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What social media restrictions has Keir Starmer announced?

Ahead of consultation on under-16s ban, government to crack down on AI chatbots and have powers to act more quicklyKeir Starmer has not yet given his full backing to a social media ban for under-16s. But on Monday the prime minister announced a series of measures to restrict the harms ministers believe online platforms are […]

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KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test

Firm says person fined A$10,000 is one of over two dozen staff in Australia caught using AI in exams since JulyBusiness live – latest updatesA partner at the consultancy KPMG has been fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat during an internal training course on AI.The unnamed partner was fined A$10,000 (£5,200) for using the

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‘It’s the most urgent public health issue’: Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time, mental health – and banning social media until 18

The hit podcaster, author and former GP says a failure to regulate big tech is ‘failing a generation of children’. He explains why he quit the NHS and why he wants a ban on screen-based homeworkA 16-year-old boy and his mum went to see their GP, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, on a busy Monday afternoon. That

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TikTok creator ByteDance vows to curb AI video tool after Disney threat

Videos created by new Seedance 2.0 generator go viral, including one of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fightingBusiness live – latest updatesByteDance, the Chinese technology company behind TikTok, has said it will restrain its AI video-making tool, after threats of legal action from Disney and a backlash from other media businesses, according to reports.The AI

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Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews

Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical adviceGoogle is putting people at risk of harm by downplaying safety warnings that its AI-generated medical advice may be wrong.When answering queries about sensitive topics such as health, the company says its AI Overviews, which appear above search results, prompt

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Google DeepMind Proposes New Framework for Intelligent AI Delegation to Secure the Emerging Agentic Web for Future Economies

The AI industry is currently obsessed with ‘agents’—autonomous programs that do more than just chat. However, most current multi-agent systems rely on brittle, hard-coded heuristics that fail when the environment changes. Google DeepMind researchers have proposed a new solution. The research team argued that for the ‘agentic web’ to scale, agents must move beyond simple

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Why did I get a £100 parking fine when charging my electric car?

The charger firm claimed the site operated 24 hours a day, but the parking operator had different ideasI charged my electric car at the 24-hour Mer EV charging station in my local B&Q car park.I then received a £100 parking charge notice (PCN) from the car park operator, Ocean Parking. It said no parking is

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A Coding Implementation to Design a Stateful Tutor Agent with Long-Term Memory, Semantic Recall, and Adaptive Practice Generation

In this tutorial, we build a fully stateful personal tutor agent that moves beyond short-lived chat interactions and learns continuously over time. We design the system to persist user preferences, track weak learning areas, and selectively recall only relevant past context when responding. By combining durable storage, semantic retrieval, and adaptive prompting, we demonstrate how

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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back – podcast

Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effortBy Rebecca Solnit. Read by Laurel Lefkow Continue reading…

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Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk face big fines or UK ban

Starmer to announce ‘crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI’ after scandal involving Elon Musk’s Grok toolMakers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday.Emboldened by Elon Musk’s X stopping

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