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What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?

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Lanarkshire datacentre run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs not achievable by 2030, Guardian investigation findsRevealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentreThe Guardian has examined government plans to build Britain’s AI infrastructure for the future, […]

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Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise

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Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentreWhat are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel

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AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper

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Exclusive: Foreign secretary warns of combined risks of AI, climate crisis, irregular migration and foreign interferenceArtificial intelligence poses a “Hiroshima”-style risk to humanity if governments do not agree to curb how it is developed, the foreign secretary has warned.Yvette Cooper urged countries, including the US and China, to agree international rules for AI, telling the

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NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services

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Update in England expected to reach about 200,000 patients over the next year as part of £10bn package to overhaul NHS systemsThe NHS will begin using AI on its app to direct patients to the appropriate services, it has been announced.The tool will be used to triage patients and to ascertain if they should be

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OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over Stargate UK project

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Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypotheticalIt was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership”.But the plans were paused in

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We can debate the ethics of AI but can’t seem to change course | Letters

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Readers respond to the profile of Iason Gabriel, a philosopher and research scientist at Google DeepMindThe Guardian’s profile of Google DeepMind’s philosopher was encouraging because it showed how seriously many of the people building AI are taking their ethical responsibilities (‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind

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UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears

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Exclusive: National Crime Agency and safety watchdog issue guidance amid rise in explicit material onlineAnalysis | AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification appsThe UK National Crime Agency has recommended parents should not put photos of their children on public display online as part of landmark guidance to tackle the

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Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

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Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concerns over far-right content fuelling violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”, Lisa Nandy has announced.The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform

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Bitcoin firm advertised by Nigel Farage loses 15% of asset value

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Exclusive: Finance experts warn against investing in bitcoin treasury companies after Stack BTC assets plungeA bitcoin company that Nigel Farage has advertised lost more than 15% of its asset value, prompting finance experts to warn investors against those types of firms.The Reform UK leader has invested £215,000 in a bitcoin treasury company named Stack BTC.

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OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

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CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report saysBusiness live – latest updatesOpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a 5% stake in the ChatGPT developer to the US government as artificial intelligence companies attempt to smooth relations with Donald Trump’s administration.The

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