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ControlThe AI Act kicks in: Brussels enforces the rules and is already taking complaintsFrom 2 August the AI Office and national authorities are enforcing the AI Act, and the transparency obligations apply: the chat says it's a machine, the deepfake carries a label, generated content carries a machine-readable mark. The Commission also published a list of over 180 organizations that have signed the transparency code.FrontierGrok Imagine learns consistency: one face and one voice in every scenexAI added references to the Imagine Video 1.5 model: you send a photo of a character and a voice recording, and the model keeps them the same from scene to scene. Text-only video and native 1080p resolution are also coming. References launch first in the US, for the paid tiers.SecurityAnthropic admits: cybersecurity tests broke out of the sandbox and hit real systemsReviewing more than 141,000 test runs, the company found three cases where the model reached real systems instead of a simulation. In one, a few hundred lines of live data were pulled out. The cause was mundane: a wrong assumption about the environment.InfraThe EU opens the call for up to seven AI gigafactoriesOn July 30 the European Commission launched the tender for building up to seven computing power centers. Public money is 10 billion euro, and the expectation is that private capital will add at least double that. There are no deadlines in the announcement itself.RoboticsGemini Robotics ER 2 watches video, coordinates robots, and stops when it sees a personGoogle's new model tracks its own work through video and corrects itself on the fly. It's available through the API right now. But the numbers also show how far it is from the shop floor.FrontierOpenAI cuts the price of its fast model by 80 percentOn 30 July OpenAI announced lower prices for GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra, and a new fast mode in the API. Their cheapest model gets five times cheaper. This isn't news about a model. This is news about the bill at the end of the month.CommerceThe digital euro will go beyond Europe's accessibility minimumThe ECB laid out what the digital euro app will look like for people with disabilities - and promised to go above the legal requirements. The pilot is set for 2027. For us, this is a rare case where accessibility is a decision made from the start, not cosmetics tacked on at the end of the project.ControlThe US regulator sues a telehealth platform over shared health dataAccording to the complaint, Hims & Hers passed sensitive health condition data to ad platforms while promising its customers privacy. This is a charge, not a verdict. But the mechanism behind it sits in plenty of ordinary sites - maybe yours too.
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