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Italy’s antitrust regulator opens a probe into Apple’s cloud services

Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Apple over its cloud services, examined under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. The move places Apple’s cloud business under a regulator that has already become one of the company’s more persistent adversaries in Europe. The Digital Markets Act is the framework doing the work here. The EU’s […]

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Florida sues TikTok over its child social-media law

Florida has sued TikTok, accusing the app of breaking the state’s law restricting minors’ access to social media and of misleading parents about what their children would find there. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the suit on 15 June, filing it in St. Lucie County Circuit Court. The complaint alleges TikTok illegally let minors onto the platform, […]

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Canada wants to stop companies from using your data to charge you more, but the details are still missing

The Canadian government introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the country’s private-sector privacy laws, including new restrictions on businesses that use personal data to charge individual consumers higher prices. Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, would replace the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, a law first enacted in 1998 that […]

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A built-in Google Workspace feature became a Chinese espionage group’s favourite exfiltration tool

A China-linked espionage group spent more than a year inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks, stealing sensitive data and defence email. The attackers got in through a backdoor on REDCap research servers. The exfiltration method was the unusual part: they rewired the victims’ own Google Workspace rules to copy matching messages to […]

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The Pentagon’s AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months

The Pentagon’s generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users across the Department of Defense, according to the department’s chief technology officer. The figure represents nearly half of the DoD’s 3.5 million workforce. Six months ago, the platform had fewer than 100,000 users. Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, […]

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Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history

Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes after a week in which the dispute has metastasised from a narrow cybersecurity concern into a […]

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100 cybersecurity experts say banning Fable 5 hurts defenders more than hackers

Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals have published an open letter demanding the ban be reversed. Their argument is blunt: pulling the best AI tools from defenders while adversaries keep building is not safety, it is sabotage. […]

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Seattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told.

The Seattle Fire Department has been using artificial intelligence to listen to every 911 medical call in the city since December 2023, according to a GeekWire investigation published this week. The AI, built by Copenhagen-based startup Corti, monitors calls in real time and prompts dispatchers to route certain callers away from emergency response and toward […]

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Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backed Firebird to build ‘Data Center Valley’

The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in investment, as the oil-and-gas producer tries to reinvent itself as a computing hub for the region. The centrepiece is Data Center […]

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US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal

The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone. Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 worldwide late on Friday 12 June, three days […]

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