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Tidal becomes first music streaming platform to stop paying royalties for fully AI-generated songs
Tidal will no longer pay out royalties to artists whose songs are fully generated with artificial intelligence (AI).
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US restores access to Anthropic's powerful Mythos, Fable AI models
In a dramatic turnaround, Anthropic says the US government has rolled back weeks-long export restrictions that had blocked the AI startup from exporting its über-powerful Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models over national security concerns.
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Anthropic launches Claude Science, unveils cheaper Sonnet 5 AI model
Anthropic on Tuesday dives headfirst into scientific research with the launch of Claude Science – an all-in-one AI workspace designed to “accelerate the pace of scientific discovery” – while also unveiling Claude Sonnet 5, its latest frontier AI model built for more autonomous coding and research tasks.
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Proton upgrades privacy-focused chatbot to rival Big Tech AI models in European sovereignty push
Swiss privacy company Proton has launched a major upgrade to Lumo, its AI chatbot, as Europe accelerates efforts to build sovereign AI services that reduce reliance on US technology giants.
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Bank of England considers emergency AI brakes to stop market meltdown
The Bank of England on Tuesday signalled the need for bespoke AI regulation to contain risks to the financial system posed by increasingly capable agentic systems, in a potential shift in its approach to overseeing the technology.
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Every search you make, it’s watching: this malicious Chrome extension captures AI query keystrokes
A fake AI chatbot extension for Chrome-based browsers was secretly intercepting users’ searches to harvest their data without disrupting the search experience.
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Philip Morris used AI to fake consumer opposition to EU vape rules
American tobacco company Philip Morris has been accused of using AI to generate fake citizen responses against the tightening of vape rules in the EU.
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China’s new unfiltered AI Is a hacker’s budget dream
A new Chinese AI model, GLM-5.2, is attracting attention because experts say it performs almost as well as some of the world's best AI systems on cybersecurity tasks.
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Meituan says new trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on Chinese-made chips
China's food delivery giant Meituan said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat large language model, claiming it is the world's first trillion-parameter AI system trained and run entirely on a 50,000-chip cluster powered by Chinese-made processors.
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Portugal launches its own open-source AI model, “Amália”
Amália comes as an alternative Portuguese-language large language model (LLM) that will be released under an open-source license.
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Money for AI keeps flowing into Europe, but it’s taking detours
Investors in Europe are looking beyond the usual AI stocks. Instead, they’re reshifting their focus to “behind the scenes” companies that make AI possible in the first place, such as banks and power companies. There is a good reason for it, too.
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Dutch regulator warns users are “pouring their hearts into chatbots” over data risks
People are unknowingly sharing personal and sensitive information with chatbots. This information can never be retrieved, but it also makes a handful of tech companies powerful and influential. The Dutch data protection authority urges greater awareness.
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AI drone quickly finds hikers lost and freezing in Australian national park
AI technology is not necessarily going to take your job away. And it can also save lives. In Australia, a fire and rescue team just used an AI-equipped drone to find two hikers missing in the Snowy Mountains.
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Google lets Gemini analyze parts of your screen in Chrome – but one key territory remains excluded
Google is taking another step towards turning its operating system Chrome into an AI assistant with a new Gemini feature that can analyze exactly what users are looking at on screen.
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Companies are swapping premium AI for cheaper alternatives
Silicon Valley's powerful and pricey AI models have been a necessity for businesses looking to future-proof themselves. But now a growing number of tech CEOs are arguing that cheaper options would be crucial for their wider adoption.
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Majority of Americans shout and swear at AI-powered customer service agents
Businesses keep automating customer service, but surveys show that more and more Americans are so angered by chatbots that they shout “human!” into their phones, swear, and try to game the system to reach a human agent faster. In short, customers are fed up.
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Musk announces rollout of Grok 4.5, says it’s as good if not better than Anthropic’s Claude Opus
Grok 4.5 has been released for private beta testing, and Elon Musk is confident that this model’s performance is on par with, or potentially exceeds, Anthropic’s flagship model.
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British American Tobacco slashes 9,000 jobs after AI initiative promises to cut annual costs by $800B
British American Tobacco is laying off roughly 20% of its workforce in an AI-driven push to secure almost $800 billion in annual cost savings by 2028.
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Japanese AI police chief takes on $2 billion scam epidemic
The Osaka police force is using an AI avatar of a police chief to help raise awareness of an online fraud outbreak that cost victims around $2 billion in 2025.
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Austria urges EU to consider hosting Anthropic
Austria has proposed that the European Union should consider hosting Anthropic within the bloc's borders in order to counter efforts by the United States to block foreigners from using the AI company's most advanced models.
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