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Kanishka Narayan said the government will use advanced AI to strengthen the UK against cyber attacks.
Jason O’Connell’s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in the Senedd reignites debate over the AI-enabled devices It was a flowing speech packed full of precise statistics – but Jason O’Connell, a Reform UK Sened…
Exclusive: Gambling firm working with AFL ‘on the evolving use of AI in our content’ as it deletes video depicting Lachie Neale saying ‘I want to thank me for believing in me’ Get our breaking news email , free app or da…
Amid worries about children’s relationship to tech, the solution is often spending more time talking openly with each other We have become obsessed with the idea that screens are destroying human connection.
The pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using ‘superintelligence’ wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity – and how our biggest challenge will be accepting we’re not the only intelligent beings Donald Trump i…
World Economic Outlook says states’ oil stocks are low and budgets are overstretched, as it upgrades UK GDP growth forecast for 2026 Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF The global ec…
Quite a few parents aren’t convinced social media and AI are safe, and have been adapting accordingly When it comes to their kids, many parents don’t trust tech companies any more.
This is no scoffing matter.
Newly established commission identifies 17 catastrophic threats to human health but says ‘realistic route to act’ on each exists Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict…
George Williamson says ‘national resilience’ is key focus of ATI amid US and China’s runaway leadership in field The UK must not become dependent on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice and must de…
AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three.
Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls in Co-op Legal Services is oppressive The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated listening technology…
Exclusive: Revelation comes after executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message, but was ‘happy to go and confirm’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast…
Section 5.1 of Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms 2014 by Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David states: With probability of at least $\frac{1}{7}$ over the choice of $S ∼ D^m$ we have that $L_D(A(…
TL;DR: Increasingly when you interact with frontier models, your prompt doesn't only contain the words on the page, but also a lot of what you've ever publicly written online.
AI dominates the translation business, but for high-stakes work, humans are still needed.
Body representing some of Britain’s biggest graduate employers reveals misconduct is at a record high It is obvious when someone is using AI to drum up answers in a job interview, according to Chris Morrow, who runs a re…
Disney may acquire tech from one of the first chatbot makers linked to child suicide.
Google plans to help turn those personal AI-generated apps into wide releases.
It was supposed to be an Australian business success story.
The latest example of workers under surveillance comes from Co-op, a British consumer cooperative that runs thousands of businesses This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our…
Committee chair rejects criticism that letter was ‘pre-determined’ by the government Follow our Australia politics live blog for latest updates Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanes…
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
Will we give robots the moon?
A giant screen, big battery, rapid chip and top cameras push the great iPhone 18 Pro to the max with a price tag to match Apple’s largest Pro iPhone gets its biggest battery upgrade yet to make it a true two-day phone wi…
Note: details have been obfuscated and changed to protect – not the innocent, who are invariably vindicated by the end of act three – but the guilty, for whom the narrative provides no such guarantees.
Epistemic status: Personal history anchored to dated records (chat exports, git log, daily notes).
Actor and functional application matter Originally published at AGI SurveilLance .
‘Even if AI supercharged the economy, its impact on the government’s finances would be muted’ Back through political history to the age of Ronald Reagan , Republicans have repeatedly promised the US public that tax cuts…
Five stories that feel like five answers to one important question: in a world where AI chatbots can help us through a breakup, listen like a friend, be a life coach, draft a difficult text message and do our work, where…
“You do not rise to the level of your goals.
Is there an existing neural network-based architecture that can hold 3D or 2D representations in its latent space and update it in the same single pass (i.e.
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From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.
Crosspost Once upon a time, public intellectuals routinely made it into the news to discuss political, economic, medical, and scientific issues.
Nestor Guillen (like many, many others) wrote a blog post reflecting on recent progress in getting AI systems to prove results in pure mathematics: Happy those able to know the causes of things .
Commercials once launched careers from Ridley Scott to Guy Ritchie, now automated production is cutting costs – and the chance to learn by doing When Ridley Scott was awarded the UK’s highest accolade for a glittering ca…
Fight in East Fishkill, New York, part of a growing divide over whether AI benefits outweigh enormous downsides For decades, East Fishkill helped build New York’s tech industry.
Do AI models scale as well with more tokens as humans do with more time?
Meredith Whittaker says the tech has been misunderstood, in an exclusive interview with BBC Global Women.
It’s not always better to be more capable.
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The usage of AI is often talked about in the healthcare industry; however, it is often ambiguous as to what that entails in practical applications.
The inflammatory clip shows the wild west of online politicking created by unrestricted access to AI – and why watchdogs need more powers to do something about it Get our new political email , free app or daily news podc…
According to city’s rent board, eviction notices are up 44% and tenants are on edge over landlords swooping in over their homes To say that Maria Zamudio and her team have been busy lately would be a gross understatement…
Everyone wants an AI wife...not like that
We’d like to hear from people who have been monitored or assessed by AI at work and what they thought about the experience Firms are increasingly using AI to monitor or assess their employees, leading to concerns about w…
A summary of a Chinese essay, with a few short translated excerpts.