Silicon Valley predicted AI would eliminate customer service jobs, but Philippine offshore call centers continue to grow by pairing human workers with automated tools.
New Prontera has launched Hacker House, a build-in-public docu-reality series that follows the development and testing of Bagyo.app and Agent AERIS, two disaster-resilience projects designed in the Philippines.
Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has launched its AI companion app, BSide: Olivia Lin, on Steam Early Access, where the free utility surpassed 100,000 downloads on its first day despite mixed user reviews.
The guidance, detailed in Memorandum No. M-2026-031, outlines the central bank’s minimum supervisory expectations for developing AI governance and risk management frameworks.
The product consolidates separate web3 infrastructure components, including wallets, identity protocols, payment rails, hosting, and large language model access, into a single workflow.
Filipino student founders launch iSkolar, a platform that uses AI and blockchain to simplify scholarship access and wins recognition at Project RISE.
IgniteTax AI launches a specialized AI platform that delivers Philippine tax guidance, document analysis, and compliance support based on official regulations.
OpenAI has announced the rollout of ChatGPT Images 2.0, an upgraded image generation model designed to deliver a significant leap in performance over its predecessor, ImageGen 1.5.
The Vatican is set to launch an AI-powered translation service at St. Peter’s Basilica, allowing the faithful to hear the Pope’s mass in 60 languages via smartphone.
xAI pledged to strip Grok AI of deepfake and explicit content features for Philippine users, prompting CICC to lift the nationwide ban while keeping monitoring in place.
