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US judge strikes down Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as illegal retaliation

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A federal judge has voided the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding that the label was punishment for the company’s public criticism of the Trump administration rather than a security assessment. US District Judge Rita Lin, of the Northern District of California, issued the decision on Thursday in a 59-page […]

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What the US semiconductor tariff does and does not currently touch

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The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it from touching the AI buildout, exempting covered products destined for American data centres. That exemption was always provisional, and the Commerce Department report that determines whether it survives was due on 1 July, in a […]

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South Korea’s regulator says Meta’s teen limits should apply everywhere, not just America

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South Korea’s media regulator has said that Meta’s new protections for young users should ideally apply worldwide rather than only in the markets that forced them, which is a modest-sounding statement with a substantial ask inside it. The measures in question come from Meta’s settlement with US state attorneys general, and the company has already […]

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Poland has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M over scam ads

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Poland’s deputy prime minister and digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M, roughly $291M, over scams and false advertising on Facebook and Instagram. “I also call on Meta to immediately introduce effective tools to eliminate scams, false advertising, and the promotion of illegal applications,” he said, in a […]

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Huawei bid to build Egypt’s AI data centres, and Washington is scrambling

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Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for an AI training cloud. A further 600, either the same chips or the […]

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Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern

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Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached. That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state issued on 20 August and announced on Monday. OpenAI […]

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The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional

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The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed making public disclosure of air pollution from minor sources voluntary rather than mandatory, a change that would cover the diesel generators clustered around data centres. It follows the same direction as the exemptions the administration has already granted, having excused data centres and rockets from parts of environmental law earlier […]

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Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection

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Spain has drafted a decree that would require new data centres to source at least 80% of their electricity from renewables in every hour of operation, with loss of grid connection as the penalty for failing to comply. It is a markedly firmer position than the one Brussels has taken, having previously told Big Tech […]

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Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain

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Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikkei, in a project involving the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the country’s three largest banks. It is the sort of […]

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Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions

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Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok […]

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