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The European Commission has adopted exemptions to its battery regulation that spare six new categories of electronics from carrying user-replaceable batteries, wearables among them. The EU started enforcing its Batteries Regulation in 2023 as part of the European Green Deal, though the replaceable battery requirement does not bite until 2027. That rule has already pushed…

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xAI’s Grok 4.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving teams that build agents and AI workflows a model that reasons reliably over long inputs. With this launch, xAI joins Amazon Bedrock as a model provider. Grok 4.3 is a model with configurable reasoning effort. It offers strong tool use and instruction following for…

The report is here. . Note that the results were based on queries sent “from an IP address in Australia,” so this didn’t just reflect (for instance) an AI company choosing to apply Chinese law to requests that seem to come from China. The Executive Summary:

Family of Trafford woman sues OpenAI, alleges ChatGPT contributed to her death on Alabama interstate The family of *** Trafford woman is taking legal action against Chat GPT, claiming an AI chatbot contributed to the woman’s death. Christian Faith Madison died more than *** year ago, and in June of 2025, the Jefferson County coroner…

July 16 — Chinese artificial intelligence providers are racing to rival top US firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic despite Washington’s export restrictions on cutting-edge computer hardware

In late May, Neil Rimer said something during a sit-down I had with him in Athens that I haven’t been able to shake. At a vibrant new tech festival in the city, talking about the wealth piling up around AI, he said he has “a strong sense that there will be some sort of a…

Starting college comes with a lot of tough choices: which dorm to live in, which major to pursue, how much to use artificial intelligence, when to pull an all-nighter, and how many parties to attend on the weekend. But you don’t need to agonize over finding the best laptops for college students. After testing 80+…

Ernst & Young (EY) is disclosed a data breach linked to a compromised third-party support ticket system used by its IT teams. The platform stored support requests that may have included documents containing client tax information.