The law is spread across millions of documents in many different places, and finding the right one takes lawyers a lot of time. For decades, a handful of publishers have done that work for them, and in most European countries lawyers have had little choice but to pay for it. In early 2023, Casper Laursen […]

Elon Musk said Tesla’s robotaxis are still working on spotting animals that blend into the road at night, describing the problem as grey kittens on grey tarmac, as Austin’s hours moved to 11pm from 10pm. The EU’s Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles votes on bloc-wide approval of the same camera-only sensor suite on 6 October. […]

China’s industry ministry and six other agencies set 2030 as the date for the first large-scale use of all-solid-state batteries, though CATL’s chairman rates the technology four out of nine and calls million-vehicle use before 2030 very unlikely. ProLogium’s Dunkirk plant, the largest new European cell project since Northvolt went bankrupt, is staged at 0.8 […]

Masayoshi Son, who has put $64.6bn into OpenAI and calls bubble talk absurd, said in Kyoto that superintelligence in the wrong hands could become super dangerous and that countries must cooperate to control it. He spoke beside Michael Kratsios, who launched a 17-country declaration written in Washington’s renamed vocabulary and endorsed by Germany, Italy, Poland, […]

Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took the opposite route in May, when the EU ratified the Council of Europe treaty whose title uses […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New York. Ukrainian news agency UNN cited those details from the FT report. A network for the front line The […]

Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks the bigger loss may be our ability to listen. She made the case in an opinion column for The Guardian. “Listening to different views and entering into different worlds is integral to our humanity,” she […]

US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Reuters also reported the case, in a story carried by The […]

The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India’s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from a war, a cyberattack or a tech failure, as Bloomberg reported. He spoke at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Saturday. “It may begin with a geopolitical event, or cyber […]

A member of OpenAI’s safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AI’s risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAI’s safety team, Bloomberg reported. He wrote that the ChatGPT maker “has thrived by trial and error.” That approach no […]