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Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins

Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under banHow is Australia’s social media ban affecting you and your family?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia has enacted a world-first ban on social media for […]

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EU opens investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI models

European Commission to assess whether Gemini owner is putting rival companies at a disadvantageBusiness live – latest updatesThe EU has opened an investigation to assess whether Google is breaching European competition rules in its use of online content from web publishers and YouTube for artificial intelligence.The European Commission said on Tuesday it will examine whether

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Trump clears way for Nvidia to sell powerful AI chips to China

Commerce department finalizing deal to allow H200 chips to be sold to China as strict Biden-era restrictions relaxedDonald Trump has cleared the way for Nvidia to begin selling its powerful AI computer chips to China, marking a win for the chip maker and its CEO Jensen Huang, who has spent months lobbying the White House

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Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4.6V: A 128K Context Vision Language Model with Native Tool Calling

Zhipu AI has open sourced the GLM-4.6V series as a pair of vision language models that treat images, video and tools as first class inputs for agents, not as afterthoughts bolted on top of text. Model lineup and context length The series has 2 models. GLM-4.6V is a 106B parameter foundation model for cloud and

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Would you entrust a child’s life to a chatbot? That’s what happens every day that we fail to regulate AI | Gaby Hinsliff

As deaths in the US are blamed on ChatGPT and UK teenagers turn to it for mental health advice, isn’t it obvious that market forces must not set the rules? It was just past 4am when a suicidal Zane Shamblin sent one last message from his car, where he had been drinking steadily for hours.

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‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support

Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for servicesIt was after one friend was shot and another stabbed, both fatally, that Shan asked ChatGPT for help. She had tried conventional mental health services but “chat”, as she came to know her AI “friend”,

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‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

Gen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting backLate one night in April 2020, towards the start of the Covid lockdowns, Shanley Clémot McLaren was scrolling on her phone when she noticed a

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Palantir: the world’s ‘scariest company’? – podcast

How far will tech firm Palantir go to ‘save the West’? With Michael Steinberger and Johana BhuiyanWhy do some consider Palantir the world’s ‘scariest company’ and who is its chief executive, Alex Karp?Michael Steinberger, the author of The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State, describes Karp’s origin

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Reddit to comply with Australia’s ‘legally erroneous’ under-16 social media ban

Platform to introduce age-prediction model analysing users but argued to eSafety commissioner it was a source of information not a social media platformFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastReddit will comply with Australia’s under-16s social media ban, due to begin on Wednesday, but

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Jina AI Releases Jina-VLM: A 2.4B Multilingual Vision Language Model Focused on Token Efficient Visual QA

Jina AI has released Jina-VLM, a 2.4B parameter vision language model that targets multilingual visual question answering and document understanding on constrained hardware. The model couples a SigLIP2 vision encoder with a Qwen3 language backbone and uses an attention pooling connector to reduce visual tokens while preserving spatial structure. Among open 2B scale VLMs, it

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