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MediaNamaAsiaYouTube expands likeness detection to voices as Indian courts target AI voice clones YouTube will start combining speaking voice detection with facial detection in its likeness detection tool later this year, the company announced at its ‘Made on YouTube’ event on September 23.

September 25

MediaNamaAsiaPine Labs, Google Cloud partner to expand agentic commerce to merchants Pine Labs said on Thursday that it has partnered with Google Cloud to expand agentic commerce to merchants, including large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses.

September 25

MediaNamaAsiaWhat’s new from Made on YouTube 2026? At its annual ‘Made on YouTube’ event on September 23, 2026 , YouTube announced several artificial intelligence-driven platform updates.

September 25

MediaNamaAsiaNPCI chief Dilip Asbe cites AI cyber threats, including Claude Mythos, to defend UPI MDR “AI is fairly expensive to use, and we’ll have to continue to invest, use AI to make our systems fully protected… (so that) the trust in the payment system is fully maintained.

September 25

MediaNamaAsia5 strategic signals from Meta Connect 2026 about its AI agent Muse Meta will earn money from its personal artificial intelligence (AI) agent Muse by taking a cut of what the agent buys, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at Connect on September 23.

September 24

The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo