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The EU AI Act's New Rules Just Hit Every Major AI Model Maker
New obligations for general-purpose AI providers took effect this month, and the rest of the world is still deciding how, or whether, to follow.
Aug 6, 2025
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Europe's AI Labels Begin on August 2: What Users Should Expect to See
New EU transparency obligations require clearer notice for chatbots, deepfakes and AI-generated public-interest content. The real test is whether labels remain useful.
Jul 31, 2026
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The EU's New AI Transparency Rules Arrive on August 2: What Changes
Europe's approaching AI transparency deadline will require clearer chatbot notices, machine-readable marking and disclosure of deepfakes.
Jul 30, 2026
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Why AI Watermarking Was Introduced, and What It Means for Everyone Downstream
Watermarking became a legal duty in the EU on 2 August 2026, with fines up to 15 million euros. The reasons are specific: elections, fraud, non-consensual imagery, evidence, and a problem the models are causing themselves.
Aug 13, 2026
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iOS 27 Is Out With the New Siri, Which Is a Beta, in English Only, Not in the EU, and Only on an iPhone 15 Pro or Newer
Apple shipped all six of its operating systems on Monday. The assistant that reads your messages, mail and photos to answer a question is the headline, and it comes with more conditions than any feature Apple has released. What everyone else gets.
Sep 15, 2026
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Recursive Releases Flint, a Free Coding Model That Runs on a Laptop and Was Largely Built by AI
Richard Socher's lab says its automated research system did most of the work on a 40-billion-parameter model that activates 2.5 billion at a time and ships under Apache 2.0.
Oct 22, 2026
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Drones Take Out a Third Yandex Data Centre in a Week, Hitting the Hardware Behind Russia's AI Push
Ukrainian drones shut Yandex's Vladimir facility on Sunday after hits on Sasovo and Kaluga, and a Cloudflare reading showing automated traffic from Yandex's network down about 94 per cent.
Oct 12, 2026
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Finland Orders Google to Stop Forest Clearing at Two Data Centre Sites Until Environmental Reviews Finish
The licensing agency says tree felling, topsoil stripping and road building at Muhos and Kajaani must stop by 23 October, and police are looking at a complaint over the Muhos work.
Oct 9, 2026
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How AI Watermarking Actually Works, and Why It Is Two Different Things
There is no watermark on your AI image in the sense of a visible logo. There are two invisible systems doing different jobs: a statistical signal inside the pixels, and a signed record attached to the file.
Aug 13, 2026
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YouTube Music Starts Labelling Songs Made With Generative AI, a Day After Deezer Promised an Off Switch
Listeners on the player page will see when a track leans on generative AI, as streaming services split between disclosure and outright filtering of machine-made music.
Oct 14, 2026
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Salesforce Agrees to Buy Braze for $5.66 Billion in Cash, Paying $47.50 a Share
The customer software giant is paying a reported 58 percent premium for the marketing messaging platform behind Venmo and Instacart, betting that AI agents will want live customer data.
Oct 20, 2026
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Marvell Agrees to Buy Lumentum for $115 Billion in Stock, and Both Companies' Shares Slide
The chip designer is paying 4.5 of its own shares for every Lumentum share to own the lasers and optical parts that AI data centres are short of. Investors sent Marvell down about 13 percent.
Nov 3, 2026
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Anthropic Shipped the Same Model Twice Under Two Names, and the Difference Is Who Is Allowed to Use It
Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the same model with different safeguards. One is generally available. The other is restricted to a set of American organisations through trusted access programmes, for work in cybersecurity and the life sciences.
Sep 1, 2026
