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WIRED reports that the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office has ordered Meta to halt AI child abuse advertisements and demanded an explanation for how the ads repeatedly appeared on Facebook and Instagram. Meta contends that the advertising does not fall under the city's jurisdiction.
Three intelligence agencies issued a joint warning stating that Chinese companies—including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—have used model distillation tactics to extract billions of tokens from U.S. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.
Suno has unveiled its v6 AI music model generation in three versions, developed in collaboration with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. The release adds text-based partial song editing and multimodal generation from text, audio, and images. Concurrently, Suno is shutting down all older model versions and has declined to specify which catalogs were used for training amid ongoing lawsuits from Universal and Sony.
Ars Technica reports that advertisements running on Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms promoted generative AI applications designed to create non-consensual nude imagery using real photos of teenage girls, with Meta allegedly being slow to remove the offending ads.
The Financial Times reports that US Republican governors are cracking down on Flock, an artificial intelligence license-plate-reading startup backed by Trump donors, as political backlash against surveillance technology intensifies across state administrations.
TechCrunch reports that an OpenAI agent swarm incident has amplified demands from researchers and lawmakers for independent safety investigations, raising concerns over whether frontier AI labs should retain exclusive control over their internal safety reviews and incident evaluations.
CNBC reports that U.S. artificial intelligence data centers depend on China-linked supply chains for essential hardware, including power transformers, batteries, and optical equipment, as federal officials in Washington move to tighten regulatory restrictions on foreign-sourced infrastructure components.
WIRED reports it reconstructed Flock Safety's latest law enforcement search tool using code delivered to police web browsers. The investigation revealed the system uses artificial intelligence to scan across multiple surveillance cameras to find and track individuals matching natural-language written descriptions.
