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AI policy sets the rules for how artificial intelligence is developed, deployed and held accountable. Follow AI regulation, copyright disputes, privacy, surveillance and government decisions affecting the technology. Our coverage explains who a proposal applies to, whether it is law or still under discussion, and what it could mean for developers, businesses and the people using AI.
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Apple has agreed to make job offers to some employees of Huxe, a personalised-audio start-up, and take a non-exclusive licence to its intellectual property. The deal follows Huxe’s shutdown, but Apple has not disclosed what it plans to do with the technology.
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Singapore and Indonesia could work together on responsible AI, from joint research and skills training to pilot projects in healthcare, agriculture and finance. That is a proposal from retired Indonesian diplomat Simon Hutagalung, not an announced government partnership, but it comes with a practical question: how to share…
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AI is being sold as a tool for tackling climate change, while its data centres and fossil-fuel applications may be adding to the problem. An Inside Climate News report argues that the gap between those promises and AI’s current climate costs deserves closer scrutiny.
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Andreessen Horowitz is putting $35 million behind a San Francisco AI-focused academy that plans to select students for what they have built, not just the qualifications they have collected. Its first cohort is expected to be about 50 students, and the model offers a pointed new bet on…
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In a three-month experiment, AI improved the quality of patent drafts, but only experienced lawyers showed an average improvement when later tested without the tool. The findings raise a practical question for workplaces: can AI improve today’s output without weakening the learning that builds tomorrow’s expertise?
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AI is moving into the work behind pension advice, from retirement calculations and investment reviews to client reports and regulatory checks. Donegal adviser Pascal Curran says his firm is using it as a second pair of eyes, while arguing that the time saved should give advisers more room…
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Meta’s Vibes remains live, while OpenAI has shut down Sora’s app and API, according to a 2 October opinion article in The Drum. Its argument is that the experiment left a cultural lesson: audiences may value visible human craft more than a conveyor belt of synthetic content.
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AI generation and virtual-compositing tools are making elaborate historical scenes cheaper to produce, and China’s AI drama and animation market exceeded RMB 22 billion in the first five months of 2026, TechNode reports. The boom is changing who can make historical stories, while raising a thornier question: can…
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Silicon Valley AI founders and investors have welcomed the Trump administration’s hands-off approach to AI safety, according to an Associated Press report from San Francisco Tech Week. The debate is concrete: a White House safety pact asks leading AI firms to monitor themselves, but leaves wide questions about…
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Banks are exploring loans backed by Nvidia GPUs, insurers are weighing cover against falling chip values, and investors are edging towards trading contracts tied to compute prices. Business Insider describes a financial market taking shape around the hardware powering the AI boom, with Nvidia involved in some financing…
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Submer India and BSNL Tower Corporation Limited have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore AI-ready data-centre infrastructure in India. The plans cover GPU access, sovereign cloud and edge computing, but remain at the feasibility-study stage, not a build announcement.
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AI memory system AtMem 2.3.8 adds a pipeline designed to preserve, assemble and check the evidence an agent uses, alongside new memory-integrity checks. Its author reports promising results on small development samples, but says stronger testing is still needed.
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Researchers have developed H-JEPA, a world-model architecture that separates long-range planning from the detail needed for immediate actions. VentureBeat reports that, in simulated tests, its three-level version nearly doubled another model’s success rate on one navigation benchmark while using less planning compute.
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Recorded Future has launched regularly refreshed lists of AI-related network indicators for security teams, giving them a way to identify AI services already being reached from their networks. The practical advice is to start with visibility: compare the lists with 30 to 90 days of DNS and proxy…
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Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately rehearsing how to respond to a catastrophic AI incident, according to a Decrypt account of Axios reporting. The scenario described is a large cyberattack that could disrupt services such as banking, power or water, putting preparedness, not proof…
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A study reported by UC Berkeley found that participants who used ChatGPT for help on fraction problems or an SAT reading task performed less well when the tool was taken away. The researchers say the results raise a practical question for classrooms and workplaces: does getting an answer…
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AI agents can install software, write code and take actions, so their operating permissions matter as much as their apparent intelligence. In a Baaz.nl article published on 9 October, Salesforce AI expert Reinier van Leuken argues that organisations should treat agents as digital users with clear limits, monitoring…
Google DeepMind Watch
Google DeepMind’s Manish Gupta argues that AI safeguards should combine rigorous checks by developers with rules tailored to the settings where systems are used. His essay also points to safety work and partnerships the company says it is pursuing in India, where local language and domain needs are…
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A proposed UC Berkeley student-government rule would restrict ASUC spending on products, services or companies whose transactions mainly concern generative AI or large language models. The change could shape how student-government money is spent, while leaving the meaning of the rule to financial officers and a committee to…
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A Fortune opinion piece challenges Sam Altman’s call to imagine AI as a new Renaissance rather than an Industrial Revolution, arguing that the upheaval of the latter brought broader material gains. It turns a familiar AI policy debate into a sharper question: who gets to shape the technology,…
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Royal Mail used an AI-generated voice in its 2025 Christmas advert, and the daughter of late broadcaster Paul Vaughan says she recognised her father in it. Deadline reports that speech experts also found similarities, while Royal Mail says the voice was not designed to replicate anyone in particular.
