The US warned the European Union that its proposed law to regulate artificial intelligence would favor companies with the resources to cover the costs of compliance while hurting smaller firms, according to previously undisclosed documents. The US analysis focuses mostly on the European Parliament version of the AI Act, which includes rules on generative AI. Some rules in the parliament law are based on terms that are "vague or undefined," according to the documents, which were obtained by Bloomberg News. The analysis is Washington's most detailed position on the EU legislation that could set the tone for other countries writing rules for AI. One US concern is that the European Parliament focuses on how AI models are developed, whereas the US would prefer an approach that focuses on the risk involved in how these models are actually used.

An American F-16 fighter jet shot down a Turkish military drone on Thursday that entered a restricted zone in northeastern Syria and came within about 550 yards of U.S. ground forces, according to Pentagon officials. No American troops were harmed in the incident, U.S. officials said. "Turkey is one of our strongest and most valued NATO allies, and that partnership continues and will continue," Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon spokesman, told reporters. "So this is certainly a regrettable incident."

A UK regulator has raised concerns that Snap's AI chatbot may be putting the privacy of kids at risk. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the country's privacy watchdog, issued a preliminary enforcement notice against the company over a "potential failure to properly assess the privacy risks posed by its generative AI chatbot'My AI'." Information Commissioner John Edwards said the ICO's provisional findings from its investigation indicated a "worrying failure by Snap to adequately identify and assess the privacy risks to children and other users" before rolling out My AI. The ICO noted that if Snap fails to sufficiently address its concerns, it may block the ChatGPT-powered chatbot in the UK. However, the preliminary notice doesn't necessarily mean that the ICO will take action against Snap or that the company has violated data protection laws. It will consider submissions from Snap before it makes a final decision.

When medical student Alyssa Murillo stepped into surgery, she was met with something most wouldn't expect to find in an operating room: a towering surgical robot. She wasn't there to observe the kind of surgeries she was used to seeing; instead she was getting an in-depth view inside the patient's body through the robot's video console. "It was incredible," says Murillo, who is now a forth-year general surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco. "You have a full 3D view, which is different from any other minimally invasive surgery technique." The robot Murillo is referring to is the Da Vinci Surgical System.

The United States has hundreds of soldiers in Syria, mostly in the northeast, part of its mission to fight the remnants of the Islamic State alongside its ally, Kurdish-led forces. The Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has long demanded that the United States withdraw from all parts of Syria. The Syrian Army's general command said it "considers this cowardly terrorist act an unprecedented criminal act and affirms that it will respond with full force and decisiveness to these terrorist organizations wherever they are found," according to the Syrian state media. Syrian government forces carried out artillery and missile attacks after the drone strike on Thursday, targeting several towns in the country's northwestern Idlib Province and killing at least eight people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. That part of the country is under the control of armed groups not backed by the United States.

Last month, the UK government announced the home for its new exascale supercomputer, designed to give the country an edge in the global artificial intelligence race. The £900 million ($1.1 billion) project would be built in Bristol, a city in the west of England famed for its industrial heritage, and the machine itself would be named after the legendary local engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The Brunel AI project should have been a big moment for another Bristolian export--Graphcore, one of the UK's only large-scale chipmakers specializing in designing hardware for AI. Valued at $2.5 billion after its last funding round in 2020, the company is trying to offer an alternative to the US giant Nvidia, which dominates the market. With AI fast becoming an issue of geopolitical as well as commercial importance, and countries--including the UK--spending hundreds of millions of dollars on building strategic reserves of chips and investing in massive supercomputers, companies like Graphcore should be poised to benefit.

Syrians have begun burying the dozens of people killed in a large-scale drone attack on a military academy in the western city of Homs. Coffins draped in Syrian flags on Friday lined the streets outside the Homs military hospital as a military band played somber music and soldiers saluted. On Thursday, several drones attacked a graduation ceremony in the academy's courtyard, where families had gathered with the new officers. Syria's Ministry of Health said at least 89 people had been killed, including 31 women and five children. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the Syrian conflict, put the toll at above 120.

FOX Nation host Nancy Grace reacts to the kidnapping of Charlotte Sena who was found and now home. The 70-agent team called CARD – Child Abduction Rapid Deployment – found 99 of 217 children who have been snatched by predators since it started deployments in 2006, Supervisory Special Agent Leslie Adamczyk told Fox News Digital. She described the often unseen unit as "advisers" who work in the background of major abduction investigations, like this week's dramatic search for Charlotte Sena, who was found alive in a cabinet of the suspect's trailer. "We serve as a force multiplier. That's the word that we like to use," Adamczyk said.

Dozens of cross-party MPs and peers have joined a campaign for an "immediate stop" to the use of live facial recognition surveillance by police and private companies. The former cabinet minister David Davis, the Liberal Democrats leader, Sir Ed Davey, the Green MP Caroline Lucas and the former shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti are among 65 members of the House of Commons and House of Lords to call for a halt to the technology's use. The campaign is spearheaded by the privacy advocate Big Brother Watch and is also backed by 31 groups including Liberty, Amnesty International and the Race Equality Foundation. Police have deployed live facial recognition at large-scale public events, including King Charles's coronation. The statement said: "We hold differing views about live facial recognition surveillance, ranging from serious concerns about its incompatibility with human rights, to the potential for discriminatory impact, the lack of safeguards, the lack of an evidence base, an unproven case of necessity or proportionality, the lack of a sufficient legal basis, the lack of parliamentary consideration, and the lack of a democratic mandate. "We call on UK police and private companies to immediately stop using live facial recognition for public surveillance." The statement comes after the policing minister, Chris Philp, announced government plans to make UK passport photos searchable by police. Philp said he planned to integrate data from the police national database (PND), the Passport Office and other national databases to help police find a match with the "click of one button". Civil liberty campaigners said the plans would be an "Orwellian nightmare" that amounted to a "gross violation of British privacy principles". Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police commissioner, last month predicted that facial recognition technology would transform criminal investigations as much as DNA testing had done. The director of Big Brother Watch, Silkie Carlo, said: "The UK's reckless approach to face surveillance makes us a total outlier in the democratic world, especially against the backdrop of the EU's proposed ban.

Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda, spoke out amid the actors strike about her father's voice being used by AI without his consent as experts weigh in on the technology's use in Hollywood.