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OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment
Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a multibillion-pound UK datacentre project – would represent “a major step forward in the US-UK technology partnership”. But the plans were…
London councils enact emergency plans after three hit by cyber-attack
Kensington and Westminster councils investigating whether data has been compromised as Hammersmith and Fulham also reports hack Three London councils have reported a cyber-attack, prompting the rollout of emergency plans and the involvement of the National Crime Agency (NCA) as they investigate whether any data has been compromised. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea…
Coventry council to use Palantir AI in social work, Send and children’s services
Exclusive: Workers say £500k contract with US tech firm which supplies Israeli forces raises ‘serious ethical questions’ Public sector workers have voiced “deep concern” after Coventry city council signed a £500,000-a-year artificial intelligence contract with the US data technology company Palantir. The deal is the first of its kind between a UK local authority and…
I spoke to the AI avatar of a Leeds MP. How did it cope with my Yorkshire accent?
Leeds MP Mark Sewards has launched a digital assistant, but the results of my chat show MPs’ aides have nowt to worry about As anyone with even a trace of a regional dialect who has had to pay a parking fine can attest, voice recognition services struggle with accents. Now, people in Mark Sewards’ constituency…