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FCC bans humanoid robots from China, citing ‘unacceptable risks’

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Move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep Chinese technology out of the USThe Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on humanoid robots from China on Tuesday, saying that the technology poses “unacceptable risks” to the country’s national security. The move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sought to keep Chinese […]

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When is an apology not an apology? When it comes from an AI boss with an out-of-control chatbot | Marina Hyde

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An incident in which an autonomous OpenAI agent hacked a startup either confirms that the end is nigh – or that the product is just amazingly sophisticatedThroughout history, many things have been seen by terrified populaces as a harbinger of doom. A comet. A crow on the battlefield. A solar eclipse. A mutant livestock birth.

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‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

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Billionaire in interview with the Economist admits he was too consumed by politics and shares predictions about AIElon Musk has admitted he became too consumed by politics during his volatile alliance with Donald Trump and his brief appointment as the president’s financial axman, running the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge).The world’s richest person, and

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Trump administration says 15 agencies will get $5bn in ‘AI for science’ effort

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Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universitiesThe US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, ⁠the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday. The agencies will use the funding to identify the root causes ⁠of chronic diseases,

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Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?

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The entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president’s crypto fortune. How did Sun’s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits?The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly

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OpenAI releases latest ChatGPT model after delay over White House cybersecurity concerns

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Staggered release of ChatGPT 5.6 follows similar restrictions on rival firm Anthropic’s latest AI modelsOpenAI released its latest advanced AI model, called ChatGPT 5.6, on Thursday after earlier delaying the public rollout over US government concerns about cybersecurity. The Trump administration had requested last month that OpenAI limit the release to a small group of

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Anthropic: US has lifted export controls on Fable and Mythos AI models after security risk fears

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The AI company was forced earlier this month to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationalsAnthropic has said the US commerce department has lifted export controls on its Fable and Mythos AI models, less than ⁠three weeks after ⁠the company ​was ordered to suspend access to its most

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‘Crypto v community’: 4,000 local US lenders join forces to fight ‘stablecoins’ law

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Up to 4,000 community banks fear looming legislation to regulate digital cash will deprive rural firms and farmers of $850bn-worth of loansOn a quiet summer morning, above a small mid-western town, an American flag is waving in the breeze. The camera cuts to a father helping his son at the wheel of a tractor, and

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‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears

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The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websitesAn opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites – for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings – in

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‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools

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Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report saysA new report sheds light on the unprecedented growth of the US government’s immigration surveillance arsenal, revealing fresh details about how spending on technology and AI tools to find and track migrants

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