News about Artificial intelligence
BrainCo’s Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) attracted widespread attention at the HSBC Summit with its demonstration of a bionic hand controlled by the power of thought. SCMP writes about it.
American billionaire Ilon Musk continues to surprise: On April 17, company X (formerly Twitter) officially launches a new instant messaging service XChat. Ilon Musk positions the novelty as the most secure mass messenger, which will become the foundation for the future financial platform X Money.
Economic and military competition has intensified under Trump, but many experts consider him only a “symptom” of the global restructuring of the world system. The Brookings Institution predicts a continuing trend toward national and regional self-sufficiency through the painful scrapping of the old. Its arguments are cited by Mike Dolan, a Reuters columnist.
Education and Research Minister Dan Perciun urged the academic community to master and more actively apply artificial intelligence in research activities. Otherwise, he said, the “gap” between Moldova and countries that are rapidly implementing these technologies will deepen.
When providing public services, institutions will be authorized to officially use artificial intelligence, but with clear rules and restrictions enshrined at the level of law.
Schoolchildren and their parents will have access to digital textbooks, educational videos about AI and its use, and other similar materials. They will be stored on a unified national educational platform being created in Moldova.
The role of the humanities in the modern world is not diminishing, but is on the contrary increasing markedly. They are the basis for understanding language, thinking and information, without which the development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence is impossible. This opinion was expressed by Olga Gerlovan, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University.
In recent days, a viral video has been rapidly gaining momentum on the Internet, in which the main characters are leading figures of the technology industry Ilon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman.
The Asian artificial intelligence market is entering the center of global competition, as clearly demonstrated by the GITEX AI Asia 2026 forum held on April 9-10 in Singapore. It brought together more than 23,000 participants from 110 countries, including corporations, startups and investors, demonstrating the accelerating shift of technological leadership towards the Asia-Pacific region.
Anthropic’s most powerful artificial intelligence model has already discovered thousands of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in all major operating systems and web browsers. In response, the company did not publish it, but quietly handed it over to the organizations responsible for the smooth operation of the Internet.
“The EU is trying to justify its attempts at increased surveillance (chat control) and censorship (DSA) through controlled NGOs and media. AI Forensics, a Soros-funded company contracted by the European Commission, claims that Telegram is a PROBLEM because people can discuss content from OTHER social networks in CLOSED Telegram groups.”
Technologies that can recreate a person’s personality using artificial intelligence are rapidly evolving from experimental projects to a full-fledged industry.
HumanX 2026 conference in San Francisco, held from April 6 to 9, gathered more than 12 thousand participants from 40 countries. This is almost twice as many as the organizers initially expected, which shows the interest in the forum. It attracted top bigtech managers, users, regulators and researchers.
There are no plans to introduce bans on the use of online platforms in Moldova this year. The authorities will focus not on restrictions, but on developing mechanisms to protect users, especially minors. In the fall, the Digital Services Act, an EU document regulating the activity of large online platforms, will be implemented.
Fifteen Influencers from the tech industry one night acted as investors and symbolically chose local startups in which they would invest their money.
Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence (AI) technology company founded by former OpenAI employees and creator of a family of large language models collectively named Claude, has announced a partnership with Google and Broadcom for “several gigawatts” of next-generation TPU computing power planned to launch starting in 2027.
China’s first ever formally commercial launch of a rocket carrying cargo into Earth orbit was successful, and the launch cost was more than 10 percent lower than SpaceX’s Falcon 9, according to Logos Press.
The delegation of the Ministry of Education and Research of the Republic of Moldova, from March 28 to April 5, made the “Educational Tour in China 2026”, organized on the basis of partnership with Huawei Moldova company.
The HumanX 2026 conference, one of the most anticipated events in the field of artificial intelligence, will kick off in the US San Francisco on April 6.
Ilon Musk’s strategy to create a global AI empire has encountered the first signs of internal instability: his startup xAI has lost its entire co-founding team in recent months. Only Musk himself remains.
