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Google and the UK will steer planes around contrails over the Atlantic

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The UK government and Google are launching a trial to steer aircraft around climate-warming contrails. Google announced Operation Blue Skies on Tuesday. It is the first such effort across an entire ocean airspace. AI forecasts will predict where contrails form over the North Atlantic, and controllers will nudge planes to avoid those patches of sky. […]

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Apple overhauls EU App Store fees to settle its DMA dispute

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Apple is overhauling its EU App Store fees to settle a long dispute with the European Commission. The company announced the changes on Tuesday, after what it called close collaboration with the Commission. Developers can sign the new terms today, and they take effect on 1 October. The headline change is the end of the […]

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AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws

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Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on interviews with eight current and former officials who work or have worked with the […]

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The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over competing board seats

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The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Those sources put the investigation at nearly a year old. Monday’s story is the first […]

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France’s tax agency lost data on 678,000 people to a stolen login

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The French tax agency says an attacker took data belonging to 678,000 individuals and businesses. The intrusions happened in June and July. The agency did not establish that anything had left its systems until the attacker said so in August. The Direction générale des Finances publiques set out what the attacker reached in a statement […]

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California’s first self-driving trucks are on the road, and the rules behind them are in court

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California has issued its first permits to test autonomous trucks on public roads, to Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, with Kodiak already running vehicles around Mountain View. Teamsters California filed suit on 5 August asking a court to repeal the rules that made the permits possible. Self-driving trucks are testing on California public roads for […]

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The Supreme Court will not help Verizon recover $47mn over location data

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The US Supreme Court has refused Verizon’s request to amend a June ruling so it could pursue a refund of the $47mn it paid over selling access to customer location data. AT&T, whose case is procedurally different, can still seek reimbursement of its $57mn. Verizon will not get back the $47mn it paid over customer […]

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The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war

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Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell friendly nations they must choose between the American and Chinese artificial intelligence ecosystems, because belonging to both is no longer an option. The […]

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Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update

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Mastercard transactions were declined across Australia on Saturday afternoon after what the company describes as a scheduled system update, with more than 1,900 outage reports logged by mid-afternoon. Mastercard says the problem is resolved and all systems are working normally. Mastercard payments stopped working across Australia on Saturday afternoon. “A scheduled system update caused Mastercard […]

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The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI

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Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American “AI Opportunity Statement” from June. Its message is that countries must choose. The wording is blunt for a diplomatic text. “To be part of everything is to […]

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