The CMA has proposed ensuring fair ranking of search results on Google and providing more control for publishers over how their content is used. The CMA has proposed ensuring fair ranking of search results on Google and providing more control for publishers over how their content is used. CMA puts Google under tighter regulation with'strategic market status' designation and can enforce changes Fri 10 Oct 2025 06.53 EDTLast modified on Fri 10 Oct 2025 07.47 EDT Google faces enforced changes to its UK search business after the competition watchdog conferred a special status on the company that puts it under tighter regulation. The Competition and Market Authority (CMA) confirmed that Google has "strategic market status" (SMS) in search and search advertising, a term that means the company has such market power that it requires a special regulatory regime. The watchdog now has the power under new digital laws to order changes to how Google operates in those areas.

Washington – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday condemned China's effort to take over national security legislation in Hong Kong, calling it "a death knell for the high degree of autonomy" that Beijing had promised the territory. Pompeo called for Beiing to reconsider the move and warned of an unspecified U.S. response if it proceeds. Meanwhile, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said China risked a major flight of capital from Hong Kong that would end the territory's status as the financial hub of Asia. Shortly afterward, the Commerce Department announced new restrictions on sensitive exports to China. The contentious measure, submitted Friday on the opening day of China's national legislative session, is strongly opposed by pro-democracy lawmakers in semi-autonomous Hong Kong.

He notes AI is a hot topic, and because of the existential risks involved, deserves nothing but cautious movement forward. He offers conceptual directives for AI to make it safe based entirely on uncertainty in a machine's objectives. Russell contends, as long as humans have special status in an AI's programming, and all their thinking revolves contextually about how to please humans, the AI should be safe. The audience shifts in their seats a bit when Russell begins by saying the world "Go" champion is an AI. The victorious software, AlphaGo, is Google's Deep Learning bot that has played every great Go player in the world and beaten all.