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Parents and teachers decry Google pledge to yank Search if schools block AI: ‘This threat is nothing but extortion’

Company says schools should control student AI use, but if they block its AI tools, they’ll lose access to search engineParents and teachers across the US are criticizing Google’s announcement that schools choosing to block AI tools could also lose access to Google Search.Google announced last week a range of new AI tools for schools

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Anti-AI populism is the future of American politics | Garrison Lovely

Democrats should drag Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk before the world and make them explain just what it is they’re trying to do and whyThe AI industry had a bad night last week.The Democrats’ sweeping midterms victory is a rebuke of Donald Trump, the industry’s most powerful champion. Continue reading…

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Today’s AI won’t achieve superintelligence. But catastrophic risk is real | Sunita Verma

The same technical limits that prevent superintelligence make these systems dangerous. But we know how to regulate themMany Silicon Valley leaders believe superintelligence is an imminent threat to society. The White House even published an accord about it. This isn’t enough.Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, estimates the risk of human extinction is at least

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Reason Machines Open-Sources Aspen, a Git Server Built for AI Agents

Reason Machines has released Aspen, an open-source Git server for AI agent traffic. It targets repositories that hundreds of agents push to at once. Aspen independently implements the design OpenAI described for Pando. TL;DR Size: One Rust binary. Branches live in PostgreSQL (or SQLite), packs live in object storage. Runs on: A laptop (aspen dev),

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0sec Labs Open-Sources 0, an AI Security Harness With Web UI, CLI and MCP

Zurich-based 0sec Labs has released 0, an open-source AI security harness. It runs vulnerability investigations, code review, pentesting, reverse engineering and fix generation. Developers drive it from a local browser console, a headless CLI or an MCP server. The 0sec Labs open-source AI security harness is licensed MIT OR Apache-2.0 and ships as a research

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British people don’t trust Palantir – it’s not too late to reverse the NHS’s dependence on it | Ben Coleman

We can’t allow our health data to be locked into the control of a US tech firm. It won’t be easy, but next spring the job of clawing it back must beginBen Coleman is Labour MP for Chelsea and Fulham and a member of the health and social care committeeNext March, Palantir’s £330m contract to

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‘Thicky thicky dumb dumb’ satirist Cody Dahler on his viral videos: ‘my material is presented to me on a silver platter!’

The writer and podcaster on why politics is made to seem more complicated than it is and his mission to unpack world events for everyoneWhy did you get into comedy? My mum was a professional dancer and always encouraged me to perform. Given that I have zero rhythm, comedy was my other option. She wrote

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Nvidia opens investigation after report CEO Jensen Huang was target of foreign intelligence

CEO reportedly ‌had close relationship ‌with a Chinese businesswoman who passed information to ‌BeijingNvidia said ⁠on Sunday it “is initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort”.The Republican-led foreign affairs and intelligence committees of the US Congress asked Huang

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Labour expected to cut EV targets for UK’s car industry despite MPs’ protests

Exclusive: Louise Haigh likely to weaken mandate for sales that forms key part of emission reduction planAnalysis: Climate always comes second – are green issues slipping down Burnham’s agenda?Ministers are expected to make steep cuts to the government’s electric vehicle (EV) targets this week, in a move that will relieve carmakers but alarm many Labour

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Weakening AI copyright law will spell ‘disaster for creativity’, global music body warns Albanese

Exclusive: Head of IFPI says allowing AI companies access to online content would be a ‘huge mistake’ and damage Australia’s reputationGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia weakening copyright protections for AI companies would be “ridiculous and dangerous”, the global peak body for the music recording industry has warned as it

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