Month: May 2023

National Eating Disorder Association has also been under criticism for firing four employees in March who formed a union The National Eating Disorder Association (Neda) has taken down an artificial intelligence chatbot, “Tessa”, after reports that the chatbot was providing harmful advice. Neda has been under criticism over the last few months after it fired …

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Employees complain about company’s return-to-office policy and slow response to the climate crisis A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company’s environmental impact is planning a walkout at the company’s Seattle headquarters. The protest on Wednesday comes a week after Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting and a month after …

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Asset manager Fidelity reports that stake worth $20m in October 2022 is now worth just under $6.6m Twitter’s value has plummeted by almost two-thirds since Elon Musk acquired the company in October 2022, one of the social media company’s only remaining external investors has admitted. Fidelity, an asset manager that held a stake in Twitter …

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PM wants to see UK take key part in creating international agreement on how to develop AI capabilities Rishi Sunak will tell Joe Biden next week the UK should become a global hub for developing international regulation of artificial intelligence, as the prime minister rapidly shifts his position on the emerging technology. Sunak will travel …

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Survey shows support for government setting rules around use of technologies such as ChatGPT to protect workers’ jobs Almost 60% of people would like to see the UK government regulate the use of generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT in the workplace to help safeguard jobs, according to a survey. As leading figures in the …

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In this week’s newsletter: Exploring maps and finishing side quests isn’t wasting time – it’s making memories Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here When the reviews for Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom went online earlier this month, I started to panic. Almost every critical reaction seemed to contain …

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The company is now the fifth most valuable in the US after investing in artificial intelligence early on Nvidia saw its valuation soar to $1tn on Tuesday, making it the fifth most valuable American company and one of the first major corporate beneficiaries of the hype around AI. The chipmaker has been a major and …

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The Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes turned herself in for an 11-year prison sentence, marking a final chapter in a years-long fraud saga that riveted Silicon Valley. The 39-year-old tech founder entered the minimum-security, federal women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon. Holmes had been out on bail since she was indicted on …

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Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear war A group of leading technology experts from across the world have warned that artificial intelligence technology should be considered a societal risk and prioritised in the same class as pandemics and nuclear wars. The statement, signed …

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PC; Prime Matter/Nightdive StudiosLovingly remade, this game is no longer the trailblazer it once was, but there is an enduring majesty to the design of its space-station setting Originally released in 1994, System Shock is best known through the games it inspired. Its blend of first-person shooting, sci-fi roleplay, and survival horror made it a …

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