France’s Goncourt prize drops a novel over claims AI wrote it
The Académie Goncourt has dropped Thélyson Orélien’s novel C’était ça ou mourir from the first selection for France’s top literary prize. In a statement on
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Jury finds Meta misled New Mexico users over Cambridge Analytica
A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Facebook deceived users about how it protected their data, including in its response to
TakeMe2Space to launch AI computing satellite on SpaceX rocket on 1 October
TakeMe2Space, a space startup from India, will send its MOI-1A satellite to orbit on 1 October on a SpaceX rideshare flight, Transporter-18. The Hyderabad company
Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns with 3,000 attendees and 600 investors
Istanbul Ignited by Slush’D returns to Rixos Tersane in Istanbul on 12 to 14 October for its second edition. The organisers expect more than 3,000
With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time
The first in a new class of space telescopes is on track to reach the launch pad in the early 2030s, NASA announced this week.
Trump administration takes Musk’s side in fight over EU tech rules
The Trump administration is seeking to join Elon Musk’s appeal against a €120 million EU fine of the billionaire’s social media platform X, the latest
Council backed Devon AI datacentre before it went public, Guardian reports
A council in north Devon backed a huge AI datacentre plan more than a year before the public knew about it. The documents were reported
AlmaLinux Puts Software Certification in the Hands of Users
For the first time, there’s a way to carry out software certification on AlmaLinux, and the hardware suite has been rewritten alongside it, with test
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Linux Developer Preview
Qualcomm has put out an early developer preview of Linux for Snapdragon X2 Series laptops, asking kernel developers, distro maintainers, and hardware enablement engineers to
The inevitable problem with measuring B2B marketing by leads
B2B companies today can track almost every movement a prospect makes, yet the numbers that appear most prominently on dashboards can still have little connection
EU’s AI envoy tells commissioners to focus on using AI, Politico reports
The EU’s special envoy for industrial AI has told the EU’s top officials to focus on using AI to lift Europe’s slow productivity. Racing to
Dario Amodei of Anthropic to Dine With Trump at White House
Dario Amodei, who is also the company’s chief executive, will join the president at the White House for a private dinner. Mr. Trump has dismissed
UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia
Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned Australia not to try the same thing.
Trump to host Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at White House dinner, Axios reports
President Tweety McTreason plans to host Anthropic boss Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening. Maria Curi and Marc Caputo broke