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Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030

Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which roughly $2B is new and the rest was pledged for the UAE last year. Europe is meanwhile legislating to keep American cloud providers away from sensitive public sector data. Microsoft will spend $10B through 2030 across Saudi […]

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DeepSeek publishes its method for training AI agents at scale

DeepSeek has published a paper describing the platform it uses to train AI agents, which runs about 3 million sandboxes a day and states that agent execution is untrustworthy and that no single mechanism can prevent all misbehaviour. Europe requires every member state to have a regulatory sandbox of a very different kind operational by […]

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OpenAI asks the US to lead global standards for self-improving AI

“Fully autonomous RSI is not happening today, and we should not pursue it unless and until it can be done safely,” OpenAI wrote on Monday. OpenAI set this out in a proposal published on 21 September. In it, the company calls on the United States to lead an effort with other countries to develop global […]

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A study of 47 million inspections says old EVs hold up better

Electric cars above 120,000 miles failed Britain’s MOT roadworthiness test 32% less often than petrol and diesel equivalents, in a study of 47.4 million inspections by the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association. The advantage reverses at low mileage, and the test does not examine the battery at all. Electric cars above 120,000 miles fail […]

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Jensen Huang tells Ezra Klein AI labs that lack control should not ship

“Don’t ship the product. If your product is not ready to ship, don’t ship the product,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein on The New York Times’ podcast. Klein interviewed Huang at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, and The New York Times published the episode on Wednesday. Much of the conversation turned on […]

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OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine

“Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now. We want to put more capable tools in their hands to help them find and fix vulnerabilities and protect the critical networks people depend on,” said Sasha Baker, head of national security policy at OpenAI. OpenAI will give the Government of Ukraine […]

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Burnham says the UK is building an AI defence partnership with the US

Fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance. They must be taken by elected governments who serve working people. Andy Burnham said that about AI on Tuesday evening. It was his first speech to the UN General Assembly as British prime minister. He used it to announce three things. The […]

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Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips

The Netherlands’ newest government agency is now one month old and has already made its first move by deciding to use AI in the design of the chips that power AI. On Wednesday, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation (NADI) and Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) announced that they would commit €40 million […]

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Airbus wins 25-year contract to build cyber gateways for France’s armed forces

France’s military runs networks at different classification levels, and data still has to move between them, and Airbus will build the checkpoints. The French defense procurement agency (DGA) has awarded the company the 25-year PARACOM contract to supply cybersecurity gateways for the networks of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans’ Affairs, Airbus said […]

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UK regulator toughens Google choice screen proposals as AI assistants rise

The next time a UK Android user is asked to pick a search engine, ChatGPT could be one of the answers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published strengthened proposals on Wednesday that would require Google to include AI assistants on its Android and Chrome choice screens, provided they meet technical and security criteria. Under the […]

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