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Expert Yoshua Bengio says independent oversight needed as advances in technology accelerate Business live – latest updates Companies developing powerful artificial intelligence systems must have independent board members representing the “interests of society”, according to an expert regarded as one of the modern godfathers of the technology. Yoshua Bengio, a co-winner of the 2018 Turing …

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Billionaire wants xAI to keep pace with rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft and Google Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is looking to raise $1bn (£0.8bn) as the world’s richest man looks to keep pace with rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft and Google in the race to dominate the field. The company has already raised $135m from …

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Can small changes make our wardrobes more sustainable? Our writers spend a month selling, tailoring and mending to find out I feel I should begin by airing my dirty laundry: I’m a middle-aged mother of small children who doesn’t do any of the laundry in our home. I know, I’m like the level of plastic …

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Trevor Daniel Jacob, 30, sentenced for obstructing investigation after deliberately crashing his plane in California A California YouTuber who authorities say deliberately crashed his plane and posted a video of it online was sentenced to six months in federal prison for obstructing the investigation by destroying the wreckage. Trevor Daniel Jacob, 30, an experienced pilot …

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Group does not include Microsoft, OpenAI or Google, setting up potential clash over regulation and responsible practice Facebook parent Meta and IBM on Tuesday launched a new group called the AI Alliance advocating for an “open-science” approach to AI development that puts them at odds with rivals Google, Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. These two diverging …

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Is artificial intelligence going to put artists out of a job? Alan Warburton decided to make a film posing that very question – using AI. The result was disturbingly watchable A toilet bubbles over with sticky yellow goo. Bedazzled executives are treated to a speech by a cartoon ghost. Someone’s dog walks across a wall …

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US company says ‘threat actor’ responsible for security breach that affected nearly half of its 14m reported users The genetic testing company 23andMe has said that nearly 7 million people have been affected by a security breach that put DNA ancestry information into the hands of hackers who broke into the site in early October. …

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Nintendo Switch, PC; inkleThis trek across forbidding crags and through crumbling caves demands resilience and determination, but rewards it with a wonderfully rich and atmospheric sense of place A Highland Song is a magical-realist trek through the Scottish Highlands, and at first I didn’t think I liked it at all. My first attempt at getting …

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The owner of Instagram and Facebook thought an ad-free subscription service would satisfy European data cops – some advocacy groups aren’t so sure • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Late last week, Europe’s largest consumer rights group filed a complaint against Meta over paid versions of Instagram and Facebook that …

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Experts say skills can teach critical thinking and even combat the youth mental health crisis California next year will become one of the few US states to teach students media literacy, a move experts say is imperative at a time when distrust in the media is at an all-time high and new technologies pose unprecedented …

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