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AI can wipe us out – so why can’t it do Guardian cryptic crosswords? | Brief letters

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AI capabilities | Trump’s judgment | Gardening attire | Death in English literature | Tautologies | Nominative determinismAI may be capable of “taking over the entire internet” (OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development, 13 September), but it is rubbish at tackling the Guardian cryptic crossword.John HoughamReading, Berkshire• Donald Trump is […]

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‘In this new car, I feel patronised’: which driver assistance systems actually improve safety?

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Modern cars are fitted with features like autonomous emergency braking and fatigue monitoring. But do they support motorists or drive them to distraction?This new car I’m test-driving boasts all the latest bells and whistles – or, rather, beeps and bings. Peer sideways for too long checking traffic and the car emits an irritating sound. Should

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‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn

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The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolationTributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Jack White performed Jolene at a London gig. Kesha sang Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You), a single her mother wrote for

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Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through

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Last week, researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic, stating that AI ‘could kill us all by the end of the decade’Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today in tech, we’re discussing the past week’s all-consuming apoplexy over AI safety.AI CEOs say they need to slow

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Farage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donations – UK politics live

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Party leader claims proposed new retrospective laws are unfair and Reform would retaliate with a crackdown on union funding if elected Wes Streeting enjoys attention, likes a good joke and does not mind ruffling feathers. At the Spectator awards ceremony two years ago, Angela Rayner was the target as he gave a speech. He said:The

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AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart Russell

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Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timelineIt has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. This followed several weeks of increasingly lurid and disturbing revelations about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.My inbox yesterday included

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Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race

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From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leaders and scientists had sounded the alarm about a superintelligent AI ending humanity for over a decade.The development of

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UK must heed warnings from AI experts, minister says

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Louise Haigh will set out benefits of AI to TUC conference while vowing government will take safety seriouslyMinisters must “heed the warnings” from industry leaders about the threat posed by AI as it looks to capitalise on the technology, the first secretary, Louise Haigh, will say on Tuesday.Labour MPs and peers have called for the

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Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies

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President has dismissed anxieties over AI’s dangerous potential even as Democrats and some Republicans acknowledge risksDonald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails on the world’s most powerful AI companies.Concerns over the dangerous potential of AI reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders

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Meta Introduces ZGateway: A Stateless Proxy Tier That Unifies ZippyDB Traffic and Handles Over 1 Billion Operations Per Second

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Meta engineering team introduced ZGateway, a proxy tier that now sits between client applications and ZippyDB, the Meta’s most widely used key value store. ZippyDB backs product metadata, counters, and configuration at billions of operations per second. ZGateway started as a fix for connection sprawl across more than a million client hosts and grew into

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