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France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy

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France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at VivaTech on Friday. The goal […]

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The UK’s top data and AI regulator has quit, a first in the office’s 40-year history

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The UK’s top data and AI regulator has resigned. It is the first time it has ever happened. John Edwards stepped down as information commissioner on Friday, with immediate effect. His exit followed a months-long workplace investigation. He said his position had become “untenable”. What he admitted Edwards was careful in his statement, posted on […]

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Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI hires Trump’s AI-policy architect and Google’s transformer pioneer

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OpenAI is hiring for its stock-market debut on two very different fronts. One is the research lab. The other is Washington. This week, the company said Dean Ball will join on 6 July to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. Ball is not a researcher. He is a policy operator, and until recently he […]

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The US says one of ASML’s top chip tools is in China. ASML says it isn’t.

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The US has accused the one company on Earth that makes the machines behind cutting-edge chips of letting one slip into China. It has not shown its proof, and the company says it never happened. In a series of recent meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told ASML’s senior leaders that Washington believes one of its […]

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Bernie Sanders’ AI bill would hand the public half of OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI

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Bernie Sanders has turned a talking point into a bill, and it goes further than anything Silicon Valley or the White House has put on the table. On Thursday, the Vermont senator introduced legislation that would hit the largest AI companies with a one-time 50 per cent tax on their stock, paid in shares rather […]

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A city hit pause on AI data centres. Amazon responded by investigating its own engineers.

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The backlash against AI data centres used to be a local zoning story. This week, it became a fight inside Amazon. Three Amazon engineers, Patrick Schloesser, Darius Irani and Liesl Wigand, say the company placed them under investigation after they testified to Seattle’s city council in favour of regulating data centres. They have filed a […]

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AI cheating tools are winning. Detection was never the point.

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The videos are everywhere, and the offer is always the same. Let AI do your homework, and you will not get caught. According to a New York Times investigation, TikTok and YouTube are now full of tutorials selling students two kinds of tool. Humanisers rewrite AI-generated text so it no longer reads like a chatbot. […]

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The world thinks China is winning the AI race. It just doesn’t trust the winner.

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Ask people around the world who is winning the AI race, and a surprising number now answer: China. In 11 of the 15 countries polled for a new report by the London consultancy Public First, a clear majority said they believe China is now ahead of the United States on AI capability and innovation. The […]

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A $5M tech-worker PAC is taking on Big Tech’s $100M war chest over AI rules

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Silicon Valley is spending more than $100mn to elect politicians who will leave AI alone. A new group of tech workers wants to fight back with a fraction of that. The Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC that supports AI regulation, launched on Thursday with money from tech employees, labour unions and parents. Democratic operatives Shaunna […]

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US court rules Ohio can restrict children’s use of social media

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Ohio can require social media companies to get a parent’s permission before letting children under 16 onto their platforms, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday, reviving a law the tech industry had managed to freeze. The decision from the Cincinnati-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court that had blocked the […]

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