Technology
The AI videos supercharging Russia's online disinformation campaigns
Security experts have warned that Western governments are poorly equipped to counter a new frontier of online disinformation.
BBC News - UK7 months ago
Latest News
Stay updated with the latest news and updates
Filter by Category
Recent News
Technology
Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.
BBC News - UK7 months ago
Technology
Instagram investigating AI profiles 'fetishising' disabled people
Accounts pretending to have conditions like Down's Syndrome have amassed thousands of followers
BBC News - UK7 months ago
Technology
Jack Dorsey's Block cuts thousands of jobs as it embraces AI
The Twitter co-founder says he believes the majority of firms will make similar changes "within the next year."
BBC News - UK7 months ago
Technology
Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms
Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’Metropolitan police officers are to start scanning citizens’ faces using automated facia...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
Technology
Guardian joins media coalition to protect original journalism from unpaid use by AI
BBC and Financial Times among those calling for frameworks to help publishers gain control over their content being ‘scraped and copied’A coalition of UK media companies including the Guardian has urg...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
BusinessTechnology
WPP to sell assets and cut jobs in radical shake-up to counter AI threat
Group aims to be ‘simpler, lower-cost, AI-enabled business’ and achieve £500m of annual savings by 2028The beleaguered UK advertising group WPP has announced a radical restructure to counter the threa...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
BusinessTechnology
Ocado to cut 1,000 jobs in £150m cost-saving drive
Retail technology business to reduce about 5% of global workforce, with two-thirds of job losses affecting UKBusiness live – latest updatesOcado is to cut 1,000 jobs as the retail technology business...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
Technology
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away
Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had ne...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
Technology
Behind the Guardian’s analysis of 100 years of MPs’ language on immigration
Methodology: how we trained a machine learning model to analyse rhetoric on immigration in the UK parliament over the course of a centuryThe Guardian has revealed a significant rightward shift toward...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
Technology
Magistrates and judges to use more AI, says Lammy - as jury trials reduced
Justice Secretary David Lammy wants to see more AI-assisted magistrates as he doubles down on his plans to reduce the number of jury trials.
Sky News - UK7 months ago
Technology
Police AI chief admits crime-fighting tech will have bias but vows to tackle it
Exclusive: NCA’s Alex Murray says he hopes new £115m police AI centre can limit unfairness found in tools‘It’s not Robocop’: UK police embrace AI ‘efficiency’ in complex investigationsA police chief h...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
Technology
'The end of Xbox': fans split as AI exec takes over Microsoft's top gaming role
The executive shake-up has sparked online debate about new boss Asha Sharma's gaming credentials.
BBC News - UK7 months ago
Technology
Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct
Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staf...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
Technology
Nasa astronauts' moon mission delayed due to rocket issue
The mission to the far side of the Moon and back will be postponed after problems with were spotted with its rocket, a Nasa official said.
BBC News - UK7 months ago
Local NewsTechnologyEntertainment
Matthew McConaughey says apprehensions around AI won’t last: “There’s too much money to be made, and it’s too productive”
The actor - who has been an investor in AI company ElevenLabs for many years - said his peers should trademark their voices and likeness, “so when it comes, no one can steal you" The post Matthew Mc...
NME Music News7 months ago
Technology
Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media
Deepfakes showing grim taxpayer-funded waterparks have gone viral and drawn some racist responses.
BBC News - UK7 months ago
Technology
Amazon’s cloud ‘hit by two outages caused by AI tools last year’
Reported issues at Amazon Web Services raise questions about firm’s use of artificial intelligence as it cuts staffAmazon’s huge cloud computing arm reportedly experienced at least two outages caused...
The Guardian - UK News7 months ago
Technology
Humans to travel further into space than ever before as Nasa confirms March Moon mission
Nasa sets the launch date following a successful "wet dress rehearsal" of the Artemis II mission.
BBC News - UK7 months ago
PoliticsTechnologyMusic
Google gives Gemini the ability to make AI-generated music
"We’ve developed it with input from producers and musicians so it understands musicality – from rhythm to arrangement," Google said, though there are concerns over how the model was trained The post...
NME Music News7 months ago