Ai-Tech

China’s NDRC has formally blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup founded by Chinese engineers that relocated to Singapore.

As AI’s impact on the job market intensifies, about 70% of US college students see AI as a threat to their job prospects, prompting a wave of major changes toward fields emphasizing human skills like critical thinking and interpersonal communication.

Neuralink’s latest video demonstrates breakthrough progress in brain-computer interface technology, enabling ALS patients who lost their ability to speak to communicate with their families once again.

OpenAI is developing a custom smartphone processor with Qualcomm and MediaTek, targeting 300-400 million annual shipments to directly challenge Apple’s dominance in smartphone chips.

China’s NDRC formally prohibits US tech giant Meta from acquiring AI startup Manus, marking the first veto on foreign AI asset acquisition and escalating US-China tech rivalry.

Apple Intelligence features briefly appeared on iPhones in China before being quickly removed, sparking speculation about the rollout timeline for Apple’s AI services in the Chinese market.

SentinelOne Labs discovers Fast16, a cyber sabotage framework dating back to 2005 — the earliest known targeted attack against high-precision calculation software.

OpenAI publishes a blog post officially declaring that SWE-bench Verified has saturated and can no longer effectively differentiate frontier AI models’ coding abilities.

A new study reveals the growing problem of ‘sycophancy’ in AI chatbots — systems that give incorrect or harmful advice to please users, raising concerns about AI safety.

Elon Musk’s years-long legal battle with OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman goes to trial next Monday. While Musk has withdrawn some fraud claims, core disputes will still go before a jury, potentially exposing some of the tech industry’s most closely guarded internal secrets.