Month: January 2026

Nvidia announces new, more powerful Vera Rubin chip made for AI

Next generation of chips in ‘full production’ and will arrive later this year, Jensen Huang says at CES in Las Vegas Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that the company’s next generation of chips is in “full production” saying they can deliver five times the artificial-intelligence computing of the company’s previous chips when serving …

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Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity

Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predicted A leading artificial intelligence expert has rolled back his timeline for AI doom, saying it will take longer than he initially predicted for AI systems to be able to code autonomously and thus speed their own development toward superintelligence. Daniel …

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An air fryer, 3D printer and streaming subscription: 11 items on our 2026 wishlist

You can’t always get what you want – even when you review products for a living. From kitchen splurges to fashion staples, this is what our contributors dream of Simple daily rituals for building fun, calm and play into your days in 2026 Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying …

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her

Exclusive: Ashley St Clair says supporters of X owner are using his AI tool to create a form of revenge porn The mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons has said she felt “horrified and violated” after fans of the billionaire used his AI tool, Grok, to create fake sexualised images of her by manipulating …

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I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront | Yanis Varoufakis

These inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracy It was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, the lowly bureaucrat in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella The Double, a disconcerting study of …

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Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills

Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writing In a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles. “AI gets lots of things wrong,” he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as …

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Battery electric cars will overtake diesels in Great Britain by 2030, analysis suggests

London predicted to be the first UK city to go diesel-free, largely because of the ultra-low emission zone Battery electric cars are poised to overtake diesels on Great Britain’s roads by 2030, according to analysis that suggests London will be the first UK city to go diesel-free. The number of diesel cars on Great Britain’s …

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World ‘may not have time’ to prepare for AI safety risks, says leading researcher

AI safety expert David Dalrymple said rapid advances could outpace efforts to control powerful systems The world “may not have time” to prepare for the safety risks posed by cutting-edge AI systems, according to a leading figure at the UK government’s scientific research agency. David Dalrymple, a programme director and AI safety expert at the …

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Readers reply: should we turn the internet off?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders the online world – from what’s despicable to what’s indispensable • This week’s question: can you really fake it to make it? The internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy – from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it …

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