Month: October 2024

How artificial intelligence is changing the reports US police write

Some California police departments are already using AI tools to help draft reports – and experts are concerned Officer Wendy Venegas spoke softly in Spanish to the 14-year-old standing on the side of a narrow residential road in East Palo Alto. The girl’s face was puffy from crying as she quietly explained what had happened. …

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Starfield: Shattered Space review – much Va’ruun for improvement

PC, Xbox; Bethesda SoftworksBethesda’s gigantic space RPG’s first major expansion only highlights the game’s fundamental limitations The first story expansion for Bethesda’s big, bold, rickety space RPG arrives after a year’s worth of incremental updates that have already ironed out the game’s most egregious flaws. Those quest-breaking bugs have been squished, there are now vehicles …

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OpenAI raises $6.6bn in funding, is valued at $157bn

The startup behind ChatGP, which is reportedly planning to become a for-profit business, is now valued on par with Uber OpenAI has raised $6.6bn (£5bn) in a funding round that values the artificial intelligence business at $157bn, with chipmaker Nvidia and Japanese group SoftBank among its investors. The San Francisco-based startup, responsible for the ChatGPT …

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French AI summit to focus on environmental impact of energy-hungry tech

Event will push for greater transparency and aims to rank AI firms in terms of ability to meet climate goals World leaders at the next AI summit will focus on the impact on the environment and jobs, including the possibility of ranking the greenest AI companies, it has been announced. Rating artificial intelligence companies in …

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Tesla misses estimates for third-quarter deliveries amid stiff competition

EV maker delivered 462,890 vehicles in three months to 30 September while Wall street expected on average 469,828 Tesla missed expectations for third-quarter deliveries on Wednesday, hurt by stiff competition from rivals in China and Europe, sending shares of the world’s most valuable automaker down 3%. The electric vehicles maker handed over 462,890 vehicles in …

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Former Nintendo factory in Kyoto opens as nostalgia-fuelled gaming museum

Museum features consoles from 1983’s Famicom to 2017’s Switch, as well as honouring Nintendo’s pre-video-game era Traditionally, visitors to Kyoto in October come for momijigari, the turning of the autumn leaves in the city’s picturesque parks. This autumn, however, there is a new draw: a Nintendo museum. The new attraction, which opens on Wednesday, is …

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Pushing Buttons: At Tokyo Game Show, I saw the Japanese games scene I grew up with is still live and kicking

In this week’s newsletter: Konami, cute RPGs, weird but wonderful indie games – everything I saw at Japan’s biggest gaming convention • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Tokyo Game Show takes place at the Makuhari Messe, a series of cavernous halls in a suburban complex about 45 minutes east …

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More than 9,000 scam Facebook pages deleted after Australians lose $43.4m to celebrity deepfakes

Meta’s new Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange (Fire) tool to work with seven banks in a bid to tackle scams Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australians could see fewer deepfake images of celebrities being hauled off in handcuffs, or promoting a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment on Facebook, after Meta launched a …

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