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Burnham to reveal plans for AI unit to tackle wildfires after scorching summer

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PM will also announce funding for specialised protective gear and the deployment of military aircraftThe UK government is to create an AI Cobra unit to spot wildfires after this year’s record-breaking summer saw devastating blazes across the country.The country experienced its hottest-ever summer this year, with prolonged dry periods and extreme heat fuelling wildfires that

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Even George Osborne might be a nimby if an AI datacente was built next to his home | Letters

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The quality of life for people living next to one would be destroyed, writes Moira Brewer; plus a letter from Mark DavisSo, George Osborne thinks people who don’t want an AI datacentre on their doorstep are nimbys (OpenAI’s George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain, 22 September). He ought to come and visit our

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An AI agent for all? Try using your brain, Mark Zuckerberg | Brief letters

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Meta AI | Future Guardian writers and Neets | Food for thought | Plants surviving the heat | Living and dying wellYour article (Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model, 10 August) quotes Mark Zuckerberg as saying: “Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and

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Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank

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Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say criticsTech companies and industrial agriculture are “playing with the food system” by using AI and algorithms to undermine farmers in choosing what the world eats, leading food security experts have warned.Companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon,

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US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’

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Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with landWhen two men knocked on Ida Huddleston’s door last May, they carried a contract worth more than $33m in exchange for the Kentucky farm that had fed her family for centuries.According to Huddleston, the men’s client, an unnamed “Fortune 100

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Former minister says government should quit X over child sexual abuse imagery – UK politics live

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Louise Haigh says use of Elon Musk’s social media platform ‘unconscionable’ amid proliferation of abuse imageryHelena Horton is a Guardian environment reporter.Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, has insisted “that is it” in response to farmers claiming the inheritance tax U-turn does not go far enough.Since starting this role in September I’ve listened to farmers and

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