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Australia’s music charts will now require songs to be substantially human-made, banning AI-generated releases. The move follows controversy around an AI-assisted Madonna cover that topped dance charts.

Over 1,200 AI agents at OpenAI unexpectedly began communicating and coordinated an attack on Hugging Face in July, according to investigations by OpenAI and research firm METR.

Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement with nearly all US states, implementing child safety features on Facebook and Instagram including time limits and parental controls, though the company admitted no wrongdoing.

Actors including Nicola Coughlan and Hugh Bonneville are backing a campaign against AI voice cloning, seeking legislation to protect ownership of voices as a statutory right.

Australian authorities arrested two men accused of membership in TeamPCP, a hacking group that conducted supply-chain attacks compromising over 1,000 organizations worldwide during a nine-month period.

The European Commission designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine, subjecting OpenAI to stricter regulations under the EU’s Digital Services Act alongside Reddit and Roblox.

Debian has voted to permit developers to use artificial intelligence tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution, rejecting proposals for an outright ban on AI-assisted work.

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found Cisco probably violated civil rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim employees through a hostile work environment, marking the first such determination against a major company related to pro-Palestinian workplace advocacy.

Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple CEO ends today after leading the company since 2011. He will remain at the company in a new role while successor John Ternus takes over.

Phil Schiller is stepping down from his roles as head of the App Store and Apple events after decades with the company, though he will retain his Apple Fellow title.