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Parents and carers: how has your view on your children’s use of social media or AI changed?

Is the scrutiny tech firms are facing making you rethink your children’s relationship with technology? Let us knowAI and social media companies have drawn intense scrutiny in recent months for some of the ways the technology they’re building operates, especially when it comes to their younger users.Parents and regulators have accused companies like Meta of […]

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TikTok drops appeal against £12.7m fine for not keeping under-13s off platform

UK watchdog fined video app in 2023 for failing to enforce minimum age limit and remove underage usersTikTok will pay a £12.7m fine to the UK’s data watchdog after dropping an appeal against a ruling that it did not do enough to keep children below the age of 13 off the platform.The video app was

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Price hikes, ads and lower quality: has ‘streamflation’ ruined the TV experience?

US consumers are starting to opt out of the streaming world as several services raise prices without offering many perksIt may not be quite as politically buzzy as the price of gasoline or eggs, but another household expense is going up for millions of people. Disney has brought the price-gouging experience of its theme park

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Climate protesters say tech companies, not AI, are the real ‘danger to humankind’ – and the planet

Activists gathered outside the OpenAI offices on Monday during climate week in New York CityOn Monday evening, protesters gathered outside the unmarked Manhattan offices of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, holding signs calling to “Eat the rich, save the planet”. Over the next two days, groups also picketed outside the offices of fellow tech giants Google

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Trump-Xi live updates: leaders of US and China to talk AI and trade in major Washington meeting

Trump wants China to use its influence with Iran, while Xi seeks a halt to US arms sales to TaiwanPresident Trump teased in a social media post this morning that artificial intelligence would be a major part of his talks today with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his state visit to Washington.He also suggested that

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Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity

Former deputy PM now involved in tech industry says many within the sector are ‘winding themselves up into a lather’UK politics live – latest updatesNick Clegg has dismissed fears over AI’s “godlike power to exterminate humanity”, calling it a sign that tech bosses are “breathing their own fumes”.The former UK deputy prime minister said that

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‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes

In the choreographers’ new work, virtuosic movement and some green-screen magic unfurl the theatricality of high-stakes television interviewsIt appears the interviewer has got him on the ropes. “For the record, I did not take part in a pagan ceremony with minor members of the royal family in which we daubed ourselves in paint,” states the

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OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste | Van Badham

All Australians should demand independent means to protect ourselves from Dr Sam Altman Frankenstein and Daddy AmericaWhoopsie! Dr Sam Altman Frankenstein regrets to inform you he’s lost control of his OpenAI monster.It’s roving around doing things that provoke international legal investigation, and Australia has found out in the worst possible way. Continue reading…

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Contrastive-LM Releases CLM-8B: An Open System One Model That Scores Agent Actions Up to 9× Faster Than Jev

Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, the first open model in a new class called Contrastive Language Models (CLMs). CLM does not generate text. It scores a set of candidate actions against the current state and returns probabilities. Their main baseline is Jev, the proprietary System One model from TypeSafe AI. Is it deployable? Yes. The Apache-2.0

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An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far

Experts say ‘fairly minor’ breach is a portent of things to come and proprietary closed systems like OpenAI are ‘the least of the worries’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare and three

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