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UK can’t rely on AI that could be switched off, Turing chief tells Guardian

The UK must not depend on foreign AI that could be cut off at short notice, the new head of the Alan Turing Institute has said. George Williamson made the comments in an interview with Dan Milmo for The Guardian. “We shouldn’t depend solely on systems we can’t inspect or control, or that could be […]

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Vittorio Colao defends copyright rules and the DSA in Europe’s AI debate

Regulation is holding back AI in Europe, but not every rule in the same way, Vittorio Colao said. The former Vodafone chief executive, now vice chairman for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at General Atlantic, spoke on stage at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. Asked whether regulation is hindering AI in Europe, […]

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Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China

A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘Willy’ Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as part of a deal with prosecutors. US authorities have described him as a ‘fixer’. A $2.5bn […]

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Anthropic says Claude sent a fake murder tip to police during testing

An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model filled in a tip form without a name or contact details, Shirin Ghaffary reported for Bloomberg. The Philadelphia Police Department disclosed the […]

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India calls Vance’s ‘indentured servants’ remark deeply offensive

India’s foreign ministry has called US Vice President JD Vance’s description of foreign workers hired by Microsoft as “indentured servants” deeply offensive. Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal read out the ministry’s statement at its briefing in New Delhi on Friday. “Resorting to terminology that carries painful historical and colonial legacy connotations is deeply offensive,” Jaiswal said. On […]

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Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science

Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and Satya Nadella got the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Trump presented the medals at […]

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Anthropic signs CrowdStrike, Hitachi and 9 more to defend power and water

Anthropic will give its frontier Claude models, engineers and threat research to the companies that guard critical infrastructure. That means power grids, water utilities and transport networks. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program is the first part of the Anthropic Cyber Mission. The company announced it on Thursday as a long-term effort to support defenders. The […]

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Vesta raises $30M for AI agents that work on mortgage decisions

Vesta has raised a $30M Series B to expand AI agents that handle mortgage origination work, including underwriting decisions, with three customer lenders among the investors. The same software sold in Europe would be high-risk under the AI Act, and GDPR already limits automated decisions of this kind. Vesta has raised a $30M Series B […]

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Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next

Europe has less than 2 gigawatts of AI computing capacity and needs more, former Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said. He spoke at a closed-door press Q&A at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, the event’s last day. “Europe missed the big digital wave. Fine, 20 years,” Colao said. Europe should not miss the […]

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Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe

Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across its European websites, days after Germany said the old name was misleading. The page under the new name is unchanged, and the real obstacle to EU approval is speed rather than branding. Tesla has stopped calling its driver-assistance software Full Self-Driving in Europe. The feature […]

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