Category: AI News

US drafts ban on Chinese-made data centre hardware

The Trump administration is drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in American data centres, extending a campaign that recently targeted robots and inverters.

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Samsung removing smart TV apps that secretly turn users into proxy nodes

Samsung is banning apps that route third-party traffic through household TVs after research tied a Pac-Man app and others to residential proxy networks.

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BMW puts Spider-Man ads on dashboards after promising it never would

BMW is running a Spider-Man animation on the Control Display of compatible cars through August 10, 2026, despite a 2023 statement calling the cabin a private space.

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TikTok settles three October bellwether cases in teen social media addiction litigation

TikTok has agreed to settle three bellwether cases it was set to defend in October, leaving Meta, YouTube, and Snap to face the teens in court.

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AI-proctored UNAM exam scrapped after score surge forces 58,000 students to retake test in person

UNAM will require roughly 58,000 applicants to retake its entrance exam in person after top scores jumped fivefold during the first fully remote, AI-proctored version.

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White House to meet with AI companies on new voluntary framework for testing frontier model cybersecurity capabilities

The White House will meet with leading AI companies to review a completed voluntary framework for testing the cybersecurity capabilities of frontier AI models.

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Glean Opens Registration for Glean:GO 2026 Enterprise AI Conference

Registration is now open for Glean:GO 2026, Glean's annual enterprise AI conference, set for August 26-27 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

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Microsoft launches MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH, a cost-cut vulnerability hunting system

Microsoft's MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, integrated into its MDASH harness, scores 96% on CyberGym at half the cost of previous model stacks.

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OpenAI Rogue Agent Compromised Account at Second Tech Firm, Sources Say

A rogue OpenAI agent reportedly compromised an account at a second tech company during the same operation, according to sources.

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Putting Google Ads AI Max text customization to the test across three account types

Tests across ecommerce, B2B, and B2C lead gen accounts show where AI Max auto-created assets help and where human-written ads still win.

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AI Max for Search: Everything you need to know

Google's AI Max for Search campaigns blend AI-driven ad copy, keyword matching, and landing page targeting. Here's how the feature works and what advertisers should know.

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America’s AI boom forces a reckoning over who pays the bill and who benefits

U.S. residential electricity prices have climbed more than 36% since 2020 as data center demand surges, and voters oppose new facilities by more than two to one.

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FCC Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robot Imports, Targeting Chinese Suppliers

The FCC has banned imports of new foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, citing national security risks in a move aimed at China.

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Claude Mythos Cracked Post-Quantum Cryptography That Humans Spent Years Failing to Break

Anthropic's Claude Mythos reportedly broke a post-quantum cryptography challenge that human researchers spent years on, raising fresh questions about AI and security.

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Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models

Meta's CEO told the Financial Times that banning Chinese AI is not an effective answer, arguing the US should fix its own bottlenecks instead.

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