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White House warns Australia over social media algorithm rules carrying A$109M fines

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The White House has warned Australia over draft laws that would force social media platforms to offer users a feed not built by an algorithm, placing the bill in the same category as digital services taxes and describing penalties on American technology companies as a form of extortion. The Trump administration intends to raise the […]

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Kawasaki signed an AI chip deal with a startup the Pentagon backs

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries has signed an agreement to put a startup’s AI chips into Japanese aerial defence platforms. The chip company is the interesting part. EdgeCortix, a fabless semiconductor firm based in Kanagawa, announced the deal last week, a teaming agreement running from 2026 to 2028. Hideaki Nishimoto, who runs Kawasaki’s defence and aerospace division, […]

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Pentagon AI chief says US allies lack the resources to keep pace

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The Pentagon’s most senior artificial intelligence official has said publicly what allied defence ministries have been hearing privately for the past two years: they do not have the same resources as the US, and they are unlikely to catch up anytime soon. Cameron Stanley, the Department of War’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, made […]

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The rules for reviewing frontier AI models are secret. The companies that have read them are the big ones.

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More than 25 organisations from left and right have written to the White House asking it to publish the voluntary framework governing pre-deployment review of frontier AI models. The framework was completed on 1 August and previewed only with a selected group of companies, with smaller and open-source developers largely excluded. The coalition argues secrecy […]

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US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms and lists the US models each one targeted

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Three US agencies have jointly named six Chinese AI companies as having systematically extracted capabilities from American frontier models since late 2024, in an advisory detailed enough to list which model each firm went after and how the requests were disguised. The National Security Agency, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published […]

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Qualcomm hands Amazon $4B of warrants to build custom silicon for AWS

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Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants over 25 million shares worth about $4B, vesting against commercial milestones and up to $60B of server chip purchases, alongside a multi-generation custom silicon deal for AWS. Qualcomm is also one of three chipmakers that signed memoranda to supply the EU’s AI gigafactories, a programme with roughly EUR 1B actually […]

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Google’s map of every possible DNA typo could speed up rare disease research

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DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte of precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, free for academic use. Its headline validations came from UK Biobank whole genomes at Exeter and from the Broad Institute, and commercial access is heading to Google Cloud. DeepMind has published AlphaGenome Atlas, a […]

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Irish regulator probes X over age checks, with 10% of turnover at stake

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Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into whether X’s age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July and was allowed to appeal it in January, so it is being […]

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Plug-in hybrids emit six times their official rating, and carmakers want the fix cancelled

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Plug-in hybrids registered in the EU in 2024 emitted an average 145 grams of CO2 per kilometre against an official rating of 24 grams, according to Transport and Environment’s reading of onboard monitor data from 220,000 cars. Carmakers want the 2027 correction to that calculation cancelled, weeks before the Council debates the file. Plug-in hybrids […]

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China put a 99.2% duty on a chemical chip fabs need

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China has imposed a cash deposit of up to 99.2% on imports of a Japanese chemical that chip fabs use to build the films inside logic and memory chips. The rate is close to prohibitive. It took effect on Tuesday. China’s Ministry of Commerce published the preliminary determination on 7 September as Announcement No. 37 […]

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