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Alibaba adds commercial restrictions to open-weight Qwen3.8-Max AI model

Alibaba Group Holding has made the core files of its latest flagship AI model Qwen3.8-Max free for anyone to download, as the tech giant introduces new rules requiring large companies to pay for a separate commercial licence to use it. The terms apply to users or their affiliates running a “model as a service” or “AI work assistant” business whose aggregate revenue exceeds US$50 million over any consecutive 12-month period. They are required to obtain a separate licence from Qwen before using...

How to Orchestrate a Fleet of OpenClaw Bots

Learn how to run OpenClaw bots for increased productivity The post How to Orchestrate a Fleet of OpenClaw Bots appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the "Microsoft Copilot" name but features an updated app icon. The single […]

Can social media start over? Bluesky’s CEO and COO deliver their case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider is joined by COO Rose Wang for a Disrupt Stage session on whether social media can start over and where Bluesky fits into that potential reboot.

Why This Prediction Market Banned Teens

Jacob Fortinsky, the CEO and cofounder of the new prediction market Novig, says his outfit isn’t like those other markets. You know the ones.

ChatGPT demande une passkey que je ne possède pas

View original post (click for more details) Translated post: Hello, My ChatGPT account was created using “Continue with Google” . I still have access to the Gmail address associated with the account and I can reset my password. However, after signing in: Continue with Google → asks for a passkey for openai.com Email + password → also asks for a passkey I never see “Try another method” . I have already checked: Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Private browsing Another computer iPad Windows Hello Google Password Manager iCloud Keychain No OpenAI passkey can be found. I do not have a Recovery Key, and I do not use Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or Authy. Important point: I have never used a physical security key (a USB device such as a YubiKey) with OpenAI. My questions: How can OpenAI ask for a passkey or security key when I have never registered a physical key? Can an OpenAI passkey be stored somewhere other than Windows Hello, Google Password Manager, or iCloud? Has anyone else encountered this problem? Thank you for your help

UX feedback: Chat and Codex projects make workspace context unclear

I am using the ChatGPT desktop app on Windows and created two separate projects for the same workstream: CHAT_plasticbox for planning, writing, and discussion CODEX_plasticbox for local files and technical work The distinction is useful, but the navigation is confusing: In ChatGPT view, both projects can appear together under Pinned. In Codex view, only the Codex/local project appears; the ChatGPT project disappears. The UI uses the same project and pin concepts in both areas, but their behavior is not symmetric or explained. When starting a new conversation from a ChatGPT project, it is not sufficiently clear whether the conversation will remain in that ChatGPT project or be created in the currently prominent Codex workspace. This makes it easy to lose track of where a conversation belongs, especially for users who intentionally separate creative/strategic work from technical/local-file work. Suggested improvements: Use clear visual labels or icons for ChatGPT projects vs. Codex local projects everywhere. Make the pinned-project behavior consistent across both views, or clearly state why a pinned project is unavailable in the other view. Add an explicit “New chat in CHAT_plasticbox” action inside a ChatGPT project, with the destination shown before creating it. Show a persistent workspace badge in every conversation header. The functionality may be intentional, but the current mental model is difficult to infer from the UI.

Donation support feature to financially contribute to OpenAI and ChatGpt's efforts

Feature suggestion: Please consider providing an optional donation/support channel for users who want to contribute financially beyond their normal ChatGPT subscription. Some users genuinely value ChatGPT and would be happy to make an additional voluntary contribution toward its continued development.

UAE traffic alert: Multiple crashes cause delays on Dubai-Sharjah routes

AIREV and Qualcomm to advance autonomous AI across enterprise and government environments

Kenya says cyber cafés won’t need to monitor users’ browsing history

Kenya’s Communications Authority (CA) has clarified new licencing rules for cyber cafés, saying operators will be required to keep basic customer and session records but will not have to track users’ browsing histories.

India turns tricolour as ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ celebrations begin

‘No movement’ in the monetisation of YouTube Shorts, says Shemaroo

Shemaroo Chief Operating Officer said during Q1FY27 earnings call that the needle of YouTube Shorts monetisation "has nearly not moved" amidst new announcement of revenue sharing qualification by the platform. The post ‘No movement’ in the monetisation of YouTube Shorts, says Shemaroo appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Engineering team culture matters more in the agentic era

As agents take on more of the actual coding, a team’s culture becomes the thing that decides whether agents deliver impactful work or just burn tokens. The standards people hold, the ownership they take, the questions they ask of a confident-looking change: agents amplify all of it, for better and for worse. Hand powerful tools to a team with weak habits and you get more bad work, faster. Ownership stays with people The single most important habit is refusing to let accountability blur. When an agent writes something, a person still owns it: understanding it, accepting it, and answering for it later. Teams that hold this line keep their standards intact as volume grows. Ownership is a cultural choice before it’s a process one. It shows up in whether an engineer feels responsible for an agent’s output the way they would for their own, and leaders set that tone by how they respond when agent-assisted work goes wrong. “The model did it” can’t be an acceptable answer. Reward the careful moments, and learn from them Make it safe, and even respected, to be slow in the places that warrant it. An engineer who pauses to dig into a confident-looking change and finds the flaw in it should be held up as doing the job well. What a team rewards is what it gets more of, and a careful pass that goes uncredited is the first thing to disappear under pressure. The teams that compound go one step further and turn those catches into shared knowledge. A confident-but-wrong output that one reviewe…

A tiny hard spot was Lucy Davis’ first sign of breast cancer. What else should you check for?

British actor Lucy Davis almost ignored the first sign of her breast cancer. Here’s what to look out for and when to get screened.

UAE students can meet global universities at education expo

Pakistan names first lunar rover ‘Jinnah-1’, set to explore Moon’s south pole in 2029

Jinnah-1: Pakistan’s first rover headed for the Moon

Where agentic work should start

The task an agent picks up starts somewhere messy: a message in a channel, a line in a planning doc, a bug buried in a customer thread. Most of the time it also builds on work the team already did. Turning that raw signal into a task an agent can act on, with the right context carried forward, is where most of the output quality is decided. This is context engineering: the work of shaping intent and context into something an agent can build against. For years it didn’t need designing. An engineer picked up a vague ticket and filled the gaps from experience: they knew the system, knew who to ask, and knew which unwritten constraints applied. The ambiguity got resolved quietly on the way to writing the code. An agent has none of that. It builds exactly what the task describes, and it fills gaps with guesses rather than judgment. Without the right context, code gets generated faster and productivity still takes a hit, because the wrong thing got built quickly. Ambiguous in, expensive out When a poorly formed task reaches an agent, the cost doesn’t show up right away. The agent produces something plausible, the work moves forward, and the mismatch between what was meant and what was built surfaces later, in review or after it ships. By then it’s more expensive to unwind than it would have been to specify correctly at the start. Across a team running many agents, vague work compounds faster than any reviewer can catch Context is a design problem, not a discipline problem If the f…

Grok Bot is not what you think

plus skills and tools to try with agents

Falcon frenzy descends on Riyadh

Falconry is an important part of Saudi sporting heritage — along with camel racing and horse racing — but its economic importance is increasing too.

DeepSeek Harness Opens the Agent Framework It Used to Benchmark Its Own Models

DeepSeek open-sources its agent harness framework under MIT, where every component from models to UI is a hot-swappable plugin

Inside the relationship of model Karlie Kloss and billionaire venture capitalist Josh Kushner, the power couple with unconventional ties to Trump

Josh Kushner and Karlie Kloss are connected to everyone from Taylor Swift to Donald Trump. Here's a look at their über-private relationship.

Romania shuts off second reactor at Cernavodă NPP amid low water levels on Danube

Nearly two-thirds of the Danube has seen flow rates that are the lowest on record for a month of July in 34 years, according to an analysis published on Monday by the European climate change observatory, Copernicus.

Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More

GeForce NOW is giving cloud gaming an extra-credit upgrade just in time for back-to-school season. The native Linux app for GeForce NOW is officially out of beta. GeForce NOW is also delivering new cloud optimizations that make Frame Generation feel even more responsive while streaming. On top of that, Performance members will see higher frame […]

Databricks acquires Electric to bring local Postgres databases to agentic apps

Databricks is acquiring Electric, a startup that brings WebAssembly-based Postgres databases into application environments, for an undisclosed sum, in an effort to provide developers a way to run data closer to AI agents as they build increasingly autonomous applications. While traditional applications typically rely on a centralized database to handle application data, agentic applications can involve multiple agents working independently for minutes or hours, performing numerous operations, creating the need to access a centralized database repeatedly. Databricks argues that those repeated trips could add undesired latency to the application, in turn creating a case for local, isolated databases where agents can work with data directly while still synchronizing with a central database to avoid latency issues. Electric’s PGLite and real-time data synchronization engine, Electric Sync, combined together, do just that by giving developers the option of running a local Postgres -compatible database for an agent while still synchronizing relevant data with a central database, the company wrote in a blog post . Post the acquisition, PGLite will complement Lakebase , Databricks’ at-scale Postgres database, it added. That combination of databases, it further added, will give developers a two-tier database architecture: PGlite can handle data locally within an application or agent environment, while Lakebase can serve as the centralized database for shared and persistent data. Data…

The latest AI-powered martech news and releases

Nielsen’s DoubleVerify deal helps verification as AI takes on more media decisions, raising new questions about trust and transparency. The post The latest AI-powered martech news and releases appeared first on MarTech .

Flock tightens guardrails aimed at stopping cops from abusing its license plate cameras

CEO Garrett Langley pushed back against a “misconception that we are some evil entity that has these diabolical plans.”

Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’

Surveillance tech company Flock is rolling out updates to address reports of cops across the country abusing its tools to stalk ex-romantic partners and others. CEO Garrett Langley is delivering a mea culpa, and in an interview with The Verge, says he's changed his mind on what responsibility Flock bears for how law enforcement uses […]

Nintendo’s next Fire Emblem has a bold new structure

Nintendo's first Fire Emblem game for the Switch 2 is structured in an ambitious way. Unlike the well-loved Three Houses, a strategy game that tasked you with pledging allegiance to a specific faction and seeing their story all the way to the end, the new Fortune's Weave lets you swap between four heroes and their […]

US-backed peace plan under scrutiny as Israel launches strike on Gaza

Overall, more than 1,250 people have been killed in the territory since October, when Washington unveiled a plan to end the Gaza war.

The AI debt hidden in faster marketing

Marketing can produce more with AI, but every new capability creates work to govern, integrate, measure, and maintain. That’s where AI debt builds. The post The AI debt hidden in faster marketing appeared first on MarTech .

The "remembered" feature, a concept after I was tired asking "hey got can you REMBER this" it forgets so easily

hey I’m currently using gpt to open this support page I just want to tell a new feature called “Remembered” storage section, it’s like when a user signs in or has been in a longe time, they ether get 250GB or 120GB depends on you and this was just my size reomendedbut for not signed in users they get around 4GB to 5GB of “Remembered” chat, they can open it in the settings or in the ui side bar, or custom way if you want to open it in a specific way, but the parts where they told gpt to “remember” it gets putted there, now for inactive users that hasn’t in there for days or years, you can send them a warning that they will get their remembered chat or account gets remove, you can give them how much days as it depends on you, but please make this as a feature, it would go great

Meeting recording missing from the new unified ChatGPT–Codex macOS app

Same here… It’s been almost a month sadly. Any news about this?

New commercial fraud regulations come into force in the UAE today

Diplomatic spats spread in East Asia as energy stress fuels tensions

North Korea fired a missile into the sea for the second time in a week over imminent US-South Korean military drills that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.

US clean energy investment surges 22% in second quarter

The results, published by the Clean Investment Monitor, were largely driven by residential battery storage installations.

Kuwait arrests woman for running illegal home clinic

EU experts on the ground in Ceuta amid fears of fresh migrant influx

A team of EU migration experts is in Ceuta for a “first-hand assessment” of the situation, as reports warn of a potential new migrant influx on 15 August. Brussels, however, says its focus remains on protecting the EU’s external border at all times, rather than on any “specific date”.

US power demand to hit new highs on data center buildout

The federal projections come after two years of record electricity demand peaks.

Oil prices sink despite Iran war stalemate

The industry’s outlook for global demand weakened, and the US showed signs of rebuilding its stocks.

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Why do women need 12 times their salary to buy a home, when men need only eight?

A consistent pay gap and more difficulties in saving for a deposit compared to men are some of the factors holding women back from home ownership.

Nielsen’s $2.15B DoubleVerify Bet Could Make it a Player, Not Just a Referee

A version of this story was originally published in AI, Tech & Money, a free, weekly newsletter packed with news and exclusive analysis on all things tech, platforms, and deals […]

Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan

Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat

Could China be a hedge against risk of AI investment boom going bust?

These are testing times for the artificial intelligence (AI) trade that has been driving global equity markets. No other investment theme comes close to rivalling the importance of the AI boom as the world’s largest technology companies spend vast sums of money on data centres, memory chips and computing power. At the same time, no other risk divides opinion more than the threat of a dramatic and sustained sell-off in AI-related stocks. According to the latest Bank of America global fund manager...

I visited the elite United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. An 8-minute ceremony gave me goosebumps.

The 90-minute tour brings visitors inside a sports complex, the world's largest dormitory, and the Naval Academy's landmark chapel.

Here’s the first martech category replaced by AI

CI tools are losing ground to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Here's why stale battlecards may be the bigger problem. The post Here’s the first martech category replaced by AI appeared first on MarTech .

Strikes on Black Sea ports threaten global grain supplies

The attacks come as both look to reassert dominance over the Black Sea, a key conduit for barley, corn, and wheat.

Firstcry reports Rs 2,106 Cr revenue and Rs 44 Cr loss in Q1 FY27

Brainbees Solutions, the parent company of kids-focused omnichannel retailer FirstCry, reported a modest 13% year-on-year growth in revenue in Q1 FY27, while the company continued to remain in the red despite narrowing its losses by 34% to Rs 44 crore during the quarter. FirstCry's revenue from operations grew to Rs 2,106 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 1,863 crore in Q1 FY26, its unaudited financial statements sourced from the National Stock Exchange (NSE) show. On a quarterly basis, the company’s revenue from operations continued to decline, falling 2.6% from Rs 2,163 crore in Q4 FY26, following an 11% decline in the previous quarter. India remained the company’s largest revenue contributor, with sales through offline stores and online channels, which accounted for 69% of total operating revenue and generated Rs 1,456 crore during the quarter. International operations contributed Rs 232 crore. Meanwhile, subsidiary GlobalBees added Rs 424 crore to the topline, while interest income stood at Rs 47 crore. Overall income for the quarter stood at Rs 2,153 crore. For the Pune-based company, material procurement remained the largest expense head, accounting for more than 61% of total expenditure during the quarter. The cost increased 37% year-on-year to Rs 1,337 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 976 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. Meanwhile, employee benefit expenses declined 10% to Rs 183 crore, largely due to a reduction in ESOP-related costs, which stood at Rs 30 crore during t…

Europe's economy shrivels as heatwave grips the continent

Romania is disconnecting its sole functioning nuclear reactor from the grid, a fifth of France’s nuclear capacity is offline, and tourism hotspots say visitor numbers are falling.