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Vladimir Putin praises Elon Musk as a “real genius” and says Russia is in “close contact” with Musk and the US to coordinate Rassvet and Starlink satellites (www.bbc.com)
2 days ago Russia Elon Musk

The UK plans to invest £100M to create the AI Biosecurity Lab to boost defenses against biological threats, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind (www.bbc.com)
7 days ago Google AI

China's GDP is set to grow 4.5% YoY in Q3, up from Q2's three-year-low growth rate of 4.3%, as AI-driven exports helped offset weak domestic spending (www.bbc.com)
12 days ago China AI GDP

Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards (www.bbc.com)
19 days ago Microsoft AI

An official says the DOD has stopped using Anthropic's tools; sources: Claude was in use as recently as last week, including in military operations against Iran (www.bbc.com)
26 days ago Iran

Slovenia says 44,000 domain names with the .si suffix were registered in September, up from ~2,000 in August, as Trump renamed AI “super intelligence” (www.bbc.com)
29 days ago Trump AI Intelligence

OpenAI says it will give its AI cyber defense system Daybreak and GPT-5.6 Sol to the Ukrainian government for free to help it protect civilian infrastructure (www.bbc.com)
2026-9-23 AI Ukraine

A look at China's push to automate manufacturing, which employs 120 million people, amid a shrinking population and aging workforce, raising job loss concerns (www.bbc.com)
2026-8-26 China Manufacturing

UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Science, Innovation, and Tech and elevates UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees AISI, to attend cabinet (www.bbc.com)
2026-7-21 AI

Two Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years (www.bbc.com)
2026-7-16 London

Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like “rape video” and “child video” and linking to Telegram channels (www.bbc.com)
2026-7-4 India Instagram Child Abuse

John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-19 AI ICO

The UK social media ban will apply to Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X, and will require platforms to stop children from livestreaming (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-15 Facebook YouTube Snapchat Instagram Ban

London's Met Police calls on tech companies to make stolen phones unusable and says it is sharing data with Apple to build a “global picture” of stolen devices (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-11 Apple London

University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-5 AI

An interview with Naomi Gleit, Meta's head of product who joined the company 20 years ago, on Zuckerberg's “unfair” reputation, AI agents' capabilities, more (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-5 Interview AI Zuckerberg

The UK CMA says publishers in the country will be allowed to opt out of Google AI search results, giving the company nine months to implement the changes (www.bbc.com)
2026-6-3 Google AI

UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-28 Google Quantum

China executes a man called Xu Yao for killing Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi in 2020; Lin reportedly sidelined Xu, who helped land the 3 Body Problem Netflix deal (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-27 China Netflix

The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-15 Tax AI London

The Lucy Faithfull Foundation's Project Intercept, a partnership with Google, TikTok, and Meta, sent 70M+ warning messages to users seeking CSAM in two years (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-13 Google

Aylo says it will restore Pornhub access in the UK, but only for users who have verified their age via iOS 26.4's device-level age verification system (www.bbc.com)
2026-5-6 IOS

Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; he says he's “looking forward” to answering the questions (www.bbc.com)
2026-4-8 Bill Gates

PwC: 76 mainland Chinese companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025, up from 30 in 2024, despite the city's waning appeal to international investors (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-30 China Hong Kong

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-25 AI

The UK government withdraws a proposal to let AI companies train on copyrighted works, unless creators opt out, after a backlash from artists like Dua Lipa (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-19 AI

The UK ICO and Ofcom asked social media platforms to implement “highly effective age checks” to bar under-13 accounts, similar to tools required for adult sites (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-12 ICO

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-7 London

TikTok won't add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm (www.bbc.com)
2026-3-4

The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-24 Reddit ICO

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