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  • Personal details of Tate galleries job applicants leaked online

    Sensitive information relates to more than 100 individuals and their referees Personal details submitted by applicants for a job at Tate art galleries have been leaked online, exposing their addresses, salaries and the phone numbers of their referees, the Guardian has learned. The records, running to hundreds of pages, appeared on a website unrelated to…

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  • UK firms can win a significant chunk of the AI chip market | John Browne

    Britain’s legacy in chip design is world-class, and we could supply up to 5% of global demand if we get our act together The UK is in a uniquely promising position, far too little understood, to play a lucrative role in the coming era of artificial intelligence – but only if it also grabs the…

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  • Tech companies and UK child safety agencies to test AI tools’ ability to create abuse images

    New law will allow technology to be examined and ensure tools have safeguards to stop creation of material Tech companies and child protection agencies will be given the power to test whether artificial intelligence tools can produce child abuse images under a new UK law. The announcement was made as a safety watchdog revealed that…

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  • Can OpenAI keep pace with industry’s soaring costs?

    As investor jitters grow, the loss-making ChatGPT firm’s vast spending commitments test the limits of Silicon Valley optimism It is the $1.4tn (£1.1tn) question. How can a loss-making startup such as OpenAI afford such a staggering spending commitment? Answer that positively and it will go a long way to easing investor concerns over bubble warnings…

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  • AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister

    HMP Wandsworth gets green light to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday. James Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the green…

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  • Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff

    Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation If in doubt, we used to talk about the weather. Or if not that, then why the trains were late again, or how sweet someone’s baby was: the kind of routine bland nothings you exchange with strangers on…

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  • ‘Vibe coding’ beats ‘clanker’ to be Collins dictionary’s word of the year

    AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list “Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025. Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including…

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  • Global stock markets fall sharply over AI bubble fears

    Drop in US, Asia and Europe follows warning from bank bosses that market correction could lie ahead Business live – latest updates Global stock markets have fallen sharply amid concerns that a boom in valuations of artificial intelligence (AI) companies could be rapidly cooling. Markets in the US, Asia and Europe have fallen after bank…

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  • Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK

    Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ material Porn featuring strangulation or suffocation – often referred to as “choking” – is due to be criminalised, with a legal requirement placed on tech platforms to prevent UK users from seeing such material. Possessing or publishing porn featuring choking…

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  • In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia

    From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research The eminent British historian Sir Richard Evans produced three expert witness reports for the libel trial involving the Holocaust denier David Irving, studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Theodore Zeldin, succeeded David Cannadine as Regius professor of history…

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