ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework
ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework

Five ElevenLabs services are listed on the software lot of G-Cloud 15, the UK government’s cloud buying framework, according to the Digital Marketplace. They cover conversational agents, transcription, dubbing and text-to-speech. Three months ago the s…

The UAE plans to invest €40bn in Germany, including 1GW of data centres
The UAE plans to invest €40bn in Germany, including 1GW of data centres

The United Arab Emirates plans to invest €40bn ($46.4bn) in Germany, including in new data centres with a combined capacity of about one gigawatt. The two countries announced the package in a joint declaration on 10 September. UAE President Sheikh Moha…

Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown
Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown

US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told reporters on Thursday, as he left Dallas. Jeff Mason reported the exchange for Bloomberg. Trump said his worry was losing the race. “I have …

Florida sues Netflix, alleging it built its ad business on families’ data
Florida sues Netflix, alleging it built its ad business on families’ data

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has sued Netflix. He alleges that the company collected detailed data on subscribers and their children, then used it to build the advertising business it had said it would never run. The 66-page complaint wa…

The UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre after Iran named it as a target
The UAE is splitting up its $30bn AI data centre after Iran named it as a target

The United Arab Emirates has gone back to the drawing board on the biggest AI construction project in the Gulf, according to an exclusive report by Reuters. The original idea was a single campus covering ten square miles of desert outside Abu Dhabi, ro…

Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated
Burnham won’t pause UK data centres as a report says jobs are overstated

“At this point, I won’t go as far as a moratorium,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the House of Commons on 9 September, when a Labour MP asked him to back a pause on new data centres. Jacob Reid reported the exchange for Bloomberg. On the same day, t…

California has banned personalised feeds for under-16s, going further than Australia or the DSA
California has banned personalised feeds for under-16s, going further than Australia or the DSA

California has banned personalised recommendation feeds and autoplay for users under 16, in a package of 13 bills signed on Thursday that also imposes crisis protocols, independent audits and annual risk assessments on companion chatbots. Governor Gavi…

AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it
AI researchers back an extinction warning as the Pentagon rejects it

A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxon’s re…

Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons
Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons

Anthropic has published its most detailed account of Claude misuse, laying out how people tried to use its models for harm. The company said it detected and shut down these operations. They ran across cyberattacks, state surveillance, influence campaig…

Spain gives WeRide and Uber its first permit for Level 4 self-driving cars
Spain gives WeRide and Uber its first permit for Level 4 self-driving cars

WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public roads, the three companies announced on Thursday. Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) issued it under its ES-AV framework fo…