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‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger…

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union…

Palantir CEO warns US against Europe's AI regulation path, urges Trump admin to not ban open models Fox Business

HSBC Holdings Plc is set to hire more than 100 artificial intelligence specialists in Singapore with plans to launch a global AI center in the city-state later this year as the British lender steps up investments in the technology that’s reshaping Wall Street workforces.

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps.

AI-powered robotics in Europe: Live demonstrations and strategic debate Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/24/2026 - 14:32 02 September 2026 The European Parliament will host a gathering of policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, alongside live demonstrations of cutting-edge robots, to set the…

These AI officials are at the mercy of technical breakthroughs from abroad, politics and the onslaught of AI disruption

Digital Decade 2026: eGovernment Benchmark 2026 dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:07 The eGovernment Benchmark 2026 assesses availability and functionality of a selection of digital public service websites and portals across nine life events.

Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short. I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but also this is a real burner of an episode.

The U.S. government's lead civilian cyber agency is heading into the AI era with shrinking resources and a diminished role as Washington scrambles to assemble a multi-agency response to emerging AI cyber threats.

Running the Datagrid data centre in New Zealand rather than China could save the equivalent annual emissions of half a million cars. For the last decade, tech evangelists have stared at lush green farmland on the outskirts of Invercargill and dreamed of covering it in grey warehouses full of…

SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw TechCrunch

Mistral plans to invest billions in a data center in Essonne, south of Paris, for AI infrastructure.

Maximilian Bittner said the firm will be based in London and focus on Europe.

ELIZA is remembered as the world’s first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users’ worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction.

The Trump administration entered office promising to get government out of the AI industry's way. It hasn't worked out that way. Why it matters: The White House says AI shouldn't be regulated, but it's shaping the industry through case-by-case interventions without clear rules, creating major…

The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups.

Unframe Inc., an AI delivery platform built for global enterprise, announced a fundraising of $50 million in Series B funding led by Highland Europe. Significant follow-on funding from previous investors The post Highland Europe Backs Unframe’s $50M AI Expansion appeared first on Ventureburn.

Multiverse has raised $70 million in primary funding. With this fresh cash injection, Multiverse seeks to create Europe’s infrastructure for popularising workforce AI.

ERP.net, a European business software developer, announces the launch of Operator.net, an integrated platform designed to deploy executive AI agents directly within the ERP and CRM systems.

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The government capital program joins other sovereign AI financial initiatives around the world.

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