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The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s An influential Silicon Valley publication runs a cover story lamenting the “pussification” of tech. A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader’s calls for diversifying the …

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Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict Andrew Przybylski, a professor of human behaviour and technology at Oxford University, is a busy man. It’s only midday and already he has attended meetings on “Skype, Teams, in person and …

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Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’ The threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is “severe and advancing quickly”, with dozens of critical IT systems vulnerable to an expected regular pattern of significant strikes, ministers have been warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) found …

Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says Read More »

As the TikTok ban hangs in the air, the US investigates the security implications of another mega-popular Chinese app Who is behind DeepSeek and how did it achieve its AI ‘Sputnik moment’? The White House said on Tuesday that it was investigating the national security implications of DeepSeek’s rapid rise. The Chinese AI startup released …

What will Washington do about Chinese startup DeepSeek and its AI chatbot? Read More »

Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning that it then erases We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan Users experimenting with DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in real time, providing an arresting insight into …

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report Read More »

Steven Adler expresses concern industry taking ‘very risky gamble’ and raises doubts about future of humanity A former safety researcher at OpenAI said he is “pretty terrified” about the pace of development in artificial intelligence, warning the industry is taking a “very risky gamble” on the technology. Steven Adler expressed concerns about companies seeking to …

Former OpenAI safety researcher brands pace of AI development ‘terrifying’ Read More »

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Nvidia saw $600bn of its market value disappear, while its CEO, Jensen Huang, saw his net worth drop by nearly $21bn DeepSeek’s cut-price challenge to US AI dominance, which wiped $600bn in Nvidia’s market value on Monday and caused the tech-weighted Nasdaq index to drop 3%, also took a bite out of the fortunes of …

Tech billionaires lost almost $100bn in stock market selloff sparked by DeepSeek Read More »

Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state Experts have urged caution over rapidly embracing the Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek, citing concerns about it spreading misinformation and how the Chinese state might exploit users’ data. The new low-cost AI wiped $1tn off the leading …

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The US was widely considered the leader in AI, but a Chinese startup has called that dominance into question Hello, and welcome back to TechScape. There was a lot of news last week. To run it down in an expedient fashion: • Donald Trump, Sam Altman, Masayoshi Son and Larry Ellison announced a $500bn initiative …

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