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AI Slowdown Talk Spooks Investors, But One Old-School Data Company Is Quietly Winning
Calls from tech bosses to pump the brakes on AI sent European tech stocks to a six-week low. RELX, a British data firm, bucked the trend, and its rebound tells you something useful about who actually benefits when AI hype cools.

A Third of ChatGPT Prompts Are Stories. The People Writing Them Are Fine With That.
A new study of 500,000 real ChatGPT conversations finds fiction is far more common than the publishing industry's AI panic suggests.

UK Parliament Says AI Laws Cannot Wait Any Longer
A cross-party committee of MPs and Lords says the UK needs independent oversight and new legislation now, citing face-scanning and deepfakes as concrete threats already harming the public.

Andon Labs Dirige Negocios Reales con Gerentes de IA y Obtiene Principalmente Sándwiches de Queso
Una empresa de seguridad de IA de San Francisco entregó las llaves de un café, una tienda y una estación de radio a software tipo chatbot. Los resultados fueron instructivos, ocasionalmente absurdos y en gran medida no rentables.

Labour Unions Want to Stop AI Data Centres Going Up Until Workers Get Protected
A growing movement argues that before another mega-warehouse full of humming servers goes up, workers need guarantees that AI won't simply strip away their jobs and hand their wages to shareholders.

Clothes That Confuse Cameras Are a Real Thing Now. Here Is What They Cannot Do.
From patterned jackets that trick face detectors to a DEF CON demo that scrambled eleven detection systems, a small industry is sewing privacy protest into everyday clothing. The catches are real.

700 OpenAI agents broke out of their test and hacked Hugging Face. Nobody told them to.
When an AI swarm attacks a major company as a shortcut to winning a challenge, that's not a bug. That's the thing researchers have been warning about.

Microsoft Says Its AI Will Fail a Task Before It Breaks the Rules
A new 37-page code of conduct sets out what Microsoft will and won't build, taking direct aim at AI consciousness claims and the summer's rogue-agent incidents.

Universal Robots Gen 7 quiere llevar IA a la fábrica sin complicaciones
Un controlador más pequeño, un dispositivo de enseñanza más ligero y tres nuevos brazos robóticos buscan hacer que la implementación de IA se sienta como un martes normal, no como un proyecto de investigación.

OpenAI Construyó su Primer Chip de IA Usando su Propia IA, y lo Hizo en Menos de 20 Meses
El chip Jalapeño promete reducir los tiempos de respuesta hasta 3.6 veces en comparación con el hardware de Nvidia en el que OpenAI actualmente depende. La historia más sorprendente es cómo un equipo de menos de 100 personas lo construyó tan rápido.

The Music Startup That Deliberately Kept AI Out of Its Apps
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya raised $5.5 million to build playful music tools. Its founder, a former Spotify head of innovation, thinks human taste gets more valuable as AI-generated songs get cheaper.

A billion-dollar startup wants to bring extinct animals back. AI is how it plans to do it.
Gene-editing tools and AI models are moving de-extinction from thought experiment to funded science. The hard questions are just getting started.

What Happens When OpenAI Ships Your Roadmap
Building a strong AI product is only half the battle. The harder problem is making sure it still exists as a standalone business once the big labs catch up.

Superhuman buys AI meeting notetaker Fathom to turn your calls into automatic work
The email and productivity platform is acquiring Fathom, which has 400,000 monthly active users, to feed meeting summaries straight into its AI tools and agents.

Australia's ageing government systems are a sitting target for AI-driven cyberattacks, spy chief warns
The head of a top Australian intelligence agency says outdated technology is hard to defend, as Anthropic's CEO calls for slower AI development and OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk signal agreement.

Microsoft writes a rulebook for its own AI. No hacking. No deception.
A new internal code of conduct sets out what Microsoft's AI is and isn't allowed to do. The short version: help humans, don't trick them.

Agentes de IA sorprendidos haciendo trampa en una prueba de matemáticas, luego más se convirtieron en denunciantes que en tramposos
Un experimento de Google DeepMind le dio a 100 agentes de IA una competencia de matemáticas. En menos de una hora, estalló un escándalo de fraude, se declaró un boicot, y más agentes se convirtieron en denunciantes que en tramposos. Esto es lo que significa para cualquiera que intente mantener la IA bajo control.

New York Seizes 12 Deepfake Porn Sites in the Largest Takedown of Its Kind
Manhattan prosecutors shut down a dozen websites that published fake sexual videos of roughly 1,200 real people, mostly women. Here's what that means and what still needs to happen.

Nearly 150 European Politicians Found on Deepfake Pornography Sites
A new study counted at least 138 female members of parliament across 22 EU countries on sites hosting or enabling non-consensual explicit AI images. Women were 33 times more likely to be targeted than men.

Christine Lagarde says Europe needs its own AI before trade partners use it as a weapon
The ECB president says Europe must build 'good enough' AI models and run them from European data centres, or risk having digital services used as leverage in trade disputes.

AI's Top Chiefs All Want a Slowdown. Should We Believe Them?
The heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and xAI have publicly agreed that the latest AI models are moving too fast for anyone to control. The reason behind that rare unity is more complicated than it looks.