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NHTSA demands autonomous vehicle companies fix first responder interference by end of July

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a directive on Wednesday demanding autonomous vehicle developers present solutions to a “clear pattern” of driverless vehicles interfering with first responders and law enforcement. Administrator Jonathan Morrison said vehicles have driven into active emergency scenes, blocked ambulances and firefighters, and failed to recognise flashing lights, flares, smoke, fire, […]

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A £35bn plan to fill the UK with 14 mini nuclear reactors

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A Polish billionaire has laid out plans to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across Britain, at an estimated £35bn, TechRadar reported. Michał Sołowow’s firm, SGE, says it wants to install 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites. It is targeting first power in 2034. The numbers are large. Together the […]

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Smart glasses are having a privacy reckoning, and Meta is caught in the middle

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The smart-glasses backlash has reached the courtroom. From 20 July, New York will ban recording eyewear from every one of its 1,240 courts. It is the first US state to go that far. An internal memo from the New York State Unified Court System sets out the rule, first reported by Syracuse.com. The ban is […]

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Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back

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A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI’s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, have stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centres. The trigger was a contractor building Meta’s new AI […]

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Palmer Luckey: US universities are falling behind China’s, and it shows

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Palmer Luckey has a blunt warning about the US-China tech race: America is losing the classroom. The Anduril founder argues that US universities have stopped teaching engineers how to build. That, he says, hands China a lead well beyond cheap labour. He made the comments in a conversation with the Hoover Institution, highlighted by Fortune. […]

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Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree

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Young workers and their bosses do not see the same person. Almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds, 45 per cent, believe they entered work with the skills to succeed. Just 6 per cent of UK managers agree, according to the Chartered Management Institute. The body polled more than 1,000 managers and 514 young people for […]

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AI’s hacking skills are outgrowing the tests built to measure them

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The tools built to measure how dangerous AI can be have stopped working. Frontier models outpace the benchmarks meant to gauge their hacking skills, Axios reports. That leaves regulators and security teams half-blind to what these systems can really do. The timing bites. US federal agencies have until 1 August to stand up a classified […]

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Apple puts a $30bn US-manufacturing flag on its Broadcom chip deal

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Apple is spending big to make chips at home. It has committed to a multi-year Broadcom deal worth more than $30 billion, Apple announced on Wednesday. That makes it Apple’s largest US manufacturing pledge to date. The scale is the story. The deal should yield more than 15 billion US-made chips and support hundreds of […]

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China and the US are now warning against each other’s AI

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The US-China AI split hardened this week. Beijing branded Anthropic’s Claude Code a security back-door, just as US lawmakers moved against American firms that lean on cheap Chinese models. China has told companies to drop Anthropic’s Claude Code. Its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said its cybersecurity platform found the coding tool carries a […]

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Londoners fight a Brick Lane datacentre, and it is not even for AI

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Residents in east London are fighting a datacentre planned for Brick Lane, saying the site should hold homes, not servers. The twist: it would serve high-frequency trading, not AI. Britain’s datacentre backlash has reached the heart of east London. Residents around Brick Lane oppose a plan for the old Truman Brewery site. It would put […]

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