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AI companies have overwhelming incentives to anthropomorphize their products and persuade users that chatbots are conscious, sentient, and capable of rational thought and feelings. But those incentives are largely commercial, and the debate about AIs’ supposed superintelligence is a deliberate distraction from their real-world human impacts and harms. That’s
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Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition
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Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada,
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The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how to police the most capable AI
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The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie every American’s identity to a number. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon be impossible in the US. A Federal Communications
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Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board, an independent body funded
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* GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says Sony's decision to end physical game production is 'totally irrelevant' to the company * The statement is supported by both physical and digital games, which only contribute 18% to overall revenue * Cohen's comments likely won't help gamers in
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* Apple has ended a popular loophole used when buying an iPhone * It previously let you get an unlocked iPhone on carrier finance * The workaround still works when purchasing an iPad For many years, there’s been something of an open secret among Apple fans who want to get a new,
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* Richard Knight, director of Assassin's CreedBlack Flag Resynced, has explained why hidden blade combat was removed from the remake * He says the team "prioritized core combat" * Knight adds that the team is also monitoring player feedback but "can't make any promises" Assassin&
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General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million loan from Upper90, a tech investment firm. It might be the first deal to put up inference-specific chips as collateral — chips built to run already-trained AI models quickly and efficiently, rather than the more expensive chips used to
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Cybersecurity startup Beacon Security has announced raising $13 million in a seed funding round led by Notable Capital. AlphaDrive Ventures, Holly Ventures, Jefferies Family Office, SVCI, and dozens of angel investors also participated in the investment round. Based in New York, Beacon was founded in 2024 by IDF veterans Gal
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OpenAI has officially launched its first piece of hardware, and it's called the Codex Micro. It might sound like a retro computer in a Dan Brown book, but the Codex Micro is actually a very compact keyboard for coders. How does that work? In this article we'
