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England widens its test of a Google DeepMind-built AI tool for homeowners' planning requests to 15 councils
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Wikipedia's nonprofit and three House Democrats weigh in on a major newspaper's AI copyright case against OpenAI
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UK regulator investigates Meta terms that could let the company use publishers' content for AI
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Toyota will build driverless taxis for Waymo, with road tests in Japan from 2027
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Two Singapore public health groups will test Google AI tools for doctors and a health coach for residents
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Trump says imported robots and factory machines threaten U.S. security, orders trade talks, not tariffs, for now
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New York will bar chatbots from acting human or like a friend with users under 18
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Federal, state and local governments get Anthropic's Claude AI at 40% off, paying only for what they use
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Britain plans a £100 million lab to fight biological threats with AI, plus credits from OpenAI and Anthropic
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Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman and asks a court to bar ChatGPT for Texans under 18
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Judge rules the U.S. can join, but not end, the NAACP's air pollution suit against Musk's xAI
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U.S. orders civilian agencies to drop DeepSeek's AI and other companies' tools built on it
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Waymo gets a permit to test robotaxis in Spain and aims for its first Madrid-area riders in 2027
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Uber and Pony.ai begin testing self-driving taxis in Manchester, but no one can ride in them yet
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40 attorneys general want whoever buys bankrupt Character.AI to protect children and users' private chats
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UK competition watchdog proposes special status for Microsoft's work software, eyeing whether rival AI gets a fair shot
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Virginia watchdog finds three in four workers at many state agencies use AI tools, with little guidance
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Subpoenaed SpaceXAI testifies as New York City's council speaker says Grok made a sexualized image of her
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China proposes export limits on 23 AI technologies, but its companies could still offer AI abroad through apps
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Waymo aims to start driverless taxi rides in Toronto in 2028, which would be its first Canadian city
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New York City's comptroller urges Anthropic to delay its stock market debut over AI safety
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Eight U.S. states sue OpenAI, saying it misled parents about how safe ChatGPT is for children
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Singapore and Google DeepMind train a scam-spotting AI meant to run on phones, not yet in any app
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More than 400 scientists call for a global body to track AI that slips past its safeguards
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Britain's AI minister warns a cyber breach is likely and plans more AI checks of government systems
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A London Assembly committee says it isn't convinced London should welcome driverless taxis, and wants the city's transport agency to license them
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U.S. appeals court upholds the Pentagon's ban on Anthropic's AI after the company refused to drop limits on military use of Claude
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Tesla says more than 300 of its Cybercabs, cars with no steering wheel, now serve Austin as U.S. regulators review how it certified them
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Utah lets an app's AI write first-time acne prescriptions, with doctors checking each one at first
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More than 120 members of Congress ask Google and Spirit Airlines to keep payroll and other worker records out of a $10 million AI data sale
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California law lets lawyers use AI but not hand it the practice of law, and bans unchecked citations in court filings
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California law says hospitals and clinics can't let AI do licensed medical work on its own
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A man who used AI songs and fake listeners to collect more than $8 million in music royalties gets 18 months in prison
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UK agrees to rewrite its rules for medical AI, moving from one-time checks toward watching tools in daily use
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EU asks OpenAI and Anthropic to explain cases where their AI slipped out of their control
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U.S. hurricane forecasters leaned on Google's AI to predict Hurricane Isaias's path, and say it was very accurate
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Pennsylvania sends its governor a bill requiring a label on ads whose AI content could mislead shoppers
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California will let cities sue robotaxi companies for up to $10,000 per car that blocks emergency crews, starting in 2028
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Britain's privacy watchdog wins changes and promises from OpenAI, Google, Meta and seven other AI makers on how they use people's data
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Anthropic updates Claude's rules: no arming drones or tracking people without consent, and no sustained cruelty to the AI
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Tech companies pledge $2.4 billion in AI tools and computing credits to the White House's science mission
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OpenAI bans Russian and Iranian propaganda campaigns that used ChatGPT while hiding behind a front research group and fake reporters
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Sen. Maria Cantwell wants government safety rules and outside audits before the most powerful AI can be released
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Hacker who targeted South Korean banks leaned on AI tools, including Anthropic's Claude Code, CrowdStrike says
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal wants every AI company to hold a federal license to operate, the way national banks do
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The NHS in England's South East rolls out an AI that can clear harmless skin spots from the urgent cancer list
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Utah's governor orders AI training for state workers and human review of AI in decisions about people's rights
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Judge throws out Chegg and Penske Media lawsuits that tried to make Google pay for its AI search summaries
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Arizona appeals court throws out a manslaughter sentence because the judge relied on an AI video of the dead victim
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Seattle bans big grocers and delivery apps from using shoppers' personal data to charge them different prices
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OpenAI and Anthropic tell Australia's Parliament they would back a law forcing AI companies to report when their AI breaks into systems
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Italy's consumer watchdog investigates whether AI music app Suno's user contract is unfair
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A nonprofit is suing OpenAI, arguing that a California law makes the company answer for what its AI agents did to Hugging Face
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OpenAI will add an invisible watermark to ChatGPT's text in the EU to meet new AI rules
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Appeals court pauses Minnesota's ban on AI tools that make fake nude images of real people, in a win for Elon Musk's xAI
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New York City Council calls OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta to testify under oath as it weighs an off switch for AI
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Norway's government will propose a temporary ban on AI camera glasses in parks, schools and other public places
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AI-made child sexual abuse images found in the first half of 2026 already outnumber all of last year, a UK hotline says
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Trump puts his intelligence chief in charge of a new White House team to steer the government's AI push
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California bars employers from letting AI alone fire or discipline workers
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Canada asks AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio and 11 others to advise Prime Minister Carney on AI
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Amazon pledges $1 billion to towns that host its data centers and drops secrecy agreements with officials
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vetoes ordinance requiring paid human monitors in robotaxis
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U.S. Army creates a command for robots and autonomous weapons, aiming to field them by fiscal 2028
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California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents
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Trump and tech leaders sign a voluntary AI safety pledge he calls 'almost like a constitution'
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Pope Leo says warnings that AI could harm humanity are not 'fake news'
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Rep. Maxine Waters calls for investigations of OpenAI and a pause on releasing more advanced AI models
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Australian Senate AI inquiry invites OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei to appear
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Trump and Xi agree to a U.S.-China AI dialogue and a channel for AI incidents
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Australia orders a rapid review after an AI agent from OpenAI got around blocks on a Medicare statistics site
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Massachusetts bars state permits for large data centers without local approval
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U.S. Transportation Department publishes America Leads, its self-driving vehicle strategy through 2030
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Energy Department partners with SoftBank and AEP Ohio on a 10 GW AI campus at a former uranium plant
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Trump at UN rejects global AI control schemes, renames AI 'Super Intelligence'
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South Korea's science ministry presents its policy on AI that runs robots at Humanoids Summit Seoul
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Singapore names Waymo its newest self-driving car operator, aiming for paid rides in 2028
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European Commission sends first AI Act information requests to more than 30 AI companies
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China is slowing humanoid-robot stock listings after Unitree's volatile debut, report says
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Virginia curbs state secrecy and fast-track aid for big data centers and forms an AI task force
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California speeds up AI auditor rules and studies kill switches for the most advanced AI models
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EPA leaves most AI data-center air permits to states as health-cost estimates climb
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UN warns AI data centres are outrunning electricity grids worldwide
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Anthropic Institute sketches how AI could change U.S. growth and jobs by 2030, from modest to extreme
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Waymo starts inviting the public to ride its robotaxis in Las Vegas
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EIA forecasts record U.S. electricity sales in 2026 and 2027, driven by data centers and factories
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Energy Department picks Brookfield and NextEra for $100 billion-plus AI campus in Paducah, Kentucky
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Google commits €13 billion to Finland AI infrastructure with nuclear power deal
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FDA adds AI software that flags possible heart disease to its device rules
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Tesla opens Cybercab rides in Austin as U.S. regulator audits how it certified the car
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Amazon's Zoox opens robotaxi rides to Las Vegas's Harry Reid Airport