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Google announces £5bn AI investment in UK before Trump visit
Rachel Reeves says move is a ‘vote of confidence’ in British economy as she prepares to open firm’s first UK datacentre Business live – latest updates Google has said it will invest £5bn in the UK in the next two years to help meet growing demand for artificial intelligence services, in a boost for the…
‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China
In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI race By the time Song-Chun Zhu was six years old, he had encountered death more times than he could count. Or so it felt. This…
‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy
The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over … ‘I’m going to throw that thing into a river!” my wife says as she comes down the stairs looking…
To understand how AI will reconfigure humanity, try this German fairytale | Clemens J Setz
Artificial intelligence will replace creativity with something closer to magical wishing. The challenge for future generations will be dealing with the feeling of emptiness that leaves us with In the German fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, an old man one day catches a strange fish: a talking flounder. It turns out that an enchanted…
Musk’s Grok AI bot falsely suggests police misrepresented footage of far-right rally in London
Met forced to rebut misinformation amplified by X users as Musk accused of inciting violence with protest comments The Metropolitan police has had to counter false suggestions by the artificial intelligence on Elon Musk’s X platform that the force passed off footage from 2020 as being from Saturday’s far-right rally in the city. The claim…
A third of UK firms using ‘bossware’ to monitor workers’ activity, survey reveals
Research suggests increase in office snooping in trend that some managers claim undermines trust with staff How employers are gathering Australian workers’ data Share your experience of tech surveillance at work in the UK A third of UK employers are using “bossware” technology to track workers’ activity with the most common methods including monitoring emails…
UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake, survey finds
Exclusive: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure It is the work shortcut that dare not speak its name. A third of people do not tell their bosses about their use of AI tools amid fears their ability will be questioned…
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 In the spring of 2024, when Rachael Sawyer, a technical writer from Texas, received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter hiring for a vague title of writing analyst, she assumed it would be similar to her previous gigs of…
Larry Ellison: Oracle co-founder who overtook Musk as world’s richest person
Tycoon who briefly surpassed Elon Musk is a friend of Trump, owner of Hawaii island and father of man who took over CBS Larry Ellison, the co-founder of software company Oracle, is having a good year. His friend Donald Trump is in the White House, his son David Ellison has taken over the storied media…
Apple debuts thinner, $999 iPhone Air at ‘awe-dropping’ annual product event
Company also augments AirPods earbuds with live translation and reveals upgrades to Apple Watch Apple debuted its latest iPhone on Tuesday, trumpeting the smartphone’s slimmest design yet. The device, named the iPhone Air, is one of several upgrades the company unveiled at its annual product showcase, promoted with the title “awe-dropping”. The event kicked off…