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Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing

The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox ‘strongly disputes’ the claims; the FTC has declined to comment. Two children’s advocacy groups, Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, asked the US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate Roblox, Reuters reported, […]

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AMD’s Lisa Su meets China’s vice premier in Beijing as chip diplomacy intensifies

  AMD CEO Lisa Su sat down with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, a meeting that underscores how US chipmakers are scrambling to protect their foothold in the world’s second-largest semiconductor market even as Washington tightens the screws on technology exports. He, a member […]

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The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up

  The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Helberg visited the proposed site on Monday with more than a dozen American companies, […]

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Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilation.” Speaking at Rome’s La Sapienza University on Wednesday, the pontiff called for tighter monitoring of […]

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Anthropic is briefing the Financial Stability Board on what Mythos has been finding

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, who chairs the global financial-risk watchdog, has invited the company to present to G20 finance ministries and central banks. The model that worried him is the model now being explained. Anthropic is preparing to brief the Financial Stability Board on the cybersecurity vulnerabilities its Mythos model has been identifying […]

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Trump calls Taiwan arms deal a “negotiating chip” after three days with Xi in Beijing

  Donald Trump flew home from Beijing on Friday having told China’s Xi Jinping that a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan is “a very good negotiating chip,” a remark that reframes American security commitments to a democratic ally as a bargaining token in a broader great-power relationship. The comment, made during a Fox News […]

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Musk’s X commits to UK regulator on hate speech, with Grok probe still open

Elon Musk’s platform has agreed to review illegal hate and terrorism posts within a day on average, restrict UK-proscribed groups, and report quarterly to the regulator. A separate Ofcom investigation continues. X has agreed to a set of commitments on illegal hate speech and terrorist content with Ofcom, Britain’s communications regulator said on Friday, after […]

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Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says

Greer told Bloomberg TV the bilateral did not address chip controls, even as Reuters reported the Trump administration cleared Nvidia H200 sales to several Chinese firms after the Xi meeting. Semiconductor export controls were not a major topic at this week’s US-China bilateral meetings in Beijing, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg TV on […]

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US clears H200 sales to 10 Chinese firms, but not a single chip has shipped

Washington has approved Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com, and six others to buy Nvidia’s H200, with each licence good for up to 75,000 units. Beijing has told its tech sector to wait, and Jensen Huang has now been added to Trump’s Beijing trip to try to break the deadlock. The US has cleared roughly 10 Chinese […]

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China sharpens criticism of US chip-equipment bill as Trump arrives in Beijing

Beijing’s foreign ministry hit the MATCH Act on the eve of the Xi summit, with a 150-day alignment deadline for Japan and the Netherlands at the heart of the legislation Beijing has sharpened its criticism of US legislation that would tighten controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, on the morning Donald Trump arrived in the Chinese […]

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