Clothing Destruction, Cybersecurity and AI, Affordability, And UK-EU Politics

The Interline Podcast · Jul 28, 2026 · 25m · transcript

This week, Grace and Ben discuss a diverse mix of fashion technology stories, although AI is still front and centre.

The European Commission's ban on the destruction of unsold clothing: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/ban-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-enters-application-2026-07-17_en

An unprecedented AI cybersecurity moment... or a marketing stunt? https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

The explosion in maturity of open-weights Chinese models, and the risk they might represent to US businesses…