When Eric Lauer needs to hire at Giftory, the online gift-giving platform he runs, he's no longer looking for eager young coders fresh out of college.

A model released on July 17 by Chinese startup Moonshot AI has fuelled buzz around the country's tech prowess, as experts said it could rival some of the more advanced offerings from US labs.

JAKARTA: Five Asean member states, including Malaysia and Indonesia, joined hands with 24 other countries to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO), an intergovernmental body that aims to strengthen international cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI).

Alphabet Inc's Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter.

Researchers in Sweden and Hong Kong say students may experience a deceptive sense of fluency – AI makes tasks feel effortless.

The European Union demanded on July 16 that Google share data with other search engines and open up its Android system to rival AI services, but the US giant said the measures would put privacy at risk.

Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of President Donald Trump or Britain's King Charles III, and Anthropic's chatbot would oblige. Prompted to do the same for Thailand's king, Saudi Arabia's crown prince or China's leader, and the artificial intelligence model declined.

KUALA LUMPUR: Talent development and AI readiness for professionals topped the agenda during talks between the government and Balai Ikhtisas Malaysia (BIM), also known as the Malaysian Professional Centre.

The Malaysia Advertisers Association (MAA), with the support of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), is backing the inaugural Festival of Marketing Asia, recognising the event as an important platform for advancing marketing excellence, leadership and innovation across the region.

A UK court on July 16 jailed two young men for a 2024 cyberattack on London's public transport operator that exposed the details of millions of customers, in one of Britain's biggest data breaches.