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UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children

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Government signals support for possible Ofcom intervention on Grok as scrutiny of X’s AI tool intensifiesBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s X “is not doing enough to keep its customers safe online”, a minister has said, as the UK government prepares to outline possible action against the platform over the mass production of sexualised images […]

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Publishers fear AI search summaries and chatbots mean ‘end of traffic era’

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Media bosses expect web referrals to plunge and want journalists to emulate content creators, report findsMedia companies expect web traffic to their sites from online searches to plummet over the next three years, as AI summaries and chatbots change the way consumers use the internet.An overwhelming majority are also planning to encourage their journalists to

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Freedom from China? The mine at the centre of Europe’s push for rare earth metals

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Swedish producer is trying to to accelerate the process of extracting the elements vital for hi-tech productsIt is deep winter with temperatures dropping to -20C. The sun never rises above the horizon, instead bathing Sweden’s most northerly town of Kiruna in a blue crepuscular light, or “civil twilight” as it is known, for two or

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Game On: the Swiss sports brand using hi-tech and chutzpah to challenge Nike and Adidas

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Zurich-based firm taps into latest robot tech to ‘fibre-spray’ high-end sports shoes worn by the likes of Roger FedererA robot leg whirs around in a complex ballet as an almost invisible spray of “flying fibre” builds a hi-tech £300 sports shoe at its foot.This nearly entirely automated process – like a sci-fi future brought to

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The rise of the analogue bag: fashion’s answer to doomscrolling

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As screen fatigue grows, a new trend is swapping smartphones for crosswords and sketchbooks – turning the humble bag into a tool for offline livingThere’s a new “it” bag – but this time it is not about a designer label or splashy logo. Instead, it’s what is inside that counts.So-called analogue bags, filled with activities

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Robots that can do laundry and more, plus unrolling laptops: the standout tech from CES 2026

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Robot vacuums that can climb stairs and device for BlackBerry lovers also on display at annual Las Vegas tech showThis year will be filled with robots that can fold your laundry, pick up objects and climb stairs, fridges that you can command to open by voice, laptops with screens that can follow you around the

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‘How is it possible?’: Berliners demand answers after sabotage causes blackout

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Arson attack that left parts of German capital in darkness for days stirs outrage over infrastructure insecurityEurope live – latest updatesWhen Silke Peters bought a crank radio and a camping stove just after the start of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, her husband thought she was “a little crazy”. “He put me down, only half-jokingly,

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Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer

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The owner of X has grown used to acting with impunity – but this may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speechIt’s a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X’s

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Warning over TikTok scam using AI-generated videos of Spain’s Princess Leonor

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Princess of Asturias Foundation says fraudsters are using fake profiles and videos purporting to show heir to Spanish throneA foundation representing Princess Leonor, the 20-year-old heir to the Spanish throne, has warned that scammers are using AI-generated videos of the princess posted by fake profile pages to cheat social media users out of money.In the

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Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity

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Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predictedA leading artificial intelligence expert has rolled back his timeline for AI doom, saying it will take longer than he initially predicted for AI systems to be able to code autonomously and thus speed their own development toward superintelligence.Daniel Kokotajlo, a

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