The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave is taking it to the spies.
The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave is taking it to the spies.

The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave rents high-end GPUs to the biggest AI labs. Now it wants to run that same cloud inside the sealed facilities where America keeps its secrets, with the contractor Leidos as its guide. The two companies a…

The FTC is suing Hims & Hers for sharing patients’ health data with Meta and Snap
The FTC is suing Hims & Hers for sharing patients’ health data with Meta and Snap

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Hims & Hers, accusing the telehealth company of sharing customers’ sensitive health information with advertising platforms including Meta and Snap. The complaint, filed on 29 July and joined by Utah and Califor…

Australia takes Telegram to court over terrorist content it says the app left up
Australia takes Telegram to court over terrorist content it says the app left up

The eSafety regulator has filed civil proceedings seeking up to A$54.6m, alleging Telegram hosted mass-shooting and Islamic State videos and ignored takedown demands. Telegram says it will fight. Australia’s online safety regulator has taken Telegram t…

xAI says the First Amendment protects the right to build ‘nudify’ tools
xAI says the First Amendment protects the right to build ‘nudify’ tools

xAI has a novel argument for why it should get to keep building tools that digitally undress people. The First Amendment. Elon Musk’s AI company, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota’s attorney general on Monday, CBS News first reported. It wants a fede…

Anthropic is alone in every AI policy fight. It’s winning anyway.
Anthropic is alone in every AI policy fight. It’s winning anyway.

Six months ago, Anthropic was the darling of America’s AI boom. It led on the models and was loudest on the ethics. This summer, it finds itself alone. The Claude maker is now the odd one out in nearly every big AI policy fight, Axios reported. It is t…

The AI boom needs power and rockets. Trump just exempted both from environmental law.
The AI boom needs power and rockets. Trump just exempted both from environmental law.

The Trump administration spent Tuesday clearing environmental law out of the way of the tech boom. It did so twice, on two fronts, with the same justification. The first move exempts data centres from the rules meant to stop acid rain. The second frees…

UK regulator probes whether Microsoft misled 365 customers over Copilot price rises
UK regulator probes whether Microsoft misled 365 customers over Copilot price rises

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into how Microsoft sold its 365 subscriptions, asking whether the company misled personal and family customers when it raised prices and bundled in its Copilot AI assistant. The CM…

China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse
China drafts cyberbullying rules that reach AI-generated abuse

China’s internet regulator has published draft rules to combat cyberbullying, and, according to Reuters, the measures are written to reach abuse generated with artificial intelligence. The Cyberspace Administration of China released the draft for publi…

Russia charges Telegram’s Durov with aiding terrorism and adds him to a wanted list
Russia charges Telegram’s Durov with aiding terrorism and adds him to a wanted list

Russia’s FSB security service has charged Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, with facilitating terrorism, and moved to place him on an international wanted list. The charge accuses Durov of failing to take down channels and bots that the service say…

The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face.
The EU is banning nudify apps. The tools sit upstream on Hugging Face.

Europe is close to banning apps that digitally undress people. A new report argues the ban will miss the point. The tools that do the undressing do not need to be apps at all. They are sitting on Hugging Face. The European nonprofit AI Forensics tested…