US judge skeptical of Meta workers' AI layoff claims, points to arbitration
August 24, 2026
| Amy Miller
Former Meta employees who claim the company used AI to disproportionately target disabled workers for layoffs are unlikely to win a preliminary injunction preserving their jobs and benefits, US District Judge ... (more story)
China's five-year internet-tech plan targets AI chips, cutthroat competition
August 24, 2026
| MLex Staff
Under a new five-year plan, China will push companies primarily engaged in informatization and cybersecurity to develop advanced AI chips, improve foundation models and pursue frontier technologies such as AI ... (more story)
South Korean startup opens robot theme park to scale K-pop through physical AI
August 24, 2026
| Choonsik Yoo
South Korean entertainment technology company Galaxy Corp has opened a robot theme park in Seoul where artificial intelligence-powered robots perform K-pop dances and interact with visitors, as it seeks to tur... (more story)
EU lawmakers aim to lever tech sovereignty into digital simplification package
August 21, 2026
| Masha Borak
EU lawmakers want the proposed Digital Omnibus to advance Europe's technological sovereignty by reducing reliance on non-EU AI and data-processing providers. Amendments they have lodged broaden a package origi... (more story)
Ex-Google engineer acquitted of economic espionage after US jury conviction
August 20, 2026
| Amy Miller
Former Google engineer Linwei Ding has been acquitted on seven counts of economic-espionage after US District Judge Vince Chhabria said prosecutors failed prove that he intended to benefit the Chinese governme... (more story)
China MIIT think tank plans AI ethics-review center as oversight expands
August 20, 2026
| MLex Staff
A research arm of China’s top industry regulator is preparing to establish a technology ethics service center that will conduct artificial-intelligence ethics reviews and advise companies, as Beijing moves to ... (more story)
US NIST urges companies to fight AI risks with AI
August 19, 2026
| Amy Miller
As AI agents increasingly create new cybersecurity risks, companies are turning to AI as a defense. Now NIST has released a draft guide showing companies how they can use generative AI to assess and improve th... (more story)
Naver's pre-ChatGPT AI disclosures disputed in South Korean copyright trial
August 19, 2026
| Choonsik Yoo
Naver told a South Korean court on Tuesday that it had informed the country's three major broadcasters in 2018 and 2020 of its plans to use their news content to develop artificial intelligence models, as the ... (more story)