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UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars

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Unit1 hopes to offer cheaper version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venueThe former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK music tech startup that hopes to recreate classic concerts by manifesting musicians as digital avatars.Unit1 was set up […]

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AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart

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Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worryWarnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But even amid the omens of apocalypse, it is still worth asking if the entire AI-industrial complex is sailing towards a financial

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Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: A Real-Time Interpretation Model That Cuts Average Lag to 2.3 Seconds Across 60 Languages

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Qwen has released Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, its next-generation real-time simultaneous interpretation model. It listens to live speech, with optional video frames, and returns translated text and speech while the speaker is still talking. The core change is a new Interleave architecture. Qwen reports gains in faithfulness, fluency, and conciseness, with average lagging (LAAL) dropping from 2.8 seconds

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Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development

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Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and paceAbout two years ago, education entrepreneur Boris But had what he calls a “penny-drop moment” – that, like countless others in China, his company needed to embrace AI before it was made obsolete by it.His clients,

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Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack

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Scam emails are increasingly using psychological tricks, such as using near-identical URLs like miсrosoft.comYou’ve read the email carefully and it looks legitimate. The link it asks you to click on has none of the usual red flags: there are no weird numbers or extra parts to the URL. You feel safe to proceed.But if you

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OpenClaw Releases 2026.9.5 With Atomic Updates, Plugin Hot Reload, Conversation Sharing, and Expanded GPT Live

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OpenClaw is an open-source, MIT-licensed personal AI agent that you run on your own machines. Its Gateway connects models, tools, and chat channels such as Telegram, Slack, and Discord. The project has now shipped version 2026.9.5, announced on X. The release bundles 4,179 pull requests and 64 direct commits, with credits to 502 contributing accounts.

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Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’

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After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of the AI threatIn realistic terms how would artificial intelligence actually kill me? What is the main proxy threat? Nuclear war,

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Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel

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Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930sGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThere’s nothing like a threat of human extinction to focus the mind.The threat of AI to the existence of humanity has long been raised. Continue reading…

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Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow

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President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled cautionDonald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help monitor the technology, though he gave almost no details about either plan.As global fears over AI have grown, especially in

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Black Box: The Chatbots | Happy Accident | Ep 3 – podcast

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Why are AI chatbots pulling so many people down a rabbit hole? Our answer starts with the world’s first-ever chatbot, the strange effect it had on people and the ‘time bomb’ that exploded when ChatGPT was released four years ago. The result is a strange experiment we are all living through – whether we know

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