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Repsol hired Designit to create a company-wide playbook for how employees should experience generative AI. The result, described by Designit as a human‑centered foundation spanning tools from Microsoft Teams to embedded platforms, aims to replace scattered pilots with a single, consistent approach to AI at work (Designit). That move is less about models and more […]
On August 17, 2026, The Guardian reported that a report used to support Australia’s proposed teen social media ban contained links to academic articles that do not exist, raising concerns of Australia AI hallucinations in the evidence base. The authors denied that any references were generated by AI, according to The Guardian’s account of the […]
August 6, 2026, Meta told a federal judge it should be immune from a lawsuit over scam ads that funneled victims into WhatsApp groups, where impostors pushed penny stocks. The case turns on Section 230 and whether platforms bear responsibility when their own ad and AI tools help create the bait. Ten days later, The […]
On August 15, 2026, a familiar Singapore debate lands in Hong Lim Park. The Maju For The People rally convenes days after officials said more greenery would be kept at Sunset Way and Gillman Barracks, with a warning that this means fewer homes. That framing — trade trees for flats — is fast becoming the […]
On August 13, 2026, BBC Technology reported that Bumble is dropping its signature women-first messaging rule, a move that has split users and raised big product questions (BBC Technology). The rule defined the brand for years. Taking it away reshapes how Bumble competes and how conversations start. What ending the Bumble women-first rule changes The […]
On August 12, 2026, The Guardian reported that experts say autonomous systems aren’t legally responsible for harm; humans are. The piece, prompted by Australia’s first reported automated hacking accident, argues that deployers — and possibly developers — could face the bill when a bot goes off-script. That makes AI agent liability more than a theory. […]
On August 12, 2026, MegazoneCloud was named the first system integration partner in Korea for Amazon Quick, AWS’s new workplace assistant, a move that positions integration—more than model prowess—as the real battleground for agentic AI. The company says it has 120 certified generative AI professionals ready to deploy the tool for large enterprises, security-heavy environments, […]
The News Literacy Project offers a free, classroom-ready bundle of AI lessons, quizzes, and slides built for teachers under time pressure. Its mix of quick prompts and deeper explorations makes these AI classroom resources practical to use tomorrow, not someday, and they’re written in plain language students can grasp. What’s in the News Literacy Project’s […]
On March 24, 2026, Google Research introduced TurboQuant, a family of quantization techniques it says can deliver extreme compression for large language models and vector search. The headline feature isn’t just smaller numbers. It’s a bid to remove the hidden tax of the key–value cache and the overhead that slows classic vector quantization, according to […]
