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Exclusive: Former PM and ex-Tory leader William Hague warn UK lacks high-risk capital and infrastructure to harness benefits of powerful technology Tony Blair has said “history won’t forgive us” if the UK falls behind in the race to harness quantum computing, a frontier technology predicted to trigger the next wave of breakthroughs in everything from …

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Camera-equipped sports shades have secure fit, open-ear speakers, mics and advanced Garmin and Strava integration The Oakley Meta Vanguard are new displayless AI glasses designed for running, cycling and action sports with deep Garmin and Strava integration, which may make them the first smart glasses for sport that actually work. They are a replacement for …

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From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research The eminent British historian Sir Richard Evans produced three expert witness reports for the libel trial involving the Holocaust denier David Irving, studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Theodore Zeldin, succeeded David Cannadine as Regius professor of history …

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Prompts indicating suicidal ideation got alarming replies, which experts say shows ‘how easy it is to break the model’ An OpenAI statement released this week claimed the company had made its popular service ChatGPT better at supporting users experiencing mental health problems like suicidal ideation or delusions, but experts tell the Guardian they need to …

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Many believe planned investment will bring prosperity, while others worry its debt-fuelled exuberance will backfire The global investment spree in artificial intelligence is producing some remarkable numbers and a projected $3tn (£2.3tn) spend on datacentres is one of them. These vast warehouses are the central nervous system of AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and …

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When courts ban people from accessing leaked data – as happened after the airline’s data breach – only hackers and scammers win Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It’s become the playbook for big Australian companies that have customer data stolen …

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The internet has been rumbling about autocorrect for years – and now AI is changing how the technology works Don’t worry, you’re not going mad. If you feel the autocorrect on your iPhone has gone haywire recently – inexplicably correcting words such as “come” to “coke” and “winter” to “w Inter” – then you are …

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Dutch-controlled company informs customers about suspension but is said to want to de-escalate trade war Nexperia, the EU-based automotive chipmaker at the centre of a geopolitical dispute, has suspended supplies to its Chinese factory, stepping up a trade war that threatens to halt production at carmakers around the world. The company wrote to customers this …

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Can these earphones, with less cost and stigma than real aids, be a gateway for millions with untreated hearing loss? Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things I didn’t think much about it when I asked my partner to repeat herself. But then I did it again. …

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It’s not just what we hear and see that scares us, according to those behind many of video gaming’s modern horror classics The sound came first. In a San Francisco Bart train tunnel, Don Veca took his recorder and captured a train’s metallic roar – “like demons in agony, beautifully ugly,” he remembers. That recording …

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