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TikTok’s policy chief defended the platform’s safety measures as the European Union pushes ahead with restricting children’s access to social media amid intensifying scrutiny of tech giants. Ali Law, TikTok’s director of public policy and government affairs in Northern Europe, told CNBC’s Karen Tso and Steve Sedgewick that the social media giant was built in a “safety by design” way to ensure young people are safe on the platform. “We’re really conscious of the concerns that both parents and policymakers have in this area,” Law said on “Squawk Box Europe” on Tuesday. “We want people to have a healthy and safe relationship with…

Warren Buffett speaks with CNBC during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, NE on May 2, 2026.David A. Grogan | CNBCWarren Buffett omitted the Gates Foundation from his annual charitable stock gifts, directing all of this year’s donations to four family-linked foundations.Berkshire Hathaway said the 95-year-old chairman will donate 9 million Class B shares of Berkshire Hathaway to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and 1 million shares each to the Sherwood Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Novo Foundation. “My goal is to dispose of all of my Berkshire shares within about eight years,” Buffett said…

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Over the past few years, many of us have gotten a crash course in what we now call artificial intelligence—but really, it has mostly been a crash course in large language models. Increasingly, however, LLMs are no longer the only category of AI drawing high expectations, massive funding rounds, and significant research and product development. Over the past year, we’ve seen a plethora of new announcements in a category labeled “world models,” and you’ll likely see more movement there in the coming months and years. Instead of or in addition to working with language, world models aim to lay the…

Reform UK’s Treasury spokesman has accused the government of a “dereliction of duty” over Nigel Farage’s taxpayer-funded security, claiming it had previously been “downgraded”.Robert Jenrick said his party leader had not been offered the security he needs, after it emerged Reform UK turned down an offer of government-funded security last year.It comes as the alleged murder of Reform’s Ann Widdecombe, which is now being investigated by counterterrorism police, has prompted renewed debate over the security offered to politicians.Farage is set to meet with the Home Office over his security arrangements, after accepting an offer of a meeting made by Home…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Last February, Dua Lipa posted a photo of a supermarket shopping basket to Instagram. Inside she’d placed a yellow Louis Vuitton Speedy handbag – and three packets of crisps from the Brittany-based brand Brets. The French were already obsessed with Brets: last year the family-owned brand overtook Lay’s to become France’s favourite crisp, with a market share of nearly 27 per cent. Lipa’s post helped push the brand onto the global stage. George Hess, founder of Victus Emporium, which handles Brets’ UK imports,…

The World Cup’s biggest economic boost is arriving later than expected as the tournament enters its final days. But for the U.S. businesses hoping for a soccer boom, it’s better late than never. This week’s semifinals pit France against Spain in Dallas on Tuesday and England versus Argentina in Atlanta on Wednesday. Travel bookings have accelerated as the field of competitors narrows and fans converge from around the world to see the high-stakes matches. Every U.S. host city has seen an economic lift from soccer fans, according to Bank of America Institute. “You can see the World Cup effect on…

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Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an email or calendar invitation is often all it takes to cause the LLM to exfiltrate sensitive data or follow other harmful actions. Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too. A strong, sharp effect Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to…

Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, June 11, 2026. Amirhosein Khorgooi/isna | Via ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 20% fee on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz and renewed U.S.-Iran tensions have revived the Gulf’s urgent search for oil export alternatives. From Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline to the United Arab Emirates’ export infrastructure outside the strait, Gulf producers are increasingly relying on alternative routes to keep crude moving as attacks and shipping disruptions expose the risks of depending on Hormuz.The United Arab Emirates is reportedly looking to build a new…