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Employees are now whispering to AI voice dictation tools rather than clacking the keys. Will ‘voicepilling’ make everyone more productive – or just more annoying? Name: Voicepilled. Age: Reid Hoffman first declared himself “voicepilled” in the autumn of last year. Continue reading… Employees are now whispering to AI voice dictation tools rather than clacking the …

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Online marketplace takes into account uncertainty around US video games retailer’s financing proposal Business live – latest updates The board of eBay has rejected the US video games retailer GameStop’s surprise $55.5bn bid (£41bn) for the online marketplace, describing the proposal as “neither credible nor attractive”. Earlier this month, GameStop made an unsolicited bid for …

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Ken Paxton accuses streamer of designing addictive platform and falsely representing data collection practices Texas sued Netflix on Monday, accusing the streaming company of spying on children and designing its platform to be addictive. Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, said Netflix has for years falsely represented to consumers that it did not collect or …

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Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacks Business live – latest updates In just three months, AI-powered hacking has gone from a nascent problem to an industrial-scale threat, according to a report from Google. The findings from Google’s threat intelligence group add to an intensifying, …

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Tim Cook and Elon Musk, among other tech CEOS, will accompany the US president on a trip to China Donald Trump is heading to China this week. If his guest list is any clue, he wants to discuss technology with Xi Jinping, though perhaps after the war in Iran. On Monday, news broke that outgoing …

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Carly Schwartz wanted a solution for her mental health struggles. She found one, but not where she expected On a threadbare carpet in the living room of a Bernal Heights bungalow, I lay blindfolded on my back. Two middle-aged rescue terriers, one missing an eye, sniffed my feet and climbed up and down my legs. …

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Comedy debuts at Versailles featuring dialogue, music, costumes and scenery created with help of AI tool Le Chat Europe live – latest updates Molière is to the French what Shakespeare is to the English: the last word in historical literature, drama, wit and satire. Now, more than 350 years after his death, the 17th-century dramatist …

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Health service has given US tech firm ‘unlimited access’ to certain data to build integrated platform, according to reports UK politics live – latest updates MPs have warned that an NHS decision to grant Palantir access to identifiable patient information in its plan to use AI to improve the health service is “dangerous” and will …

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A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it The real danger that artificial intelligence poses to work is not just job loss – it is the growing divide between people who use AI to extend their skills and those whose working lives are increasingly …

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The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start …

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