The billionaire’s posts began with a laboured gag and ended with a dangerous intervention into the reporting of the conflict in Gaza A year ago this week, when he completed the purchase of Twitter for $44bn, Elon Musk tweeted “the bird is freed”. Billionaires like nothing more than casting themselves as popular liberators, but the …
The AP photographer captured two friends meeting as the sun set on a torrid evening near Girona In the countryside just outside Girona, a group of friends share a 300-year-old farmhouse. They spend their weekends and holidays here, with their kids. What began as a way to disconnect from the big city of Barcelona evolved …
Bidding wars appear to be over as BT and Sky share content and heat goes out of auctions in continental Europe Eight years ago a triumphant Richard Scudamore revelled in a record £5.14bn haul from the sale of Premier League TV rights, after a second consecutive high-stakes auction where eye-watering bidding fuelled another 70% increase …
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As Amazon announces it is expanding its drone delivery service to the UK and Italy, other companies are jostling to gain altitude with ultra-fast shipping Jeff Bezos likes to surprise. Roaming Amazon’s global headquarters in 2013, the tycoon promised a television crew half his fortune if they could guess his company’s latest innovation. They did …
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The famous Austin festival picked the Harbour City for its first foray overseas, bringing an eclectic mix of AI, celebrities and cutting edge ideas Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A simultaneously familiar and slightly terrifying robot dog wanders through the audience of a session at the Sydney …
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From Asia to Europe, AI presenters are now reading the bulletins. They’re attractive, ageless and work 24/7 without being paid. Should their human counterparts be worried? And what about the rest of us? Like most newsreaders, Zae-In wears a microphone pinned to her collar and clutches a stack of notes – but unlike most, her …
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Parent company Meta says bug caused ‘inappropriate’ auto-translations and was now fixed while employee says it pushed ‘a lot of people over the edge’ Meta has apologised after inserting the word “terrorist” into the profile bios of some Palestinian Instagram users, in what the company says was a bug in auto-translation. The issue, which was …
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The music publishers’ lawsuit appears to be the first copyright case over AI’s use of song lyrics Music publishers Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord Publishing sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court on Wednesday, accusing it of misusing “innumerable” copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude. The lawsuit said Anthropic violates …
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Attorney general Letitia James brings lawsuit against Genesis Global – and parent DCG – and Gemini The New York attorney general, Letitia James, on Thursday sued the cryptocurrency firms Genesis Global, and its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG), and Gemini for allegedly “defrauding” investors of more than $1bn. At the heart of the lawsuit …
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The Fresh Prince, sidekick DJ Jazzy Jeff and more take a trip down memory lane and explore how 1988 revolutionised music forever. Plus: five of the best spin-off podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It’s intimate, it’s engaging, it’s a medium that feels somehow perfect for the confessional: …
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