Google has released Lyria 3.5, an updated music generation model, now accessible in the Gemini app and API. The model enhances vocal expression and musical complexity for higher-quality track creation.
Google’s Finance Engineering team automated Spanner migrations using Antigravity CLI to refactor dual-write logic across dozens of DAOs without downtime, reducing manual effort and maintaining data parity.
Google Translate has introduced background audio translation support for Android and earpiece mode for iOS, enhancing hands-free use during longer or noisy sessions.
Google Cloud benchmarking shows TPU v6e performance varies sharply between classification and generation workloads, with model size and concurrency shaping throughput and latency ceilings.
A 2026 survey of over 600 Middle Eastern financial institutions reveals rapid progress in digital asset adoption, with 28.3% already in production—nearly double the global average—and 95.7% committed to funding by 2026.
ASUS Republic of Gamers marked its 20th anniversary at Gamescom 2026 with a dedicated booth featuring anniversary products, esports gear, and community events, including a new OLED monitor selected for a major...
The Federal Reserve terminated enforcement actions against United Texas Bank and Quontic Bank entities, effective September 2, 2026, signaling compliance progress.
Exodus blends classic action-RPG mechanics with a surreal sci-fi narrative, featuring talking animals, celestial powers, and a morality system that allows deep character customization.
ASUS broadens its AI infrastructure ecosystem through partnerships with Intel, AMD, and others, introducing new servers and edge devices designed for diverse AI workloads and real-world deployment.
Nuvei will pay $30 million to settle FTC charges for facilitating fraudulent tech support and other scams by processing payments for banned merchants, including Reimage, from 2017 to 2023.
The World Health Organization reports three recent attacks on its medical supply warehouses in Ukraine, disrupting critical aid delivery to frontline and hard-to-reach areas amid ongoing conflict.
The United Nations launched a $49.6 million appeal to assist over 84,000 people in Nepal affected by catastrophic floods triggered by a glacier collapse, which killed more than 1,250 and displaced thousands.
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution urging governments and institutions to use map projections that accurately represent continental sizes, criticizing the long-standing Mercator projection for distorting...
A UN human rights report accuses Israel of forcibly displacing over 33,000 Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps in early 2024, destroying homes and infrastructure, and blocking returns in violation of...
ASUS announced at AI Tech 2026 an integrated AI infrastructure platform designed to support end-to-end AI factory operations, emphasizing governance, performance, and operational resilience across the AI lifecycle.
Amazon SageMaker AI Batch Transform now supports EC2 G6e instances, powered by NVIDIA L40S GPUs and AMD EPYC processors, for offline inference workloads such as large language and diffusion models.
Microsoft integrates OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra into Azure Foundry, positioning it as a production-ready AI agent for enterprise workflows with embedded security and access controls.
Soumya Dabriwal co-founded Project Baala in 2017 to address menstrual hygiene and education gaps in India, training 4,500 local leaders and reaching 1.8 million women and girls. The initiative is supported by Samsung’s...
Solana’s ecosystem expanded in August 2026 with new payment rails, tokenized assets, and DeFi innovations, while network performance improved significantly.
Hyundai’s Singapore innovation center runs a fully automated indoor farm using robotics and AI, donating part of its harvest to local families facing food insecurity through a partnership with The Food Bank Singapore.
The Food Standards Agency has published the agenda and papers for its September 2026 Board meeting in Swansea, scheduled for 16 September and open to the public.
The Charity Commission criticised former trustees of Coventry City of Culture Trust for financial mismanagement, including inadequate oversight and failure to report risks, leading to the charity’s removal from the...
Hyundai Motor Group and Oman’s Ministry of Transport signed an MOU to support Oman Vision 2040 through smart city development and green mobility initiatives, including a hydrogen bus pilot and EV charging deployment.
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region, offering improved performance for compute-intensive workloads.
NVIDIA will acquire Hugging Face to expand open AI model access while preserving platform neutrality, ensuring developers retain choice across tools and infrastructure.
The SEC proposed rescinding its 2010 pay-to-play rule for investment advisers, citing operational challenges and unintended consequences, while maintaining other regulatory requirements.
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, expanding access to high-performance AI training and inference capabilities.
Microsoft introduces MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model surpassing competitors in speed, accuracy, and cost efficiency, with new features like diarization and word-level timestamps.
Google launched the free Google AI Educator Series to help teachers integrate AI tools into classrooms through bite-sized training and monthly modules, culminating in a virtual Badge-a-thon on September 19.
Xbox will introduce monthly hour limits for cloud gaming included with Game Pass starting in November, with additional playtime purchasable via the Xbox Store.