China tech trust is broken, says fmr. Cisco CEO John Chambers

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Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected on Wednesday, making him the Southern state’s first black senator since the Reconstruction era that followed the US Civil War. The result was a stunning upset in the ‌heavily Republican state and expanded on the national drubbing the Democrats delivered to President Donald Trump’s Republicans in the November 3 midterm elections. The Mississippi victory..

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Australia’s new mandatory safeguards on AI companies could serve as a model for Southeast Asia, analysts say, but the region needs to build its institutional and technical capabilities first. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Tuesday that AI companies operating in Australia must immediately report incidents in which their models behave in a rogue or misaligned way and must open systems for evaluation. The measures followed a breach of Australia’s government health data system in June.