Month: February 2025

Emmanuel Macron’s tech envoy warns delegates current trajectory of artificial intelligence is unsustainable Europe live – latest updates Business live – latest updates The impact of artificial intelligence on the environment and inequality has dominated the opening exchanges of a global summit in Paris attended by political leaders, tech executives and experts. Emmanuel Macron’s AI …

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Problems began in UK at about midnight on Friday, with more than 71,000 users complaining of losing access to online events The PlayStation Network (PSN) is down, depriving online gamers around the world from accessing weekend events. The PSN is the service that Sony’s PlayStation console owners use to access its online gaming network. It …

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Letter says many of works being sold by Christie’s are made by AI models trained on pieces by human artists, without a licence Thousands of artists are urging the auction house Christie’s to cancel a sale of art created with artificial intelligence, claiming the technology behind the works is committing “mass theft”. The Augmented Intelligence …

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Tech secretary stresses UK’s important role before global AI summit in Paris discusses issues such as governance The artificial intelligence race must be led by “western, liberal, democratic” countries, said the UK technology secretary in a veiled warning over China’s role in the contest, before a global AI summit in Paris. Peter Kyle spoke as …

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Report urges ministers to overhaul market to increase rollout in areas that have ample power generation Tech companies are putting pressure on the UK government to encourage an AI datacentre boom in remote areas of Great Britain by offering some of the cheapest electricity prices in Europe. A report paid for by the tech companies …

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Exclusive: Greens call for NBN CEO salary to be cut by estimated $2.5m alongside ‘cost-of-living’ relief for users Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Greens say Labor must drastically cut the pay of the national broadband network’s CEO, in exchange for their support on a bill to block any …

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Are they the same as crypto, why has the US president launched one, and who’s really coining it in? Here’s a complete guide to the latest digital money mania Three days before his inauguration as US president, Donald Trump made an unusual move. He launched $Trump, a so-called meme coin that fans and speculators could …

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Meta accounts of those affected flooded with ads for casinos and betting sites We didn’t click ‘consent’ on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we’d been? Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook’s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection …

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This weekend, Google Maps turns 20 – and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story Stephen Ma has every right to claim bragging rights for helping to hatch the world’s most popular online mapping platform. Instead, for the past two decades Ma, one of the four co-founders of Google …

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The billionaire’s cost-cutting ‘Doge’ staff includes wealthy executives, far-right ideologues and young engineers Elon Musk’s rapid attempt to defund and depopulate the federal government has thrown US politics into chaos while the billionaire’s so-called “department of government efficiency” seizes control of operations at key agencies. Carrying out this hostile takeover are a team of staffers …

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