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China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked

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China races ahead on embodied AI data while Europe struggles to catch up

Beijing's data regulator is moving swiftly to standardise training data for humanoid robots, backed by over 70 operational facilities across the country. Europe, meanwhile, has created rules governing data access but lacks the infrastructure to generate the vast datasets these systems require.
The European AI Act never once uses the phrase human in the loop, which comes from a 2012 report calling for a ban on killer robots, and whose absence lets a company sit one person in front of a screen, let the system run, and still be compliant

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The Human Oversight Phantom: Why Europe's AI Act Never Says What Everyone Claims It Says

A critical gap in the EU's AI Act allows companies to deploy systems that merely monitor outcomes rather than approve decisions in advance. The missing language traces back to a 2012 weapons-control framework that warned against exactly this loophole.
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same

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Altman backs Amodei's safety-first approach as OpenAI pledges independent evaluator access

Sam Altman has endorsed Anthropic's call to decelerate AI development and committed OpenAI to granting independent safety auditors workplace-equivalent privileges, following Dario Amodei's push for industry coordination on risk assessment.
Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced

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Ellison scraps $7.5bn Oracle stock sale plan within hours of disclosure

The Oracle chief executive cancelled a trading arrangement the day after it became public, having sold no shares under it. The incident highlights how American and European rules for executive stock transactions differ fundamentally.
The US transport secretary told Ford to cut its Chinese ties, including one in Valencia

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US and EU Take Divergent Paths on Chinese Auto Partnerships

America's transport secretary has pressured Ford to abandon collaborations with Chinese battery makers and Geely, while Brussels moves to reshape such deals through stricter ownership and technology-sharing rules.
Larry Ellison steps back from the Oracle spotlight as the AI pivot takes over

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Ellison's Exit from the Spotlight Marks Oracle's Shift to Cloud-First Leadership

The Oracle founder has stepped back from public appearances as co-CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia take centre stage, signalling a generational handover in how the database giant presents itself to the world.
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must slow down

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Anthropic CEO calls for industry-wide slowdown on AI model development

Dario Amodei has urged the sector to decelerate its advancement of AI capabilities, proposing embedded external auditors and seeking regulatory permission for competitors to coordinate on safety—measures largely already mandated in Europe.
Psychology says people who become strangely quiet around certain family members aren't necessarily shy — part of them may still remember how small they once had to become to keep the peace

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Why some of us become different people around family—and what neuroscience reveals about that silence

The quiet that descends at family gatherings isn't shyness. It's an adaptive response from childhood that your nervous system never quite updated, even as you grew into someone confident and articulate elsewhere.