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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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Palantir: the world’s ‘scariest company’? – podcast

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How far will tech firm Palantir go to ‘save the West’? With Michael Steinberger and Johana BhuiyanWhy do some consider Palantir the world’s ‘scariest company’ and who is its chief executive, Alex Karp?Michael Steinberger, the author of The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State, describes Karp’s origin

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Foreign states using AI videos to undermine support for Ukraine, says Yvette Cooper

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UK foreign secretary urges action against ‘information warfare’ made easier by advances in technologyForeign countries are flooding social media with AI-manipulated videos to undermine western support for Ukraine, Yvette Cooper will warn on Tuesday.The UK foreign secretary will urge other countries to help Britain fight what she calls “information warfare”, as officials warn Russia is

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More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US data centers

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Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisisA coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new data centers in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity

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Scores of UK parliamentarians join call to regulate most powerful AI systems

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Exclusive: Campaign urges PM to show independence from US and push to rein in development of superintelligenceMore than 100 UK parliamentarians are calling on the government to introduce binding regulations on the most powerful AI systems as concern grows that ministers are moving too slowly to create safeguards in the face of lobbying from the

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Is AI a bubble that’s about to pop? – podcast

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Should we be worried about the vast amounts of money pouring into AI? And what will happen if the bubble bursts? Blake Montgomery reportsFor months there have been fears that artificial intelligence is a bubble and that it is about to burst.As the Guardian US tech editor Blake Montgomery explains, the magnificent seven – Alphabet,

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A robot walks into a bar: can a Melbourne researcher get AI to do comedy?

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Machines can be funny when they mistakenly bump into things – but standup is a tough gig even for humansRobots can make humans laugh – mostly when they fall over – but a new research project is looking at whether robots using AI could ever be genuinely funny.If you ask ChatGPT for a funny joke,

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