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The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in investment, as the oil-and-gas producer tries to reinvent itself as a computing hub for the region. The centrepiece is Data Center […]
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The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone. Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 worldwide late on Friday 12 June, three days […]
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Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package that could ban access to the main platforms and curb features judged too addictive for young users, according to reporting on the government’s plans. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is said to have decided to go further after speaking […]
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 demonstrates the danger of depending on a small number of powerful AI models. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Ireland, Carney framed the suspension as a warning about systemic vulnerability rather […]
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When the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June, the export control directive was aimed at restricting foreign nationals from accessing America’s most capable AI. In India, Anthropic’s second-largest market, it landed as a warning shot about what happens when your AI infrastructure runs on someone else’s […]
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Grassroots opposition to data center construction in the United States has reached a scale that is starting to reshape where and whether the AI industry can build. A new report from Data Center Watch, a tracker maintained by AI research firm 10a Labs, found that activists blocked or delayed at least 75 projects worth a […]
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NHS England is giving more than 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in what will be the largest AI deployment in healthcare globally. The rollout follows a pilot across 90 NHS organisations in which 30,000 workers used the tool for administrative tasks. NHS England says the average participant saved 43 minutes […]
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A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company with a subpoena on Friday demanding documents on advertising, user engagement and retention, consumer and health data, its treatment of minors and seniors, deep-learning models, and internal […]
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The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washington has forced a commercial AI product offline. The directive, which Anthropic says it received at 5:21pm ET on 12 June, cites national security authorities and demands […]
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Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negligence, and trespass based on the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984. One plaintiff showed Reuters her home in Port […]
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