2026-08-14
France’s under-15 social media ban is struck down two weeks before it starts
The decision lands about two weeks before the ban was due to start, Bloomberg reported. Platforms were to stop creating accounts for under-15s from 1 September. Parliament gave the law final approval on 21 July. The desk covered that final vote at the time. What the Council ruled The Council struck down the ban on […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-14
GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster as OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode powered by Cerebras
OpenAI is launching "Ultrafast," a new inference mode that delivers GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by Cerebras hardware from their $10 billion partnership. Together with "Standard" and "Fast," Ultrafast creates a three-tier pricing structure that turns inference speed into its own product.<br /> The article GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster [...]
2026-08-14
Giving ‘Secret Identities’ to Copyrighted Animation Characters
New research from China offers a non-invasive way to protect copyrighted animation characters, by 'injecting' generic substitutes at inference time. But can this method defeat the ingenuity of prompt-hackers? Given the extent of copyrighted material present in hyperscale datasets (because of the sheer cost of weeding such infractions out), models trained on them tend to be able to reprod [...]
2026-08-14
SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before
SpaceX confirmed completion in a regulatory filing. Bloomberg’s Carmen Arroyo and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the close. The desk covered the binding agreement in June, when SpaceX filed an 8-K and said it expected to complete in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval. That approval has now happened, on the schedule the filing set out. […]<br /> This story continues at The Ne [...]
2026-08-14
Arm’s co-founder says AI will create more value than any revolution before it, and be a rollercoaster
Hauser sat down with CNBC’s The Tech Download podcast this month. Arjun Kharpal and Kai Nicol-Schwarz published the write-up on 14 August. His track record is the reason to listen. He co-founded Acorn Computers in 1978, helped create Arm, and now backs European deep-tech startups through Amadeus Capital. That is four decades of watching technology […]<br /> This story continues at The Ne [...]
2026-08-14
A judge just told Google to stop making rival app stores hard to install
The hearing ran on 13 August in a San Francisco courtroom, The Verge reported first. It was a compliance check, not a new case. A jury decided unanimously nearly three years ago that Google held an illegal monopoly over Android apps. Donato set the remedy in October 2024. That remedy made Google carry rival Android […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]