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EU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules

December 9, 2023

After marathon ‘final’ talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based framework for regulating artificial intelligence. The file was originally proposed back in April 2021 but it’s taken months of tricky three-way negotiations to get a deal over the line. The development means a […]

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Report: FAA should improve investigation process after a rocket launch goes awry

December 8, 2023

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has let launch providers conduct their own investigations in nearly every instance that a launch mishap has occurred since the start of the century — a practice that needs closer scrutiny, a federal watchdog said in a new report. The report, published Thursday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), […]

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Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android

December 8, 2023

Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage, the company reported via a post on X on Friday. And Apple is to blame, it seems. Users, including those of us at TechCrunch with access to the app, […]

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