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Georgia leads push to ban datatcenters used to power America’s AI boom

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Southern state becoming ground zero in fight against rapid growth of facilities using huge amounts of energy and waterLawmakers in several states are exploring passing laws that would put statewide bans in place on building new datacenters as the issue of the power-hungry facilities has moved to the center of economic and environmental concerns in […]

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EU launches inquiry into X over sexually explicit images made by Grok AI

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Investigation comes after Elon Musk’s firm sparked outrage by allowing users to ‘strip’ photos of women and childrenEurope live – latest updatesThe European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the production of sexually explicit images and the spreading of possible child sexual abuse material by the platform’s AI chatbot feature, Grok.The

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Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests

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Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month• How the ‘confident authority’ of AI Overviews is putting public health at riskGoogle’s search feature AI Overviews cites YouTube more than any medical website when answering queries about health conditions, according to research that raises fresh

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How the ‘confident authority’ of Google AI Overviews is putting public health at risk

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Experts say tool can give ‘completely wrong’ medical advice which could put users at risk of serious harm• AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site, study suggestsDo I have the flu or Covid? Why do I wake up feeling tired? What is causing the pain in my chest? For more than two decades,

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TikTok announces it has finalized deal to establish US entity, sidestepping ban

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Majority US-owned venture includes Larry Ellison’s Oracle, private-equity group Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGXTikTok announced on Thursday that it had closed a deal to establish a new US entity, allowing it to sidestep a ban and ending a long legal battle.The deal finalized by ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, sets up a majority American-owned venture,

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Experts warn of threat to democracy by ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media

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Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers warnPolitical leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned.The Nobel peace prize-winning free-speech activist,

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Rollout of AI may need to be slowed to ‘save society’, says JP Morgan boss

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Jamie Dimon warns of civil unrest but Nvidia’s Jensen Huang argues tech will create rather than destroy jobsJamie Dimon, the boss of JP Morgan, has said artificial intelligence “may go too fast for society” and cause “civil unrest” unless governments and business support displaced workers.While advances in AI will have huge benefits, from increasing productivity

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Snapchat’s parent company settles social media addiction lawsuit before trial

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Snap’s chief executive had been due to testify in civil action also involving Meta, TikTok and YouTubeSnapchat’s parent company has settled a civil lawsuit shortly before it was due to start in California, but other large tech companies still face a trial under the case.Snap’s chief executive, Evan Spiegel, had been due to testify in

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My friends in Italy are using AI therapists. But is that so bad, when a stigma surrounds mental health? | Viola Di Grado

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State provision for psychological health services is lamentable. Until things improve, let’s not judge those who turn to an app for helpIt’s a sunny afternoon in a Roman park and a peculiar, new-to-this-era kind of coming out is happening between me and my friend Clarissa. She has just asked me if I, like her and

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Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO ‘an idiot’

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Tesla boss clashed with Michael O’Leary when airline boss rejected installing Starlink technology on aircraftBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk has floated the idea of buying the budget airline Ryanair, escalating his public spat with the Irish carrier’s boss, Michael O’Leary.The two outspoken businessmen have locked horns since last week, when O’Leary was asked whether

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