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Oracle says one AI data centre could cost it a $7bn power guarantee

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Oracle is building a huge AI data centre in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with Vantage and OpenAI. The nearly one-gigawatt Lighthouse Campus is a roughly $15 billion project. To get the electricity to run it, though, Oracle first has to satisfy the local regulator, and that is proving expensive. In a sworn affidavit, Oracle says the […]

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Marco Rubio tells US diplomats to play down fears of a tech ‘kill switch’

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told American diplomats to push back against a phrase that has spread through allied capitals since the summer: the tech “kill switch.” In a cable dated July 16 and reviewed by Reuters, Rubio instructed envoys to counter the idea that Washington can remotely disable American technology abroad, a […]

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Brazil’s Pix becomes a trade flashpoint with the US, and the world is watching

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Brazil’s instant-payment system Pix has moved from a domestic success story to the centre of a trade fight with the United States, and governments elsewhere are watching how it ends. The dispute hardened in June, when the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) determined that Brazil’s practices around digital trade and electronic payments were “unreasonable” and […]

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France moves a step closer to banning under-15s from social media

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A cross-party committee in France’s Parliament approved a compromise bill on Monday that would bar children under 15 from social media, pushing one of Europe’s most far-reaching online-safety measures towards a final vote before lawmakers break for summer. The text now returns to both chambers this week, echoing Australia’s under-16 ban and a broader European drift towards keeping […]

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Head of America’s AI safety agency resigns after three months

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Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices frontier models. The director of the United States’ main AI oversight body has resigned after roughly three months in the job, leaving the agency without permanent leadership at a delicate […]

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Paramount and Warner Bros. merger blocked by temporary restraining order one day before close

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California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a temporary restraining order on the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger on Monday, pausing the deal for 14 days. The order came after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California’s Rob Bonta sued to block the acquisition last week, arguing it would violate the Clayton […]

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A $400M nonprofit backed by France and DeepMind is building AI’s ‘public option’

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A farmer in rural India photographs a dying plant and wants to look it up. She does not speak English, and today’s AI barely speaks hers. A nonprofit called Current AI thinks that is a problem worth fixing. Its goal is grand: a “public option” for AI, open and free to anyone, much like the […]

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The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT

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The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. So the institution is building a sanctioned platform to bring that habit under control. The internal tool, called EPGenAI Hub, will give MEPs and staff access to models from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic […]

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The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet

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Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products off its site. The penalty, announced on Monday, is the biggest yet under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). That law forces very large platforms […]

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Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification

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Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused of online vilification. The “demasking” powers would be the first of their kind for an Australian state. Allan […]

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