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UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk’s companies have complied with data protection lawThe Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened formal investigations into X and xAI over whether Elon Musk’s companies have complied with data protection law after the chatbot Grok was used to generate sexual deepfake images without consent.More details soon … Continue

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Palantir beats Wall Street expectations amid Trump immigration crackdown

CEO Alex Karp hails ‘iconic’ financial results despite criticism over contracts with ICE and homeland securityPalantir celebrated its latest financial results on Monday, as the tech company blew past Wall Street expectations and continues to prop up the Trump administration’s push to deport immigrants.Palantir has secured millions of dollars in federal contracts amid Trump’s crackdown

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Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation

Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private companyBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence business xAI, in a $1.25tn (£910bn) merger that consolidates part of Musk’s empire as SpaceX prepares to go public later this year.The two companies announced the

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‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report

Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruptionThe International AI Safety report is an annual survey of technological progress and the risks it is creating across multiple areas, from deepfakes to the jobs market.Commissioned at the 2023 global AI safety summit, it is chaired by the Canadian

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How to Build Multi-Layered LLM Safety Filters to Defend Against Adaptive, Paraphrased, and Adversarial Prompt Attacks

In this tutorial, we build a robust, multi-layered safety filter designed to defend large language models against adaptive and paraphrased attacks. We combine semantic similarity analysis, rule-based pattern detection, LLM-driven intent classification, and anomaly detection to create a defense system that relies on no single point of failure. Also, we demonstrate how practical, production-style safety

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Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push

Minister announces Microsoft, Cisco and Adobe to help apply AI to local schools, hospitals, GPs and businessesIn 2002 Barnsley toyed with a redesign as a Tuscan hill village as it sought out a brighter post-industrial future. In 2021 it adopted the airily vague slogan “the place of possibilities”. Now it is trying a different image:

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Google Releases Conductor: a context driven Gemini CLI extension that stores knowledge as Markdown and orchestrates agentic workflows

Google has introduced Conductor, an open source preview extension for Gemini CLI that turns AI code generation into a structured, context driven workflow. Conductor stores product knowledge, technical decisions, and work plans as versioned Markdown inside the repository, then drives Gemini agents from those files instead of ad hoc chat prompts. From chat based coding

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Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky’s AI revolutionary war series is a horror

The once-lauded director of Black Swan and The Wrestler has drowned himself in AI slop with an embarrassing new online seriesIf you happen to find yourself stumbling through Time magazine’s YouTube account, perhaps because you are a time traveller from the 1970s who doesn’t fully understand how the present works yet – then you will

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‘Marketplace for predators’: Meta faces jury trial over child exploitation claims

New Mexico attorney general accuses Meta of failing to safeguard children against trafficking and sexual abuseMeta’s second major trial of 2026 over alleged harms to children begins on Monday.The landmark jury trial in Santa Fe pits the New Mexico attorney general’s office against the social media giant. The state alleges that the company knowingly enabled

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Snapchat blocks more than 400,000 Australian accounts but warns of ‘significant gaps’ in under-16s social media ban

Social media platform says there are still ‘real technical limitations to accurate and dependable age verification’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe accounts of more than 415,000 users in Australia identified as being under 16 were locked or disabled by Snapchat as part

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