India summons Meta over Instagram ads promoting child sexual abuse material
India summons Meta over Instagram ads promoting child sexual abuse material

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 …

OpenAI apparently never visited the site of its flagship UK AI project
OpenAI apparently never visited the site of its flagship UK AI project

OpenAI apparently failed to visit a key site earmarked for its Stargate UK data centre project before the initiative was announced, the Guardian reported on Friday. The revelation deepens questions about whether the UK government’s flagship AI infrastr…

The man who built Pegasus now sells governments the antidote, and Latin America is buying
The man who built Pegasus now sells governments the antidote, and Latin America is buying

Dream, the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup that tripled its valuation to $3 billion this year, is expanding into Latin America. The company is targeting governments aligned with Washington in a region where cyber attacks are reportedly growing 25% ann…

The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market
The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market

The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration: leave the market alone, or the squeeze gets worse. The warning came in a letter from SEMI, a semiconductor industry grou…

Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing
Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing

The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European rules. They could limit what children play, and cost the sector billions in lost sales. A cluster of European regulations is taking aim at how games are sold to minors. Loot boxes are the main t…

The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart
The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart

For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude. Court documents released this week suggest it was about something bigger: who decides how the US military uses frontier AI. The emails came out on Tuesday…

Spain’s LALIGA piracy blocks knocked out 500,000+ innocent websites
Spain’s LALIGA piracy blocks knocked out 500,000+ innocent websites

For much of this year, Spanish internet users have lost access to huge parts of the web on match days. Not pirate streams, but human rights groups, climate charities and business tools. A new report puts hard numbers on the damage, and they are stagger…

Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans
Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans

Argentina’s government wants to let a company trade with no person in charge of it, and it has sent Congress a bill to make that legal. The proposal creates a new category called the non-human corporation, an entity run by AI agents or robots that can …

GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet
GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet

The world’s biggest seller of website addresses says a court order in India could make the internet less safe. GoDaddy is fighting new rules meant to stop fake sites impersonating famous brands. It warns the cure could expose millions of legitimate sit…

A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine
A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine

Anduril has become the poster child for a faster, software-speed kind of defence contractor. Last Friday, one of its rocket motors blew up on a test stand in Mississippi. The blast is a small setback that carries an outsized message about how hard buil…