Month: September 2023

US ruling on works created through artificial intelligence gives boost to creative workers fighting for livelihoods The use of AI in art is facing a setback after a ruling that an award-winning image could not be copyrighted because it was not made sufficiently by humans. The decision, delivered by the US copyright office review board, …

An old master? No, it’s an image AI just knocked up … and it can’t be copyrighted Read More »

In his new book, Technofeudalism, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home of Aegina, he argues it’s no longer the global finance system that shapes us, but the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms What could be more delightful than a trip to Greece to meet Yanis Varoufakis, the …

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech Read More »

Authors have entered a war over words with OpenAI for using their books as ‘training’ feedstock Battles between human and artificial intelligence are no longer science fiction. The strikes in Hollywood led by the united guilds of actors and screenwriters have a common, intangible enemy: the algorithms and computer-generated imagery that are increasingly programmed by …

An AI Game of Thrones prequel? No wonder George RR Martin’s raining ice and fire on ChatGPT | Tim Adams Read More »

The supermarket has used data from menus, online cuisine and social media posts to shape its Japanese range Under fake pink cherry blossom, guests sipped House of Suntory cocktails and picked at plates of chicken karaage, prawn gyoza and cauliflower tempura from a kaitenzushi–style conveyor belt … This was the London launch of Waitrose’s new …

Waitrose turns to AI to create recipes for successful food products Read More »

Refining the metal – which is essential for electric car batteries – in Europe would ease the EU’s precarious reliance on China It has been called the new gold rush – a rush to catch up with China in producing and refining the materials needed in everything from computers to cars: but has it come …

The east German town at the centre of the new ‘gold rush’ … for lithium Read More »

A sweltering day’s work led the film-maker to a group of children with one goal in mind Given the unforgiving August heat, most people were keeping to the shade of the trees in a nearby plaza. These boys, however, were playing football with a foam buoy. Juan Carlos Castañeda had sought out shade, too, and …

‘They became Messi’: Juan Carlos Castañeda’s best phone picture Read More »

Legal firm had said Real World Portal encouraged misogyny and there was evidence to suggest it is an illegal pyramid scheme Apple has withdrawn an app created by Andrew Tate after accusations that it encouraged misogyny and could be an illegal pyramid scheme. Tate created the app, Real World Portal, after the closure of his …

Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate Read More »

Tucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg, Covid sceptics, military historians, the royal family … What would my time immersed in the Twitter/X owner’s feed reveal about the richest man in the world? What’s it like to be Elon Musk? On almost every level it is impossible to imagine – he’s just too much. Musk is the hands-on …

What makes Elon Musk tick? I spent months following the same people as him to find out who fuels his curious worldview Read More »

Two years after tech trend that swept up artists and celebrities, researchers estimate 23 million people hold worthless investments Tens of thousands of NFTs that were once deemed the newest rage in tech and dragged in celebrities, artists and even Melania Trump have now been declared virtually worthless. According to a new report by dappGambl …

The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows Read More »

CD Projekt RED; PC, PS5, XboxThe stylish RPG has undergone a radical transformation, and the expansion starring Idris Elba makes the best of the game’s new features Like a Night City gangster after a botched cyberware installation, Cyberpunk 2077 emerged from development as a half-finished pariah. When it was released in the dismal winter of …

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty review: excellent expansion enhances an overhauled game Read More »