Australian government warns doctors over AI scribing tools as privacy and safety concerns grow

Australia is reviewing AI medical scribes as regulators raise concerns over patient privacy, consent, data security, and the lack of oversight in clinical settings.

US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit
US control of frontier AI hangs over NATO’s Ankara summit

Donald Trump arrives at next week’s NATO summit in Ankara holding unusual leverage, because the US decides which allies get access to the world’s most advanced AI, Politico reports. The alliance meets on 7 and 8 July with AI security questions hovering…

Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future
Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future

Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser says the financial sector is running two AI races at once, she told the South China Morning Post. The first is applying AI to business models to drive revenue growth, shortening product development cycles and impro…

ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite
ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before Beijing’s new rules on humanlike AI interaction services tak…

Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand
Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand

Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain the…

Mistral CEO warns closed AI models give providers ‘immense leverage’ over your business
Mistral CEO warns closed AI models give providers ‘immense leverage’ over your business

Arthur Mensch, cofounder and chief executive of French AI lab Mistral, has urged enterprise leaders to abandon closed AI models. In a LinkedIn post, he argued that closed providers are now forcing data retention and gaining “immense leverage” over thei…

UK parents warned against posting children’s photos publicly as AI abuse imagery surges
UK parents warned against posting children’s photos publicly as AI abuse imagery surges

Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity respo…

NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul
NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul

The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E. The update …

Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the firms widens

Alibaba banned Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection code was found, prompting staff to switch to Qoder as its feud with Anthropic deepens.