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Denmark tells students: defend your AI-written essay out loud or fail
Danish schools are adding oral exams and screen monitoring to catch students who use AI to write their essays. Here is what the new rules mean and why other countries are watching.

A 60-day deadline on AI rules lands today. Here is what it means for patients and everyone else.
The White House set itself an August 1 deadline to finish a framework for reviewing powerful AI models before public release. The clock has run out, and the rules will shape which AI tools reach doctors, businesses and ordinary users first.

Meta's Smart Glasses Are Sparking a Privacy Backlash Across Europe
Activists, rights groups and now entire governments are pushing back against glasses that can film strangers in public without any visible warning.

Teachers Are Getting AI Training. Their Union Took $23 Million From Big Tech To Pay For It.
The American Federation of Teachers wants to help its members understand and manage AI in classrooms. The funding source is raising questions.

New Rules Are Closing In on AI Influencers, and the Creators Behind Them Are Worried
A mother in Brisbane built a virtual model to support her family. New EU labelling laws and platform crackdowns are now putting her business model, and thousands like it, under real pressure.

Court Documents Reveal Anthropic's Secret Plan to 'Destructively Scan All the Books in the World'
An internal memo uncovered in a copyright lawsuit shows the Claude maker ran a covert book-scanning project it deliberately hid under a codename.

Trump's AI Safety Framework Skips Open-Source Models Entirely
The White House has a new plan for testing AI before it reaches the public. It only covers a narrow slice of the market, and key terms are left undefined.

A journalist says Silicon Valley billionaires have declared war on democracy. Here is his case.
Gil Durán's new book argues that big tech's richest owners have stopped being innovators and started acting like rulers. His ban from X, for two words, made the point for him.

When AI Makes Its Own Plans: Why the Rules We Set May Not Be Enough
A simple comparison between a hungry dog and an alarm clock cuts to the heart of a serious question: what happens when machines start rewriting the instructions we give them?

White House Calls AI Companies to Review Secret Cybersecurity Testing Rules
The Trump administration has quietly completed a framework for testing the most powerful AI models for hacking risks. Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are all expected at Tuesday's meeting.

EU Gains Power to Fine, Block and Inspect AI Models, and OpenAI, Anthropic Are in the Crosshairs
New enforcement rules that took effect this week let European regulators demand access to AI systems before they go on sale in Europe, and hit companies with fines of up to 15 million euros for non-compliance.

US Officials Are Drafting a Ban on Chinese Datacenter Components Over AI Fears
The Trump administration wants to block imports of key Chinese fiber-optic parts that keep AI datacenters running. Here is what that means and why it matters.

Texas Orders Audit of New Data Centers Before They Can Join the Power Grid
Governor Greg Abbott wants to know exactly how much electricity, water and community disruption each new facility will demand, and no one yet knows how long that review will take.

Mistral's Bet on Open AI Is Starting to Pay Off
American export controls, a rogue AI incident, and a surge in European sovereignty concerns have handed the French lab an opening its rivals cannot easily close.

America Has a Data Center Problem, and AI Made It Worse
From MAGA rallies to environmental protests, ordinary Americans are furious about the AI infrastructure being built in their backyards. Here is why it happened.