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Nigeria’s regulator asks Uber about the services it did not deliver before leaving

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Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is investigating Uber’s abrupt exit, particularly unfulfilled services to customers, after the company shut down without warning as part of a global review that cut 3,300 jobs. The main beneficiary is Estonia’s Bolt, and EU platform rules would have required 30 days’ notice to drivers. Nigeria’s competition and […]

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Kenya bet its graduates on gig work in 2022. ChatGPT launched that year

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In 2022 Kenya adopted a ten-year national plan to move its graduates into online outsourcing work. OpenAI released ChatGPT the same year. Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur set out what happened next, reporting from Nairobi for the New York Times with Edwin Okoth. At its peak early this decade, researchers estimated at least 40,000 people […]

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Berlin refused to pay. Now it runs four task forces

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Berlin refused to pay. The data went up on Friday. The German capital now runs two police task forces, a joint departmental unit, a crisis management team and an external legal adviser. That is what refusing a ransom looks like once the deadline passes. The State of Berlin set out that machinery itself, in a […]

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Console makers say buyers are owed nothing from their tariff refunds

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Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all moved to dismiss class actions arguing they should pass US tariff refunds back to console buyers, saying customers paid advertised prices and got working consoles. European buyers absorbed the same increases but there is no European tariff refund, because there was no European tariff. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are […]

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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit on its second flight, a first for a European commercial launcher

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Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed satellites from Andoya in northern Norway on Saturday night, the first commercial European company to do so and on only its second flight. It lands four days before Macron’s Paris space summit, which SpaceX and Blue Origin withdrew from last week. Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit […]

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Four American firms skipped Macron’s space summit, and are due back in Paris a week later

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SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud pulled out of Macron’s Paris space summit after White House pressure, though several are expected back in the city days later for World Space Business Week. Organisers describe the event as behind schedule and unclear in purpose, while Washington lobbies against the EU Space Act. Four American space […]

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OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks

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OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, promising a framework within weeks. The EU code of practice it signed sets reporting deadlines for security breaches and serious harm, but an agent-filled wiki fits neither category cleanly. OpenAI has confirmed its role in the […]

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California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens

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California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 2028. The METR investigation into OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident consumed about $400,000 in API credits provided free by OpenAI, using a model from the same family that took part in the attack. California’s […]

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Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning

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AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief scientist has warned against a race into unmonitorability. He co-authored a 2025 position paper asking developers to evaluate and report exactly this, which the EU’s code of practice turns into a filing to the AI Office. […]

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TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad

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Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus of up to one gigawatt in Hyderabad, using green energy and water-neutral design principles. EU rules require any data centre above 500kW to report total and drinking water consumption to a European database […]

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