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Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI

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Geert Wilders’ PVV altered sketch of jailed Syrian brothers to make them look more menacingA Dutch court artist has received damages after an MP for the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) used one of her drawings without permission and manipulated it with AI to make the subjects look more menacing.Petra Urban, a court artist for […]

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Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules

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Apple Peiqing Ni targeted by account portraying her as promiscuous drug addict after posting about Tiananmen SquareA high-profile Chinese activist in the UK who was inundated with deepfake posts on X portraying her as a sexually promiscuous drug addict was told that the abuse did not breach the rules of Elon Musk’s platform.Apple Peiqing Ni,

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Anthropic releases ‘safe’ version of Claude Mythos AI model to public

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AI company restricted access to Fable 5, its most powerful Mythos model, for months over cybersecurity concernsAnthropic, the maker of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models, made a new version of its technology available to the general public on Tuesday while restricting its use in sensitive areas.Dubbed Fable 5, the model is the first to

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Spyware firm targeted WhatsApp users in defiance of US court order, Meta says

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Tech company says it ‘caught and disrupted’ NSO Group’s attempts to access accounts in Jordan and Lebanon A spyware firm has been targeting WhatsApp users with malicious links in contravention of a US court order forbidding it from doing so, Meta has said.In a post, Meta said WhatsApp had “caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts”

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All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth

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Also: Anthropic advocates for a ‘pause’ on AI advancement – days after filing to go public on the US stock marketHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the US tech editor at the Guardian. Today we’re discussing Donald Trump’s neediness for AI and the contradictions of Anthropic’s safety-first posture.OpenAI confidentially files for

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World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China

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Datacentre off Shanghai coast uses less power and water than land-based equivalent The world’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre has started operations off the coast of Shanghai, as China presses forwards with solutions for energy challenges created by the country’s artificial intelligence boom.The Shanghai Lingang undersea datacentre demonstration project, which launched in May, has a capacity

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Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

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Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AIA record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis

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Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg

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Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasonsSilicon Valley companies including Meta have decided to embrace Maga politics, some for “rather more self-interested” reasons, the former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said.Clegg, who spent nearly seven years at Meta as the head of

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Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts

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Expenditure is growing fast and consumer take-up accelerating. But alarm bells are sounding The race is very much on. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which makes AI models as well as space rockets, announced last week it is seeking a $1.77tn (£1.31tn) valuation on the US stock market while Anthropic, the startup behind the Claude chatbot, said

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‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism

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Backlash against AI is taking an extremist turn, following in the footsteps of earlier techno-pessimist militantsSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email When a 20-year-old man from Texas was arrested earlier this year for allegedly trying to burn down OpenAI’s headquarters and Sam Altman’s house, authorities found an anti-AI manifesto alongside his lighter

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