The European Parliament has a problem with AI, and its answer is more AI. Lawmakers keep using public chatbots to help write legislation. So the institution is building a sanctioned platform to bring that habit under control. The internal tool, called …
Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products off its site. The penalty, announced on Monday, is th…
Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused o…
Common Sense Media concluded that Google’s AI-powered Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to young users and recommended that students stop using it entirely until schools can disable the AI features. The child safety watchdog found that AI Mode readil…
France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir’s military AI software. A joint declaration signed after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz committed the two countries to examine “a European sovereign di…
The Trump administration is now dictating which companies and entities get access to frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, CNBC reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Until now, the labs made that decision themselves. A…
Kevin O’Leary is making the golf course argument again. The “Shark Tank” investor, whose 40,000-acre Stratos data centre project in Utah sparked protests and a governor’s executive order, told Business Insider that AI data centres consume far less wate…
Apple and the US Department of Justice are in early discussions about settling the 2024 antitrust lawsuit that alleges Apple violated competition law through its iPhone ecosystem, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Apple has made multiple offers this year…
The Pentagon has frozen the permitting process for at least 155 new wind projects in 24 states for nearly a year, citing concerns that drones can hide among wind turbines and evade radar detection. The affected projects have a combined capacity of 44 g…
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 topped Arena’s frontend coding leaderboard within 24 hours of launch, ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol. It placed third on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index. The reaction from Washington, Wall St…