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427 stories · page 30 of 48The digital euro will go beyond Europe's accessibility minimum
The ECB laid out what the digital euro app will look like for people with disabilities - and promised to go above the legal requirements. The pilot is set for 2027. For us, this is a rare case where accessibility is a decision made from the start, not cosmetics tacked on at the end of the project.
Read →The US regulator sues a telehealth platform over shared health data
According to the complaint, Hims & Hers passed sensitive health condition data to ad platforms while promising its customers privacy. This is a charge, not a verdict. But the mechanism behind it sits in plenty of ordinary sites - maybe yours too.
Read →Anthropic: we never wanted a ban on open-weight models
The company published its position after months of dispute over open models. It admits the higher risk of misuse, but says banning American firms solves nothing. It proposes three measures - and one of them is aimed at itself.
Read →AI is reshuffling who does what: almost half of profession-specific tasks come from another profession
On 27 July OpenAI released the first report in its new Work at the Frontier series: an analysis of over 800,000 work messages in ChatGPT shows that 43.5% of profession-specific tasks come from another profession. The designer handles his own budget. The salesperson analyzes data. The marketer fixes his own website. The division of labor is being rearranged before job descriptions have caught up.
Read →Rivals on the same team: 40 companies launch an open alliance for AI agent security
On 27 July NVIDIA, Microsoft, IBM, Cloudflare, Hugging Face and over 40 more organizations announced the Open Secure AI Alliance - open technologies and tools for securing software and AI agents. The occasion isn't abstract: the industry still remembers the first major incident with an autonomous agent. The idea is simple - security shouldn't be a trade secret.
Read →The harness beats the model: GitHub on where AI productivity actually hides
An essay on the GitHub blog from 27 July says something simple and rarely said out loud: the biggest jump in working with AI agents comes from how well you master the shell around the model - the harness. The model is the smaller part of the equation. A thesis that matches the everyday experience of anyone building with agents.
Read →X launches the wallet: money, a card and 6% interest inside the social network
From 27 July X Money is rolling out to select users in the US: an in-app wallet, free transfers between people, a Visa card with cashback and up to 6% annual interest. Another step toward the 'everything app.' The question is worth asking now - do you want your bank to live where you message people.
Read →The biggest open model is now downloadable: Moonshot releases the weights for Kimi K3
On 27 July Moonshot AI uploaded the full weights for Kimi K3 - 2.8 trillion parameters, the largest openly available model to date. We wrote about its debut ten days ago. Now anyone can download it and run it on their own machine. In theory. In practice the weights weigh in at around 1.5 terabytes and need hardware that few people have.
Read →Brussels: children's accounts on TikTok are too exposed and breach the DSA
On 24 July the European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings: minors' accounts don't meet the safety standard of the Digital Services Act. A public child account is visible to anyone on the internet, even without registering, and content from 16-17-year-olds gets recommended to strangers. If confirmed, the fine could reach 6% of global turnover.
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