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The EU just ordered Meta to let rival AI assistants back onto WhatsApp within five days

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The European Commission has ordered Meta to “restore free access to WhatsApp for rival general purpose AI assistants” within five working days. The interim measures, announced on Tuesday, are designed to prevent what the Commission called “serious and irreparable damage to competition” in the AI assistant market. Meta said it would appeal. The company described […]

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The Netherlands is screening foreign investment in AI companies from January, after letting Nexperia slip through

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The Dutch government will expand its investment-screening regime to cover six additional technologies, including artificial intelligence, from 1 January 2027. The rules will affect hundreds of companies, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. “The Netherlands is the target for cyber operations, espionage and sabotage,” Economic Affairs Minister Heleen Herbert said. “Our goal remains an […]

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The UK is reviewing its £330M NHS deal with Palantir, and may pull the plug in 2027

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The British government has put its most contentious health-tech contract on notice. It is now formally reviewing the NHS’s £330mn deal with Palantir, and weighing whether to walk away in 2027. Technology minister Liz Kendall confirmed the review this week, telling Times Radio that “the current health secretary is reviewing every single aspect of that […]

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Microsoft cuts hundreds of Azure jobs in China as the borderless cloud splinters

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The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its Azure cloud unit in China, according to affected employees who spoke to the South China Morning Post. Two sources put the number […]

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France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly

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France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken. France’s National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, detected a compromise of Tchap on 7 June, and the Digital Affairs Directorate (DINUM), […]

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China is drafting a $295bn plan to build AI data centres, and to lock Nvidia out of them

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China wants to win the AI race on its own hardware. A new plan shows just how much it is willing to spend, and how far it will go to cut American chips out of the picture. Beijing is drafting a blueprint to spend around 2 trillion yuan ($295bn) over the next five years building […]

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Prince William is bringing homelessness prevention to London Tech Week for the first time

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The Prince of Wales will attend London Tech Week on Wednesday for the first time, chairing a panel on how data and technology can identify people at risk of homelessness before they lose their homes. It is the first time homelessness prevention has appeared on the event’s agenda. The panel, hosted by entrepreneur Jake Humphrey, will feature […]

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BYD says demand is double its capacity, but its sales data tells a different story

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BYD’s executive vice president Stella Li told CNBC on Monday that China’s EV market will push to close to 80% penetration, a bullish forecast that contrasts sharply with rival Nio, whose chief executive William Li said last month that the industry’s “golden era” was over. The prediction arrives on the same day the Pentagon added […]

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Jensen Huang won’t testify before the Senate on Nvidia’s China chip sales. He offered a tour of headquarters instead.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Senator Elizabeth Warren to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday about the chipmaker’s sales to China and US export controls. Warren had asked Huang to appear under oath to discuss how Nvidia’s AI chips reach Chinese buyers and whether they end up in military applications. Huang […]

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Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines

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Apple previewed a suite of new parental controls at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing tools that give parents more granular authority over what their children can see, who they can contact, and how long they can spend in apps. The updates, arriving this autumn with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, land on the […]

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