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China hits back at the Pentagon with curbs on 56 US firms

China’s new trade curbs target 56 US companies, from rare-earth miners to drone makers. It is direct retaliation for Washington adding Chinese firms to its military blacklist. China has answered the Pentagon’s blacklist with one of its own. On Monday, Beijing aimed trade curbs at 56 American companies. The measures hit drone makers and defence […]

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China’s green-power target for AI data centres runs into the grid

The cleanest way to power a data centre is also the least predictable. The sun sets, the wind drops, and a server hall full of AI accelerators does not care: it wants the same steady draw at three in the morning that it wanted at noon. That mismatch is the problem now sitting between China’s […]

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New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason

Waymo delivers more than 500,000 paid rides per week across 10 US cities, raised $16 billion in February, and is expanding internationally to Tokyo and London. It cannot operate in New York City. The reason is not technical, it is political. As the New York Times reported this week, opposition from local politicians, labor unions, […]

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Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones

Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the word “misantropi4” to millions of mobile phones across at least seven states. The Civil Defense Alert platform was taken offline at 1:30 am on Saturday after the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development confirmed the intrusion. The Federal Police […]

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor

Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of users to treat AI systems as trusted companions. The comments came in a Bloomberg interview published this week in which Whittaker laid out her case that […]

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ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters has published 45 gigabytes of data stolen from Madison Square Garden Entertainment after the company missed a June 15 ransom deadline. The dump includes facial recognition surveillance records, internal threat assessments, and personal information from what the hackers claim are 26 million customer and corporate records. A federal class action lawsuit […]

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BYD rejects claims it violated Hungary’s environmental rules at its Szeged EV factory

BYD executive vice president Stella Li said the Chinese automaker has complied with all environmental regulations at its Szeged factory in Hungary, pushing back against allegations that the company violated its obligations during construction. Li made the comments at a press conference in Belgrade on Friday, where she met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to […]

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Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO

President Donald Trump said in a pretaped Axios interview that he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat, marking a sharp reversal from the administration’s aggressive posture toward the AI company over the past three months. Asked whether he considers Anthropic a threat, Trump replied, “Well, not now. But a week ago, maybe.” […]

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Sony’s $7.85M PlayStation Store antitrust settlement has been preliminarily approved

A US federal court has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement in an antitrust class action alleging that Sony monopolised the market for digital PlayStation games by eliminating competition from third-party retailers. The settlement, approved on 8 April, covers approximately 4.4 million PlayStation owners in the United States, according to court filings. The case, Caccuri […]

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Norway is banning generative AI in elementary schools starting this autumn

Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children starting from the new school year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on Friday. The ban applies to students in first through seventh grade, covering ages six to 13, according to Reuters. Støre said at a press conference that […]

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