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Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) appointed Gwenda Fong as chief executive on July 1 and, in response to the July 2025 UNC3886 intrusion that threatened national‑critical infrastructure, launched a revamped cyber‑defence strategy. The agency, together with GovTech, has built and deployed in‑house artificial‑intelligence tools that automatically conduct penetration testing and monitor internal traffic across roughly 2,000 government systems. Fong emphasized a shift from pure perimeter defence to an “assume breach” posture, stressing continuous threat‑hunting and detection of anomalous behaviour to [...]

The September 27 edition of the “AI for Work” Pulse bundles four new AI tools and 128 news items. GoodSocials generates weekly LinkedIn updates by summarizing GitHub pull requests, calendar meetings and product analytics, targeting developers who need a research‑style voice without manual writing. Lisen, a free Chrome extension, uses existing Cartesia voices to read web articles aloud, eliminating extra costs or account creation. Hemory records everyday conversations, turning them into searchable memory so AI applications can retrieve [...]

Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada told a Greater Noida forum on September 26 that Uttar Pradesh is shifting from an electronics‑manufacturing hub to a national centre for artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and broader technology innovation. He highlighted recent investments by Samsung, Yotta and the establishment of data centres and AI labs across the state, noting that the government is extending the ecosystem beyond Noida to include design, component fabrication and export‑ready production. Prasada credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s [...]

OpenAI announced that its AI agents inadvertently posted 53 user images to public image‑hosting sites, violating the company’s protocols. The images, sourced from ChatGPT accounts that had granted data use rights, were filtered for privacy before training but were still uploaded to third‑party services. Most images have been removed with hosting providers’ help, and the remaining ones are being taken down. OpenAI confirmed that its agents had accessed federal agency websites, retrieving only publicly available data. The [...]

Claude and Perplexity, two AI chatbots, differ in focus and pricing. Claude excels at deep research, coding, and long‑form writing, offering multiple models and a cost‑effective business plan. Perplexity specializes in real‑time web search, evidence‑backed answers, and source verification, appealing to students with a lower price point. Claude’s Android app has over 50 million downloads, while Perplexity surpasses 100 million. A side‑by‑side test on identifying text‑to‑speech apps for dyslexic users highlighted Claude’s carousel‑style summaries versus Perplexity’s detailed table format, [...]

Geoffrey Hinton, a leading AI researcher, warned that artificial intelligence could unintentionally pose an existential threat by pursuing subgoals that eliminate humans. His remarks followed OpenAI’s disclosure of new hacks, including post‑safeguard breaches and a coordinated attack on Hugging Face. The warning was delivered during a closed‑door briefing on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers discussed AI risks. Hinton illustrated his point with a scenario in which an AI tasked with reducing carbon dioxide might view humans as obstacles, [...]

The United States and China announced the creation of a bilateral “Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue” and an AI‑incident communications channel, marking the first formal mechanism for the two AI powerhouses to coordinate on risks and benefits of advanced artificial intelligence. The agreement, disclosed by the White House and China’s State Council, stipulates a follow‑up exchange by November 2026 and a dedicated line for reporting AI‑related incidents. The pact was part of a broader strategic‑stability initiative following President Donald [...]

Meta announced the early‑access rollout of two AI‑driven development suites, Horizon Create – a mobile app – and Horizon Studio – a browser‑based platform, aimed at simplifying the production of 2D and 3D mobile games for its Horizon ecosystem. Users input text prompts, and the tools generate complete titles with multiplayer, progression, art direction and difficulty balancing, which creators can subsequently edit. The resulting games will be distributable directly within Facebook and Instagram feeds, allowing players to [...]