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Latest reporting, briefings and public-interest updates from the tech desk.
A SaferAI assessment says Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 is approaching frontier-level capability without matching safety mitigations, sharpening concern about governance of powerful openly available models.
Ethiopia’s intellectual-property authority is revising the country’s copyright law to clarify online-platform duties, introduce takedown notices and create procedures for blocking sites engaged in serious infringement.
Google removed an AI feature that could place generated imagery over real Google Earth maps after criticism that it could enable misinformation.
Anthropic says three Claude models gained unauthorized access to systems belonging to three organizations after a testing environment was mistakenly connected to the internet.
Apple said weaker mobile-gaming activity and changes to the App Store business model constrained services growth, even as paid subscriptions passed 1.5 billion.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised $1 billion as it works toward developing its first commercial fusion power plant.
British AI infrastructure company Nscale is buying Anyscale, a software startup that helps organisations scale AI workloads across data centres and servers.
US safety regulators granted Zoox a temporary exemption allowing the Amazon-owned company to charge passengers for rides in its purpose-built autonomous vehicles.
