Author: Techie.lk

Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s frontier models. The announcement, made by Microsoft AI’s Superintelligence team, lands roughly a year after the company committed to building purpose-built models internally, and it arrives with an unusual level of specificity about where those models now run: Bing, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, Excel, GitHub…

Chinese Leader President Xi Jinping delivered the keynote speech opening the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference & High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai held from 17 – 20 July & the speech clearly indicates China’s willingness to promote inclusivity & reject of hyper imperialism. Addressing the event attended by UN Secretary General who on multiple occasions urged the international community for joint action to face the growth of AI, the Chinese leader stated below. ‘Seventy years ago, a group of young scholars proposed the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) for the first time at the Dartmouth Workshop,…

Kaspersky has discovered that attackers have begun exploiting another legitimate service for malicious purposes – this time it is Tencent EdgeOne Pages, a platform for creating and hosting web applications. Attackers are misusing its capabilities to generate phishing emails targeting corporate users. Previously Kaspersky has described similar attacks leveraging Google services and web applications generated by Bubble, an AI-powered app builder, to hunt for corporate credentials. Employees across multiple industries including the industrial sector, sales, and government are among the targets. The goal of the attack is to steal login credentials for corporate resources. Over the past 30 days, the company’s experts have detected…

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon, reaffirming its leadership in introducing the latest global financial technologies to Sri Lanka, has announced the availability of PayPal-linked withdrawal functionality for eligible customers to seamlessly channel their global digital earnings directly into their Commercial Bank accounts through ComBank Digital. The integration of PayPal with ComBank Digital enables Sri Lankan freelancers, digital entrepreneurs and exporters to transfer their PayPal balances directly to a local Commercial Bank account through the Bank’s ComBank Digital platform instantly, securely and through a fully regulated banking channel. As one of the world’s leading online payment platforms operating across nearly 200…

The AX (AI Transformation) in QA conference, Asia’s inaugural event dedicated to AI-driven Quality Assurance, was held on 18 June 2026 at the Science and Technology Center in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea. Organized by AsiaSTA (Asian Software Testing Alliance), the conference brought together leading researchers, technology experts, and Quality Assurance professionals from across Asia to explore how Artificial Intelligence is transforming software quality engineering. The conference commenced with welcoming remarks by Prof. Seungbum Park, President of the Korea Society of IT Services (KITS), followed by the opening address by Kenji Onishi, President of AsiaSTA, who shared the organization’s vision for…

OpenAI is officially entering the hardware market with the launch of a $230 light-up keyboard designed to pair with its AI coding assistant, Codex. The Codex Micro, co-designed with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is being advertised as a fancy new way for ChatGPT users to manage their fleets of AI coding agents — the semi-autonomous bots that can write and execute code with little human input. The device comes equipped with light-up “Agent Keys” that show agent status, customizable Command Keys that act as shortcuts for frequent Codex actions, and a joystick for launching common workflows. It also has a dial…

Since iOS 5 in 2011, the iPhone and iPad have included Notification Center, a central place to find alerts from various apps in chronological order. Starting with iOS 27, Apple is making a major change to how users open Notification Center on iPhone and iPad. iOS 27 is currently in beta, and the behavior has changed slightly between the first two releases. However, the third developer beta and first public beta show this change will ship this fall. Siri AI takes over the swipe gesture for a lot of the iPhone and iPad top edge Opening Notification Center is unchanged…

Child safety advocates are sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence features now being used by millions of students in classrooms that rely on education tools made by Google. Google’s AI search functions pose an “unacceptable risk” to children, a new report from Common Sense Media found. The organization found that across more than 2,600 test interactions, Google’s two built-in AI search functions, AI Overview and AI Mode, routinely failed to recognize risky and harmful behavior, answered 100% of hypothetical homework assignments students should do themselves, and provided incorrect and inconsistent responses to questions. Both AI Overview and AI Mode are built into…

At an MWC Shanghai roundtable on scams and fraud across China and APAC, Sri Lanka’s Digital Economy Deputy Minister Eng. Eranga Weeraratne put a specific, mechanical ask to GSMA — and a blunter admission than the room expected. A year ago, Sri Lanka would have joined a conversation about scams and fraud as a consumer-protection story — a country worried about its own citizens being targeted. At MWC Shanghai’s roundtable on safeguarding digital trust, Deputy Minister Eranga Weeraratne arrived instead with what he called a harder, more uncomfortable vantage point. As enforcement has tightened across parts of Southeast Asia, organised…

Sri Lankan Agentic AI Studio sixn.ai has secured a major international victory at the SuperAI NEXT Hackathon 2026 in Singapore, finishing among the Top 5 teams overall and winning the Best Use of Stripe Award for its AI fashion companion, Bloom. The achievement marks a significant milestone not only for sixn.ai but also for Sri Lanka’s growing presence in the global artificial intelligence landscape. Competing against 700 applicants, 80 teams, and participants from 26 countries, sixn.ai was the only Sri Lankan company to secure a place in the overall Top 5 at one of Asia’s largest and most competitive AI…