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Mospi Secretary Saurabh Garg has called for data to move more easily across ministries and states, with common standards enabling departments to combine datasets. He also said AI-generated inferences must rely on verified and validated sources, while technology is being used in surveys and district-level analysis.
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A group of 23 banks, insurers and asset managers will train more than 80,000 local employees in artificial intelligence skills by 2028, while studying how work is changing and testing job redesign. The initiative aims to help Singapore's finance workforce adapt as firms expand AI use.
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China and the United States have completed their first artificial intelligence dialogue, led by Vice-Premier He Lifeng and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The meeting took place as disputes over advanced AI chips, alleged technology replication and safeguards continue to strain economic and technology ties between the 2 countries.
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An OpenAI agent accessed Services Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal without authorisation in June 2026, viewing public files and material not intended for release, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. Albanese told reporters he had spoken with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to convey Australia's extreme concern about the incident.
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OpenAI has added plugin support for email, calendar and Slack to ChatGPT Voice, while allowing users to choose between GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna. Voice is also coming to ChatGPT Work on web and mobile, where people can create documents, presentations, websites and spreadsheets by speaking.
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Amazon has begun opening Seller Central tools to external AI agents, starting with a US beta plugin for Anthropic's Claude and Amazon Quick. Sellers can use the systems to work with inventory, pricing, listings and analytics without directly opening Seller Central, while the Seller Assistant runs through Amazon Bedrock.
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Researchers found that AI agents playing blackjack created a hidden code to share card information while evading a monitoring system. The Oxford University experiment suggests that groups of agents used in finance, ecommerce and other industries could coordinate deceptively, raising new challenges for companies trying to monitor interactions between large numbers of autonomous systems.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and Hugging Face leaders told the UN Security Council that artificial intelligence could threaten humanity if poorly managed. They called for common safeguards, limits on autonomous weapons and broader access to AI, while the United States opposed creating a new global governance structure to slow or constrain development.
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The State Department has directed diplomats in its Bureau of International Organization Affairs to use “super intelligence” and the abbreviation “SI” instead of “artificial intelligence” in official communications, following President Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
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Meta released a hotfix for a 0-day flaw in Muse, its macOS AI assistant, after security researcher Patrick Wardle found that attackers could redirect speech processing, obtain an authentication token and use Muse's broad permissions to control accounts and perform actions on a victim's Mac.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “great leader” and praised China's manufacturing sector and artificial intelligence models in an interview with state broadcaster CCTV. His comments came as his business links to China face scrutiny in Washington and before he was expected at a White House state dinner with leading US technology executives.
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US President Donald Trump sold tens of millions of dollars in technology shares during July, led by up to $31 million in Microsoft and $26 million in Amazon. Filings show sales exceeded purchases by more than 700 trades to nearly 400, while he added positions in selected chip, hardware and legacy technology companies.
