AI ethics in the headlines.

China’s market regulator fined Trip.com Group $765 million on Saturday after concluding that the country’s largest online travel platform abused its dominant market position. The State Administration for Market Regulation said Trip.com used its traffic allocation algorithms, platform rules and technology to restrict hotel operators from listing on competing services and to control the prices […] This story continues at The Next Web

Waymo has notified Uber that it plans to launch its own app in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028, ending the exclusivity arrangement that has kept its robotaxis available only through Uber in both cities. An Uber spokesperson confirmed the notice to CNBC and Bloomberg on Friday, adding that the change would also free Uber […] This story continues at The Next Web

Reuters reports that the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face had been free for a week before the company noticed.

OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open,” which prevented requests from reaching OpenAI’s servers. The company moved from investigating to monitoring within an hour, saying it had […] This story continues at The Next Web

Uno de los grandes temas de la ciencia ficción se ha convertido hoy en objeto de debate en el sector de la robótica. Que las máquinas tengan consciencia aumentaría su utilidad en ciertas circunstancias y algunos investigadores trabajan para lograr esta meta. Aunque el concepto no se aplica en los robots como se aplica en las personas. Ricardo Sanz, profesor de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), acude a congresos de consciencia en las máquinas desde hace más de dos décadas. Recuerda su p

Opus 5 combined with Auto Mode hits a zero percent prompt injection success rate for browser agents across 129 test scenarios. Without those extra protection layers, the rate is 3.7 percent. If these numbers hold up in practice, Anthropic may have cracked one of the biggest security problems facing AI agents that operate in browsers. The article Opus 5 may have solved browser-based prompt injection, the biggest security flaw haunting AI agents appeared first on The Decoder .

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept the country, with the first Reel drawing more than 300 million views in 24 hours and breaking the platform’s record for a single clip. The 75-year-old leader recorded the videos late Thursday and Friday, choosing the short-video format most popular […] This story continues at The Next Web

Mary Derfel, assistant director of early literacy at North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s Office of Early Learning, recently heard Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen describe the dream that shaped his childhood. “As a kid,” Derfel recalled Hansen saying, “I knew I wanted to go to the moon. What I learned is that I can’t get […]

Das Start-up Humanoid hat 134 Millionen Euro eingesammelt und wird mit 1,19 Milliarden Euro bewertet. Laufen k�nnen seine ersten Roboter nicht. ( Roboter , SAP )

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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective ​investors in its second fundraising round that ‌it is suspending the deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar ​with ...

"¿Dónde se vive mejor?" La pregunta es, evidentemente, subjetiva la mires por donde la mires. Pero en el caso que nos ocupa más todavía: el Índice de Mejores Países de 2026 de la The Wharton School toma como base cómo percibe la ciudadanía de todo el mundo la calidad de vida en distintos países. Es decir, es un estudio de percepción y de reputación de marca (marca = país) que clasifica a los estados que se consideran que ofrecen la mayor calidad de vida del mundo. Este índice clasifica 85 países

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

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Selon Rexecode, le déploiement de data centers en France représenterait 210 milliards d’euros d’investissements d’ici à 2035. Un défi indispensable à relever, juge le cabinet, à l’heure où les contestations locales se multiplient contre ces infrastructures énergivores et peu pourvoyeuses d’emplois.

China’s market regulator has imposed a 5.2 billion yuan (US$765 million) penalty on Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, for “monopolistic conduct”. Trip.com – operator of its namesake international platform, China-focused siblings Ctrip and Qunar, and global site Skyscanner – had “abused its dominant market position”, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Saturday. The market regulator confiscated 1.658 billion yuan in illegal gains and.

Elon Musk's rocket maker is conducting the first test fight for its massive Starship rocket since the company's IPO last month.

On the surface, China’s cutting-edge tech sector – from the algorithmic breakthroughs of DeepSeek and Zhipu AI to the hardware of Unitree Robotics and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) – mirrors Silicon Valley’s venture capital-backed ecosystem. But a closer look at their financing histories reveals a common investor: the Chinese state. Beijing’s strong presence underscores a more profound structural shift in how China’s frontier technology is being funded. As Western venture capital and...

Only a few days ago, the states’ antitrust challenge to the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger still looked like a speed bump. Now, it looks more like siege warfare — as Paramount has agreed to put the $111 million deal on hold for at least several months. In doing so, Paramount’s lawyers have effectively conceded that they […]

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HBO Max wants it all. The most-nominated network enters Phase 2 of the Emmy race with the year’s two most-nominated series, giving the platform a rare opportunity to capture television’s top drama and comedy prizes, and potentially make history across three major program categories. “The Pitt,” the sophomore season of the breakout medical drama, leads […]

Two senior officials discussed the Defense Innovation Unit's plan to equip American forces with the right and best weapons, faster than ever before. The post DIU’s first active-duty military deputy wants to help U.S. forces meet future fights ‘with swagger’ appeared first on DefenseScoop .

A UK employment tribunal has ruled that forcing a remote worker with anxiety, ADHD, and autism to turn on her camera during a video training session amounted to disability discrimination. Laura Tait, a home-based travel consultant at Holiday Extras, was awarded compensation after the Croydon tribunal found the company failed to make reasonable adjustments for […] This story continues at The Next Web

The ninth World Artificial Intelligence Conference marked a shift from the technology-focused exhibitions of previous editions to a high-profile international gathering of government officials, world leaders, scientists and entrepreneurs. President Xi Jinping delivered an opening speech to articulate China’s role in governing AI. While Silicon Valley, Washington and Brussels debate national security, frontier capabilities and corporate profitability, China is pushing AI to generate social good..

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Bills this week focused on how minors — and seniors — engage with generative AI, gauging AI’s efficacy at the VA and addressing a myriad of policy issues.

The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."

Officers gave little explanation for detaining Sister Leticia Ugboaja despite her years of compliance with immigration requirements

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The probe follows a report that agents privately griped about last-minute travel requests from Vance and his family.

The utility says FCC should pause the complaint while parties privately dispute the issue.

Google, Amazon and Meta are seeing credit spreads widen as fixed-income investors demand more reward on companies they lend to.

Despite warnings from US President Trump about penalties on American tech companies, the European Union issued a $1 billion fine on the tech giant over its Google Play search.

Investment spree is reshaping Silicon Valley while wider US jobs market holds steady

Democrats, Republicans and political consultants fear New Jersey’s new law could slap their campaigns with hefty fines.