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  "id": 682837,
  "title": "Sources: the UK government is planning to regulate the use of AI in gene synthesis to prevent terrorists and other bad actors from using AI for bioweapons (Ellen Milligan/Bloomberg)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/sources-the-uk-government-is-planning-to-regulate-the-use-of-ai-in",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-12T16:15:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
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    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-12/uk-plans-safeguards-to-stop-terrorists-using-ai-for-bioweapons"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The UK government is planning to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in gene synthesis as officials become increasingly concerned …",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, for about $6B (Bloomberg)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/sources-anthropic-is-in-talks-to-buy-decart-which-offers-real-time",
        "published": "2026-08-13T02:05:03.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}