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Meta's Muse started hitting a Conditions of Use popup on Amazon.com on Sunday evening, and the next day Amazon filed a 41-page amended complaint against Perplexity. Anyone shipping a buying agent now needs the store's permission first.
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In the same reporting area the FCC listed seven sites down from physical damage. That split tells product teams what an emergency mode is actually up against, and StellarLight's founder says energy independence is the harder half.
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OpenAI's top strategist calls state lawmaking reverse federalism while a super PAC its president funds spends to override the states. The substantive ask holds in both venues: fund testing, and do not require approval before a model ships.
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Judge Cory Liu decided on the documents that TikTok told parents Restricted Mode kept graphic content out of a child's feed while its own moderation labels only made some of that content harder to find. Next month's trial covers what it owes.
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Calling ChatGPT a platform would have handed OpenAI safe harbour, so the Commission reached for a search label instead. It carries fines of up to 6% of global revenue and reaches only retrieval, which leaves the conversation between two regimes.
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The 21-country survey hands regulators a prevalence figure instead of an anecdote. Under 1% of cases were ever reported, which is why in-app report volume is the wrong yardstick for the teams being judged.
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Ken Paxton and James Talarico disagree about tax breaks and local control, but they ask for the same thing on water. That moves cooling design out of the campaign column and into the siting spec.
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About 95% of the new chief executive's target pay is stock, and the largest block converts only on a price ratio that Apple's own size helps raise. The scoreboard sits outside the product roadmap's control.
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Johann Rehberger got code execution in up to 80% of attempts by making one tool fail and letting the agent improvise. Anthropic says Auto Mode is working as designed, which leaves the sandbox decision on your desk.
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The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral is weighing a labelling mandate, a blackout on new synthetic political content and a ban on candidate-recommending systems, with about five weeks left for campaigns and platforms to comply.
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The apps posed as pornography and harvested one-time passwords. Both rounds of takedowns followed an outside prompt rather than Meta's own ad review, and that is why the paid channel is the story.
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Pay transparency, Article 50 of the AI Act and a Dutch presumption of employment all landed in 2026. Only four of 27 states transposed the pay rules on time, which leaves employers proving compliance in markets that have not defined it yet.
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Healthwatch England says the 27 AI scribes now writing notes across the NHS in England are muddling drug names and diagnoses, and with no device classification from the MHRA, the last check is the patient.
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Commerce's report on whether the 25% advanced-chip tariff should keep sparing American data centres was due on 1 July and has not appeared, so every US capacity plan is priced against an assumption.
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Nvidia's CEO wants a $500,000 engineer burning $250,000 in tokens. That is half of payroll on one line item, and the companies that adopted the metric first are already writing caps.
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The state's first count rests on a 13-year-old test account and the answers Snap gave Apple's rating rubric, which pulls store listings into consumer protection law.
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Internal documents put Canadian package growth above 40 percent by 2029 and record a March decision to source from China rather than the US, in the document's own words, to avoid tariffs.
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The send-off drew about 200 people and no reported outside industry figures. From 1 September the new chief executive runs the product org while the outgoing one keeps the regulators.
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The figure Anthropic is expected to show IPO investors describes a pool 12.5 times the S&P 1500 tech sector's revenue. Its own 2028 forecast reaches about 0.67% of it.
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A quiet search test puts AI-written summaries of Times reporting in front of readers. The newsroom AI argument is now about switching off a running feature, not permitting a proposed one.
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