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Brussels is asking publishers whether Google’s AI opt-out is any use

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Google gave publishers a way to opt out of its AI search features in June without affecting their ordinary search rankings. The European Commission has spent the summer trying to work out whether that option actually gives publishers any meaningful choice. The Commission sent publishers a questionnaire in July, with a deadline of August 28, […]

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Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week

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Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them down. Texas froze state funding for the same cameras four days earlier. Two states run by Republican governors moved against Flock Safety in the space of a week. Zack Whittaker reported both decisions for TechCrunch on […]

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X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

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X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 59 of those accounts with zero engagement. X probably suspended them before they […]

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The US will ask the G20 not to build anything to govern AI

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The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White House official set out the position before a two-day meeting that opened in North Carolina on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The argument is procedural rather than substantive, which is what makes it effective. Washington is not proposing rules […]

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Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes

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Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are still struggling to answer: what exactly counts as a deepfake? The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral was expected to rule on broader restrictions for AI-generated campaign material, Reuters reported. The proposed rules go beyond simply banning deceptive deepfakes. […]

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The FTC says Amazon charged advertisers the wrong price 80% of the time

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Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commission now alleges that Amazon charged advertisers their full winning bid roughly 80% of the time instead. The agency and 22 states sued Amazon on […]

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Reform UK wants to scrap the UK GDPR and copy New Zealand’s privacy law

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Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New Zealand’s. Nigel Farage and the party’s economy chief Robert Jenrick announced the pledge on Tuesday evening, inside a package aimed at small businesses. Mizy Clifton reported the plan for Politico. Britain wrote an amended […]

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Google will pay £260m to settle a UK class action over Play Store fees

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Google has agreed to pay £260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was due to go to trial next month. The deal appeared on Thursday and is worth about $353m, Reuters reported. Lawyers had previously valued the claim at just over £1bn. It sought compensation […]

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ChatGPT becomes the first AI chatbot designated under the DSA

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The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a search engine. Monday’s designation brings the chatbot under the Digital Services Act as a Very Large Online Search Engine, alongside Reddit and Roblox, which have been designated as Very Large Online Platforms. ChatGPT is the first AI chatbot to be designated under the regime. The Commission announced […]

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The Justice Department rewrote its own hacking announcement two days later

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The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other federal bodies. The revised version says those organisations were targets, and that only some were actually compromised, as Reuters reported. The original text went out on […]

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