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How China is challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance Beijing has urged local firms to use homemade chips. But is China ready to turn away from Nvidia?

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Italy first in EU to pass comprehensive law regulating use of AI Legislation limits child access and imposes prison terms for damaging use of artificial intelligence

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AI tool used to recover £500m lost to fraud, government says Ministers say software developed by the Cabinet Office has helped to ramp up fraud detection.

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What is Microsoft's new AI supercomputer in Loughton, Essex? Loughton is set to become the heart of the UK's AI revolution when its data centre opens in 2026.

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AI can forecast your future health – just like the weather An artificial intelligence model can predict the risk of more than 1,000 diseases, a team of scientists say.

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AI could boost UK economy by 10% in 5 years, says Microsoft boss Boss Satya Nadella said it was the biggest investment the firm had made outside of the US.

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Goldman Sachs bankers explore limits of AI: ‘The risk is over-reliance’ One partner explains the efficiencies and limitations of new tools

The @financialtimes.com has an interview with a Goldman Sachs partner on how she uses AI at work. Big takeaway: AI saves her hours each week but the real risk is over-reliance. AI is a partner at work, but not a replacement.

👉 How do you see it?

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Google-owner reveals £5bn AI investment in UK ahead of Trump visit Google's President and Chief Investment Officer Ruth Porat tells the BBC there are "profound opportunities in the UK".

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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

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Microsoft to Buy AI From Anthropic in Partial Shift From OpenAI Microsoft is taking its biggest step to lessen reliance on OpenAI’s artificial intelligenceby embracing the startup’s bitter rival Anthropic to power its most important software business. Microsoft wi...

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Parental controls are coming to ChatGPT ‘within the next month,’ OpenAI says

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Inside the lucrative, disturbing world of humans training AI chatbots There are no ghosts in the AI machine — just legions of hidden humans training chatbots to act more like us.

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Head of UK's Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat Dr Jean Innes is stepping down after the government told the charity to focus on defence research.

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Warner Bros Discovery sues AI photo generator Midjourney for stealing Superman, Scooby-Doo

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The Rise of Culturally Grounded AI From Latin America to The Vatican to Saudi Arabia, AI is being reshaped around culture, dignity, and sovereignty. HUMAIN Chat is the latest sign that the future of AI will not be written in just one l...

#AI isn’t just a Silicon Valley story anymore. Saudi Arabia’s #HUMAINchat shows how countries are building tools grounded in language, culture & values.

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How AI models can optimise for malice Researchers have discovered an alarming new phenomenon they are calling ‘emergent misalignment’

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China's Xi urges AI cooperation, rejects ‘Cold War mentality’ at SCO summit It is unclear if the SCO summit will pave the way for any breakthroughs in easing tensions, though Beijing has sought to cast itself as a global peacemaker.

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Two Mystery Clients Now Account for 39% of Nvidia Revenue

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How Tokyo is using AI-generated video to prepare for a Mt Fuji eruption Tokyo authorities say they released the AI-generated video to raise awareness and help people prepare for disaster - but how likely is Mt Fuji to actually erupt?

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Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

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Who owns the copyright for AI work? The US may not think prompts warrant authorship but China disagrees

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Graft, resilience and smarts.

TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators The video-sharing app said it was "concentrating our operations in fewer locations globally"

TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK content moderators

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'I'm blind - Meta AI glasses allow me to work again' Andy Evans says he gave up work due to his sight loss, but now has a job helping other blind people.

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I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course – here’s what I learned about the future of education Can AI agents superpower the classroom?

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'They’re just hiding the critical information': Google says its Gemini AI sips a mere 'five drops' of water per text prompt, but experts disagree with its findings 'This really spreads the wrong message to the world.'

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TikTok to lay off hundreds of UK moderators as it shifts to AI Moves comes despite Online Safety Act requirements on dangerous material

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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

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