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Mamdani wants NYC landlords to label the AI in their apartment photos

The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his administration published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda drawn from the testimony of more […]

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The UK won’t restrict VPNs after all, and its own research is why

The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A VPN hides a user’s real […]

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A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity

Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that. Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol that lets the internet’s independent systems talk to […]

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Google will start carrying rival app stores inside Google Play on 22 July

Android has always let people install apps from outside Google’s store. Next week it goes much further. Google will start carrying rival app stores from inside Google Play itself. Google told a California court it is ready to begin on Wednesday 22 July, The Verge reported. The move came after Google and Epic Games jointly […]

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Trump calls New York’s data centre pause a ‘terrible decision’. Hochul is not moving.

Kathy Hochul signed the executive order on Tuesday. Donald Trump was demanding she undo it by Wednesday. The order pauses construction of new data centres drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first US state to pull the brake on the buildings powering the AI boom. State officials are to […]

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Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland

Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to meet. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk’s own back yard. Amazon said on Wednesday it will bring its Amazon Leo satellite […]

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South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service agent available to all 52 million residents. The programme, called “AI for Everyone,” would make South Korea the first G20 nation to offer AI to its entire population as a public service. Two or three […]

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CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn

China’s biggest memory chipmaker is about to test the public markets. ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 8.66 yuan ($1.28) a share, the South China Morning Post reported. The sale will raise about 57.9 billion yuan, or $8.5bn. That would make it the largest listing by a Chinese semiconductor […]

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India pledges $20 billion to boost chips and smartphones as Modi pushes for an Indian mobile brand

India pledged 1.9 trillion rupees ($19.7 billion) in combined incentives for domestic chip and smartphone production on Wednesday. The cabinet approved 1.28 trillion rupees ($13.3 billion) for semiconductors, covering chip design, machine fabrication, research and development, and talent creation, and a separate 625 billion rupees ($6.5 billion) for mobile phone manufacturing. “The Prime Minister has […]

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Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment

A look at Anthropic safety hiring shows exactly what it fears: analysts brought in to stop its models teaching anyone how to build nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Most job ads sell a mission. Anthropic’s read like a threat assessment. The company has posted a run of openings for enforcement analysts whose job is to […]

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