Italy Bans Facial Recognition in Public Spaces; OpenAI and Jony Ive Collaborate on New Hardware

Italy aligns its national laws with the EU AI Act, banning facial recognition in public spaces to protect privacy. OpenAI partners with Jony Ive to develop hardware enhancing ChatGPT's voice interaction. The EU considers stricter regulations for ChatGPT and Roblox under the Digital Services Act. Additional stories include Google's launch of Gemini Robotics 2, a judge questioning the DoD's risk label on Anthropic, DeepSeek's data center plans in Inner Mongolia, India's government summoning Meta executives, and Nvidia's formation of an AI security alliance.