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Zuckerberg’s company once invested millions and attracted top talent as tech’s leader in corporate diversity. Those aspirations peaked in 2019 and just a few years later, Meta scuttled them altogether In 2019, Facebook set a goal for itself: ensure half of its workforce was from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds by 2024. The lofty ambition made …

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When EA surprise-dropped a rerelease of The Sims 1 and 2, I was delighted to return to a defining video game of millennial childhoods – but it feels different 25 years later When I was growing up, the genre-defining dollhouse sim The Sims was the ultimate escape. I’d build dream homes, cultivate a neighbourhood of …

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Italy-based David Yambio, a critic of Meloni government, helps ICC find evidence of abuse of detainees in Libya An Italy-based human rights activist whose work supports the international criminal court in providing evidence about cases of abuse suffered by migrants and refugees held in Libyan detention camps and prisons has revealed that Apple informed him …

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Most answers had ‘significant issues’ when researchers asked services to use broadcaster’s news articles as source Leading artificial intelligence assistants create distortions, factual inaccuracies and misleading content in response to questions about news and current affairs, research has found. More than half of the AI-generated answers provided by ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity were judged …

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Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, responded that he would not accept and offered to buy X instead Elon Musk escalated his feud with OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday. The billionaire is leading a consortium of investors that announced it had submitted a bid of $97.4bn for “all assets” of the artificial …

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After WhatsApp claimed 90 users were targeted last year, experts concerned over how US could use cyberweapons Even as WhatsApp celebrated a major legal victory in December against NSO Group, the Israeli maker of one of the world’s most powerful cyberweapons, a new threat was detected, this time involving another Israel-based company that has previously …

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Every year of human history has a dedicated Wikipedia entry. But surf far enough into the future, and you’ll find evaporating oceans, planetary collisions, and the ultimate apocalypse: the Big Slurp See more from our column Internet wormhole, where writers share their favourite corner of the internet This is the way the world ends: not …

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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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