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UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI

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Equity says vote signals strong opposition to AI use and readiness to disrupt productions unless protections are securedActors have voted to refuse digital scanning to prevent their likeness being used by artificial intelligence in a pushback against AI in the arts.Members of the performing arts union Equity were asked if they would refuse to be […]

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George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker

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OpenAI is the latest to make a political hire as big tech spreads its tentacles around the world. So what’s the attraction?George Osborne getting a new job isn’t exactly news. Since leaving frontline politics, the former chancellor has served as the chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, edited (not entirely successfully) the Evening Standard, advised

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‘Uniquely evil’: Michigan residents fight against huge datacenter backed by top tycoons

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Locals band together in David v Goliath battle against facility they say would jack up bills, increase pollution and destroy area’s characterA who’s who of the nation’s most powerful politicians and tech tycoons are forcing through a proposal for a huge datacenter in rural Michigan as locals from across the political spectrum have come out

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AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims

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Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay costThe AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, it has been claimed.The global environmental impact of the rapidly spreading

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Third of UK citizens have used AI for emotional support, research reveals

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AI Security Institute report finds most common type of AI tech used was general purpose assistants such as ChatGPT and Amazon AlexaA third of UK citizens have used artificial intelligence for emotional support, companionship or social interaction, according to the government’s AI security body.The AI Security Institute (AISI) said nearly one in 10 people used

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From Nvidia to OpenAI, Silicon Valley woos Westminster as ex-politicians take tech firm roles

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Commons committee monitoring revolving door that gave jobs to George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Tony BlairWhen the billionaire chief executive of AI chipmaker Nvidia threw a party in central London for Donald Trump’s state visit in September, the power imbalance between Silicon Valley and British politicians was vividly exposed.Jensen Huang hastened to the stage after

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Meta AI Releases SAM Audio: A State-of-the-Art Unified Model that Uses Intuitive and Multimodal Prompts for Audio Separation

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Meta has released SAM Audio, a prompt driven audio separation model that targets a common editing bottleneck, isolating one sound from a real world mix without building a custom model per sound class. Meta released 3 main sizes, sam-audio-small, sam-audio-base, and sam-audio-large. The model is available to download and to try in the Segment Anything

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How to use the holidays to stop our ‘WhatsApp aunties’ falling for AI

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Family members can be sweet and relentless but how can we aid our relatives in the age of new tech and device addiction • Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI don’t want to sound dramatic but, a few weeks ago, something happened that has completely changed how I view

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Amazon in talks to invest $10bn in developer of ChatGPT

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OpenAI seeking to strike latest deal in its efforts to pay for huge spending on datacentresBusiness live – latest updatesAmazon is in talks to invest more than $10bn (£7.5bn) in OpenAI, in the latest funding deal being struck by the startup behind ChatGPT.If it goes ahead, the market valuation of OpenAI could rise above $500bn,

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AI toys are suddenly everywhere – but I suggest you don’t give them to your children | Arwa Mahdawi

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Earlier this year my four-year-old tried out an AI soft toy for a few days. New research indicates I was right to be creeped outIf you’re thinking about buying your kid a new-fangled AI-powered toy for the holidays, may I kindly suggest you don’t? I’m sure most Guardian readers would be horrified by the very

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