Novelists and poets, Bernardine Evaristo, Jeanette Winterson, Stephen Marche and others, consider the threats and thrilling possibilities of artificial intelligence ChatGPT seems to have blindsided us all. In less than a year it has proved that it can make writers redundant, which is one of the reasons why the Writers Guild of America recently went …
Thiel says in an interview that Trump had called him earlier this year to solicit $10m and that he turned down the request Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who supported Donald Trump in 2016 and sunk millions more into underperforming Maga candidates in subsequent election cycles, has confirmed rumors that he is stepping away from …
American arm of ICBC is latest victim of hackers and is investigating The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s US arm was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted trades in the US Treasury market on Thursday, the latest in a string of victims ransom-demanding hackers have claimed this year. ICBC Financial Services, the US …
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In one well-to-do London street, eagerness to make the shift from boilers is dampened by worries about disruption and hidden costs As a snapshot of bourgeois Britain, Park House Gardens would be hard to beat. A quiet cul-de-sac of 1930s art deco semis in the south-west London borough of Twickenham leads down to the River …
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The 73-year-old had been slated to speak at a business conference when he suffered a ‘minor but real stroke’ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized for a “minor but real stroke” on Thursday in Mexico City while he was in the city to speak at a business conference. After a brief stay in the hospital, …
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Harmeen Mehta criticised for equating human workers with ‘beasts of burden’ and denigrating right to strike BT’s technology chief, Harmeen Mehta, has suggested workers whose jobs are threatened by AI accept their fate as “evolution”, comparing them to horses replaced by the car. In an interview with the business website Raconteur, Mehta said: “I don‘t …
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Reports come weeks after US blocked Nvidia from selling two high-end AI chips and a top gaming chip to Chinese firms Nvidia is planning to release three new chips for China, according to local media reports, weeks after the US blocked it from selling two high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips and one of its top …
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Historian and Sapiens author says sophistication of technology makes it difficult to forecast its dangers Artificial intelligence could cause a financial crisis with “catastrophic” consequences, according to the historian and author Yuval Noah Harari, who says the technology’s sophistication makes forecasting its dangers difficult. Harari told the Guardian a concern about safety testing AI models …
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Top adviser to European court of justice say ruling three years ago in tech giant’s favour should be set aside Apple has suffered a setback in its battle against an order to pay an alleged €13bn (£11.3bn) tax bill in Ireland, after one of the top advisers to the European court of justice (ECJ) said …
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The Optus outage was devastating for people with disability like Marayke Jonkers who rely on internet-assisted technology for life’s essentials Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Marayke Jonkers first realised something was wrong when all her bedroom lights turned on early in the morning. All the devices in …
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