ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba’s Qwen, two of China’s biggest consumer AI apps, are disabling their customised agent features, the South China Morning Post reports. The move comes days before Beijing’s new rules on humanlike AI interaction services tak…
India’s IT ministry has ordered Meta to immediately disable all Instagram advertisements and content promoting child sexual exploitation and abuse material, according to The Week. The company has seven days to explain how the ads were approved and to d…
South Korea will seek to create a “future response fund” financed by the tax windfall from its semiconductor boom, Yonhap reported. The proceeds would flow into AI, advanced manufacturing, and other long-term growth engines. Presidential chief of staff…
The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E. The update …
A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind….
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give tech platforms time to destroy documents that could be used as …
Nearly a million people who bought President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin have collectively lost $3.81 billion, according to an analysis by blockchain analytics firm Nansen. The data, which covers all transactions through the end of June, found that …
China released draft amendments to its e-commerce law on Saturday, proposing 20 provisions that would expand the law’s reach beyond platforms and merchants to cover a wider range of participants in the digital economy. The proposal, jointly issued by t…
The global race for AI infrastructure has become a contest of personal relationships. French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have emerged as its most aggressive practitioners, personally courting the heads of the world…
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will summon Meta executives after a BBC investigation found that Instagram had been running paid advertisements promoting child sexual abuse material to users in the country. Union IT Minister …