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There’s new movement in both directions on the Covered List maintained by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US — the list of banned tech products that the agency has determined are a threat to national security, including DJI hardware.

Any chores that a cleaner might do are no longer deemed reasonable requests for visitors.

The US government on Monday ordered its agencies to stop using artificial intelligence tools from Chinese startup DeepSeek, as the countries race for dominance in the fast-moving sector.

The decision comes a couple of days after the release of the company’s latest AI model.

The platform attributed the decision to “political content that goes against its policy.”

Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined Australia in restricting minors from accessing social media—barring children under 15 from major platforms, before the ban was blocked by the country’s top court on human rights grounds. The UK aims to forbid kids under 16 from accessing Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms in early…

Anthropic has banned sustained cruelty toward its AI models while simultaneously declining to say those models can be harmed. That tension sits at the center of the company’s 2026 usage policy update, announced October 8 and taking effect November 12 across Claude.ai, Claude Code, its API, and integrated products.

An influence campaign operated by ChatGPT users in Iran placed roughly 100 AI-generated articles under fake bylines across at least 20 news outlets

Be honest: how civil have you been recently with an AI chatbot? If the answer is anything stronger than “not very,” Anthropic would like a word.

Meta confirmed that it has banned ads from rival platform TikTok, saying that “declining promotional services to a competitor is a normal business practice,” Bloomberg reported. The news follows TikTok’s own ban of Instagram and Facebook profile links and Meta ads pressuring TikTok and other social media sites to follow its lead with safety features…