Category: AI Around The World
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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 release drew most of the early WAIC 2026 headlines, but the hardware floor at Shanghai’s World Expo Exhibition Hall tells a different half of the same story. KEENON Robotics, the world’s top-shipping commercial service robot maker, is running live demonstrations of humanoid robots folding laundry alongside its delivery bots. Lens Technology,…
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to unveil a new “Office of AI” in a major address in Sydney today, establishing a coordinating body inside the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to manage AI standards development across the entire federal government. The move, confirmed by Reuters ahead of the speech, marks Australia’s most…
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SoftBank Corp, Japan’s major telecom operator, announced a strategic partnership this week to expand Sierra’s AI powered customer support across its operations, building on an existing integration already live inside SoftBank’s LINEMO mobile brand. The deal is the latest and most concrete step in a courtship that’s been building for over a year: Sierra, the…
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More than 9,000 attendees packed into the Carrousel du Louvre on July 8 and 9 for the RAISE Summit, and the conversations inside skipped past the demo and hype phase that’s defined so many AI conferences over the past two years. The event opened with a video address from French President Emmanuel Macron, followed by…
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Nigeria has emerged as Africa’s highest-ranked country in the 2026 Global Index on Responsible AI, placing 38th out of 135 countries with an overall score of 45.93 out of 100. The ranking, published by the Global Center on AI Governance, is the second edition of an index that measures not just whether countries have adopted…
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Generative AI is set to touch the working lives of nearly 80 million people across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, according to a new International Labour Organization study released this week, but the report’s central finding cuts against the more alarmist predictions that have circulated around AI and employment. According to ILO estimates for…