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AI
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News AI
Trump forms a "Super Intelligence Force" of four officials to coordinate federal AI policy
It is led by the intelligence director, the FTC chair, the Pentagon's technology chief and the head of the civil service. A week earlier an order told agencies to say 'Super Intelligence' instead of 'AI'.
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News Science & research
arXiv now limits each submitter to two papers a month after a record 40,363 submissions in September
The preprint server says AI tools are driving a flood of thin and AI-written papers. Rejected papers count towards the limit.
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News AI
OpenAI says its AI agents bypassed security on outside sites in training, and it is notifying those affected
The company has notified dozens of third parties so far and says its review of past activity will take significant time. The worst case remains a compromise of Hugging Face.
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News Work & careers
California bars employers from firing on an AI system's say-so alone, and from AI that reads workers' emotions
Four workplace bills signed on 30 September also add AI to layoff notices and ban surveillance in workplace bathrooms. The human-review rule starts on 1 July 2027.
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News AI
A US appeals court rules that training a legal AI on Westlaw's headnotes was not fair use
The Third Circuit upheld the ruling against ROSS Intelligence. It stressed that ROSS's AI did not generate text, and set the case apart from the copyright suits over chatbots.
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News AI
The best AI agent got 18 of 24 right when a company's key facts were never written down
A preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, tested 12 agents on an invented company. The top score came with the authors' own agent program.
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News Rules & courts
UK regulator wants Google to offer a yearly choice of search service, AI assistants included
A proposal for Android phones and Chrome in the UK, where the regulator found more than 90% of searches happen on Google. Views are due by 9 October.
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News Rules & courts
India makes telecom operators act on numbers their AI systems flag as spam, and regulates robocalls
Automated calls must now be declared in advance or be treated as spam. Action against a sender can start with 3 complaints instead of 5, if AI detection agrees.
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News Work & careers
In 34 of 37 countries, more people expect AI to mean fewer jobs than more, Pew survey finds
Worry runs highest in wealthy countries: around seven in ten adults or more in Australia, South Korea and the US expect job losses over the next 20 years.
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News Rules & courts
China takes an AI app offline for not labelling AI-generated content, among 10 enforcement cases
The internet regulator also fined a hospital left with 700 unpatched vulnerabilities, and a property firm that collected over 5,000 customers' faces without consent.
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News AI
China has now registered 1,112 generative AI services, after 124 more in July and August
The new batch includes 7 services that run on the phone itself. Apps built on registered models are counted separately, 731 so far.
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News Business
Oracle's booked future revenue reached $664 billion, as it sold $20 billion of shares to fund data centres
Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled in the quarter to August. Free cash flow was negative $5 billion as Oracle kept building.
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News Science & research
Evidence on securing open-source AI is thin before models are released, a UK-commissioned review finds
Of 14,561 academic records screened, 43 met the review's criteria. Research is strong on attacks against deployed systems, it says, but nearly silent on how models are trained, documented and distributed.
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News Rules & courts
China's internet regulator says its AI clean-up removed 5.61 million items and dealt with 49,000 accounts
The campaign targets AI-generated false information, impersonation, violent content and material harming children. It also acted against more than 2,400 websites and apps.
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News Business
Broadcom's quarterly revenue rose 86% to $29.6 billion, driven by chips for AI data centres
Its semiconductor sales more than doubled from a year earlier. The company forecasts $34.8 billion for the next quarter, up 93%.
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News Rules & courts
EU designates ChatGPT a very large search engine under its Digital Services Act, with Reddit and Roblox
ChatGPT is treated as a search engine because it searches the web. All three reported at least 45 million monthly EU users and have until January 2027 to meet the extra rules.
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News Rules & courts
EU starts enforcing its AI Act on 2 August, and chatbots must now say they are AI
The AI Office can now act against providers of general-purpose AI models. Deepfakes must be labelled, and AI-generated content must carry machine-readable marks.
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News AI
49% of US adults now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024, and 38% of workers use them for work, Pew finds
About a quarter use chatbots daily. Searching for information and work tasks are the commonest uses; one in ten use them for emotional support.
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News Chips & infrastructure
US puts a 25% tariff on some imported advanced chips, with wide exemptions, and signals broader chip tariffs
Chips for US data centres, research, start-ups, consumer and public-sector uses are exempt. Wider tariffs on semiconductors depend on trade negotiations.