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Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training

A group of major book publishers and the author Scott Turow have sued Google, claiming it used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission. The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it “one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history.” The plaintiffs filed the complaint on 10 July in the […]

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Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI

While the West argues over how to regulate AI, Abu Dhabi has quietly built an AI-native government. In the UAE capital, a single app already renews your ID, books your doctor, and pays your parking fine, sometimes before you ask. Most governments are still drafting their first AI strategy. Abu Dhabi is running on one. […]

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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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The White House’s Gold Eagle wants to patch cyber flaws at machine speed

The White House wants frontier AI on cyber defence, and it wants it fast. Gold Eagle, a new AI-backed clearinghouse, will pool software vulnerability findings from government and industry. It ranks the worst, then coordinates fixes across US critical infrastructure. The pitch for AI-written malware is that it moves at machine speed. Washington has now […]

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Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity

Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised sandbox. For a century, Delaware has been the place where American […]

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Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause

The man behind Google’s AI thinks the world needs a referee. And he has drafted the rules. Demis Hassabis wants a US-led watchdog that vets frontier models before release. It is modelled on Wall Street’s policeman, and it could slow the whole industry down. Demis Hassabis does not usually sound the alarm. On Tuesday he […]

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Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks

The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. Two stories this week suggest the reality can run the other way. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was not safe to trust. Marilyn Shuler spent 39 years reading […]

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Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%

Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By […]

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Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules

Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why. Uber could not win the race to build a […]

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xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted

Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines. “I can’t do anything […]

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