In the News

• Romance scam victim travels 700km 'to marry French beauty queen'
  7/18/25 – BBC News
• Meta says it won't sign EU's AI Code, calling it overreach
  7/18/25 – Bloomberg
• Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT
  7/18/25 – The Conversation
• Disruptions of cellphone internet links in Russia are spreading
  7/18/25 – AP News
• AI models with systemic risks given pointers on how to comply with EU AI rules
  7/18/25 – Reuters
• I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
  7/18/25 – The New York Times
• How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones
  7/17/25 – The New York Times
• US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rules
  7/17/25 – Reuters
• Meta apologises after auto-translated post declares India minister 'dead'
  7/17/25 – BBC News
• Kill Russian soldiers, win points: Is Ukraine's new drone scheme gamifying war?
  7/17/25 – BBC News
• What will batteries of the future be made of? Four scientists discuss the options – podcast
  7/17/25 – The Conversation
• White House Prepares Executive Order Targeting ‘Woke AI’
  7/17/25 – The Wall Street Journal
• British spies and SAS named in Afghan data breach
  7/17/25 – BBC News
• Poll finds bipartisan agreement on a key issue: Regulating AI
  7/17/25 – The Conversation
• Cambodia makes 1,000 arrests in latest crackdown on cybercrime
  7/17/25 – AP News
• US House poised to send stablecoin bill to Trump after 'crypto week' drama
  7/17/25 – Reuters
• Crypto Market Gets Major Win as Congress Passes Stablecoin Bill
  7/17/25 – Bloomberg
• Ice given access to Medicaid data in move critics call a privacy betrayal
  7/17/25 – The Guardian
• ChatGPT helps write this mayor’s speeches. Now he wants a thousand city workers using AI
  7/17/25 – AP News
• Meta investors, Zuckerberg reach settlement to end $8 billion trial over Facebook privacy litigation
  7/17/25 – Reuters
• OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers
  7/17/25 – The Guardian
• Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE
  7/17/25 – AP News
• Defence secretary 'unable to say' if anyone killed after Afghan data breach
  7/16/25 – BBC News
• Trial opens against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders over Facebook privacy violations
  7/16/25 – AP News
• Why drones and AI can’t quickly find missing flood victims, yet
  7/16/25 – The Conversation