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Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.

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Infineon Technologies is preparing to open its largest single investment, a €5 billion semiconductor factory on its Dresden campus, on 2 July. The Smart Power Fab, which received approximately €1 billion in EU Chips Act subsidies, will produce power semiconductors used in AI data centres, electric vehicles, and renewable energy systems. The opening arrives three […]

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Canada wants to ban under-16s from social media, and rein in AI chatbots too

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Canada has introduced a bill that would bar under-16s from social media and, in a twist that sets it apart from other countries, regulate AI chatbots in the same sweep. The Digital Safety Act, tabled on Wednesday, is the latest move in a global wave of governments cracking down on platforms over harm to children. […]

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The US-Philippines AI hub now has a price tag, $10bn, and a 99-year lease on the table

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The US-backed plan to build an AI and supply-chain hub in the Philippines now has a number attached: about $10bn in initial investment, with more to follow, according to the official leading the Philippine side. It also has a striking term on the table, a lease to the United States of up to 99 years. […]

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Mississippi residents file a 10,000-strong class action against Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over data-centre noise

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The backlash against AI data centres has reached a new stage: a class-action lawsuit. Residents of Mississippi have sued Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX, claiming a gas-fired power plant that feeds nearby data centres blasts “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that has eroded their health and home values. The case, made public in federal court in […]

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China’s state-run Workers’ Daily calls for a ‘dam’ to protect labour rights as AI spreads

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China’s Workers’ Daily, the official mouthpiece of the country’s umbrella trade union, has published a pointed editorial urging government agencies to protect labour rights as artificial intelligence spreads across the economy. The newspaper, which is published by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, titled the piece: “With the AI wave surging, how can we build […]

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Palantir’s Karp says Sanders will regret only asking for 50% of AI companies. Full nationalization is coming.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says full nationalization of AI companies is coming, and that Senator Bernie Sanders’ proposal for 50% public ownership will soon look moderate. “In two years, they’re not going to think Bernie Sanders is progressive,” Karp told CNBC on Wednesday. “They’re going to be like, ‘Bernie Sanders, you only want 50%? What […]

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White House offers to trade state AI preemption for federal online safety laws in new deal with Congress

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The White House is negotiating with key senators to bundle federal preemption of state AI laws with three online safety bills, Axios reported. Senator Marsha Blackburn is leading the effort to finalise legislative text. The package would block state AI regulation for three years in exchange for passing the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), the […]

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India froze Starlink approvals over Iran fears, days before SpaceX’s record IPO

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India has effectively frozen the approvals Starlink needs to begin commercial operations in the country. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs withheld final clearances after SpaceX allowed Starlink access inside Iran despite not having a licence to operate there, Bloomberg reported. The timing is awkward: SpaceX’s IPO, expected to raise $75 billion at […]

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Anthropic’s CEO says he doesn’t know if Claude was used in the Iran school strike that killed 120 children

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he does not know what role his company’s AI model Claude played in a missile strike that killed an estimated 120 children at an elementary school in Minab, Iran, on February 28. In an interview on Bloomberg’s The Circuit with Emily Chang, he described the strike as “a really terrible […]

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Russia unbans Roblox after 63,000 children wrote letters of complaint, half saying they wanted to leave the country

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Russia restored access to Roblox on Wednesday after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, the Interfax news agency reported. The gaming platform had been blocked since December 3, cutting off an estimated 18 million monthly users, most of them children and teenagers. The Digital Ministry said Roblox had implemented “a comprehensive set […]

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