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On this week’s Tech Field Day News Rundown, Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke unpack a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence.
Privacy regulators coordinated through the Global Privacy Assembly warned about AI-generated images and videos created without consent, raising alarms over dignity, safety, and basic rights. In U.S. politics, governors like JB Pritzker, Josh Shapiro, and Wes Moore are cooling on AI incentives as voters push back on energy costs and job disruption.
On the engineering side, Microsoft shares lessons on designing MCP servers that align with how AI agents actually…
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