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The fight over Australia AI copyright has a price tag: tens of billions in datacentres. The prize for AI firms is the right to train on the country’s books, music and journalism. Australia has become the latest test of a question every government now faces. How much of a nation’s creative work can AI companies […]
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The European Union will propose limits on children’s access to social media, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday, hours after an expert panel she convened delivered its recommendations on how the bloc should shield minors from harmful content. She has been building towards this since May, when she first told MEPs a […]
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The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument inverts the usual security logic. Real safety comes from broad participation, sharing, and oversight, he […]
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An idea that sounded radical a year ago is now a majority position. Nearly seven in ten Americans support forcing AI companies to transfer half their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund, CNBC reports. The figure comes from a Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults, conducted in June. It found 69% backing for the policy. […]
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In the space of about ten days, US lawmakers introduced a small mountain of artificial-intelligence legislation. The bills, rounded up by Nextgov/FCW, pull in two opposite directions at once. One set treats AI as a tool the government should be deploying faster. The other treats it as a hazard that needs fencing in. Both instincts are […]
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Beijing’s cybersecurity warning against Anthropic is expected to speed up a shift already under way. Chinese developers are moving to domestic coding tools, analysts told the South China Morning Post. China’s National Vulnerability Database, overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, issued an alert this week. It claimed multiple versions of Claude Code contained […]
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The European Commission issued preliminary findings on Friday accusing Meta of building Facebook and Instagram to be addictive, giving the company a formal opportunity to respond before Brussels reaches a final decision that could trigger fines of up to 6% of its global annual revenue. Based on Meta’s 2025 turnover of roughly $201 billion, that […]
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed in a postmortem report on Friday that it did not have a prepared response plan for handling a cybersecurity incident when one hit in May. CISA staff “had to spend time building [a playbook] during the early stages of the incident,” the agency said, recommending that organisations […]
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Twenty months into the EU’s campaign to slash red tape, many of the businesses that demanded it are unimpressed. Firms told Politico the “simplification” drive is too slow, too costly, and too complicated. Politico spoke to 17 companies, consultancies, and trade bodies across sectors. A common complaint was that an institution built to write laws is ill-suited […]
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Britain is spending £2bn to train its army inside a simulation. It has handed the job to an American defence giant, with a German one taking a slice. The UK has signed a £2bn ($2.7bn) contract to train its soldiers with artificial intelligence. The deal, announced by the Ministry of Defence on Friday, runs for […]
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