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Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts

Operazione Tutto Chiaro hit more than 100 sites across Italy, France, and Germany, targeting a system that rebroadcast legitimate subscription codes every three minutes. Italy’s Guardia di Finanza said on Friday it had dismantled an audiovisual piracy operation that streamed paid content from Sky, DAZN, Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify to thousands of subscribers using an app called […]

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HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from “pay and chase” to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched an artificial intelligence initiative aimed at detecting fraud and waste across federal health programmes, building on a strategy first outlined in […]

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IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn

Nine CHIPS Act letters of intent, $1bn for IBM, and a government cap table that now includes most of the publicly traded quantum names. The US Department of Commerce has signed nine letters of intent to provide $2.013bn in CHIPS Act funding to quantum computing companies, in exchange for federal equity stakes in each recipient. […]

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Taiwan moves to detain three over alleged illegal high-end AI server exports to China

The investigation is the island’s first formal semiconductor-smuggling crackdown and ties back to the wider Supermicro-linked diversion network that has been routing Nvidia Hopper systems into Chinese customers through Hong Kong and third-country relays. Taiwanese prosecutors are seeking the detention of three individuals over the alleged use of forged documents to export high-end Nvidia AI […]

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Trump administration moves to underwrite US AI exports with billions in EXIM financing

EXIM has more than $100bn of unused statutory lending capacity that the White House wants channelled into US-built, full-stack AI export packages, with the Commerce Department running a public solicitation for industry-led consortia. The Trump administration is moving to underwrite US-made AI exports with billions of dollars of federal export financing, the latest in a […]

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Trump to sign an AI oversight order this week as MAGA security pressure mounts on frontier-model labs

The draft executive order, expected as early as Thursday, sets up a voluntary 90-day pre-release model-disclosure framework with the federal government, with critical-infrastructure providers including banks brought in early. Steve Bannon and Amy Kremer have been pressing for a harder, mandatory line. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on AI oversight […]

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Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing

The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox ‘strongly disputes’ the claims; the FTC has declined to comment. Two children’s advocacy groups, Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, asked the US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate Roblox, Reuters reported, […]

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AMD’s Lisa Su meets China’s vice premier in Beijing as chip diplomacy intensifies

  AMD CEO Lisa Su sat down with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, a meeting that underscores how US chipmakers are scrambling to protect their foothold in the world’s second-largest semiconductor market even as Washington tightens the screws on technology exports. He, a member […]

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The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up

  The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Helberg visited the proposed site on Monday with more than a dozen American companies, […]

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Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilation.” Speaking at Rome’s La Sapienza University on Wednesday, the pontiff called for tighter monitoring of […]

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