AI Overviews, announced this week, are the culmination of a long line of products dedicated to keeping you on Google.com Google announced this week that it would begin the international rollout of its new artificial intelligence-powered search feature, called AI Overviews. When billions of people search a range of topics from news to recipes to …
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The wellness project claims to help users make ‘smarter food choices’ based on ‘world-leading science’. But many scientists claim its fee-based services are no better than generic advice “Your body is unique, so is the food you need.” This is the central credo of personalised nutrition (PN), as professed by its leading UK advocate, the …
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Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People For nearly two weeks, an esoteric debate has raged on X, formerly Twitter: could users concerned about privacy and security trust the messaging app Signal, or was the Telegram platform a better …
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Jan Leike, a key safety researcher at firm behind ChatGPT, quit days after launch of latest AI model, GPT-4o A former senior employee at OpenAI has said the company behind ChatGPT is prioritising “shiny products” over safety, revealing that he quit after a disagreement over key aims reached “breaking point”. Jan Leike was a key …
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The photographer and her husband came across an abandoned boat while out walking and took the opportunity to float a surreal idea Every September, Carla Vermeend and her husband go on holiday to Terschelling island, in the Netherlands. “It has lots of nature, right in the middle of the Wadden Sea, which is listed by Unesco as a world heritage …
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Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to come This week, artificial intelligence caught up with the future – or at least Hollywood’s idea of it from a decade ago. “It feels like AI from the movies,” wrote the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, of …
News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan’s outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is as effective as limp spinach, her period in office beset by economic …
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Tigran Gambaryan faces allegations of ‘serious criminality’ on behalf of world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange A Nigerian court sitting in Abuja has ruled that Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance executive detained in the country on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, can face trial on behalf of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. In a judgment made …
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The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres It’s been called “the largest coal-powered machine on Earth” – and most of us use it countless times a day. The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the same emissions annually as aviation. But we …
America’s military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone On 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed America’s military industrial complex, its top technology companies, and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that’s not how …
