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Spanish company runs EU-banned facial recognition technology in India
Banned at home, European surveillance tech finds markets abroad.
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DeepSeek and Alibaba launch fresh assaults on frontier AI
Two of China's biggest AI labs spent the weekend taking aim at frontier models.
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Musk's SpaceX could become the Pentagon's next AI provider
The move could deepen the military’s reliance on Musk's services – with critics raising concerns
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Chinese startup Moonshot unveils world's largest open AI model, challenging Anthropic
The open AI model is freely downloadable and customizable.
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China shaken by a wave of AI girlfriend and boyfriend breakups
Users are devastated as AI companions are incompatible with the new Chinese rules.
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Removed AI watermark? You may soon find yourself in a Greek prison
Yet another rather controversial proposal in Greece.
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South Korea sees its first criminal case involving cheating with smart glasses
“Pervert glasses” are now coming to exam sites.
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Musk’s Colossus 2 data center is suffocating Black communities
The facility will pump tons of cancer-causing gases every year.
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German consortium releases Soofi S, the top-ranked open-source AI model
Germany enters the AI race.
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Fastmail launches EU-hosted email service with Amsterdam data center
Businesses and organizations are seeking greater certainty about where their data is stored.
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Doctor Claude? Anthropic’s chatbot fakes medical credentials
Call me Dr. Claude Sage.
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Majority of Americans want the government to own half of AI companies
Americans favor aggressive economic interventions when it comes to regulating AI.
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Learn to think again: University of Chicago blocks AI use entirely for first-year law students
University of Chicago law students will have to learn to think for themselves
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AI camera triggers $1,200 fine for phone resting face down on driver’s lap
The truth is more nuanced, but exposes bigger questions around police use of AI
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OpenAI's Jony Ive-designed speaker launch follows Apple theft claims
The speaker is designed by the former Apple design chief.
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New York halts construction of big data centers, but people aren’t impressed
A win for NIMBYs, a loss for the economy?
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Palantir’s Alex Karp says gains from the AI revolution won’t be equally distributed
Is it really a revolution then?
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Grok slurping secrets from private repos, xAI scrambles to fix it
Fix only controls what xAI keeps, not what is transmitted.
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Canadian regulator warns banks that Anthropic's Claude Mythos compresses cyber defense window
Attack methods can emerge as soon as new vulnerabilities are identified.
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ChatGPT advice leaves hikers stranded in the mountains
A rescue mission was launched after the chatbot got it horribly wrong.
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