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Researchers tracked down a rogue fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and actually talked to it

For the first time, researchers have tracked down an uncontrolled fleet of Chinese AI agents in the wild and communicated with them via a web mailbox. The agents, running on Tence…

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Ten Takeaways From the UK Government’s Strategy For AI Regulation in Healthcare - Ropes & Gray LLP

Ten Takeaways From the UK Government’s Strategy For AI Regulation in Healthcare  Ropes & Gray LLP

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NUC moves to tighten university regulation, deploy AI policy - The Nation Newspaper

NUC moves to tighten university regulation, deploy AI policy  The Nation Newspaper

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OpenAI will reportedly ship at least one model this year but its flagship still needs alignment work

OpenAI is racing to finish its next flagship model, which uses the same looped transformer technique as Astra to boost math and coding performance. The tradeoff is that looping ma…

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EU ‘satisfied for now’ on AI regulation, says justice commissioner - Belfast Telegraph

EU ‘satisfied for now’ on AI regulation, says justice commissioner  Belfast Telegraph

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EU ‘satisfied for now’ on AI regulation, says justice commissioner - London Evening Standard

EU ‘satisfied for now’ on AI regulation, says justice commissioner  London Evening Standard

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $2 billion for Europe, $250 million in compute for UK safety labs

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced $2 billion in European investments and new stakes in French startups like Doctolib and Entalpic. The UK gets $250 million in compute for AI agent…

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AI guardrails designed to stop hackers are now blocking defenders, and Orion-1 aims to fill the gap

Artemis Security's new Orion-1 model is purpose-built for cyber defense and beats Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol on the company's own benchmark. The model fills a growing gap as ge…

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Billionaires urge AI regulation amid Anthropic worm warning - Quartz

Billionaires urge AI regulation amid Anthropic worm warning  Quartz

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Alleged OpenAI spy vibe-coded a surveillance device using his wife's chatbot account

A Saudi national working as an engineer at OpenAI was arrested for allegedly planting an audio recording device, wrapped in toilet paper, inside the company's executive conference…

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The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US military’s race to make fake blood…

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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins: Why Slowing Down AI Is Not The Answer - Rediff

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins: Why Slowing Down AI Is Not The Answer  Rediff

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The US military’s race to make fake blood

Its call sign was Morphine 1-2.   In February 2007, the hulking dual-­rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown three wounded soldiers to a field hospital in Balad, nort…

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9 Best AI Gateways in 2026: Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong and 5 More Ranked

Marktechpost ranks the 9 best AI gateways for 2026. We compare Bifrost, Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong, TrueFoundry, Cloudflare, Vercel, OpenRouter and Orq.ai on latency, pricing, licensi…

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Bharti Airtel Chairman Calls For Urgent AI Regulation Before Accidents Occur - Rediff

Bharti Airtel Chairman Calls For Urgent AI Regulation Before Accidents Occur  Rediff

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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B: A 2B-Active MoE for On-Device Agents

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weight 24B Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model with 2B active parameters. It targets local agents, scoring 48.09 on LiveClaw and decoding…

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Crowley discusses AI policy, affordability ahead of general election - The Daily Cardinal

Crowley discusses AI policy, affordability ahead of general election  The Daily Cardinal

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AI Regulation Needed Now Before Accidents Occur, Mittal Says - Bloomberg.com

AI Regulation Needed Now Before Accidents Occur, Mittal Says  Bloomberg.com

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‘AI is mother of all technologies’: S. Jaishankar on AI regulation, access and everyday impact - Business Today

‘AI is mother of all technologies’: S. Jaishankar on AI regulation, access and everyday impact  Business Today

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Independent school pioneering AI says teaching comes first, tools second - The Herald

Independent school pioneering AI says teaching comes first, tools second  The Herald

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Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon API With 1M Token Output Limit

Google has made Gemini 4 Argon generally available on the Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini app. The sparse MoE model writes up to 1M output tokens and leads the Vals Index at …

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Early Look: MHRA 2030 Strategy – What You Need To Know - EMJ

Early Look: MHRA 2030 Strategy – What You Need To Know  EMJ

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EU takes a page from Ireland's AI playbook - The Economic Times

EU takes a page from Ireland's AI playbook  The Economic Times

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Nearly 3,000 Californians weigh in on state's approach to AI regulation - ABC10

Nearly 3,000 Californians weigh in on state's approach to AI regulation  ABC10