
Technology & AI · Oct 14, 2026
Alibaba’s Qwen team has made Qwen‑Image‑2.1 available as hosted Pro and Turbo APIs on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio and released the Turbo checkpoint to open repositories. The Turbo variant completes synthesis in eight denoising steps, lowering inference cost and latency for developers inside and outside China.

World News · Oct 14, 2026
The Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Anticipation Summit opens in Geneva on October 14, bringing scientists, diplomats and private sector leaders to discuss how to prepare policy for near term scientific breakthroughs in AI, biosecurity and climate technologies.

Upcoming Movies and Series · Oct 13, 2026
The Busan International Film Festival passed the 50,000 attendee mark in its opening week and the Asian Contents and Film Market concluded on October 13. Organizers are set to announce winners of the new Busan Awards, a change that gives the festival fresh influence over which Asian films will gain international sales and awards-season positioning.

Technology & AI · Oct 11, 2026
Apper Digital Inc has been promoted to the Select tier of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, becoming the first Philippine company to reach that level. The elevation gives local enterprises a vetted integrator for Claude deployments and signals growing enterprise AI demand in the Philippines.

Social Media News · Oct 9, 2026
A national study led by the University of Adelaide and partners found 35 percent of young Australians who experienced online sexual victimisation either kept silent or disclosed to an AI chatbot. The finding has prompted the Australian Federal Police to call for stronger nonpolice safety nets for children online.

Technology & AI · Oct 9, 2026
Publishers in Japan have complained this week after reports that AI developers have been buying large volumes of secondhand books in the country to build training corpora, a development that puts fresh pressure on Tokyo's recently published principle code asking generative AI providers to disclose training data and collection methods.

Technology & AI · Oct 8, 2026
The Intellectual Property Department ran a half day course on generative AI and intellectual property on October 8, part of a wider push by Hong Kong authorities to equip businesses and lawyers to manage AI risks as the city builds governance and commercial capacity.

Technology & AI · Oct 7, 2026
French AI company Mistral has unveiled Large 4, a trillion-parameter multimodal model aimed at strengthening Europe’s position in the global artificial intelligence race while giving organisations greater control through an open-weight approach.

Social Media News · Oct 5, 2026
The eSafety Commissioner today announced a package of fresh enforcement guidance and grant funding aimed at stopping AI generated sexualised images and helping platforms and communities prevent image based abuse targeting children and young people.

Technology & AI · Oct 3, 2026
Toshiba has brought new nearline hard disk drive lines online at its Laguna, Philippines campus and is investing roughly JPY 60 billion to nearly double its storage output by fiscal 2027, a move aimed at meeting rapid growth in AI and cloud data centre storage needs.

Bollywood · Oct 2, 2026
The Bombay High Court has ordered major platforms to remove AI generated deepfakes and other unauthorised content using Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s name, image and voice, in a ruling that strengthens celebrity personality rights against synthetic media.

Technology & AI · Oct 2, 2026
Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and AIST are convening the second AI Safety Symposium and publishing research outcomes as Tokyo accelerates efforts to create operational safety benchmarks, guidelines and evaluation tools for generative and physical AI.

Technology & AI · Oct 2, 2026
Speaking in New Delhi, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said technology and AI can help courts manage caseloads and improve access to justice, but stressed that judicial decision making must remain with human judges. The remarks reinforce India’s human centric approach to integrating AI in courts amid concerns about fabricated citations and algorithmic accountability.

Technology & AI · Sep 27, 2026
Beijing said it and Washington will set up a dedicated communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents and launch a regular China U.S. AI dialogue, a step Beijing framed as cooperation on managing AI risks while protecting national interests.

Technology & AI · Sep 26, 2026
During Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington, China and the United States committed to a formal AI dialogue and a notification mechanism for AI incidents. For Beijing the move is both a diplomatic opening and a lever to protect Chinese AI industrial ambitions and regulatory priorities.