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A charter published on 11 November commits its signatories to guaranteeing a high level of safety, privacy and security by design.
France's Council for AI and Digital Affairs was due to publish a report on 10 November on how AI services exploit users' vulnerabilities.
A Goldman Sachs economist estimates that the next recession could trigger a wave of AI-related layoffs, affecting one worker in eleven.
French President Emmanuel Macron wants to ban the uses of artificial intelligence that pose a danger to minors, particularly chatbots and connected toys.
Director Sylvain Chomet says his six-minute animated short for Dior, accused online of being AI-generated, was entirely drawn by artists.
Minister Satvir Kaur told the House of Commons she wants to restrict sales of smart glasses to certain users, citing women filmed without knowing.
According to the Acsel barometer, 50% of French people use AI for health, and 38% of clinicians have had a diagnosis challenged.
A Havas Market study finds 39% of French people have used or plan to use AI for Christmas shopping, up from 36% in 2025.
OpenAI announced new commitments to communities hosting its data center projects, including a pledge not to use non-disclosure agreements with public officials.
EDF intends to convert former coal and fuel-oil power plants into data centers, La Lettre reports, with a land operator launching by January 2027.
Accenture will correct and reissue its report on AI in African agriculture after GPTZero flagged fake references, which the firm blames on human error.
Votes for candidates and ballot measures opposing data centers could rein in AI's expansion in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reports.
YouTuber Gossip Goblin announces a Grimes cameo in his AI-generated film through a Times Square campaign, ahead of its December 4 release.
Prada, Hermès and Anthropologie are showcasing hand-drawn or hand-animated human work to stand apart from the AI-generated content flooding the internet.
DoubleVerify's Global Insights 2026 report finds 39% of French consumers view brands negatively when their ads appear beside low-quality AI-generated content.
German dubbing actor Matti Klemm, voice of Jason Momoa, will sue Netflix, accusing it of training AI systems on his voice without consent or payment.
Ten independent French publishing houses have founded Adepia, an association seeking compensation from artificial intelligence companies accused of using their books without authorisation.
Enterprise Linux provider SUSE will lay off one employee in ten out of roughly 2,000, its CEO citing automation and artificial intelligence.
Nice CEO Scott Russell says the planned cut of about 500 jobs will also reach R&D, where teams use AI tools to boost productivity materially.
Meta's French subsidiary has launched a departure plan targeting about a hundred positions, close to a third of its workforce.
Google confirmed to Reuters that it is extending its voluntary buyout offers to employees in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.
Canva's restructure affects 1,271 employees, or 22% of its global workforce, through layoffs and requests to relocate to centralised hubs.
Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to steal more than $6 billion in digital assets last week.
Anthropic added an instruction to Claude Code telling it not to recreate an existing video game, even renamed, to counter AI-generated clones.
Apple will require an 18+ rating for apps offering dating or romantic features, including AI companions, with new content descriptors mandatory from November 16.
Launching its Grid Protectors Program, OpenAI favored the term 'compute campus' over 'data center', a change activist groups call a cosmetic fix.
The unauthorised felling of about 250,000 trees for a Google data center in Finland has embarrassed the government, Le Monde reports.
From early 2027, Google will disable its AI tools by default for K-12 students, and schools that fully prohibit them will lose access to search.
Bloomberg reports Disney is considering thousands of job cuts and has asked some managers to target up to 20% in annual savings.
Apple's watchOS 27.3 developer beta adds two Audio Intelligence features, Siri Recap and Live Rewind, which use the Watch's microphone to summarize and transcribe conversations.
Germany's cybersecurity agency BSI says lawmakers and officials received Apple spyware threat notifications, and told them to assume their devices are infected and replace them.
Publisher IEEE retracted 1,417 conference papers on October 23, six months after researchers flagged fake proceedings whose authorships had been bought.
The European Commission wants to harmonize online child protection and is postponing by twelve months national bills that overlap with the KIDS Act.
Squarespace, the website building and hosting company, is reducing its global workforce by about 19%, around 300 employees, as part of a restructuring.
A Chartered Management Institute survey of 928 UK managers finds nine in ten see candidates using AI to help write CVs or cover letters.
In October 2026, 49.9% of games released on Steam disclosed AI-generated content, up from 26.4% a year earlier, according to a Reddit analysis.
Agency Wili created for Mondorf Promotion the campaign "Là où tout commence", a film using AI to recreate historical and family scenes.
In a Friday address, Pope Leo XIV asked UN member states to take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons at their Geneva meeting.
The British government is extending its PlanAssist AI tool to 15 councils and giving officers simple applications, aiming to speed up planning decisions.
The 53 Member States of the WHO European Region unanimously adopted their first roadmap on artificial intelligence in health, covering the period 2026–2033.
On 22 October, CNIL fined two Fnac companies €7 million for using a tracker in their mobile app without users' consent.
Deloitte finds 81% of surveyed companies make decisions faster with AI, but only 25% use it to deeply transform their business.
UMG posted 3.394 billion euros in third-quarter revenue, nearly 12 percent more than in 2025, and its CEO denounced the spread of AI slop.
Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law setting safeguards on AI chatbots for minors, which takes effect on 1 January 2027.
Democratic lawmakers demand answers from Mark Zuckerberg over the suspension of the No Kings Coalition Instagram account, which Meta blames on an automated error.
A 16-year-old, the second suspect in the hack of French tax authority data, has been charged in Paris and placed under judicial supervision.
Anthropic is giving Claude Enterprise customers smart reports that analyse team conversations to show usage, output, spending and sessions classed as personal or off-topic.
Microsoft announced on 26 October 2026 a voluntary exit offer that could cover about 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its workforce.
Amid fierce competition for AI researchers, quantitative trading firms are sponsoring PhD students and opening in-house research labs, Bloomberg reports.
A study finds some languages require far more tokens than others, making artificial intelligence more expensive for the people who speak them.
Google Research and Stanford Accelerator for Learning launch “Polar Peaks,” the third AI Quest, teaching students aged 11 to 14 AI literacy through neuroscience.
Anthropic released a Claude plugin built with about 30 nonprofits and plans to extend its Claude Corps program through a partnership with Taproot.
The Dutch government plans to eliminate about 25,000 full-time central government posts by 2035, roughly 16% of the workforce, partly through AI and standardised IT.
Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok says revenue per worker and profit margins are flat in the S&P 493, unlike the Mag 7 group.
Incheon was chosen for the Interior Ministry's AI champion consulting and will open a 2027 course training 120 municipal staff in AI.
The Japanese city of Hachinohe is trialling an AI chatbot for parents until 28 February 2027, ahead of a full rollout planned for fiscal 2027.
Google, Temasek and Bain's e-Conomy SEA 2026 report says 58% of the region's working population uses generative AI, scaling four times faster than mobile internet.
An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll finds 57% of Americans call AI bad for society, and about two-thirds oppose building new data centers in the U.S.
Éditions du Boréal ended its collaboration with the author after an external analysis found AI markers in the working versions of his novel.
The physicist and former Harvard Dean of Science joins the independent body that can appoint a majority of Anthropic's board of directors.
Shontel Brown introduced a bill requiring a disclaimer on AI-generated election content and banning AI use to deprive people of voting rights.
Before Judge Eumi Lee, publishers accuse Claude of reproducing copyrighted lyrics while Anthropic argues it bears only secondary liability; the judge reserved her decision.
Italy's NoiPA is rolling out its AI-based "Digital Human" virtual assistants to new services, including help with reading the salary payslip.
This year, Spotify has taken more than 50 million AI-generated slop and spam tracks out of its recommendations to protect artists and listeners.