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Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model

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Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulationMark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans for how Meta would develop the technology in the future. The CEO’s essay went online the same day as Meta released […]

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What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran

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AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first placeIn healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows – who

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UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year

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Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attackNearly a third of British manufacturers have been hit by a cyber-attack on them or a company in their supply chain, according to a survey that highlighted the growing hacking risk to companies.The findings come almost

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What are datacentres doing to the places we love? In Slough, I found a bleak answer | John Harris

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Whitehall wants to triple the UK’s number of datacentres – but demand for electricity and water means that could be at the expense of new homesAmid headlines about the UK’s drought, Europe’s wildfires and impossible global temperatures, it was 28C when I arrived in Slough last Monday. I was there to look around Slough Trading

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Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role

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Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken overWhen Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a “pivotal moment in human history” last month, he knew another big change was imminent.This shift was closer to home. The Nobel prize-winning head of Google DeepMind, Google’s AI

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China’s AI ecosystem is not as open as it claims. Nor is any other country’s | Letters

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Responding to an article by China’s ambassador to the UK, Prof Paul H Cleverley advocates shared openness standards, while Dr Claire Jenkins says British AI can offer a distinctive pathAmbassador Zheng Zeguang rightly celebrates openly released AI models, and the Chinese labs behind Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi have led the way – competition that benefits

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The White House’s plan to vet potentially dangerous AI is cloaked in secrecy

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A Trump administration framework on AI testing leaves a lack of transparency – and plenty of open questionsAfter months of talking with tech industry leaders, the Trump administration finalized a framework this week for how it will test new artificial intelligence models for safety and cybersecurity risks. So far, the White House is keeping details

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‘This is very real redlining’: outrage in Little Rock as two datacenters loom

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Critics decry proposed hyperscale projects, fearing overuse of water and electricity, and ‘appropriating rural, Black-owned land for industrial purposes’There seems to be a fight over datacenters in nearly every city in the US right now. And amid the extreme polarization of today’s politics, the opposition tends to be bipartisan.“I would say it’s kind of the

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Lloyds Bank should publish the human cost of its AI savings | Letters

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Banks should factor in the time spent by humans checking invented facts, writes Dr Gleb TsipurskyYour report (Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy, 30 July) raises a question that financial targets alone cannot answer: who absorbs the work when automation fails?Banks often count the minutes saved by the employee

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Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down

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Two senior engineers are leaving company to launch startup amid fears Google is falling behind in AI raceSir Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind, in a leadership overhaul of the UK-based AI research lab.Hassabis, a Nobel prize recipient, is leaving his main managerial role to become chair of DeepMind –

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