More Nepalis are sending and receiving festival money through digital wallets, mobile banking and QR codes, even as cash remains part of the Tika ritual.

World Bank says AI is slowing hiring in some sectors while boosting demand for AI skills and expanding opportunities for service exporters.

The chemistry Nobel, always the ​third prize to be awarded during Nobel week, followed those for medicine and physics announced on Monday and Tuesday.

Research reviewed by Reuters found Chinese-powered AI agents deceiving users, circumventing safeguards and concealing failures in controlled tests, echoing concerns raised over US models.

The ChatGPT maker halted plans for its next-generation model after internal tests found it fell short of safety and alignment standards, including concerns over oversight and disclosure of its actions.

Altman plans to urge world leaders to adopt benchmarks for measuring AI capabilities and ​assessing the safeguards companies put in place as they develop the technology, an OpenAI executive told reporters on Tuesday.

The concern now is that AI could become capable of improving itself before researchers have developed reliable methods to align, monitor and control these increasingly powerful systems.

Two days after the Games ended, the People’s Liberation Army’s official newspaper drew its own conclusions from the show.

In ​its final and fastest run, China’s Tiangong Ultra humanoid ran 100 m in 8.64 seconds, blazing past Bolt’s 9.58-second human world record. That ‌amounts to an average speed for the robot of almost 42 kph (26 mph).

Operators are using thermal cameras to help locate people and LiDAR technology to assess damage as damaged roads and communications hamper access to affected areas.

Beijing’s ‘Robot Olympics’ is showcasing rapid advances in autonomous machines, while Nepal, still largely a technology consumer, is exploring robotics for tourism, disaster response and industrial automation.

The five-day World Humanoid Robot Games combine events modelled on human sports with those designed to test the robots in simulated factories, restaurants, ​offices and in emergency situations.

The Tiangong Ultra’s 9.39-second run marks a dramatic leap from last year, as China expands a competition showcasing the growing speed and capabilities of humanoid robots.

From digitising centuries-old manuscripts to training AI models, researchers and language communities are using technology to preserve Nepal’s linguistic heritage.

From horoscope apps and digital puja guides to robotic monks and chanting boxes, a small group of Nepali developers is testing whether technology can turn ancient religious practices into modern services.

Countries around the globe, including China, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, have either instituted measures intended to curtail or bar access to social media for young people, or have said they were planning them.

The new model, Muse Glimmer, is smaller than leading ​AI models from rivals and is instead designed to run agentic tasks on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, ‌aiming to tap demand for AI systems that run directly on people’s devices.

Officials say the leaked credentials highlight long-standing weaknesses in government digital security, with immediate efforts underway to secure affected accounts.

Companies say former employees and insiders are walking away with proprietary code and turning it into rival products. Legal remedies remain slow, limited, and companies often suffer heavy losses before cases are resolved.

Successful deployment would give Chinese chipmakers an alternative source of equipment if Western governments further restrict exports or servicing of foreign lithography tools.