Artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity has made an unexpected $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google’s Chrome browser, signaling its ambition to reshape how people interact with the web. The move comes as Google faces heightened scrutiny from U.S. regulators following a landmark antitrust ruling against its search operations. The Department of Justice has suggested that […]
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YouTube is launching an artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to estimate users’ ages as part of its ongoing effort to make the platform safer for children and teenagers. Rolling out initially to a small group of U.S. users, the system aims to prevent minors from accessing content that may be inappropriate for their age. […]
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In today’s world, reputation isn’t earned—it’s engineered. This is the underlying thesis of Targeted, the investigative podcast peeling back the glossed-over layers of modern smear campaigns. In its second episode chronicling the unraveling of commodities investor Gaurav Srivastava, the show trades the courtroom for the far more unforgiving arena of digital opinion. Here, every whisper […]
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Counter-terrorism police are investigating a deepfake of Sadiq Khan dismissing the importance of Armistice Day that has been shared by far-right groups on social media. In the fake clip shared on TikTok the mayor of London is portrayed as proposing to postpone Remembrance weekend so that the pro-Palestinian protest can go ahead in the capital. […]
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Rishi Sunak has hailed the signing of the Bletchley Declaration by the US, China, EU and UK that warns of the potential of AI to cause “catastrophic harm” to the planet. All 28 countries attending the prime minister’s AI Safety Summit signed the agreement to work together to combat the existential risks posed by the […]
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Hallowe’en is upon us and trickster prime minister Rishi Sunak is treating the country by ditching his ‘InAction Man’ costume and donning Dr Death to battle the existential threat posed by AI. Hard to believe, but it could be worse. The PM might have changed into an outfit based on the increasingly prophetic anagram of […]
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Rishi Sunak is hoping to convince the US president that the UK should be the world’s foremost AI (artificial intelligence) regulator during his trip to Washington. This will be Sunak’s fourth meeting with Joe Biden in as many months and the prime minister is set to lobby the president for the UK to have a […]
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