UK set to ban deepfake ‘nudification’ apps – POLITICO

UK set to ban deepfake ‘nudification’ apps – POLITICO

Campaigners have long argued that the issue of nudification apps more broadly needs addressing. The House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee recommended in a report in March that both the creation and use of nudification apps should be criminalized. The government responded at the time saying it was “actively looking at options” — but said the complexity of the issue warranted “careful consideration.”   The Children’s Commissioner has also…

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Push for AI Chips Restrictions on China Heats Up in Senate

Push for AI Chips Restrictions on China Heats Up in Senate

Lawmakers are accelerating efforts to restrict China’s access to powerful US artificial intelligence chips as the top two economies compete for global dominance of the transformative technology. A bipartisan group of senators Thursday introduced a resolution that seeks to affirm American leadership in AI as a national imperative and support US export controls on AI…

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Senate Democrats Press Bessent on Oversight of China Investments

Senate Democrats Press Bessent on Oversight of China Investments

Senate Democrats are pushing the Trump administration for more information on US efforts to prevent American private equity and venture capital firms from bankrolling advances by China and other adversaries in key technologies including artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, five Democratic senators demanded a update on plans…

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Riyadh and Beijing Push Ahead With Tech Cooperation as Saudi Firms Distance From Huawei

Riyadh and Beijing Push Ahead With Tech Cooperation as Saudi Firms Distance From Huawei

Saudi Arabia and China are moving to deepen their already sizeable cooperation across a range of advanced technologies. The kingdom’s National Industrial Development Center held a meeting on Wednesday with a delegation comprising leaders of 30 leading Chinese companies. Led by the Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef, they talked … Source link

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Pony.ai debut, Hong Kong, WeRide, AI stocks

Pony.ai debut, Hong Kong, WeRide, AI stocks

Hong Kong Skyline Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains after AMD’s third-quarter earnings beat lifted artificial intelligence stocks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 1.45%, while the Topix index climbed 1.11%. Japanese artificial intelligence-related companies rose: Advantest, which supplies testing equipment to Nvidia, was up 3.73%,…

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Reuters

‘China is going to win the AI race,’ FT reports

(Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the United States in the artificial intelligence race, ​the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. “China is going to win the AI ‌race,” Huang told the newspaper on the sidelines of the Financial Times’ Future of ‌AI Summit. The artificial intelligence chip leader’s chief in…

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