consumer apps rather than the developer APIs. That produced 9,978 usable answers, all collected on 6 August. The headline result is a […]

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