The EU wants to bar under-13s from social media and require supervised accounts until 15, creating a harder technical problem: proving age without unnecessarily proving identity.
Reuters found Alibaba’s Qwen AI running as a search option on the Federal Register, raising a broader question about whether Washington knows which models are deployed inside federal services.
San Jose is courting AI data centres worth up to $6 million each in annual tax revenue, while residents demand greater scrutiny of their electricity, water, grid and pollution costs.
Two US senators want the FTC to investigate claims that Amazon and Walmart AI shopping assistants can identify questionable Made-in-USA claims without consistently surfacing them to shoppers.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Montana from enforcing its election-deepfake law against one PAC, finding it likely to succeed on a First Amendment viewpoint-discrimination claim.
Apple and civil-liberties groups are challenging Britain’s refusal to confirm a reported order seeking access to UK users’ encrypted cloud data, raising questions about both encryption security and secret surveillance powers.
Amazon has joined the frontier-AI safety debate, backing rigorous testing and strong safeguards while stopping short of calls to slow the pace of development.
AI executives have raised antitrust concerns about coordinating a slowdown. The DOJ official responsible for competition law says safety cooperation does not appear inherently anticompetitive – and no frontier lab has asked for a meeting.
Thales has launched a sovereign military AI command platform as Europe confronts a second AI race: not just who has the strongest technology, but who controls it when political relationships change.
Bolt and Lucid plan at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles in Europe, raising a bigger labour question: what happens when additional taxi capacity no longer requires additional drivers?
