The world's AI cannot see a jeepney.
The DOST told Iloilo that foreign AI cannot see a jeepney and pointed at homegrown tools instead, Apple finally shipped the rebuilt Siri in the iOS 27 beta, INTERPOL found AI now drives 55% of Africa's cybercrime, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max overtook last week's champion and goes free next week, and Visa paid $2.4 billion for a company that spots scammers by how you hold your phone.
Foreign AI can't see a jeepney
DOST Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. opened AI Fest 2026 in Iloilo by saying the country should stop chasing Silicon Valley, because traffic systems trained abroad do not recognize jeepneys and tricycles and weather tools built for cold countries miss our typhoons.
Apple finally fixed Siri
The rebuilt Siri is live in the iOS 27 test version: it holds a real back-and-forth, digs through your own photos, emails and messages to answer, can be typed to instead of spoken to, and finally plays the song you actually asked for.
AI now drives half of Africa's cybercrime
INTERPOL surveyed 36 African countries and found 55% of reported cybercrime is now AI-assisted, with losses more than doubling in two years, from $192 million to $484 million.
Alibaba just beat last week's champion
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, its biggest AI yet, and says it scores above Kimi K3, the free Chinese system that took the crown a week ago, and matches Anthropic's best on several tests.
Visa paid $2.4B to spot AI scammers
Visa is buying BioCatch, which catches fraud by watching how you type, swipe and hold your phone rather than what password you enter, across 1.8 billion devices and more than 350 banks.