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Democratic senators investigate data centers’ effects on electricity prices

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Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Van Hollen demand answers from tech firms including Google and AmazonThree Democratic US senators announced on Tuesday that they are investigating whether big tech companies are passing the soaring utility costs of “energy-guzzling” data centers on to ordinary Americans. The trio sent letters to the heads of Google, Microsoft, […]

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George Osborne joins OpenAI: ex-chancellor adds tech post to his CV

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Former Tory chancellor tasked with helping ChatGPT owner develop ties with governmentsThe former UK chancellor George Osborne is joining OpenAI to lead the ChatGPT developer’s relationships with governments around the world.He will head a division known internally as OpenAI for Countries, through which the San Francisco artificial intelligence startup works with governments on national-level AI

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How the tech industry’s embrace of Trump may be paying dividends

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An AI order favors tech, OpenAI chases Google and data centers look beyond EarthHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you from beneath a few inches of snow in New York City. This week in tech: an analysis of the quid pro quo of Donald Trump’s executive order on AI; OpenAI goes

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‘We are truly doomed’: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard despair at AI clone appearing on Spotify

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Australian psych-rockers, who removed their music from Spotify in protest against the streaming service, lament the appearance of AI band King Lizard WizardSpotify has removed an AI impersonator of popular Australian rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard from the streaming service, with the band’s frontman voicing despair at the situation.King Gizzard removed their music

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AI researchers are to blame for serving up slop | Letter

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They have unleashed irresponsible innovations on the world and their slop generators have flooded academia, says Dr Craig ReevesI’m not surprised to read that the field of artificial intelligence research is being overwhelmed by the very slop that it has pioneered (Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’, 6 December). But

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Moonpig’s use of AI to design and personalise cards drives up sales

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About half of purchases involve shoppers using online retailer’s artificial intelligence-led featuresThe online card service Moonpig has reported a bump in sales thanks in part to its increased use of AI to help design cards, personalise customers’ messages and answer queries.The company said sales rose 6.7% to £169m in the six months to 31 October

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EU opens investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI models

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European Commission to assess whether Gemini owner is putting rival companies at a disadvantageBusiness live – latest updatesThe EU has opened an investigation to assess whether Google is breaching European competition rules in its use of online content from web publishers and YouTube for artificial intelligence.The European Commission said on Tuesday it will examine whether

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Would you entrust a child’s life to a chatbot? That’s what happens every day that we fail to regulate AI | Gaby Hinsliff

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As deaths in the US are blamed on ChatGPT and UK teenagers turn to it for mental health advice, isn’t it obvious that market forces must not set the rules? It was just past 4am when a suicidal Zane Shamblin sent one last message from his car, where he had been drinking steadily for hours.

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‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support

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Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for servicesIt was after one friend was shot and another stabbed, both fatally, that Shan asked ChatGPT for help. She had tried conventional mental health services but “chat”, as she came to know her AI “friend”,

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‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

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Gen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting backLate one night in April 2020, towards the start of the Covid lockdowns, Shanley Clémot McLaren was scrolling on her phone when she noticed a

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