AI & ML · 30 May 2026 —
Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Tells the World to Slow Down on AI
In his first encyclical, released 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV devotes the founding text of his papacy largely to artificia...
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CYBERSECURITY · 26 May 2026 —
The AI SOC arms race lands in ASEAN: Flocks, Claude, and the agentic security stack of mid-2026
On 6 May 2026, Singapore-headquartered ThreatBook launched Flocks and SafeSkill — landing in an AI SOC category that alr...
CYBERSECURITY · 25 May 2026 —
Three supply-chain incidents this week: Megalodon, Robinsons, and the Laravel-Lang Composer compromise
Megalodon pushed 5,718 malicious commits into 5,561 GitHub repos in six hours. The Payload ransomware group listed Singa...
CYBERSECURITY · 22 May 2026 —
Laravel-Lang Supply Chain Attack — 233 Versions Backdoored Across 700 Repos in a Composer-Autoload Trick
On 22 May 2026, an attacker rewrote version tags across the Laravel-Lang ecosystem to deliver a 5,900-line PHP credentia...
ASEAN TECH · 22 May 2026 —
Singapore Orders Critical-Infrastructure Cybersecurity Reviews as Frontier AI Cuts Exploit Development From Months to Hours
On 5 May 2026, Singapore CSA formally wrote to CII boards requiring AI-resilient cybersecurity reviews — citing the new...
AI & ML · 22 May 2026 —
OpenAI Launches Self-Serve Ads Manager Inside ChatGPT — The Search-Advertising Era Just Ended
OpenAI launched a self-serve Ads Manager inside ChatGPT on 21 May 2026. Marketers can now create, manage, and optimise c...
CYBERSECURITY · 21 May 2026 —
Megalodon Campaign Backdoors 5,561 GitHub Repos in Six Hours — Inside the Largest GitHub Actions Supply-Chain Attack on Record
An automated campaign called Megalodon pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repos between 18-21 May 2026, exfi...
ASEAN TECH · 20 May 2026 —
MAS Issues Binding GenAI Banking Guidelines — Five-Bank Sandbox, Cross-Border Implications for ASEAN Finance
The Monetary Authority of Singapore published its long-awaited binding guidelines on generative AI use by banks on Tuesd...
HEALTH & WELLNESS · 20 May 2026 —
DeepMind Ships AlphaFold 4 as Isomorphic Labs' First Drug Enters Phase 2 — Pharma Pipeline Implications Land Together
Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 4 on Wednesday — the first version with reliable protein–protein interaction predicti...
AI & ML · 20 May 2026 —
xAI Pre-Announces Grok 5 with Reasoning Scores Above GPT-5.5 — Free for X Premium Subscribers
Elon Musk's xAI confirmed Grok 5 ships in June with GPQA Diamond scores above GPT-5.5 and a deeper reasoning mode the te...
AI & ML · 20 May 2026 —
Google Bets the Gemini App on Agents With 3.5 Flash and 24/7 Spark Assistant
At Google I/O 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash shipped with 4× the speed of frontier rivals and a new agent called Spark that runs...
DEVELOPER TOOLS · 20 May 2026 —
Vercel Bundles v0, Composer and Production Deploy Into a Single AI Cloud — Direct Shot at Lovable and Bolt
Vercel announced "Vercel AI Cloud" on Monday — a unified pricing tier that bundles v0 frontend generation, the Composer...
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