More than 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and tech leaders from over 30 countries gathered in Skopje, Macedonia for the inaugural Startup AI Revolution Summit, a four-day event that organizers and attendees hailed as a turning point for the Balkan startup ecosystem. Organized by Startup Club Skopje under the leadership of Sasho Jovanovski, the summit featured more … Read more
The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), in partnership with the governments of the United Kingdom and Switzerland, has launched a new phase of regional collaboration aimed at accelerating green and inclusive economic growth across the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The initiative, implemented through Accelerate Prosperity — An AKDN Initiative, seeks to expand climate-smart innovation and … Read more
A few months after launching its Qwen3-VL multimodal AI suite, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report showing the system outperforming leading commercial models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1, in a range of visual math, document comprehension and long-video analysis benchmarks. The findings highlight significant advances in open-source … Read more
U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 billion online on Black Friday 2025, according to final figures released by Adobe Analytics — marking a 9.1% jump from last year and cementing Black Friday as the strongest digital shopping day in American retail history. The surge reflects a dramatic shift in consumer behavior as shoppers continue to … Read more
Social media giants including Meta and TikTok will face direct liability for financial scams under a new set of rules agreed to by European Union lawmakers early Thursday. After eight hours of negotiations, the European Parliament and Council struck a deal aimed at strengthening protections against payment fraud and expanding regulatory exposure for major U.S. … Read more
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a study Wednesday showing that artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, representing roughly $1.2 trillion in wages across finance, health care and professional services. According to CNBC, the findings are based on the Iceberg Index, a labor simulation tool built by MIT and Oak … Read more
The Performance Learning Award 2025, organized by Youm Technology Japan Co., Ltd., opened Wednesday at the Hilton Tokyo with an address by Dongshuo Li, founder, CEO and president of UMU. The event showcased case studies from award-winning companies and highlighted the growing influence of artificial intelligence in human resource development. Judges evaluated submissions from organizations … Read more
China is aggressively integrating artificial intelligence and robotics into its manufacturing backbone, using AI-powered dark factory, and “factory brains” to coordinate assembly lines and logistics. Massive government and private investments are driving the country’s industrial upgrade, helping it maintain a competitive edge even as labor costs rise and trade tensions simmer. Companies such as Midea … Read more
Bitcoin slumped to a seven-month low, nearing the critical $80,000 mark amid a broader retreat from risk assets driven by fears over stretched tech valuations and doubts about the timing of U.S. interest rate cuts. The world’s largest cryptocurrency dropped to $80,553 while ether sank to a four-month low, extending a weeklong slide that has … Read more
Pornhub’s parent company is pushing major technology companies to adopt device-level age verification systems, arguing that it is a more effective and privacy-preserving solution for keeping minors away from adult content. According to VIRED, Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, recently sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging them to support age authentication at … Read more
Following the rapid growth in use of artificial intelligence Uber announced a partnership Thursday with Starship Technologies to deploy autonomous sidewalk robots for Uber Eats food deliveries. The AI-powered robots will handle short-distance orders of up to 2 miles, aiming to complete them in under 30 minutes. The service launches in Leeds, United Kingdom, next … Read more
Google has released Gemini 3, its most advanced foundation model to date, positioning the system as a major leap in reasoning, coding assistance and real-world task handling. The launch comes just seven months after Gemini 2.5 and arrives amid rapid competition across the AI industry, following recent releases from OpenAI and Anthropic. The model is … Read more
A network issue at web security business Cloudflare has disrupted internet traffic and taken down sites such as Zoom, X, ChatGpt, Upwork, Fiverr and many other websites and Apps for users in several countries. What is Cloudflare Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure company that provides services to make websites and applications faster, more secure, and more … Read more
Chinese popular messaging and payment app, WeChat will begin supporting virtual payments across its Mini Programs on iOS, following Apple’s decision to reduce its commission rate to 15%. The update ends years of limitations that prevented developers from offering virtual goods and services through WeChat’s iOS ecosystem. Apple’s shift comes through its newly launched Mini … Read more
Three Chinese astronauts remain stranded aboard the Tiangong space station after damage to a return capsule forced a sudden change in mission plans, leaving the crew without a fully functional lifeboat. The issue surfaced last week when astronauts discovered that Shenzhou 20 — one of the two return vehicles docked at the station — had … Read more
Disney and YouTube TV have reached a deal to end a two-week blackout that removed major Disney-owned channels from the streaming service, both companies said Friday. The agreement restores ABC, ESPN, FX and other Disney networks to YouTube TV. As part of the deal, ESPN’s new direct-to-consumer streaming service will be included on YouTube TV … Read more