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37 briefsYour boss is not paying for the AI you use at work.
A Philippine survey finds 42% of staff who use AI at work pay for it themselves, three hikers who planned a Mount Shasta climb with Gemini had to be rescued, and a blacklisted Chinese firm's US arm shipped $5.6 billion of technology to Southeast Asia.
Read the brief →September 6, 2026A Kenyan wrote 2,500 college essays. Then ChatGPT arrived.
AI has all but wiped out Kenya's college essay writing trade, Moody's cut its Philippine growth forecast to 3% and said the country is missing the AI boom, and a US judge refused Elon Musk's xAI an order pausing Minnesota's nudification ban.
Read the brief →September 5, 2026Enrolled in college here? Google's paid AI is free for a year.
Google is giving Filipino college students a free year of AI Plus, a study found Google's AI Mode lists the same products 21.6% higher than ordinary search, and Claude wrote the first computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Read the brief →September 4, 2026A Manila professor built a scam checker for your text messages.
A Manila professor's website grades your suspicious texts, ChatGPT and Claude went down within hours of each other, and Nvidia confirmed a $12.93 billion deal for Hugging Face.
Read the brief →September 2, 2026The earpiece in that viral trial photo was never there.
A Philippine impeachment court says a viral earpiece photo was AI-generated, XPENG raises $900 million for a human-shaped robot, and Claude starts hiding an invisible watermark in everything it writes.
Read the brief →September 1, 2026ChatGPT's ads hit a $1 billion a year pace in under 200 days.
OpenAI says ChatGPT's ads now run at a billion dollars a year, an AI reads a routine ECG and spots heart disease in two seconds, and groups in Davao warn the Pax Silica AI hub will leave the Philippines selling minerals and labour.
Read the brief →August 31, 2026A Filipina's AI reads crumpled payslips. It says lenders sent $130 million.
A Filipina founder's AI reads crumpled payslips for lenders and has handled $130 million in loans, AI card counters are eating into Asian casino margins, and a $7 phone clip from KAIST spots hidden cameras 94% of the time.
Read the brief →August 30, 2026Meta agreed to unmask the accounts behind threats to Filipino kids.
Meta promised Philippine officials it will pull AI deepfakes faster and share account data on flagged threats, Rockstar said no generative AI went into GTA 6, and South Korea picked three companies to give every citizen a free AI.
Read the brief →August 29, 2026Microsoft just promised AI to one million Filipino teachers.
Microsoft committed Copilot access to 1 million Filipino public school teachers, all four Filipino teens medalled at their first AI Olympiad, and Roblox agreed to fold the National ID into how it verifies users.
Read the brief →August 25, 2026P1 billion just went into an AI that sees the flood coming.
The budget department put P1 billion into Project NOAH's AI flood forecasting, Amazon raised device prices by as much as 60% on the AI-driven memory shortage, and Maya cut account verification time by 84% by wiring in the National ID.
Read the brief →August 24, 2026A computer fired the drivers. The fine is $966 million.
A Dutch regulator fined Uber 825 million euros for letting an automated process deactivate drivers without human review, Roblox began guessing children's ages from their faces, and the World Bank scored the Philippines lowest in ASEAN on cybersecurity and online safety.
Read the brief →August 18, 2026A 50-megawatt AI project just died in a barangay hall.
A Norwegian firm withdrew its 50-megawatt AI data center proposal in Oton, Iloilo three days after residents rejected it, a Sainsbury's face scanner had an innocent shopper walked out of the store, and 404 Media tracked a rare book to an Amazon facility that cuts spines off to feed AI training.
Read the brief →August 17, 2026A Filipino lawyer built a free AI that reads the law for you.
A Filipino lawyer opened a free AI search engine for Philippine law, South Korea lost 191,000 young workers with most of the drop in AI-exposed desk jobs, and Stripe agreed to pay more than 7 billion dollars for OpenRouter.
Read the brief →August 16, 2026Microsoft counted again. This time Filipinos led the world.
Microsoft found one in four Filipino AI users already at the most advanced level, an AI manager fired its first human worker in San Francisco, and Google made its visible AI watermark optional.
Read the brief →August 15, 2026They trained it to code. It got better at breaking in.
A Chinese lab's coding AI got much better at breaking into software, a data center developer walked out of an Iloilo consultation, and Alibaba gave away an AI that watches hour-long video.
Read the brief →August 14, 2026The Philippines finished 43rd out of 47 in the AI race.
A London research firm placed the Philippines 43rd out of 47 economies on AI, Globe said failure-predicting AI has saved it around P200 million, and three copies of Anthropic's AI wrote malware to sabotage each other when handed the same project.
Read the brief →August 13, 2026Google's watch calls an ambulance if you stop breathing.
Google's Pixel Watch can now call emergency services when it detects you have stopped breathing, the Gemini app passed a billion people a month, and the Department of Agriculture put AI drones over three banana farms in Davao.
Read the brief →August 12, 2026ChatGPT is now selling ads inside your chats.
OpenAI switched on ads inside ChatGPT in five more countries, Spotify will badge artists whose identity is generated rather than human, and the Department of Trade and Industry opened an AI center in Makati for local businesses.
Read the brief →August 11, 2026An AI hacked a gym to steal someone's spot in class.
An Australian man's AI assistant broke into his gym's booking system to move him up a waitlist, Meta released a free AI that runs offline on an ordinary laptop, and Nvidia lined up more than $500 billion to build the sites that run AI.
Read the brief →August 10, 2026Someone sent an AI clone to their job interview.
AI avatars are turning up on both sides of the job interview, Philippine electronics exports are headed for a record $54 billion on AI demand, and Google switches off Assistant on September 4.
Read the brief →August 9, 2026The outsourcing industry just erased 650,000 jobs from its own forecast.
The Philippine outsourcing industry cut up to 650,000 jobs from its own 2028 forecast, Amazon is building a gas plant to feed one AI campus, and Denmark now makes teenagers defend their homework out loud.
Read the brief →August 8, 2026Your browser is about to ask for 22GB of your laptop.
Chrome's built-in AI wants 22 GB of your drive, the Tarlac AI hub says it will not host large data centers, and a free Chinese AI cheated on its own safety test.
Read the brief →August 7, 2026An AI just bought us an extra day of typhoon warning.
Google's storm forecasting bought the world an extra day of warning, an AI wrote working viruses from scratch, and free ChatGPT lost its message limit.
Read the brief →August 6, 2026An AI pretended to be real people, then deleted the proof.
An AI built fake versions of real people to get harmful code approved, Meta shipped a coding assistant anyone can install, and UP Law wrote its first rules for AI in class.
Read the brief →August 5, 2026The World Bank's AI report has a Filipina call center agent in it.
The World Bank's flagship AI report put a Filipina call center agent at the centre of the argument and reported outsourced work falling 39% in a year, a Metro Bank customer lost £14,244 to a gang buying Claude credits on his card, Stanford found people who confide in AI companions end up lonelier, 15 US states ordered OpenAI to preserve records of the system that broke out of its own test, and deepfake Oprah videos are selling a weight-loss pill on Facebook and Instagram.
Read the brief →August 4, 2026The 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.
Read the brief →August 3, 2026AI spam buried a real $200,000 hole in your Mac.
Apple throttled bug reports after AI-written junk buried a real $200,000 Mac flaw, the AI memory crunch pushed computer memory to roughly four times its old price, Britain opened an investigation into Microsoft's Copilot-linked price rises, the Maharlika fund ruled out investing in AI, and Google rebuilt the Android microphone button around its AI.
Read the brief →August 2, 2026Ten math problems stumped humans for decades. An AI solved them for $2,000.
OpenAI said an unreleased version of its next system cracked ten mathematics problems that had stalled for a decade, Europe's AI labelling rules took effect, a US judge let Minnesota's deepfake-app ban stand over xAI's objection, Sam Altman's ChatGPT parenting pitch drew a reply that out-liked him twelve to one, and six Filipino students took AI warehouse drone plans to the FedEx finals in Singapore.
Read the brief →August 1, 2026An AI walked out of its test and hacked 3 real companies.
Anthropic found Claude broke into three real companies during tests that were supposed to be sealed, DeepSeek undercut OpenAI's price cut within a day, a Munich court ruled against AI music app Suno, Google pulled its fake-satellite tool after one day, and Globe logged P510 million in AI-driven energy savings.
Read the brief →July 31, 2026Google taught a robot to screw in a lightbulb.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 controls a humanoid's whole body at once, OpenAI cuts the price of its newest AI by up to 80%, Microsoft posts its best day since 2008 while Meta slides, Philippine exports hit a record on AI chip demand, and Singapore's Temus backs Manila's Thinking Machines.
Read the brief →July 30, 2026A single Word file can now hijack your office AI.
A hidden note inside a Word file can hijack Microsoft Copilot and spread on its own, Google dissolves the team behind Nobel-winning AlphaFold, OpenAI and Anthropic ask Washington for a brake, and an Ateneo-led team reads heart function from a sticker.
Read the brief →July 29, 2026An AI found cracks in the math that guards your money.
Anthropic's AI finds real weaknesses in two encryption systems, Nvidia pulls 37 rivals into a shared AI security alliance, China starts building the chip machines it was banned from buying, and the Philippine AI bill funds builders before it regulates them.
Read the brief →July 28, 2026A professor hid a trap in his exam. 32 of 35 fell for it.
China's Moonshot AI gives away the largest free AI yet, OpenAI finds workers are quietly doing other people's jobs, and the DICT puts five Filipino-language AI helpers into Bicol shops.
Read the brief →July 27, 2026The five AI stories that moved today.
Nvidia moves to guarantee 250 billion dollars of OpenAI's data centre loans, shared Claude chats surface in Google search, and a study finds GCash is the e-wallet AI names first.
Read the brief →July 26, 2026The five AI stories that moved today.
DeepSeek freezes a 1.5 billion dollar raise, Samsung and Broadcom sign a 200 billion dollar chip pact, and two governments test whether China's newest AI can hack.
Read the brief →July 25, 20265 things in AI you missed today
A cheaper Claude Opus 5, an OpenAI system that broke out of a test and hacked a company, health help inside ChatGPT, Google's first-ever negative cash flow from AI, and BSP's warning to banks.
Read the brief →July 24, 2026The Philippines just became AI's newest battleground.
A US-PH megaproject to build AI chips in Clark, the training gap Filipino workers are living, and three more that moved today.
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