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China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips

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China’s government has signalled it may let firms such as Alibaba and ByteDance buy Nvidia’s new RTX Pro 5500 chip. The Information reported the news on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the matter. China’s tech ministry recently asked some firms how many of the chips they plan to buy, and what for, according to […]

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EU’s AI envoy tells commissioners to focus on using AI, Politico reports

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The EU’s special envoy for industrial AI has told the EU’s top officials to focus on using AI to lift Europe’s slow productivity. Racing to build the best models matters less, he told them. Zoya Sheftalovich reported the story for Politico. Jim Hagemann Snabe gave the message to the 27 commissioners at a private seminar […]

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Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports

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A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The documents were reported by Sandra Laville for the Guardian. Campaigners got the papers through freedom of information requests. They show the developer, Xlinks, had been in private talks with Torridge district council since […]

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Bill Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths and says self-regulation is not enough

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Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that self-regulation is not enough because safeguards and monitoring have to be a required thing. The European Union has required them since August 2025, and since 2 August this year the Commission has been able to fine a model […]

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Pentagon seeks $30.3m for an AI lie detector that reads the body from afar

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The Pentagon wants $30.3m over five years to build an AI lie detector that reads the body without touching it. The programme, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, appears in the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s 2027 budget request. Inside Defense first reported the plan. MIT Technology Review’s Amit Katwala asked experts whether it could work. […]

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US appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply chain risk label on Anthropic

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A US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk. The label bars the military and its contractors from using Anthropic’s Claude models. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the DC Circuit court of appeals denied Anthropic’s petitions to overturn the designation. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas wrote the opinion, […]

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Europe keeps buying more electric cars, which now take 29% of new registrations

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Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, exactly level with petrol. Hybrids remain the largest single category on 36.6%, and the spread between Norway at 98% and Croatia at 4% is […]

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Palo Alto’s Nikesh Arora tells CNBC that slowing AI down is ‘unrealistic’

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Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says it is “unrealistic” to slow down AI development, because “not everybody is going to pace themselves”. He made the comments on CNBC’s “The Tech Download” podcast, recorded on Tuesday, CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal reported. Arora also told CNBC it was “highly unlikely” that AI has a 10% chance […]

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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers

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The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK’s AI Security Institute until the US government has tested them. Politico’s Sophia Cai and Joseph Bambridge reported the request on Thursday. A British official confirmed Politico’s report to Bloomberg on Friday. According to Politico, the request came […]

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Sanders bill would ban superintelligence and create a Department of AI

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Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar have introduced a bill to permanently ban artificial superintelligence in the US. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would also pause work on the most advanced AI. And it would create a Department of Artificial Intelligence. The two lawmakers introduced the bill on Wednesday. They gave it first to […]

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