Author: Art Ryan

Artificial intelligence has already found its way into tutoring platforms, homework systems and course-management tools. MathGPT.ai is now taking on a messier problem: reading the actual steps students write on paper. With MathGPT.ai handwritten math grading, the technology aims to automate the process of evaluating students’ written mathematical work. The education technology company has introduced a limited release of its AI Step-by-Step Grader, a tool built to evaluate handwritten mathematics assignments submitted by higher education students. Rather than checking only whether the final answer is correct, the system analyzes the work that led to it. That means a student could…

Singapore’s financial sector is preparing for a version of cybercrime that moves faster, scales further and may not need much human involvement. The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Association of Banks in Singapore have established the AI-Driven Cyber and Technology Risk Taskforce, known as ACT. The initiative brings regulators, banks, payment operators and technology specialists into the same room to confront security threats created or amplified by frontier AI models. This is not another broad committee discussing responsible AI in abstract terms. ACT is expected to share real cybersecurity use cases, test AI-enabled defence tools and develop practical guidance…

Microsoft’s quarterly earnings have become much more than another Big Tech report. Wall Street is preparing for one of the largest post-earnings reactions the company has seen in years. Options traders are pricing in a move that could add or erase roughly $190 billion in Microsoft’s market value, reflecting growing uncertainty around whether its enormous investment in artificial intelligence is finally translating into meaningful financial returns. That number tells its own story. Investors are no longer asking whether Microsoft will keep spending on AI. They already know the answer. What they want now is evidence that those billions are turning…

South Korea is preparing to treat artificial intelligence less like a premium software subscription and more like public infrastructure. Through its new AI for All Project, the government plans to offer every citizen access to a general-purpose AI chatbot without subscription fees or usage limits. A more ambitious public-service agent will follow, helping people find government programs, complete applications and handle everyday administrative tasks. Calling AI a public utility may sound slightly dramatic. Still, the direction is clear. South Korea does not want access to powerful AI tools determined entirely by who can afford another monthly subscription. AI Access Without…

AI agents can search the internet. That doesn’t mean they are particularly good at finding the exact information a business needs. Nimble is taking a swing at that problem with Web Search Agents, a new set of tools designed to learn a company’s domain, search the live web and turn relevant findings into structured data. The product was announced on July 29, 2026. Nimble says its agents are built for demanding research tasks where generic search results create too much noise, burn through tokens and leave AI systems sorting through piles of loosely related text. Search That Learns the Assignment…

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape design just as much as it has transformed software development. That shift is now reaching university classrooms, with the launch of the Canadian University Dubai AI design degree providing a new way for students to prepare for the future of the field. Canadian University Dubai (CUD) has announced a new Bachelor of Science in Design and Artificial Intelligence (BScDAI), a program that blends traditional design education with AI technologies. Rather than teaching students to compete with AI, the university is positioning them to build alongside it. A Degree Built Around Human Creativity and AI…

Wipro has expanded its partnership with Databricks, setting up a dedicated global business practice focused on enterprise data modernization and large-scale artificial intelligence deployment. The announcement sounds familiar at first. Another technology services company. Another cloud data platform. Another promise to help enterprises “unlock value” from AI. The more important detail sits underneath the usual partnership language. Wipro and Databricks are targeting the awkward gap between AI experiments that work during a demonstration and systems that can survive inside a real company. That means dealing with scattered data, older technology, governance requirements and business teams that cannot wait months for…

Sonder is back, although not in the form many travelers will remember. This comes after TravelAI acquires Sonder, marking a new chapter for the brand. Canadian travel technology company TravelAI has acquired the Sonder name, its global trademark portfolio and more than 70 domain names, including Sonder.com. The company has now relaunched the website as a curated discovery platform for boutique hotels, professionally managed apartments and other urban accommodations. What TravelAI did not buy matters just as much. The deal does not include Sonder’s former hotels, apartment inventory, leases, employees or operating business. TravelAI bought the brand and intellectual property,…

Artificial intelligence is beginning to change the accounting profession in places that rarely attract headlines. Transaction testing. Document reviews. Risk checks. The repetitive work that once swallowed entire audit teams’ schedules. At the same time, companies face a major financial reporting shift through IFRS 18, a new accounting standard that will change how businesses present their financial performance. Those two forces came together at an Institute of Chartered Accountants of India Dubai Chapter conference, where finance professionals discussed how AI and IFRS 18 could reshape the global accounting, auditing and assurance sector. The conference, titled “The Great Shift: IFRS 18…

Medical robots are no longer sitting on the experimental edge of healthcare in the United Arab Emirates. They are drawing blood, assisting surgeons, dispensing medicine and helping patients walk again. The UAE is expanding the use of robotics and artificial intelligence across hospitals as part of a wider push to build a smarter healthcare system. The rollout covers everything from minimally invasive surgery and joint replacement to remote ultrasound examinations and automated pharmacy services. Some of the technology sounds futuristic. Much of it is already being used. Robotic Surgery Is Giving Doctors More Control Robotic-assisted surgery has become one of…

Coursera is placing a large bet on what education could look like after the traditional online course. Recently, the Coursera investment in LearnVector has highlighted this forward-thinking approach. The learning platform has announced a $100 million strategic equity investment in LearnVector, a newly formed AI-native education company founded and led by Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng. This is not a small experimental partnership or another chatbot added to a course page. Coursera’s investment gives it roughly a one-third ownership interest in LearnVector on a fully diluted basis. The two companies are also exploring commercial collaborations that could connect LearnVector’s agentic AI…

Artificial intelligence is not simply helping employees finish their existing work faster. It is quietly encouraging them to take on work that once belonged to someone else. This shift is sometimes referred to as AI workplace task crossover, as AI blurs the lines between traditional job roles and responsibilities. A marketer can now troubleshoot a website problem. A customer service worker can calculate a refund scenario that previously required help from finance. A small business owner can draft promotional copy, review contract language and examine sales figures without contacting three different specialists. OpenAI calls this behavior task crossover. The phrase…

Abu Dhabi has set itself an unusually ambitious goal. Not another digital government. Not simply more online services. The emirate wants every government department to operate with artificial intelligence at its core, making it the world’s first fully AI-native government by 2027. That distinction matters because AI-native goes beyond adding chatbots or automating paperwork. It means redesigning how government works from the inside out, allowing AI to assist with decision-making, service delivery, internal operations, and interactions with residents and businesses. AI Becomes Part of Government Infrastructure The initiative forms part of the Abu Dhabi Government Digital Strategy 2025–2027, a roadmap…

Artificial intelligence is quietly changing how people choose luxury hotels. The change does not begin at the reception desk or inside a hotel room. It starts much earlier, often with a traveller typing a detailed request into ChatGPT or another AI assistant. Instead of searching for “luxury hotels in Siem Reap,” someone might ask for a quiet independent property near Angkor Wat, with local character, strong environmental values and personalised service. That kind of request suits boutique hotels rather well. Jaya House River Park, an independently owned luxury hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia, says this shift has become increasingly visible…

Microsoft is moving deeper into AI-powered cybersecurity with two connected launches: its first purpose-built cyber model and a new platform designed to coordinate teams of autonomous security agents. The new solution, Microsoft MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, is part of this push into advanced AI security. The model, called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, was created to find difficult vulnerabilities buried inside large and complicated codebases. It will operate within MDASH, Microsoft’s existing multi-agent system for discovering, validating and remediating software flaws. Sitting above that is Project Perception, a broader agentic cybersecurity platform that brings together models, threat signals, security context and automated actions. This is not simply…

Artificial intelligence has found its way into another overlooked corner of stadium operations: the mountain of rubbish left behind after the crowd goes home. One recent example is the Gillette Stadium AI waste sorting initiative, which uses innovative technology to improve how rubbish is managed after events. Gillette Stadium has partnered with waste technology company rStream to introduce an on-site sorting system that combines computer vision, machine learning and precision robotics. The technology processes mixed waste generated after football games, concerts and other large events, separating recyclable materials, compostable items and general trash. It is not the flashiest use of…

SAP does not want artificial intelligence to remain a collection of clever features buried inside business software. The German enterprise software company is aiming for something much larger: AI agents that can move across departments, work with live business data and complete entire processes without losing the controls that large organizations require. During SAP’s second-quarter earnings call, CEO Christian Klein described this shift as moving from traditional software development toward “building AI at scale.” The wording matters. SAP is no longer pitching AI as an optional assistant. It is trying to rebuild parts of its enterprise software business around it.…

AI at work is usually discussed in terms of speed. Write the report faster. Summarize the meeting. Clear the inbox. Generate the code. In this article, you’ll learn how an Anthropic product lead uses Claude to enhance productivity in the workplace. Dianne Penn is using it for something less mechanical and considerably more human: figuring out how to talk to people. Penn, Anthropic’s head of product management for its research and labs teams, says Claude has become part of the way she prepares for sensitive conversations, coaches employees and examines her own management decisions. She does not hand over the…

Z.ai may already be preparing its next major artificial intelligence model. Recently, there have been rumours of a GLM-5.5 leak that could impact the timing and rollout of their technology. Early reports surrounding a possible GLM-5.5 release point to an open-weight model built for coding, advanced reasoning and longer autonomous workflows. An August 2026 launch has been mentioned. So have more than one trillion parameters and a context window reaching one million tokens. Those numbers sound enormous. They are also unconfirmed. Z.ai has not publicly announced GLM-5.5, released a model card or published technical documentation for it. Most of the…

Nvidia may be preparing to support one of the most ambitious artificial intelligence infrastructure projects ever proposed. The chipmaker is reportedly discussing a financial guarantee worth roughly $250 billion to help OpenAI lease a sprawling data centre campus planned for southern Ohio. The entire development could eventually cost more than $500 billion. That number is difficult to absorb. It is larger than the annual economic output of many countries, all tied to a single infrastructure project built around artificial intelligence. Nothing has been finalised yet. Nvidia, OpenAI and the companies connected to the development have not publicly confirmed that a…