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A long and bitter legal battle between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman has culminated in victory for the OpenAI boss. Musk has vowed to appeal the verdict. But what did the trial reveal about big tech and the global AI race?Lucy Hough speaks to Guardian US tech and power reporter Nick Robins-Early Continue […]
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As resistance to data centers grows, Musk and others are painting a rosy picture. But the US must institute protectionsAs Americans grow increasingly worried that AI will wipe out millions of jobs and create a permanent new underclass, tech billionaires are rushing to reassure us not to worry – the subtext being: please don’t bring
Our research has uncovered young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and Pakistan using AI tools to make deeply objectionable content – and moneyNiamh McIntyre is a senior reporter at the Bureau of Investigative JournalismScroll through any Facebook feed in Britain and, between the baby announcements and petty neighbourhood beefs, you’re likely to come across an account
London-headquartered bank will reduce back-office jobs and aims to move some workers to new rolesBusiness live – latest updatesStandard Chartered plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs over the next four years as it increasingly uses artificial intelligence.The London-headquartered lender is one of the first major global banks to lay out plans to cut thousands
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Independent senator warns budget reform could drive tech investment offshore, as PM thanks startups for ‘very flattering’ imagesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has laughed off an AI-generated meme campaign against capital gains tax changes from startup founders, thanking them for “very flattering” doctored photos of him working in
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OpenAI’s plans now seem all but guaranteed, given that the world’s richest man couldn’t put a stop to themOn Monday morning, a jury in Oakland, California, handed a resounding victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in their long, bitter courtroom battle with Elon Musk.The federal jury found Altman, OpenAI and its president, Greg Brockman, not
Tracker of attitudes towards artificial intelligence also finds almost half of the public would prefer to avoid itOne in three university students think AI will wipe out jobs so rapidly it will trigger civil unrest, according to a survey by King’s College London (KCL).Students are among the heaviest users of AI, the poll found, with
As LLM-powered agents move from research to production, one design tension is becoming harder to ignore: the more useful cloud-hosted memory becomes, the more private user data it exposes. Researchers from MemTensor (Shanghai), HONOR Device and Tongji University have introduced MemPrivacy, a framework that attempts to resolve this tension without sacrificing the utility that makes
Modern language models are trained on data with extremely uneven token distributions. A small number of words appear in almost every sentence, while many rare but meaningful tokens occur only occasionally. This creates a hidden optimization challenge: parameters associated with common tokens receive constant gradient updates, while parameters tied to rare tokens may go hundreds
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The pope’s encyclical will address ‘the protection of the human person in the age of AI’, the Vatican saysIn the first major text of his papacy, Pope Leo will address the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.The Chicago-born pontiff will present the document, known as an encyclical, at the Vatican next week during an event attended
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