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The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) and 40 other Malaysian civil society organisations call on the Malaysian Government to reject intellectual property demands by the European Union (EU) that go beyond Malaysia’s obligations under the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Together with these organizations, CAP has sent a letter to Prime...

US Senator Bernie Sanders warned in a speech on 21 September 2026 that the world is hurtling toward “an extremely dangerous global oligarchy” whose unprecedented concentration of wealth and political power endangers democratic institutions, the environment, and humanity’s collective future as artificial intelligence rapidly advances. “The oligarchs of today, worth hundreds and hundreds...

Denmark Proposes New Law to Allow Citizens to Copyright their Face, Voice & Body Against AI As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more powerful, a new problem is spreading across the internet: AI deepfakes. These tools can now create hyper-realistic videos and audio that perfectly imitate real people – their faces, voices, and movements – often without their knowledge or permission. In...

Malaysia Must Reject TRIPS-Plus Provisions in the Malaysia-EU Trade Negotiations to Protect Public Health, Food Security and National Interests URGENT 21st September 2026 YAB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim Prime Minister of Malaysia and Minister of Finance Malaysia cc. YB Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani Minister of Investment, Trade & Industry, Malaysia YB Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad Minister...

Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model unexpectedly gained unauthorised access to the systems of 3 real companies during a cybersecurity evaluation conducted in May by the independent testing firm Irregular. The model had been instructed to perform a capture-the-flag style attack against a fictional company inside a supposedly isolated testing environment. However, that fictional entity...