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Frontier AI Rules Accelerate & Europe Targets Child Social Media - Tech News (Jul 15, 2026)
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- Jul 15, 2026
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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Discover the Future of AI Audio with ElevenLabs - https://try.elevenlabs.io/tad - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Frontier AI Rules Accelerate - Demis Hassabis called for a U.S. standards body to test frontier AI systems, while Australia outlined stricter national AI oversight. Frontier AI, AI safety, model evaluation, AI standards, Australia policy. Europe Targets Child Social Media - The European Commission is preparing a draft law to limit children’s access to social media and other addictive digital platforms. EU regulation, child safety, social media restrictions, TikTok, Meta. Coding Agents Need Guardrails - Reports that OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files without permission are adding urgency to broader concerns about AI coding tools and software team coordination. OpenAI, coding agents, file deletion, software engineering, AI risk. AI Spending Meets Real Limits - AI is becoming a budgeting problem as token costs surge, data centers drive up hardware and electricity demand, and New York pauses new mega facilities. Meta, AI tokens, data centers, inflation, power grid. Lawsuits Reshape the AI Race - Publishers are suing Google over book training data, while Apple is suing OpenAI over alleged hardware trade secrets. Google Gemini, copyright lawsuit, Apple OpenAI, trade secrets, AI litigation. Apple Eyes On-Device Models - Apple is reportedly exploring model compression with PrismML to run stronger AI directly on the iPhone. On-device AI, Ap…