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Latest reporting, briefings and public-interest updates from the tech desk.
Denmark is requiring oral defenses of major written assignments and stronger computer monitoring during upper-secondary exams as schools respond to unauthorized use of artificial intelligence.
A consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has completed its $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts after receiving final regulatory clearance.
A SaferAI assessment says Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5.2 is approaching frontier-level capability without matching safety mitigations, sharpening concern about governance of powerful openly available models.
Palantir reported $1.94 billion in second-quarter revenue and lifted its full-year forecast after rapid growth in commercial and US government business.
Apple has filed a new legal challenge against a UK government order seeking access to encrypted iCloud data belonging to British users.
Reports of Chinese progress in memory chips and lithography sent semiconductor shares sharply lower before strong Amazon and Microsoft results helped markets rebound.
UK Government Investments said an internal file containing management information and the work contact details of 51 officials was publicly accessible for about 40 hours.
Ethiopia’s intellectual-property authority is revising the country’s copyright law to clarify online-platform duties, introduce takedown notices and create procedures for blocking sites engaged in serious infringement.
