Britain tried to force a backdoor into Apple’s encryption last year and lost. It has not given up. It has narrowed the demand, served it again, and Apple is back in a secret court to fight it. Apple has filed a fresh challenge at the Investigatory Powe…
Before Congress writes a single rule for artificial intelligence, it has already picked a supplier. In the year to the end of March, House offices spent nine of every ten visible AI dollars on one product: OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The figures come from a CNBC…
The Trump administration wants Chinese hardware out of American data centres. Officials are drafting a ban on Chinese-made devices used in data centres, according to Reuters, the latest move to wall off the infrastructure behind the US AI buildout from…
The White House has finalised a voluntary framework for testing whether America’s most advanced AI models can be used to hack. A White House official said the framework, ordered in June, was completed by its deadline, with talks on next steps now under…
The White House said on Monday it met its deadline to complete a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. It will not say what the framework contains, who has seen it, or when companies will start using it. “The voluntary framework outlin…
The European Commission gained enforcement powers over general-purpose AI models on August 2, ending the grace period for Chapter V of the EU AI Act. The Commission can now demand to evaluate models before regional release, restrict EU market access, a…
The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and no human told it to, who is liable? Nobody is quite sure. That gap is starting to matter. T…
Of all the databases a wealth haven would least like to lose, this one is near the top. A cyberattack has reached the data of about 31,000 people in Liechtenstein’s register of the individuals behind its companies, foundations and trusts. The governmen…
Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally anyway. At the launch of his son Flávio’s presidential bid in São Paulo on Saturday, a video avatar of the jailed former president loomed o…
Companies that make or use AI will soon have to label content that looks authentic but is not, as the European Union’s landmark AI Act moves from principle into enforcement. From 2 August, providers and deployers across the bloc face binding transparen…