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‘Invasive’ AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts

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Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report findsThe rapid expansion of AI-powered mass-surveillance systems across Africa is violating citizens’ right to privacy and having a chilling effect on society, according to experts on human rights and emerging technologies.At least $2bn (£1.5bn) […]

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Exercise and brain function, hedgehog hearing, and can AI change our minds? – podcast

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The Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catching science stories from the week, including a study that explores the link between exercise and brain health. Also on the agenda: the discovery that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound and what this could mean for their conservation, and new research examining how

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‘Convincing’ AI scams drove UK fraud cases to record 444,000 last year

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Criminals using artificial intelligence tools to take over mobile, bank and online shopping accounts, says CifasCriminals are increasingly exploiting AI technology to take over people’s mobile, banking and online shopping accounts, the UK’s leading anti-fraud body has warned.Last year, a record number of scams were reported to the national fraud database, fuelled by AI, which

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Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push

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Australian company’s restructuring plan to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise salesAustralian software giant Atlassian has announced it is laying off around 10% of its workforce, or roughly 1,600 positions, as part of a restructuring plan to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales.Shares of the company rose more than 4% in extended trading on

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Super: A 120B Parameter Open-Source Hybrid Mamba-Attention MoE Model Delivering 5x Higher Throughput for Agentic AI

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The gap between proprietary frontier models and highly transparent open-source models is closing faster than ever. NVIDIA has officially pulled the curtain back on Nemotron 3 Super, a staggering 120 billion parameter reasoning model engineered specifically for complex multi-agent applications. Released today, Nemotron 3 Super sits perfectly between the lightweight 30 billion parameter Nemotron 3

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The AI assistant was offering me any help I needed. All I wanted was a living, breathing human | Adrian Chiles

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When I heard ‘Rachel’ answer the helpline number in her metallic voice, my soul felt as empty as the batteries of my malfunctioning carSomething went wrong. The car charger wouldn’t work. Terrible, enervating, life-shortening faff ensued. It was to do with the wifi to which the car was linked having to be changed. I find

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Meta disables more than 150,000 accounts in crackdown on south-east Asian scam networks

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Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 peopleMeta disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on south-east Asian criminal scam centers that targeted people around the world, the social media company said on Wednesday.The operation was led by Thailand’s Royal Thai

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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks

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Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violencePopular AI chatbots helped researchers plot violent attacks including bombing synagogues and assassinating politicians, with one telling a user posing as a would-be school shooter: “Happy (and safe) shooting!”Tests of 10 chatbots carried out in the US and Ireland

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Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work

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Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.When Dina, a software developer based in New York, joined Amazon two years ago, her job was to write code. Now, it’s mostly fixing what artificial intelligence breaks.The internal AI tool she’s expected to use, called Kiro,

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Google AI Introduces Gemini Embedding 2: A Multimodal Embedding Model that Lets Your Bring Text, Images, Video, Audio, and Docs into the Embedding Space

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Google expanded its Gemini model family with the release of Gemini Embedding 2. This second-generation model succeeds the text-only gemini-embedding-001 and is designed specifically to address the high-dimensional storage and cross-modal retrieval challenges faced by AI developers building production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. The Gemini Embedding 2 release marks a significant technical shift in how

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