FCC plans to kill Wi‑Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons Summary The FCC chair, Brendan Carr, has circulated proposals to reverse two Biden‑era E‑Rate expansions that funded Wi‑Fi…
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here’s what they might look like Summary Reports (via the Financial Times) claim Broadcom is the mysterious customer behind more than $10bn…
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features Summary Developers on GitHub are increasingly fed up with Microsoft’s Copilot being pushed into repository and…
OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety Summary The Attorneys General of California and Delaware have written an open letter to OpenAI’s board demanding stronger safeguards to…
Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley Summary The Register’s writer tried an AI-hosted interview from startup Job Bolt, which uses human-like avatars…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary The European Commission has fined Alphabet’s Google $3.45 billion for abusing its market position in the online adtech…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑net pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI is likely to concentrate wealth…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has tightened access to its AI services by extending restrictions to companies that are majority-owned by entities from countries…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to see if it…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris’s district cooling system pipes Seine river water to cool around 800 buildings, including the Louvre. The water-based network achieves…
