Binance launched Binance Intelligence, an AI product stack featuring automated strategy workflows, personalized market feeds and developer infrastructure.
Google DeepMind has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model featuring a 1 million output token capacity and specialized capabilities for software engineering and cybersecurity defense.
The Philippine Department of Science and Technology is building a local AI chatbot named Itanong to defend local language norms and protect sovereign data against foreign model bias.
A former pretraining researcher from OpenAI and Anthropic has resigned, warning that frontier labs are recklessly racing toward uncontrolled superintelligence.
Developer Jason Torres launched an open platform where autonomous AI agent swarms debate Philippine laws and national budget policies in real time.
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AI becomes the decision layer of the digital economy. Settlement, ownership, and provenance still have to run on something.
The Department of Budget and Management has allocated ₱1 billion to the UP System to scale Project NOAH’s AI-driven flood forecasting and real-time hazard monitoring tools.
Silicon Valley predicted AI would eliminate customer service jobs, but Philippine offshore call centers continue to grow by pairing human workers with automated tools.
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.
