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China proposes export controls on its advanced AI models and chip designs

China’s commerce and science ministries proposed adding 23 AI technologies, including large models, agents, chip designs, and computing clusters, to the country’s export control list. Open-source tech is exempt and overseas users can still access models through apps. A temporary export registration rule took effect on 16 October. China plans to limit exports of 23 […]

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UK watchdog says AWS and Microsoft must do more to ease cloud switching

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have made it easier to switch cloud providers but still have more to do, the UK competition watchdog said on Friday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also proposed bringing Microsoft under its toughest digital rules. The update is the CMA’s first progress check since March, when it accepted voluntary commitments from […]

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Meta opens a weaker AI model while keeping the frontier closed

Meta has published the weights for Muse Spark Open, a coding and agent model it says is less advanced than the Muse Wonder frontier model it launched on Monday. Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said Meta will generally not open-source its most powerful models, which is the split the EU AI Act’s open-source exemption is […]

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Google launches Universal Cart in the US, with checkout built into Search and the Gemini app

Google launched Universal Cart in the US on Wednesday, a cart that sits inside Search and the Gemini app, holds products from multiple retailers and takes the payment through Google Pay. Its own roadmap names Canada, Australia and the UK for expansion, and never mentions the EU. Google has put a shopping cart inside Search […]

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SpaceX’s $8B spectrum deal exposes the risk in telecom shares

SpaceX agreed to pay about $8B for nationwide low-band US spectrum, and shares in AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile fell on the news. Europe’s equivalent band comes up for selection in May 2027, with Brussels proposing that two-thirds of it be reserved for European firms and sovereign use. SpaceX has agreed to pay about $8B for […]

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EU says it is in talks with Google over changes after €890M DMA fine

The European Commission is in talks with Google about the steps the company may take following the EU’s €890M (about $1bn) fine in July. The Commission confirmed the talks on Wednesday to Reuters. The fines were issued under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU law that sets rules for the largest online platforms. In […]

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OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive

OpenAI has put its compute and infrastructure businesses under Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk’s xAI until July 2025. Sachin Katti, who had been overseeing infrastructure and led the $30B Georgia build, leaves the role within weeks and stays on as an adviser. OpenAI has put compute and infrastructure under one executive. Uday […]

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Apple’s first AI features reach China in December, after a two-year wait

Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after the US, excluding the rebuilt Siri AI. Siri AI is also still missing in the EU, with no indication of when approval might come. Apple will ship Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December, two years after America […]

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The charged OpenAI engineer had a one-way ticket out of the US, a filing shows

Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recording device, had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia booked for three days after his arrest, according to a court filing. He has entered no reported plea and is presumed innocent. The OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recording device had a one-way ticket out of the […]

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI

Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is not warranted. His prescription is to accelerate containment and monitoring technology, which Nvidia is building a team to sell. Nvidia’s chief executive says he would stop supplying a customer building […]

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