If Australian data centres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return | David Pocock

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s speech on Monday insisting that tech companies create device controls to somehow block children from viewing or creating sexually explicit imagery has raised alarms among CISOs, who worry that the same technology could undermine enterprise security. Starmer gave tech firms three months to create and implement such restrictions voluntarily, at which point he said he would push for legislation to make it mandatory. Behind the technical and logistical hurdles for tech firms to clear, such as how a device would determine that an image was inappropriate, and how it could reliably determine the subject’s age, is the issue of whether this process would interfere with encryption protections for enterprises worldwide. And that comes down to whether the required data analysis happens on the device or in the cloud.  Starmer did not go into a lot of detail, preferring to let technology companies craft their own plans, but in this case the details matter. Analysts a

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.

On the “Hard Fork” podcast, the hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose discuss the pros and cons of I.P.O.s by large tech companies.

The trap of having to strip away guardrails isn’t an accident of competition; it’s being maintained by the government through incentives.

Coinbase froze more than $3 million in crypto tied to Southeast Asian scam networks as federal officials expanded a wider fraud crackdown. The DOJ-backed effort also involved major tech companies, law enforcement agencies, and infrastructure providers. How Coinbase’s $3M Freeze Fits Into a Wider DOJ Scam Crackdown Crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) said June 3 […]

One measure would codify rules tech companies have requested, including a ban on using artificial intelligence for domestic surveillance.

Under new rules, tech companies will be asked to share AI models with government for review before public release Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a voluntary framework for the federal government to vet powerful new AI models before they are released. Tuesday’s highly anticipated order represents an attempt by the president to tighten his grip on cybersecurity and national security threats posed by AI, tacking against his earlier deregulatory stance. Under the new rules, tech companies would be asked to share their AI models with the government for a voluntary review, up to 30 days before a public release. The Trump administration says doing so will allow them to improve national security, particularly with regards to cybersecurity. Continue reading...

A scathing essay by the former prime minister rehashes assumptions that underpinned his own rise to power. But the challenges are quite different now A paradox lies at the heart of Sir Tony Blair’s latest sermon to a Labour party that he seems actively to dislike these days. The 5,700-word intervention, published on the website of his Institute for Global Change, emphasises the sheer novelty of challenges such as the AI revolution and the rise of insurgent populism in western democracies. Yet the advice he offers is based on assumptions unchanged since he was bashing “old Labour” in the 1990s. In his essay, Sir Tony suggests that Labour’s “infinite capacity for self-delusion” is set to lose it the next election, irrespective of who is leading the party and the country by then. Only if it embodies a “radical centre”, he argues, can the government deliver the rises in growth and productivity that Britain desperately needs. This, it turns out, means rejecting more or less any policy that