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Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around Siri AI, with shipping from 13 November in eight markets. The European Union is not one of them, because Siri AI is still blocked on iOS there.
Executives from NTT Data, Brookfield and Infosys say electricity and skilled labour, not chips, now limit how fast AI data centres get built. In Europe the binding constraint is worse, with grid connections in congested markets running to ten years.
AMD has published Helion, an open rack blueprint for running AI agents rather than training models, with a CPU-only version holding up to 32,768 cores. Partner systems are due in November, and the pitch is how many agents fit in each watt.
OpenAI is adding 200 roles in Dublin and building an applied AI lab at its EU headquarters, taking planned Irish hiring to 450. The move lands two days before Ireland hosts the International AI Summit under its EU presidency.
Meta has released Muse Wonder, known internally as Watermelon, and says it matches ChatGPT and Claude on coding and professional work. It has not said whether the weights will be published, which decides what it owes under the EU AI Act.
NHTSA has opened a defect petition review into claims that Tesla robotaxis exceeded posted speed limits in active school zones, covering about 1,000 vehicles with no reported crashes or injuries.
Britain’s AI Security Institute will keep testing the most powerful AI models before they are released, the UK government said on Monday. AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the UK had worked closely with the US to keep that access, Bloomberg reported.
The UK government will extend a programme using frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, and will consider legislating on AI incident reporting and loss-of-control risk.
WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets users schedule messages between ten minutes and two weeks ahead, spotted in an Android beta by WaBetaInfo. The main business use for it, sending work messages outside hours, is regulated across much of Europe, and nothing marks a delivered message as…
Japan’s government has told ministries, local authorities and companies to step up their cyber defences. A wave of attacks has exposed the data of millions of customers. The National Cybersecurity Office sent the instructions on Friday, the Associated Press reported.
China has agreed to moderate its exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars to the EU, which EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said could cut them by more than half. He announced it on Friday in press remarks in Beijing, after the second round of EU-China trade and investment consultations.
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella says companies should assume any advanced AI model they deploy could be compromised, and contain it from the start. He set out the case in a long article on X on Saturday. “Think of it like an emergency brake.
AUS trade body has opened a patent case against 20 companies over the power systems inside AI servers. Foxconn, Luxshare and Quanta are among them.The US International Trade Commission acted after a complaint by power-chip maker Vicor, it said on Friday.
The White House hopes AI will help the US grow its way out of debt. That is a new take on the Reagan-era promise that tax cuts pay for themselves, Eduardo Porter argued in an analysis for The Guardian.
Turkey will bar social media platforms from serving children under 15 from 1 November, under rules published in the country’s Official Gazette, Inci Ozbek reported for Bloomberg. Platforms must check users’ ages when they sign up, using a token from Turkey’s e-government system.
The Trump administration is betting that the threat of lawsuits will keep AI companies honest. But it is far from clear who would pay when an AI agent goes rogue, Maggie Eastland reported for Bloomberg.
The UK must not depend on foreign AI that could be cut off at short notice, the new head of the Alan Turing Institute has said. George Williamson made the comments in an interview with Dan Milmo for The Guardian.
Europe must give its startups the capital to grow without leaving the continent, Jean-Christophe Laloux said. The incoming chief executive of the European Investment Fund spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. “It’s not enough to innovate in Europe. You also must be able to scale in Europe.
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