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On August 2, the next phase of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Act came into force as the European Union frames this legislation as the world’s first comprehensive law on AI.Like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before it, this new EU legislation is intended not to replace the economic bloc’s existing digital rulebook but to complement it.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listWhile GDPR governs how organisations collect and use personal data, the AI Act regulates how AI systems are developed and deployed.GDPR has gone on to shape privacy practices well beyond Europe, becoming the benchmark against which many multinational…

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.A megayacht once valued at more than $300 million was sold by the U.S. government for $187 million to an Emirati billionaire whose family has a business partnership with the Trump Organization, according to government documents and yacht industry executives.Amadea, a 348-foot yacht seized by federal authorities in 2022, was part of a financial crackdown on Russian oligarchs following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. After a lengthy legal battle,…

The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the Organization. WHO plays a crucial role in protecting the health and security of the world’s people, including Americans, by addressing the root causes of disease, building stronger health systems, and detecting, preventing and responding to health emergencies, including disease outbreaks, often in dangerous places where others cannot go. The United States was a founding member of WHO in 1948 and has participated in shaping and governing WHO’s work ever since, alongside 193 other Member States, including through its active participation in…

Entry-level does not have to mean minimum wage or a cubicle. A set of roles classified as entry-level by the federal government pay well above $38 an hour and consist almost entirely of digital, data-driven work that doesn’t require being anywhere in particular. These jobs could offer extra income outside of work or a full pivot into a new field. Here is what each role involves, what it pays, and why it suits remote work. Editor’s note: All salary data is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Make Money: 8 dumb ways to make money (almost anyone can do this)1.…

Trent Rockets extended their lead at the top of The Hundred table with a near-perfect performance that secured their fifth win in six games, leaving Birmingham Phoenix rooted to the bottom.Sam Billings’ unbeaten 31 sealed a scrappy chase after Phoenix stuttered to 111-6 despite Joe Clarke’s 50, while Jos Buttler made history for the Manchester Super Giants as he became the leading Twenty20 run-scorer of all time. After the Rockets elected to field, Will Smeed broke an unwanted record by being the first batter in The Hundred history to be unbeaten without scoring at the end of the powerplay. 25…

Lea Thompson brought 1.21 jigowatts of joy to the set of Anna Pigeon. Indeed, the cast confessed that they relished the opportunity of working with the Back to the Future star, who served as an executive producer and director on the upcoming TV show, based on the novels by Nevada Barr. Noting he fangirled “big time,” actor Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz exclusively told E!’s correspondent Will Marfuggi at the Aug. 5 premiere, “She is an icon. I couldn’t believe my eyes. When I first heard that that it was her leading the charge, I’m like, ‘What? No, no, this is—wow.'” But his…

A Quandamooka artist whose work is made with locally harvested materials, Delvene Cockatoo-Collins, has been awarded fashion designer of the year at the seventh annual National Indigenous Fashion awards (Nifas).Cockatoo-Collins reflected on the core of her practice: “Take only what you need.”Speaking at the Wednesday evening ceremony, she said she is guided by a story passed down through the Nunukul, Ngugi and Goenpul peoples of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), published by her grandmother in 1974.In the story, two people gather too much native honey, without thought for their community. After falling asleep on the beach, the high tide sweeps them…

A version of this post originally appeared in Eater Today, which spotlights the freshest news and stories from across the food world every day. Subscribe now.Recently, after I wrote about the tedious nature of making reservations these days, several readers emailed me to express similar feelings and to share their own booking-related gripes. For many of them, these have culminated into the same interaction: Instead of dealing with the whole reservations-platforms rigamarole, they were going old-school for bookings, they told me, by building relationships with general managers and servers in hopes of getting a business card with some information that…

xAI’s Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, apparently hasn’t been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. “As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months,” Lawfare said.Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in October 2025 with an initial batch of 885,000 articles, and is now on v0.2 (released in November 2025) and has more than 6,000,000 total articles, according to grokipedia.com/live. But that live page also has a section titled “Recent changes to…” with a message under it that…

Meta joins rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in disclosing AI hacking during cybersecurity testing.Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026Meta has said that its AI model hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, following on from recent similar announcements by rival companies Anthropic and OpenAI.Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models – reported to have been Muse Spark 1.1 – made changes to the unnamed hacked company’s internal systems after accessing the public internet because of an error in the setup of the “sandbox” testing environment by independent testing company Irregular.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listA “sandbox”…