Workers in poor countries will benefit from AI, not be replaced by it, according to a World Bank forecast.
Category: 11 August 2026
EUROPE’S TECH CONSULTANTS ARE GETTING RICH ON AI
Major European tech and business service firms have learned the lesson of California’s 1849 gold rush: the people who got consistently rich were the ones selling beans and pickaxes to prospectors.
WORKERS SAY U.S. GOVERNMENT SHOULD SUPPORT WORLDWIDE EFFORT TO GOVERN AI
At least 1,224 workers at frontier AI labs have issued an open letter urging the U.S. government to take part in a global effort to create technical and governance tools for AI that can evolve along with the technology.
JPMORGAN CEO LEADS NATIONAL EFFORT TO CONFRONT AI RISKS
Jamie Dimon, executive chair of JPMorgan Chase, the richest U.S. bank, is personally asking corporate executives to join an initiative that will address risks posed by AI’s rapid and largely unregulated advance.
ANTHROPIC, OPENAI AGENTS INVOLVED IN NEW SECURITY BREACHES
AI agents being tested by Anthropic and OpenAI were recently involved in new kinds of security breaches, according to the British government’s AI Security Institute (AISI).
PAKISTANI DEFENSE MINISTER EXPRESSES OPTIMISM THAT DEAL COULD BE REACHED BETWEEN IRAN AND U.S.
Despite both the White House and Tehran appearing to take a more hardline position regarding the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, the top defense official from Pakistan told reporters that “things are shaping up again in favor of a peace arrangement or a deal,” according to Bloomberg.





