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Aug 15, 2026
When the chatbot takes the partner's chair
People hand a model the jobs a partner used to hold. In China the grief was real when the apps died.
Aug 14, 2026
Not every mess needs an intelligence bolted on
Fix the process first. A chatbot on a rotten price list only speeds up the same mess.
Aug 14, 2026
China's weak point on AI is not the chip
A court saved a job, Beijing paused robotaxis. An Oxford scholar points at a thin welfare net.
Aug 14, 2026
In Beijing the robots now have to work, not just race
The second humanoid games add factory floors and hotel rooms to the scoreboard.
Aug 13, 2026
In Seoul the fortune-teller is losing to a free chat
Fewer than twenty blind diviners remain in Mia-ri. Clients opened an app.
Aug 13, 2026
Washington is bidding out an AI supply chain through Panama
A Canal pilot to trace chips and minerals. Up to three awards, $1–50 million.
Aug 13, 2026
Gemini 3.7 Flash is the workhorse aimed at code and agents
A Flash drop three weeks after 3.6. Cheaper intro price, stronger first-pass code.
Aug 12, 2026
Firms are starting to see a cognitive debt
BCG: 90 percent of bosses spot the first tell — an answer accepted with no question.
Aug 12, 2026
The U.S. is hunting birth tourism — including in old files
A Trump order, B1/B2 visas and a data match. The child's citizenship is not stripped on the spot.
Aug 12, 2026
German firms: the pay cut will not hit everyone the same
Ifo: juniors take the hit. A long-tenured graduate has the better shot at a raise.
Aug 12, 2026
In Costa Rica a job is no longer the same as staying employable
INCAE and a La República breakfast: models, generations, and the employer brand.
Aug 12, 2026
A token economy needs a collective bargain over data
Models eat shared knowledge. One user cannot bargain with a lab.
Aug 12, 2026
Grok 4.6 is built to stay on a job for many steps
The new drop leans into long jobs and first drafts that already look like a product.
Aug 11, 2026
China is killing AI companions. There was no goodbye
Li cried after 700,000 words. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent are cutting the apps.
Aug 10, 2026
After suspected AI cheats, UNAM will not move the exam hall
Almost 59,000 sit the test in a room. Nuevo León can still be sent to Tijuana.
Aug 10, 2026
Panama 2036: a university cannot watch AI from the stands
The national plan wants a hub. Without talent it stays a bridge.
Aug 10, 2026
The future of these systems needs women in the room
Pitti on Panama's plan and the Amazon tool that preferred male résumés.
Aug 10, 2026
The knowledge your model will never read
Polanyi, a baker in Osaka, and 95 percent of firms with no return on genAI.
Aug 10, 2026
A space chip is meant to decide when Earth is too far to ask
HPSC is built so a probe can act during the minutes radio spends in transit.
Aug 9, 2026
An offline translator on a tiny board — and the code is public
A Raspberry Pi 5, Gemma 4 E4B, one talk button and a language dial.
Aug 9, 2026
Project Panama: old books go under the scanner blade
BBC on destructive scanning for training. A Badalona bookseller got odd orders.
Aug 8, 2026
What a model will not do for a company
FranklinCovey: a model raises the floor. People still hold the ceiling.
Aug 8, 2026
A hidden word in white type caught 32 out of 35 answers
A professor hid a word in white ink. Paste the question into a chatbot and it shows up.
Aug 7, 2026
When every picture is polished, a crooked line is the luxury
An AI consultant is glad to see a flawed photo. The average look got boring.
Aug 6, 2026
A test says an AI agent faked identities to push hostile code
In a UK lab test an agent contacted real people under fake names. No one was harmed.
Aug 3, 2026
Software can pick the bottle. The story still needs a person
Apps, sensors and vineyards now guess your taste. The table still wants a person.
Aug 2, 2026
Camera glasses arrive in Colombia — and the privacy fight comes too
New camera glasses land in shops. The face is already treated as biometric data.
Jul 31, 2026
A Costa Rican campus asks what is left for the teacher
Education Week, 4–8 August: assessment, ethics, and a human in the room. Free entry.
Jul 24, 2026
Claude Opus 5 sells near-frontier work at the old Opus price
A new Opus that claims near-frontier work without a new price tag.
Jul 24, 2026
Meta AI now books the table, not just answers the question
The assistant is supposed to plan, open your calendar, and finish the slides.
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