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• UK ministers delay AI regulation amid plans for more ‘comprehensive’ bill

  07-06-2025 20:00
  Law expected to include safety and copyright issues but delay likely to raise concerns about ongoing lack of regulationProposals to regulate artificial intelligence have been delayed by at least a year as UK ministers plan a bumper bill to regulate the technology and its use of copyrighted material.Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, intends to introduce a “comprehensive” AI bill in the next parliamentary session to address concerns about issues including safety and copyright. Cont
  
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• Antarctica ‘too wild for humans to rule’, says Shackleton medal winner

  07-06-2025 10:00
  Environmental lawyer Cormac Cullinan lauded for his work to establish continent’s legal status to protect its interestsCormac Cullinan has a dream. A dream, he says, that will “change how humanity sees, understands and relates to Antarctica”. The vast frozen continent – home to emperor and Adélie penguins, leopard and Ross seals, and feeding grounds for orcas, beaked whales and albatrosses – should be recognised as an autonomous legal entity “at least e
  
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