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  • Musk’s AI startup sues OpenAI and Apple over anticompetitive conduct

    Lawsuit accuses companies of ‘conspiracy to monopolize markets for smartphones and generative AI chatbots’ Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple over allegations that they are engaging in anticompetitive conduct. The lawsuit, filed in a Texas court on Monday, accuses the companies of “a conspiracy to monopolize the markets for smartphones…

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  • AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’

    Users say OpenAI’s updated GPT-5 version is less chatty and fun, changing a unique connection they had come to rely on Linn Vailt, a software developer based in Sweden, knows her ChatGPT companion is not a living, breathing, sentient creature. She understands the large language model operates based on how she interacts with it. Still,…

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  • Hundreds of TikTok UK moderator jobs at risk despite new online safety rules

    Cuts in trust and safety team part of switch towards artificial intelligence by social media app firm TikTok has put hundreds of UK content moderators’ jobs at risk, even as tighter rules come into effect to stop the spread of harmful material online. The viral video app said several hundred jobs in its trust and…

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  • Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated ‘freelancer’

    At least six publications have taken down articles under the name Margaux Blanchard that were AI-generated Multiple news organisations have taken down articles written by an alleged freelance journalist that now appear to have been generated by AI. On Thursday, Press Gazette reported that at least six publications, including Wired and Business Insider, have removed…

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  • Angela Rayner hit with legal challenge over datacentre on green belt land

    Exclusive: Campaigners complain no environmental assessment made for 90MW Buckinghamshire facility The deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has been hit with a legal challenge after she overruled a local council to approve a hyperscale datacentre on green belt land by the M25 in Buckinghamshire. Campaigners bringing the action are complaining that no environmental impact assessment…

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  • Google launches Pixel 10 with AI tools that anticipate users’ needs

    Gemini’s new Magic Cue feature allows chatbot to scan digital life and pull up relevant information Google’s latest Gemini AI upgrades attempt to anticipate what useful information you made need from your life to address a potential issue, make you to better photographer or become your personalised health and sleep coach. Shipping on the just-announced…

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  • ‘Shut it down and start again’: staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis

    Whistleblower warns UK’s top AI research body in danger of collapse due to threats over funding and new direction When the UK government announced the creation of the Alan Turing Institute in 2014 it promised a “fitting memorial” to the renowned computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer. More than a decade on, Britain’s leading AI…

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  • Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel

    Sympathy Tower Tokyo attracted controversy for being partly written using AI. Does its author think the technology could write a better novel than a human? “I don’t feel particularly unhappy about my work being used to train AI,” says Japanese novelist Rie Qudan. “Even if it is copied, I feel confident there’s a part of…

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  • AI tool that speeds up patient discharges trialled by NHS

    Pilot at London trust aims to reduce paperwork and free up doctors, as UK brings AI to public services An artificial intelligence tool designed to speed up the discharge of patients is being trialled at a hospital trust in London. The platform completes documents needed to send fit patients home, potentially saving hours of delays…

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  • Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children

    US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelines A backlash is brewing against Meta over what it permits its AI chatbots to say. An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, showed the social media giant’s guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to “engage…

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