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OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa workers over Americans

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OpenAI has agreed to pay $3.2m to settle a US government claim. The allegation: it favoured workers on temporary visas over American workers. The Justice Department announced the deal on Tuesday. It resolves claims that the company broke federal anti-discrimination law when recruiting for a set of roles. The department’s Civil Rights Division said OpenAI […]

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China champions open AI to the world. In private, it’s afraid of one closed American model.

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China has spent the past year telling the world that AI should be open, cheap and shared. In private, its officials are unnerved by one American model that is none of those things. Beijing is growing anxious that Anthropic’s Mythos could be turned against it, Bloomberg reported. Officials see the frontier model as a potential […]

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Britain didn’t drop its Apple backdoor. It cut the Americans out and tried again.

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Britain tried to force a backdoor into Apple’s encryption last year and lost. It has not given up. It has narrowed the demand, served it again, and Apple is back in a secret court to fight it. Apple has filed a fresh challenge at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the closed UK court for secret-surveillance cases, […]

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Congress hasn’t written AI’s rules yet. It already spends nine of every ten AI dollars with OpenAI.

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Before Congress writes a single rule for artificial intelligence, it has already picked a supplier. In the year to the end of March, House offices spent nine of every ten visible AI dollars on one product: OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The figures come from a CNBC analysis of House disbursement records. Of $113,740 spent on named AI […]

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US is drafting a ban on Chinese devices in data centres

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The Trump administration wants Chinese hardware out of American data centres. Officials are drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in data centres, according to Reuters, the latest move to wall off the infrastructure behind the US AI buildout from Chinese technology. The draft extends a campaign that has been widening fast. It follows a […]

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US finalises voluntary tests for AI models’ hacking powers

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The White House has finalised a voluntary framework for testing whether America’s most advanced AI models can be used to hack. A White House official said the framework, ordered in June, was completed by its deadline, with talks on next steps now under way. The tests are cybersecurity assessments, designed to gauge the offensive capabilities […]

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AI agents are breaking into companies on their own. The law has no idea who to blame.

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The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and no human told it to, who is liable? Nobody is quite sure. That gap is starting to matter. The question is not hypothetical. Over recent […]

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A hack hit the one list a wealth haven guards most: the names behind its shell companies

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Of all the databases a wealth haven would least like to lose, this one is near the top. A cyberattack has reached the data of about 31,000 people in Liechtenstein’s register of the individuals behind its companies, foundations and trusts. The government disclosed the breach on Monday. Intruders reached the “register of economic beneficiaries” overnight […]

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Brazil banned Bolsonaro from speaking. His AI avatar spoke anyway.

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Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally anyway. At the launch of his son Flávio’s presidential bid in São Paulo on Saturday, a video avatar of the jailed former president loomed over the crowd. The clever part was the confession. “What you see […]

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AI labels become compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

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Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union’s landmark AI Act moves from principle into enforcement. From 2 August, providers and deployers across the bloc face binding transparency rules covering deepfakes, synthetic media, and machine-generated text, a shift platforms have been […]

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