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Australia’s under-16 social media ban stumbles at the first age check, testers find

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The world’s first national ban on social media for under-16s is faltering at the very first gate, according to the testers who helped Australia’s government design its age-check regime. In a follow-up study first reported by Reuters, the team opened 50 accounts across nine of the 10 platforms covered by the law, declaring the account […]

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Judge upholds the verdict that Musk defrauded Twitter investors

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A federal judge has refused to overturn a jury’s finding that Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors during his $44bn takeover of the platform in 2022. US District Judge Charles Breyer denied Musk’s motion to set aside the verdict in most respects on Monday. A San Francisco jury ruled in March that two of Musk’s May 2022 tweets about the […]

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Utah let an AI renew prescriptions without a doctor, and its medical board wants it stopped

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Utah has quietly become the first US state to let an AI chatbot renew prescriptions without a doctor, according to the Associated Press. The programme, run by a company called Doctronic, launched in January and has set off a fierce medical debate. Residents can skip the doctor’s office and refill prescriptions online through the chatbot. It […]

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A senior FCA official says Britain should weigh regulating AI models directly

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Britain should consider whether large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini ought to be regulated as they increasingly influence how consumers make financial decisions, a senior official at the Financial Conduct Authority has said. Sheldon Mills, an executive director at the FCA, argued that the existing rulebook will have to evolve as firms […]

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UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules

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Britain’s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the “greatest security challenge of the next decade,” according to Bloomberg. She sets it out in an essay for the Chatham House think tank, published on […]

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Judge grants Alibaba a reprieve from the lobbying ban tied to the Pentagon’s blacklist

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A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from a law that stripped it of every lobbyist it had in Washington, Bloomberg reports. The reprieve stands while the court considers whether the measure is constitutional. The case is shaping up as a test of how far the US can go in curbing […]

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Tech billionaires pour $120M into killing California’s wealth tax

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Silicon Valley’s wealthiest are spending heavily to stop California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a Business Insider tally of campaign filings. Opponents have poured more than $120m into sinking or blunting the measure, roughly four times the $31m raised by its union backers. Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on residents and trusts worth over […]

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US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit

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Donald Trump arrives at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara holding unusual leverage, because the US decides which allies get access to the world’s most advanced AI, Politico reports. The alliance meets on 7 and 8 July with AI security questions hovering over the agenda. A new wave of models from Anthropic and OpenAI can find […]

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ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

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ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before Beijing’s new rules on humanlike AI interaction services take effect on 15 July. Doubao told users on Friday that its agent feature would go offline on 15 […]

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India orders Meta to remove Instagram ads promoting child abuse material

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India’s IT ministry has ordered Meta to immediately disable all Instagram advertisements and content promoting child sexual exploitation and abuse material, according to The Week. The company has seven days to explain how the ads were approved and to detail the safeguards it will put in place. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology also demanded […]

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