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A Fort Worth suburb has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to release records on how its police use Flock number plate cameras, a figure reached by estimating 14 years of labour at $15 an hour. Under the EU’s law enforcement directive the same information has to be logged as a matter of […]
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Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UK’s Online Safety Act, Reuters reported on Monday. The challenge is one of the first brought under the 2023 law. In February, Ofcom sent the companies information notices, according to Paul Sandle’s report for Reuters. The notices asked for detailed […]
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Battery-electric sales in the EU reached 1.64 million in the first eight months of 2026, up 45%, with 16 models under EUR 25,000 due on sale by the end of the year. Transport and Environment says the version of the 2035 target proposed by Parliament’s rapporteur would cut sales of those cheap models by nearly […]
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Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance chief for global entertainment, advertising and corporate development. He replaces Julia Brau Donnelly, who announced her departure in August, and he inherits a business whose European revenue grew 27% in the first quarter against 13% […]
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OpenAI is in talks with UAE funds including MGX, which may put in as much as $10B together, and with BlackRock, to anchor a $30B round at a $1.4T valuation it is presenting as a fixed price without a lead investor. The EU’s AI gigafactory programme carries the same headline number with about EUR 1B […]
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Three former AI lab researchers told the New York City Council on Monday that humanity may lose control of the systems the industry is building. The council’s AI hearing also questioned policy staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, and weighed 10 bills to regulate AI in the city. “On the current path, I think […]
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OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to text from ChatGPT and Codex in the EU over the coming weeks. The change covers eligible users on all plans, but only in the EU, the company said in a blog post on Monday. OpenAI said it is acting in response to the EU AI Act, which requires […]
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A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance”. Jason Koebler of 404 Media first reported the ruling. “It is a tool that collects […]
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Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy, with no price disclosed. The market exists because of the EU AI Act, whose enforcement powers arrived on 2 August and whose frontier model […]
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Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also paused sales, Business Insider reported. “This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding […]
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