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UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules

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Britain’s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the “greatest security challenge of the next decade,” according to Bloomberg. She sets it out in an essay for the Chatham House think tank, published on […]

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Judge grants Alibaba a reprieve from the lobbying ban tied to the Pentagon’s blacklist

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A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba temporary relief from a law that stripped it of every lobbyist it had in Washington, Bloomberg reports. The reprieve stands while the court considers whether the measure is constitutional. The case is shaping up as a test of how far the US can go in curbing […]

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Tech billionaires pour $120M into killing California’s wealth tax

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Silicon Valley’s wealthiest are spending heavily to stop California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a Business Insider tally of campaign filings. Opponents have poured more than $120m into sinking or blunting the measure, roughly four times the $31m raised by its union backers. Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on residents and trusts worth over […]

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US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit

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Donald Trump arrives at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara holding unusual leverage, because the US decides which allies get access to the world’s most advanced AI, Politico reports. The alliance meets on 7 and 8 July with AI security questions hovering over the agenda. A new wave of models from Anthropic and OpenAI can find […]

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ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

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ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before Beijing’s new rules on humanlike AI interaction services take effect on 15 July. Doubao told users on Friday that its agent feature would go offline on 15 […]

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India orders Meta to remove Instagram ads promoting child abuse material

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India’s IT ministry has ordered Meta to immediately disable all Instagram advertisements and content promoting child sexual exploitation and abuse material, according to The Week. The company has seven days to explain how the ads were approved and to detail the safeguards it will put in place. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology also demanded […]

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South Korea plans a ‘future response fund’ built on its AI chip tax windfall

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South Korea will seek to create a “future response fund” financed by the tax windfall from its semiconductor boom, Yonhap reported. The proceeds would flow into AI, advanced manufacturing, and other long-term growth engines. Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said the fund would turn the extra tax revenue into investment resources for future generations. The government […]

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NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul

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The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E. The update is expected to reach 200,000 patients over the next year before […]

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US government body paid $1M to hackers who never locked a single file

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A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind. The group behind the deal calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang […]

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Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech platforms time to destroy documents that could be used as evidence against them. The conservative Liberal Party and the minor Greens party referred the legislation to an eight-week Senate […]

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