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Markets

World markets mixed as oil and gold rise ahead of US inflation data

Oil prices climbed and Wall Street pulled back from record highs, while South Korea's Kospi surged more than 4% on renewed chip-buying, as markets brace for a crucial US inflation reading.

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EU rules force Anthropic to expose AI writing worldwide

Anthropic will invisibly watermark all of Claude's text and file output from 2 August to meet EU AI Act transparency rules, with the marking applied globally, whether or not the user is anywhere near Brussels.

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New rules leave Chinese users mourning AI boyfriends and girlfriends

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have pulled their AI companion apps after Beijing introduced rules aimed at protecting users' mental health and preventing emotional manipulation, particularly among children and teenagers.

Business

Switch 2 and Mario movie send Nintendo profits soaring by 54%

Kyoto-based games giant posts a jump in net profit for the April-June quarter, helped by continued demand for its Switch 2 console

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Economy

China slaps export controls on US firms ahead of Xi's Washington visit

Beijing has announced sweeping trade curbs against the United States, including export controls on drones and a ban on dealings with six American entities, in retaliation for recent US restrictions on Chinese tech.

Business

SpaceX posts smaller loss despite scrutiny over rocket and AI spending

The rocket and satellite company beat Wall Street's loss forecasts in its first quarterly report as a public company, even as investors question its heavy AI spending and whether Elon Musk has oversold its prospects.

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How the UK is training its 'surgeons of the future' with robots

The NHS wants robots in nine out of 10 keyhole surgeries by 2035. At a London hospital already using the newest system, surgeons and patients say the change is already being felt.

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Apple challenges the UK's second attempt to gain access to iCloud data

Apple is back in a UK court over government demands for access to encrypted iCloud data, months after it degraded security for British users rather than build the back door the UK wanted.

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Alibaba's new AI claims to match Claude, upping the US-China AI race

Alibaba's Qwen team says its newest model can design a computer chip and rewrite a research paper — all without a human watching over it, matching skills its rival Anthropic already claims for Claude.

Space

Spain to see first total solar eclipse in more than a century

Mainland Spain is about to get its first total solar eclipse in more than 100 years, with the path of totality also touching Iceland and Greenland on 12 August. Next year's show will last even longer.

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Copyright win: ChatGPT won't help you write like Hemingway anymore

OpenAI has quietly shut the door on prompts asking ChatGPT to write "in the style of" famous authors, living or dead.

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Brussels Effect: How the EU AI Act reaches firms beyond the bloc

Nearly half the companies citing the EU's AI Act in their governance disclosures have no legal obligation to follow it, as new research shows the rules are shaping practices well beyond the bloc's borders.

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As the West mulls slowing AI down, will China follow suit?

Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic and other top labs want Washington to help pace the AI race. China has spent the year closing the gap, building a rival governance body and betting on open-source models instead.

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The EU wants firms to get faster access to cutting-edge innovation

A new voluntary charter aims to help startups and SMEs test their products at Europe's cutting-edge laboratories and pilot facilities — cutting the time it takes to bring innovations to market.

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Google rivals in Europe line up for damages after record EU fine

From Germany to Sweden, comparison-shopping firms have already won hundreds of millions from Google. The new DMA fine could help them, and others, claim even more.

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Italy plots nuclear comeback four decades after Chernobyl

Forty years after Chernobyl ended Italy's nuclear ambitions, Giorgia Meloni's government wants small modular reactors back on the table — but cost and generational divides could complicate the comeback.

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Spain's Galicia bets big on satellite AI to prevent summer 'megafires'

Galicia is rolling out AI-powered cameras and satellites to detect wildfires within minutes, hoping to avoid a repeat of last August's devastating wildfire destruction.

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EU finds TikTok failed to keep children's accounts private from adults

TikTok's list of EU headaches keeps growing, with Brussels now finding its privacy settings left children's accounts open to adults and to the risks that come with it.

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Forget Slack and Teams — your next work chat comes with AI co-workers

Block has launched an open-source rival to Slack and GitHub that gives AI agents their own identities and permissions, treating them as colleagues rather than tools.

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'Unprecedented': OpenAI models autonomously hacked another AI company

OpenAI has admitted one of its models exploited a hidden flaw to escape a controlled test and break into Hugging Face's servers, in what its CEO called an autonomous, first-of-its-kind breach.

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