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Apple and Google push for judicial oversight of Canada’s lawful-access bill

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Apple and Google have formally pushed for amendments to Bill C-22, the Canadian government’s lawful-access legislation now working its way through the House of Commons, arguing that the bill as drafted creates a potential for secret orders to compel changes to the encryption underpinning their software and devices. Both companies want judicial oversight built into […]

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Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

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The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the most concentrated single attempt yet to reduce European reliance on American cloud, AI and chip infrastructure. The package, according […]

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The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

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The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a US-headquartered firm control over the platform that runs DigiD, the digital identity system used […]

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xAI told staff to stop mingling with Cursor employees, weeks after they started working together

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  Elon Musk’s xAI has told employees to limit their contact with staff from Cursor , the AI coding startup that SpaceX has an option to acquire for $60 billion. The directive came from James Burnham, xAI’s general counsel and former chief lawyer at the Department of Government Efficiency, according to Bloomberg. Burnham sent guidelines to […]

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China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms

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Top researchers at private Chinese AI companies are being asked to surrender passports, in a quiet expansion of the controls that began at DeepSeek earlier this year. China is widening its informal travel restrictions on senior AI researchers, extending controls that began at DeepSeek earlier this year to a broader group of private-sector firms working at the […]

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Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences

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A three-to-four month suspension while Madrid’s gambling watchdog investigates makes Spain the latest European jurisdiction to treat prediction markets as unlicensed betting. Spain has temporarily blocked the US-based prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi for operating in the country without a gambling licence, according to an order published in the Spanish state gazette on Tuesday by […]

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Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google

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The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under the bloc’s new tech competition regime. The Commission’s case rests on the long-running complaint that […]

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China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one

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Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data including joint wear, battery status, and AI training history.   China has launched a national identification system […]

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The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding

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The European Central Bank is calling banks in for a meeting on Tuesday to address the cybersecurity risks created by a new generation of AI models that can find and exploit software vulnerabilities faster than any human team. The meeting follows months of growing anxiety across European finance about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, the frontier AI […]

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Huawei unveils ‘Tau Scaling Law’ as China’s workaround for US chip sanctions

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He Tingbo used a Shanghai keynote to argue that cutting signal-propagation time, not shrinking transistors, is the new frontier, and that Huawei has been quietly building chips around the idea for six years. Huawei used the opening day of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems in Shanghai on Monday to argue that the global semiconductor […]

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