AI Becomes A Weapon as Cyberattacks Jump 18% Globally In 2025

AI Becomes A Weapon as Cyberattacks Jump 18% Globally In 2025

A financial officer at a Singaporean multinational company transferred $5,00,000 to scammers in 2025 during a deepfake video call with what appeared to be company executives, according to cybersecurity firm Tookitaki. Singapore police reported it as one of the most convincing cases of AI-powered impersonation seen to date. The incident followed a similar attack in…

AI Made A Record Play During Super Bowl LIX

AI Made A Record Play During Super Bowl LIX

Putting aside Bad Bunny’s halftime show, AI companies stole the spotlight on Super Bowl Sunday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Salesforce, Meta, Amazon-owned Ring and a smaller company called Genspark.ai all used Super Bowl spots to promote their products as AI tools meant to help boost productivity and inspiration – rather than replace, annoy or deceive. “A lot…

Nepal: World Bank OKs $50M Digital Transformation Plan

Nepal: World Bank OKs $50M Digital Transformation Plan

WASHINGTON, February 9, 2026 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved $50 million in financing to boost Nepal’s digital public infrastructure and digitize public services, fundamentally changing how services are delivered to the people. The Nepal Digital Transformation Project will invest in digital platforms including an integrated online citizen service portal and…

Razer CEO dislikes ‘GenAI Slop’ but believes ‘AI is a tool to help game developers’

Razer CEO dislikes ‘GenAI Slop’ but believes ‘AI is a tool to help game developers’

TL;DR: Razer is investing over $600 million in AI to enhance game development, focusing on tools that support creativity rather than replace it. Their initiatives include AI-assisted quality assurance, automation, and innovative hardware like the Project AVA virtual assistant and Project Motoko AI headset, aiming to improve gaming immersion. In a new post tagged ‘the…

Google’s “Learn Your Way” is Set to Redefine Education and Challenge the AI “Dumbing Down” Narrative

Google’s “Learn Your Way” is Set to Redefine Education and Challenge the AI “Dumbing Down” Narrative

Generative AI is often villainised as something that will dumb people down. But new tools from AI companies are doing just the opposite, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi The 1990s were an exciting time to be a teenager. New studies and advances in learning were teaching us, kids, how to learn better. One of the key…

Amazon explores AI content marketplace for publishers: Report

Amazon explores AI content marketplace for publishers: Report

Amazon, the e-commerce and cloud computing giant, is exploring the launch of a marketplace where publishers could license content to AI companies, The Information reported Monday. Internal documents circulated ahead of an Amazon Web Services conference on Tuesday position the new marketplace alongside the company’s flagship AI offerings, including Bedrock and Quick Suite, as tools…

New AI tools tank software stocks | Information Age

New AI tools tank software stocks | Information Age

Shares in numerous software companies have dropped after artificial intelligence firm Anthropic released new agentic AI tools, leaving some investors worried about the future of traditional software-as-a-service (SaaS) firms. The S&P 500 software and services index lost around 8 per cent of its value last week, and has shed around $US1 trillion ($1.4 trillion) since…