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You can save more than £1000 on a iMac M1 if you act fast – now £553
What if the thing stopping you from owning one of the most distinctive desktops ever made was simply never being willing to pay full price for it? That hesitation becomes a lot harder to justify when a refurbished M1 iMac drops to £553 with a voucher from an RRP of £1,669, putting a saving of…
Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones
Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An AI model trained on data collected from users of Pokémon Go will potentially help military…
Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing…
Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac is about to become just about pointless
Microsoft is about to quietly break one of its older Office releases on Mac. If you’re still using Office 2019, the change will be hard to ignore. From July 13, Office 2019 for Mac will shift into what Microsoft calls “reduced functionality mode.” In practical terms, that means Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote will…
AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
Nor is the dreamy promise that this tech will unlock boundless potential and productivity Everything we hear about artificial intelligence is conflicting, and hearing about it feels inescapable. AI is terrible. AI is wonderful. It will break the world. It will transform the future. It’s essential to embrace it. It’s a moral imperative to abstain…
Anthropic releases ‘safe’ version of Claude Mythos AI model to public
AI company restricted access to Fable 5, its most powerful Mythos model, for months over cybersecurity concerns Anthropic, the maker of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models, made a new version of its technology available to the general public on Tuesday while restricting its use in sensitive areas. Dubbed Fable 5, the model is the…
macOS Golden Gate: everything new and confirmed
Apple has unveiled macOS 27 Golden Gate. While it isn’t a dramatic overhaul like macOS Tahoe, it does tighten up the Mac experience in a few important ways — especially around Siri and Apple Intelligence. The biggest change is Siri AI coming properly to macOS. Instead of relying on the old “Type to Siri” style…
iPadOS 27: everything new and confirmed
Apple’s iPadOS 27 update is shaping up to be less about one headline feature and more about pulling the whole system closer together with Apple Intelligence is running through the middle of it. The biggest shift is Siri, which is getting a major upgrade into what Apple is now calling “Siri AI”. Instead of short,…
World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
Datacentre off Shanghai coast uses less power and water than land-based equivalent The world’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre has started operations off the coast of Shanghai, as China presses forwards with solutions for energy challenges created by the country’s artificial intelligence boom. The Shanghai Lingang undersea datacentre demonstration project, which launched in May, has a…