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Tesla Driver Charged With Manslaughter in Fatal FSD Crash
A Texas man faces criminal manslaughter charges after his Tesla, which he claimed was in self-driving mode, crashed into a home at 73 mph and killed a 76-year-old woman, marking one of the clearest legal tests yet of who carries responsibility when a driver misuses AI-assisted driving tools.
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Midjourney Asks Court to Expose Studios' Own AI Use
Midjourney is fighting back against Disney, Warner Bros., and Universal's copyright lawsuit by asking a federal court to force the studios to reveal whether they themselves train AI on copyrighted content, a move that could set legal rules for every company using AI to handle protected material.
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UK Stargate AI Deal Was Mostly a Press Release
The UK government's flagship £30bn AI investment in the North East, built around a deal with OpenAI, was never properly negotiated: OpenAI apparently never visited the main site, £20bn of the headline number was essentially made up, and the whole thing now looks like it was assembled in days to give a Trump state visit something to announce.
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AI Test Scores Understate What AI Agents Can Actually Do
The UK's AI Security Institute found that standard AI performance scores, which are measured under tight resource limits, systematically hide what AI agents are capable of when given more room to work, and this matters for anyone making decisions about AI tools, contracts, or security.
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NSW Wants AI Investment But Not the Power Bills
OpenAI's Sydney office and a flood of data centre money into New South Wales reveal the real tension facing every government courting AI: the infrastructure that makes it work brings serious costs in electricity, water, and air quality that land squarely on local communities.
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Anthropic Adds Spend Alerts and Usage Dashboards to Claude Enterprise
Anthropic has added detailed spending dashboards, per-team cost breakdowns, and automatic budget alerts to Claude Enterprise, arriving exactly when finance chiefs are under pressure to prove that AI spending is worth it.
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UK Warns Parents: Public Child Photos Feed AI Abuse Tools
The UK's National Crime Agency and Internet Watch Foundation are telling parents to lock down social media photos of their children, as freely available AI tools can now turn an ordinary family snapshot into sexual abuse material without any contact with the child.
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Takeda Bets Big on AI Drug Discovery with Insilico
Japanese pharma giant Takeda has signed a deal worth up to $600 million with AI drug discovery firm Insilico Medicine, its second major AI partnership this year, reflecting a broader shift in how the world's largest drug companies are choosing to find new medicines.
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Kling AI Raises $2B, Eyes Hong Kong Stock Market
Kuaishou has closed an initial $2 billion funding round for its AI video unit Kling at an $18 billion valuation, with a Hong Kong IPO targeted for 2027, signaling that AI-generated video is becoming a serious commercial category with real implications for any business that produces marketing, training, or product content.
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Australia rules AI firms must pay for creative content
Australia rejected a proposal that would have let AI companies use local creative work for free, opted for a licensing model instead, and the Microsoft-Nine deal this week shows what that market now looks like in practice.
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Meta Admits Its AI Agents Are Not Delivering Yet
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff this week that the AI agents at the core of its $145 billion spending plan have not progressed as fast as expected, and the mass layoffs that were supposed to fund that shift were messier than planned, a rare public admission from the company betting its entire future on autonomous AI software.
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Cloudflare Blocks AI Scrapers by Default on Ad Pages
Cloudflare, which handles roughly 20% of global web traffic, is moving to block automated bots that harvest website content for AI companies by default on ad-supported pages, while launching a payment system so sites can get paid when their content appears in AI answers.
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UN Launches AI Governance Body With Top Tech CEOs
The UN just put the CEOs of Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Anthropic in a room with heads of state to shape AI rules, and even if it produces no binding laws, it will change how the tools your business already uses are built.
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Most Companies Still Not Using AI in HR
New research shows that most organizations are treating AI as a side experiment in HR rather than a core part of how they manage people, and the gap between companies that commit fully and those that dabble is widening fast.
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SpaceX Buys Cursor: What Happens to AI Model Choice
SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, the most widely used AI coding tool, puts the question of model independence at the center of every business that relies on AI coding software, as Anthropic and OpenAI now face a choice about whether to keep supplying their AI to a direct competitor.
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Getty Kills Shutterstock Merger, Signs OpenAI Deal Instead
Getty Images walked away from its $3.7 billion merger with Shutterstock after UK regulators demanded a major sell-off, and the same week signed a licensing deal with OpenAI, signaling that stock photo companies are now betting on AI partnerships rather than consolidation to survive.
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Japan Funds $6B AI Brain for 10 Million Robots
Japan has formally commissioned a national AI system designed to run physical robots across 18 industries by 2040, backed by up to $6.1 billion in public funding, as the country faces a projected shortage of 11 million workers.
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Saronic Is Building a Drone Boat Fleet for the U.S. Navy
A four-year-old Texas startup called Saronic Technologies has secured $392 million in Navy contracts to mass-produce autonomous drone boats, with a $9.25 billion valuation and plans for a $3.2 billion shipyard, placing it at the center of a genuine shift in how the U.S. plans to compete with China at sea.
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Nvidia Cuts Data Center Water Use, Bigger Problem Remains
Nvidia's newest AI servers can cool themselves without evaporating water on-site, a genuine step forward, but the electricity powering those servers still consumes vast amounts of water at the power plant, and AI companies show no sign of slowing down their appetite for both.
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Bank of England May Write New Rules for AI in Finance
The Bank of England has openly admitted that its existing rulebook was not designed for AI systems that act on their own, and is now considering dedicated rules including market-wide kill switches, which matters for anyone who moves money through or works with UK financial institutions.
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