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The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face.

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Europe is close to banning apps that digitally undress people. A new report argues the ban will miss the point. The tools that do the undressing do not need to be apps at all. They are sitting on Hugging Face. The European nonprofit AI Forensics tested the most popular image-editing tools on the platform. Seven […]

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1,134 AI insiders just asked Washington for a way to slow AI down

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More than a thousand of the people building the most powerful AI want a way to slow it down. On Tuesday, 1,134 employees of the leading AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to help build one. The statement is titled Pacing the Frontier. It asks Washington to “support an international effort to […]

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Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.

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Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping Google. On 20 July, a federal judge dismissed Google’s lawsuit against SerpApi. The firm scrapes Google search results and resells them as structured data. Google had […]

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Europe gets its AI enforcement powers on Sunday. The unit wielding them has 36 people.

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The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the world’s most advanced AI labs handle systemic risk, as the AI Act reaches its second anniversary. The EU’s AI Office will be able to demand documentation, conduct evaluations, and request access to frontier models, with fines of up to 3% of global […]

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A new AI listens to every prison call and decides who is speaking

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A Texas company has begun selling corrections agencies an artificial intelligence system that listens to prison phone calls. It works out who is speaking, whether or not the speaker wants that. LEO Technologies, based in Austin, announced Verus Voice AI on Monday. The product uses voice biometrics to catch prisoners who call on someone else’s […]

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Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday, when two jurisdictions declined to back them. Federal, state and territory energy ministers met virtually to discuss the plan, and Queensland and the Northern Territory opposed most of the measures, […]

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Ofcom has never blocked an Openreach offer before. It just moved to block this one.

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Ofcom proposed on Tuesday to block a discounted wholesale offer from Openreach, the first time the regulator has ever moved to stop a commercial deal from BT’s network arm. The offer would have given internet providers up to £9.50 off per customer per month, for as long as 30 months, when they connected more new […]

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Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and its most senior Democrat, will host both chief […]

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models

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Dario Amodei published Anthropic’s formal position on open-weights models on Sunday, breaking a silence that had drawn accusations that the company wanted to ban open-weight AI to protect its business. “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” Amodei wrote. “Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good.” The post […]

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Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case

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Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over whether businesses can legally resell surplus on-premise software licences. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled in 2025 that resale and subdivision of Microsoft licences did not infringe copyright. Microsoft appealed and lost again on July 7. An […]

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