Month: November 2024

Amazon’s total investment in the AI company now totals $8bn, with its AWS unit as Anthropic’s cloud provider The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said on Friday it had raised an additional $4bn investment from its longtime backer Amazon.com, bringing the e-commerce giant’s total investment to $8bn, underscoring big tech’s growing generative AI investments. Amazon will …

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Carrying 99% of the world’s international telecommunications, the vulnerable lines are drawing nefarious interest The lead-clad telegraphic cable seemed to weigh tons, according to Lt Cameron Winslow of the US navy, and the weather wasn’t helping their attempts to lift it up from the seabed and sever it. “The rough water knocked the heavy boats …

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Experts are optimistic about energy and drug production breakthroughs but also fear its potential misuse When better to hold a conference on artificial intelligence and the countless ways it is advancing science than in those brief days between the first Nobel prizes being awarded in the field and the winners heading to Stockholm for the …

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Peter Kyle meets group of teenagers at NSPCC HQ who say imposing ban would reduce their social connections A social media ban for under-16s is “not on the cards at the moment”, a minister has said, as teenagers urged him to rethink plans to follow Australia’s lead and restrict access to sites such as TikTok, …

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Billionaire CEO is well connected in the US and China, something that could smooth the road ahead for the electric vehicle maker amid a looming tariff war If it pays to have friends in high places, few among us can claim to be better placed than Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and one of …

Tesla’s path in China clears as Musk courts both Trump and Xi Read More »

Tech firm says proposals to end its dominance of internet search are a ‘radical interventionist agenda’ The US Department of Justice has proposed a range of punchy remedies to address Google’s dominance of the internet search market, including the forced divestment of its Chrome browser. Google said the proposals represented a “radical interventionist agenda” that …

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World’s richest man responds to UK parliamentarians saying they will call him to testify about X’s role in spreading disinformation during riots Elon Musk has said UK MPs “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens” in a fresh escalation of tensions between the world’s …

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Peter’s chapel in Lucerne swaps out its priest to set up a computer and cables in confessional booth The small, unadorned church has long ranked as the oldest in the Swiss city of Lucerne. But Peter’s chapel has become synonymous with all that is new after it installed an artificial intelligence-powered Jesus capable of dialoguing …

Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus Read More »

GSC Game World; PC, XboxExplore the starkly beautiful landscapes of the irradiated Zone in this foreboding and remorselessly challenging survival adventure When Ukrainian developer GSC Game World released the apocalyptic adventure Stalker in 2007, it was considered a bleakly improbable piece of speculative fiction. Heavily inspired by cult novel Roadside Picnic, it imagined an alternative …

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review – transfixing Ukrainian dystopia built on underlying tragedy Read More »

A new BBC Sounds show investigates the complicated case of Freddie Scappaticci. Plus: five of the best podcasts to switch off to • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The Optimist Project with Yara Shahidi Widely available, episodes weekly Yara Shahidi is the award-winning actor of comedies Black-ish and Grown-ish, …

How an IRA spy named ‘Stakeknife’ got away with playing both sides Read More »