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    Japan plans $6.1 billion sovereign AI model, 10 million robots by 2040

    • 01.07.2026
    • Storyboard18

    Japan plans to back a domestic AI model with up to $6.1 billion and expand AI-powered robots to 18 sectors by 2040 as part of efforts to strengthen physical AI and tackle workforce shortages.

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    Samay Raina’s India’s Got Latent returns with an 11-lawyer team. But can comedy be regulated in India?

    • 01.07.2026
    • Storyboard18

    As comedy reaches millions through OTT platforms and social media instead of small club audiences, legal review has become a commercial necessity.

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    Lowdown: New US bill packs child safety, messaging, AI chatbots & gaming into one act

    • 01.07.2026
    • Medianama

    Websites where more than one-third of the content is harmful sexual material for minors would have to introduce age verification measures to block underage users, while social media platforms, AI chatbot providers, and online gaming services would face a separate set of child safety obligations under the broader Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, which the US House of Representatives passed on Monday.

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    Disney’s India streaming losses narrow, but investment keeps flowing

    • 01.07.2026
    • Indian Television

    JioStar parent adds Rs 123 crore, taking FY25 outlay past Rs 3,800 crore

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    UK intervention in WBD-Paramount merger may hold up deal

    • 01.07.2026
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    Britain said yesterday it could intervene in Paramount Skydance Corp’s proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), potentially holding up the $110 billion deal ‌after the US and China gave it the green light.

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    Tourism Ministry and Google India collaborate on digital tools, travel insights and skills training

    • 01.07.2026
    • BestMediaInfo

    The partnership will focus on travel trend insights, Google Maps integration, digital content creation and capacity building to support the Ministry's tourism initiatives

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    Reliance’s secret ‘Project Jupiter’ leads to $4 bn Jio IPO filing

    • 01.07.2026
    • MSN

    Reliance ran ‘Project Jupiter’ for nearly a year, limiting knowledge to top executives and bankers, and avoiding digital records to keep the IPO plan secret.

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    EU AI Act Reset: More Time, Same Compliance Reality

    • 01.07.2026
    • Baker Botts

    The Council of the European Union has now given its final green light to a targeted package of amendments to the EU AI Act, marking a decisive shift from framework-setting to implementation. The changes—part of the “Omnibus VII” simplification agenda—aim to reduce regulatory friction while preserving the Act’s risk-based architecture.

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    You can’t copy-paste regulation: AI legislation needs a local policy lens

    • 01.07.2026
    • Alliance

    Artificial intelligence regulation is no longer confined to a few jurisdictions. While much attention still focuses on the European Union, the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, more countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are defining their own approaches to AI governance.

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    The Handover of AI Standard-Setting

    • 01.07.2026
    • Just Security

    The public bodies that are supposed to set the standards for AI regulation have, for the most part, not done it yet. AI regulations on both sides of the Atlantic require providers to certify or document that their systems meet general requirements (such as accuracy, fairness, robustness, human oversight). But they leave much of the specification over what those requirements mean to bodies that have not yet produced requirements that match the systems being regulated.

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