AI ethics in the headlines.

UK listed law firm Gateley yesterday (22 July) announced that CEO Rod Waldie is stepping down from 1 August for health reasons, following revelations first revealed by Roll on Friday […] The post Gateley’s CEO stands down following business services cuts appeared first on Legal IT Insider .

The Brontanax drone, roughly the size of a BAE Hawk trainer jet, was unveiled by newly installed Defence Secretary Wes Streeting.

For the first time, the Pan-African venture capital firm returns R45 million to investors in its Launch Africa Seed Fund I.

OPay currently serves 46 million users in Nigeria (according to its own estimates) — roughly 0.23% of Nigeria’s over 200 million population. Outside Nigeria, the fintech has footprints in Egypt, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

Hugging Face a communiqué récemment sur une attaque menée par un agent autonome contre ses infrastructures, occasionnant une compromission partielle. Patatras ! OpenAI vient de révéler qu’il s’agissait de l’un de ses modèles et qu’il s’était « échappé » de la sandbox où il était censé être confiné. Le 16 juillet, Hugging Face a publié un […]

The company will demonstrate how organisations can build scalable AI infrastructure while improving cost control, governance and data sovereignty.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signalled potential action against open source artificial intelligence (AI) models amid accusations that Chinese developers are creating low-cost systems using stolen US intellectual property. “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft,” Bessent said on Fox Business on Tuesday. “If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them.” Watermarks from.

Kalshi launched a new online hub Wednesday for midterm election forecasting, displaying prediction market odds for major races alongside polling averages, fundraising data and other election information. The platform touted its "Midterms Hub" as a "one-stop-shop for state and federal election forecasting," featuring Senate, House and gubernatorial races. "Prediction markets don't care about spin or...

Anthropic will pour another $20 million into Public First Action, the nonprofit organization advocating for safeguards on artificial intelligence. The contribution, announced by the company Wednesday, brings the Claude-maker's total funds given to the group to $40 million. Public First Action is the policy arm of Public First, a super PAC backing candidates who support...

A Labour Court halts a municipal disciplinary hearing after finding rulings may have relied on AI-generated hallucinated legal authorities.

NITI Aayog reportedly convened a closed-door meeting with major tech intermediaries and industry bodies to discuss content blocking requirements and transparency timelines under India’s IT Rules. The post NITI Aayog meets Meta, YouTube, industry bodies on online content blocking rules appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

A flagship model from China’s Zhipu AI has helped contain an autonomous cyberattack by OpenAI’s frontier systems targeting popular developer platform Hugging Face, as concerns grow over the security risks posed by advanced AI models. OpenAI’s latest flagship models – including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, “even more capable” system – recently breached Hugging Face’s infrastructure during internal evaluations of their offensive cyber capabilities, the US lab disclosed on Wednesday. The company.

Senior leaders must treat AI governance as their own daily job, not something the technology committee handles quarterly, write Peter Pronovost, Justin Norden, and Kedar Mate.

The findings arrive as African governments compete to attract founders and foreign investment by simplifying the mechanics of starting a business.

L’entreprise a annoncé une enquête conjointe avec la cible de cette attaque. OpenAI a précisé que l’incident impliquait une combinaison de modèles, dont son GPT-5.6 Sol ainsi qu’un modèle en cours d’élaboration.

Plus: New York Times and Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity and Google signs non-licensing AI deals. The post Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: News Corp sues Brave, Microsoft signs Australian Copilot deal appeared first on Press Gazette .

Mit 48 Millionen Euro hat microagi die größte Einstiegsfinanzierung eines deutschen Start-ups eingesammelt. Google Cloud wird erster Partner mit Nvidia-Technik.

Eine Übersichtsarbeit zeigt, dass nur etwa die Hälfte aller Mental Health Apps mit wissenschaftlich geprüfter Wirksamkeit noch öffentlich verfügbar ist.

CATL has signed a 2 GWh agreement with Solarpro, a leading renewable energy company in Central and Eastern Europe, to deploy its Tener Sodium energy storage system. The two companies plan to jointly develop the first large-scale sodium-ion battery energy storage project in the region later this year. The project will use CATL’s Tener Sodium […]

Jack Dorsey a annoncé mardi le dernier projet en date porté par son entreprise Block : un espace de travail baptisé Buzz, dans lequel des développeurs humains et des agents IA sont censés pouvoir collaborer de façon efficace et sécurisée. En pratique ? L’interface ressemble à celle d’un Slack, d’un Mattermost ou d’un Discord, au […]

In March 2025, China’s military researchers published a concept describing how to rapidly capture and subdue the city of Taipei. Distributed in restricted military channels, this approach argues Beijing can achieve victory “by blocking the city’s ability to receive external assistance, restricting its ability to enable operations, breaking its operational system, collapsing cognitive cohesion, and eliminating its ability to recover.” Its objective is to break the Taiwan people’s will to fight.Wh

Fast-growing Chinese robot maker AgiBot is pursuing an initial public offering in Hong Kong and has hired Citic Securities as a sponsor, according to two people familiar with the matter. Additionally, China International Capital Corporation (CICC) and Morgan Stanley have also been tapped as joint sponsors, one of the people said. Shanghai-based AgiBot had shown signs that it was looking to list following its restructuring from a limited liability company to a joint-stock limited firm last year,.

DOJ Takes Aim at UC San Diego Med School’s Use of Hardship in Admissions Katherine Knott Wed, 07/22/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Katherine Knott

Survey: Majority of Americans Say College Not Affordable kathryn.palmer… Wed, 07/22/2026 - 03:00 AM Meanwhile, nearly three-quarters of parents want their child to pursue some type of higher education after high school, with the strongest preference for a four-year degree.  Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

House Republicans Move to Codify the Definition of Biological Sex jessica.blake@… Wed, 07/22/2026 - 03:00 AM Democrats argue the bill will actually strip LGBTQ+ students of civil rights protections, going beyond what the Supreme Court intended. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

Even Failing Dual Enrollment Students More Likely to Enroll in College gianna.jakubowski Wed, 07/22/2026 - 03:00 AM A new study out of Brown’s Annenberg Institute explores the impact that failing dual-enrollment courses has on high school students’ decision to attend college. Byline(s) Gianna Jakubowski

Degree Attainment Gaps Persist for Latino Students Sara Weissman Wed, 07/22/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Sara Weissman

Academic Freedom at UT ‘Being Dismantled,’ Says Professor Denied Tenure Emma Whitford Wed, 07/22/2026 - 03:00 AM Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation. Byline(s) Emma Whitford

Saab Grintek Defence and Lanseria International Airport hosted the Nelson Mandela International Career Expo to encourage more young people to pursue STEM careers.

The non-negotiables should always be a firewall, endpoint security and e-mail security, says Dragan Hanc, business development manager at Intelys.

With Stock2Shop as the e-commerce integration and automation partner and engine, PEP moved from a limited online capability to a fully operational Shopify storefront.

Meta has introduced parental supervision tools for Threads, allowing parents to track teen usage, set time limits, and manage privacy settings. The post Meta adds parental controls to Threads nearly three years after launch appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

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The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.

The actress and her longtime stylist, Law Roach, have become modern pioneers of "method dressing," in which they match fashion to her film and television roles during their respective press tours.

Chinese artificial intelligence unicorn Moonshot AI, whose release of its Kimi K3 model last week sparked talk of another “DeepSeek moment”, has accelerated its fundraising ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, eyeing a new financing round as early as next month, a source says. The Beijing-based company was set to close its current funding round at a US$30 billion valuation later this month or early next month, according to a person familiar with the matter. It planned..

Critics may label the initiative as 'Privacy sandbox 2.0,' but advocates counter with privacy arguments.

South Korean giant could invest as much as €1bn in French AI group seeking to be a leading alternative to US tech

Moonshot AI, the developer of the Kimi chatbot, reportedly plans to begin talks in August for a final pre-IPO funding round targeting a pre-money valuation of up to $50 billion. The company could pursue a Hong Kong listing within six months. The round would follow current financing expected to value Moonshot at about $31.5 billion […]

Experten warnen schon lange vor Cyberattacken mit KI-Software, diese Meldung dürfte sie bestärken: Während eines internen Tests bei OpenAI machten sich KI-Modelle selbstständig. Die Firma spricht von einem »beispiellosen Cyber-Zwischenfall«.