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Free or paid? How to work out which AI subscription you actually need in 2026
A freelance writer paying about Tk 7,000 a month across three chatbots is a common situation, and usually an avoidable one.
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Three Bangladeshis are among the four founders of Tilion, which has just got into Y Combinator
The web was built on the assumption that a human is clicking. Tilion is trying to fix what breaks when thousands of agents click instead.
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Claude now grades its own conversations for harm after every reply, and the user is not told
The check has been running since June 2026. It flags conversations for human review without interrupting them or warning the person typing.
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The companies renting out AI computing have $35bn of debt, and Gartner expects 80% of them to be gone by 2030
They are called neoclouds: warehouses of expensive computers leased to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. Several began life mining cryptocurrency.
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Two Bangladeshi students have reached the final of a UN climate AI award with a flood-triage tool
Faria Islam and Md Habibur Rahman built Climate Action Copilot, now among five finalists for the UNFCCC and CTCN award. The judging is in…
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At 33, she watched her father read a birthday card for the first time in her life
Dave Cragg began losing his sight at 10 and bought AI smart glasses for his 65th birthday. He had doubted they would help. The camera in…
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BPO Summit 2025 opens in Dhaka with a warning from the government’s tech adviser: adopt AI or lose the business
Thirty local and international outsourcing firms, a job fair, an experience zone with drones and robots, and two days of seminars at Sena…
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Google now answers 75% of searches without a click, and AI crawlers take 6,000 pages for every visitor they send — Cloudflare’s CEO says the web’s business model is collapsing
For fifteen years the deal was simple: let Google copy your page and it sends you readers. Matthew Prince, whose company sees a fifth of…
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The Turing Award went to an idea from animal psychology — and it is now how every large language model gets its manners
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton won the 2024 ACM Turing Award, announced in March 2025, for reinforcement learning. The theory predates the…
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The surgical robot learned from footage that already existed — archived wrist-camera video nobody recorded for training
Johns Hopkins and Stanford used imitation learning and a transformer — the architecture behind ChatGPT — to teach a da Vinci robot needle…
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Point Google Lens at a product on the shelf and it shows the price, reviews and whether the shop next door has it cheaper — in the US, for now
With location sharing on, Lens now recognises a product photographed in a physical shop and returns its details, buyer reviews, price and…
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Ten days after ChatGPT got a search engine, Google is testing a voice search you can talk back to — ask, hear results, ask again without touching the mic
A test build of the Google app, spotted by Mashable, lets users ask a question aloud, get results, and follow up with another spoken…