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One robots.txt line is meant to shield websites from training by four big AI developers
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honour a shared signal that lets publishers refuse in one go to have their content feed models.
3 sources · The Verge, Search Engine RoundtableNvidia under double scrutiny: questions over Hugging Face and a spy report involving Jensen Huang
The US Justice Department is probing competition concerns around the acquisition of the AI platform, while a newspaper investigation sheds light on the chief executive's contacts with a suspected Chinese asset.
4 sources · Heise, VRT NWS, CNBC +Google's computing satellite runs Gemma 4 in orbit and delivers a haiku
The Project Suncatcher prototype is meant to show whether AI chips in space can cope with heat and radiation, on the road to data centres in orbit.
2 sources · TechCrunch, The VergeApple
Chinese iPhone users will get Apple's AI features in December, without the revamped Siri
Apple confirms that testing starts on 4 November with an iOS 27.3 beta, and is working with Alibaba in China on the Qwen chatbot.
3 sources · MacRumors, The Verge, 9to5MacCracks in the folding screen: Apple issues store guidance for the iPhone Duo, Samsung pokes fun
Apple speaks of a small number of affected units and replaces them, while iFixit points to the hinge as the cause.
5 sources · MacRumors, CNBC, EngadgetProgramming languages
Fake Claude Code extension in Cursor's store plants a backdoor on up to 5,000 developers' machines
For eleven hours an infected version of the extension sat in the AI code editor's marketplace; how it got there is still unclear.
4 sources · Ars Technica, Wired, The Register +GitHub and Google turn their developer tools into control rooms for swarms of AI agents
Copilot spreads work across parallel agents in several repositories, while Android Studio now lets developers choose from more than forty agents by other makers.
4 sources · InfoWorld, GitHub Blog, Android Developers Blog +Other tech
Army turns to Imec: Leuven chip centre gets ten million euros a year for defence research
The Leuven research centre, which long kept military work at arm's length, signs a five-year partnership on sensors, AI and secure communications.
3 sources · VRT NWS, imec, The Brussels TimesBrussels freezes national plans to keep children off social media for a year, Belgium likely affected
Brussels first wants to agree on a European age limit and puts Austria's draft law on hold; France and Greece fall outside the pause.
3 sources · The Korea Times, Heise, ORF