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We’d like to hear your stories about the ways you’re using chatbots to assist with your social life or important life decisions Lots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, not just for work but in everyday life and social interactions. We want to hear your stories about the ways you’re using chatbots to […]
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From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant – putting Black users at riskLate last year, as a US government shutdown cut off the Snap benefits that low-income families rely on for groceries, videos on social media cast the fallout in frantic scenes.
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New technology has workers spooked, but experts say it’s creating an opening for a resurgence in worker powerIn 2026, it’s a scary time to work for a living.Gone are the days of quiet quitting, the Great Resignation, and the highly visible union-organizing battles that began the decade and signaled that perhaps worker power was on
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Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threatFor nearly two decades, the US quietly funded a global effort to keep the internet from splintering into fiefdoms run by authoritarian governments. Now that money is seriously threatened and a large part of it is already gone, putting into jeopardy internet
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Meta chief says it has improved identifying underage users but adds ‘I always wish we could have gotten there sooner’The Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testified at a landmark trial of social media companies on Wednesday. Plaintiffs’ lawyers grilled Zuckerberg about internal complaints that not enough was being done to verify whether children under 13 were
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Television outranks laptops, tablets and smartphones across all age groups, according to audience reviewThe television has replaced laptops, tablets and smartphones as the most common device for UK viewers to watch YouTube at home, according to data confirming the platform’s place as a living room mainstay.More than half of all YouTube viewing through a domestic
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State regulators walk back suspension threat and say Tesla has stopped misleading drivers about the safety of its carsTesla will avoid a 30-day suspension of its dealer and manufacturer licenses in California, its biggest market, after the US electric vehicle maker stopped using the term “autopilot” in the marketing of its vehicles in the state.Tesla
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Consulting firm keen to increase uptake of technology and is reportedly monitoring adoption by workforceAccenture has reportedly started tracking staff use of its AI tools and will take this into consideration when deciding on top promotions, as the consulting company tries to increase uptake of the technology by its workforce.The company told senior managers and
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French president rejects US criticism as António Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopoliesBusiness live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesEmmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe’s efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from “digital abuse” during France’s presidency of the G7.Speaking at the AI
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are finally having their ‘foundation model’ moment. Zyphra, a research lab focused on large-scale models, recently released ZUNA, a 380M-parameter foundation model specifically for EEG signals. ZUNA is a masked diffusion auto-encoder designed to perform channel infilling and super-resolution for any electrode layout. This release includes weights under an Apache-2.0 license and
