Month: January 2024

European Commission says it is checking whether multibillion-dollar stake is reviewable under merger regulation Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar investment in the ChatGPT developer OpenAI could face a merger investigation in the European Union, officials have said. Microsoft is the largest minority investor in OpenAI Global LLC, a “capped profit” subsidiary company that is controlled by OpenAI Inc, …

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Pioneering vandalism-reporting scheme will launch in January involving police, youth workers and housing officials A groundbreaking scheme designed to help clear streets of hate graffiti and pinpoint flare-ups of racism and homophobia is being pioneered in Wales. At the centre of the project is an app called StreetSnap, developed by Swansea University, that will be …

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The world’s largest tech event has cutting-edge TVs and even a VW with ChatGPT – but cheap gadgets and big tech have dented its influence. Plus, HMRC comes for side hustlers and Substack ‘doesn’t like Nazis’ • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The Consumer Electronics Show …

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Focusing on power and politics, this Mácula Interactive docu-game draws on muralists, an assassination and newspaper reporting in painstakingly historically accurate detail How many stories are hidden in the murals of Diego Rivera? What was it like to witness the creation of a modern Latin American nation, to sit in the classrooms of stridentism and …

A new kind of history lesson: Mexico, 1921: A Deep Slumber makes you a journalist during a revolution Read More »

Beijing set the goal of being the global AI leader by 2030, but that was before the emergence of ChatGPT Of the many events that stand out as noteworthy in online discussions across Chinese social media in 2023, it’s perhaps the rise of ChatGPT that will prove to be the most significant. Although the chatbot …

In the race for AI supremacy, China and the US are travelling on entirely different tracks | Manya Koetse Read More »

In 2008, Milda Mitkute and a friend set up a website to clear out her closet. It soon grew exponentially. Now Vinted has 16 million UK users and is the first Lithuanian ‘unicorn’. Can it make secondhand our first choice? When is a jumble sale also a billion-euro tech startup? When it has 500m items …

The Vinted phenomenon: how one woman sold her clothes – and created a billion-dollar company Read More »

Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products Business live – latest updates The developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their …

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Read More »

Internal Revenue Service alleges Rodney Burton was part of a network that made ‘fraudulent’ presentations claiming high returns for investors based on crypto-mining operations that did not exist A promoter of the HyperVerse crypto investment scheme has been arrested and charged in the US for his alleged role in the scheme, with court documents claiming …

HyperVerse crypto promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ arrested and charged in US Read More »

It gave me friends, fun and new horizons – but the dark side of social media was a threat to democracy long before Elon Musk Last year was the year when Twitter, now known as X, broke irreparably. In 2023 engagement fell off a cliff, advertisers withdrew and long-term influencers stopped – or greatly reduced …

Twitter changed my life for good. But the platform I loved no longer exists | Helene von Bismarck Read More »

Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but US unions have been slow to act From algorithms firing staff without human intervention to software keeping tabs on bathroom breaks, technologies including artificial intelligence are already upsetting workers and unsettling workplaces. At call centers, AI systems record and grade how workers …

‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work Read More »