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Hackers paid overseas Coinbase employees for account data; company is offering $20m reward for information The biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the US forecast that a cyber-attack that breached account data of a “small subset” of its customers would cost it between $180m and $400m. Coinbase said that price tag would not include the $20m ransom …

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Agreement that would give Gulf country better access to advanced AI chips raises concerns over Chinese influence The United Arab Emirates and the United States have signed an agreement for the Gulf country to build the largest artificial intelligence campus outside the United States, one of several deals around AI made during Donald Trump’s visit …

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Although Musk has pivoted from Doge, the Saudi summit shows how he’s retaining proximity to the US president Over the course of an eight-minute interview, Elon Musk touted his numerous businesses and vision of a “Star Trek future” while telling the crowd that his Tesla Optimus robots had performed a dance for Donald Trump and …

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President rebukes tech firm after reports it will switch assembly of iPhones for US market from China to India Donald Trump has admonished Apple and its chief executive over the tech firm’s reported plans to source production of US-bound iPhones from India. The US president said he had a “little problem” with Apple’s Tim Cook, …

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Groups of large language model artificial intelligence agents can adopt social norms as humans do, report says Artificial intelligence can spontaneously develop human-like social conventions, a study has found. The research, undertaken in collaboration between City St George’s, University of London and the IT University of Copenhagen, suggests that when large language model (LLM) AI …

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Company could face fine of 6% of annual turnover if European Commission’s preliminary verdict is upheld The European Commission has said TikTok is in breach of EU digital laws that require transparency over who pays for advertising. The commission reached a preliminary verdict on the Chinese-owned short video platform’s advertising policy, having launched an investigation …

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Alphabet warns of ‘Scattered Spider’, network of hackers reportedly behind cyber-attack against UK retail giant M&S Alphabet’s Google warned on Wednesday that hackers responsible for paralyzing disruptions of UK retailers are turning their attention to similar companies in the United States. “US retailers should take note. These actors are aggressive, creative, and particularly effective at …

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Government uses arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data bill Ministers have used an arcane parliamentary procedure to block an amendment to the data bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to disclose their use of copyright-protected content. The government stripped the transparency amendment, which was backed by peers …

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X chatbot tells users it was ‘instructed by my creators’ to accept ‘white genocide as real and racially motivated’ Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the …

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Promises of tech-driven growth give big US firms access to Downing Street that leaves rivals in the cold Minister accused of being too close to big tech after analysis of meetings The problem with the UK, according to the former Google boss Eric Schmidt, is that it has “so many ways that people can say …

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