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UK government demands Apple backdoor to encrypted cloud data: report

Government officials in the United Kingdom have reportedly secretly ordered Apple to build a backdoor that would give its authorities

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UAE to invest billions to build AI data center in France

A few days ahead of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, the French presidency has announced the first of

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Meta launches new program to improve speech and translation AI

Meta is launching a new program in partnership with UNESCO to collect speech recordings and transcriptions the company said will

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EU details which systems fall within AI Act’s scope

The European Union has published guidance on what constitutes an AI system under its new AI Act. The risk-based framework

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Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users

Tinder hopes to reverse its ongoing decline in active users by turning to AI. In the coming quarter, the Match-owned

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Orgs demand action to mitigate AI’s environmental harm

A group of more than 100 organizations has published an open letter calling on the AI industry and regulators to

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OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process

In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model,

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Early Meta employee sues for sexual harassment, gender discrimination  

One of Meta’s earliest employees is suing the company for sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation, according to a lawsuit

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Pour one out for Cruise and why autonomous vehicle test miles dropped 50%

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Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America

The onshoring of battery manufacturing for EVs started as a trickle during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then it turned into a