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An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national securityOscar Wilde’s quip, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life”, needs updating: replace “art” with “AI”. The Amazon page for Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W Zamiska’s new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief and the Future of...
Dismissing 6,700 IRS workers during tax season is a recipe for chaos but AI’s disruption will be much more widespreadThe Trump administration recently announced that it would be laying off approximately 6,700 workers at the Internal Revenue Service, about 8% of the people employed by the agency. Tens of thousands of federal employees at other agencies are also losing their jobs.The timing could not be worse. We’re in...
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The Albanese government is banking on direct-to-device access to satellite connections to improve coverageFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBernie Byrnes, a farmer from the southern tablelands of New South Wales, can tell when he is about to hit a mobile black spot on a highway.“There’s spots on the side of the highway where reception falls...
As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bondJules White used to believe his 11-year-old son needed to know how to code to be successful. Now, though, the Vanderbilt computer science professor says it’s more crucial for James to learn a new, more useful skill: how to prompt artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022,...
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’Don’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.The Trump administration has publicly and privately signaled that it does not believe Russia represents a cyber threat against US national security or critical...
Criminal justice specialists call for new approach to identify emerging type of murderer with no prior convictionsThe rise of “0 to 100” killers who go from watching torture, mutilation and beheading videos in their bedrooms to committing murder suggests there could be a link between extreme violence online and in real life, experts have said.Criminal justice experts advocated a new approach, inspired by...
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Potential uses for gadget could include online shopping, weight management and sensory testing, say researchersIf your colleague bores you to tears with pictures of their lunch, then a new gadget could make your life even worse.Scientists have developed a device to recreate the flavours of food and drink, allowing them to be shared remotely in a matter of seconds – but they have not yet cracked spicy food. Continue...
In March 2016, the world witnessed a unique moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) when AlphaGo, an AI developed by DeepMind, played against Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go players of the modern era. The match reached a critical juncture in Game 2 with Move 37, where AlphaGo made a move so…
Internet calling service that disrupted landline industry to close in May as tech giant says it will focus on TeamsSkype will ring for the last time on 5 May as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders.Shutting down Skype will help Microsoft focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings, the office software...
Users of Reels report feeds dominated by violent and graphic footage after apparent algorithm malfunctionMark Zuckerberg’s Meta has apologised after Instagram users were subjected to a flood of violence, gore, animal abuse and dead bodies on their Reels feeds.Users reported the footage after an apparent malfunction in Instagram’s algorithm, which curates what people see on the app. Continue reading...
The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots…
Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have called a sudden truce with the cryptocurrency industry, bringing an end to years of legal conflict.
‘Sora would not exist without its training data,’ said peer Beeban Kidron, citing ‘another level of urgency’ to debateThe artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT has launched its video generation tool in the UK amid a deepening row between the tech sector and creative industries over copyright.Beeban Kidron, the film director and crossbench peer, said the introduction of OpenAI’s Sora in the UK added “another...
Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters – including during Friday’s planned ‘economic blackout’Don’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.In late January, Lauren Bedson did what many would likely find unthinkable: she cancelled her Amazon Prime membership. The catalyst was Donald Trump’s inauguration. Many more Americans are planning to...
Some fans are up in arms about the corporate behemoth taking over the franchise. But I’ll wade through any amount of spin-offs for another crack at the best multiplayer game of the 90sThe year 2025 is shaping up to be a corker, isn’t it? It’s all happening: bird flu is back, we’re getting tariffs on everything, Russia has twinned with the US, and it seems there are more Nazis around than there were last month. People...
Big Tech’s restrictions on adult content are crippling businesses and organizations focused on sexual health, according to a new report shared exclusively with WIRED.
This article first appeared in The Checkup,MIT Technology Review’sweekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first,sign up here. This week I’ve been working on a story about a brain of glass. About five years ago, archaeologists found shiny black glass fragments inside the skull of a…
From the raw materials required to the machines that make them, every part of the chip supply chain is fiercely contested in the global race for tech supremacyA small town in the Netherlands hosts the only factory that produces the only chip-making machines that generate a type of light found nowhere naturally on Earth: extreme ultraviolet, a light emitted by young stars in outer space.This light, known as EUV, is the...
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Botify AI, a site for chatting with AI companions that’s backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, hosts bots resembling real actors that state their age as under 18, engage in sexually charged conversations, offer “hot photos,” and in some instances describe age-of-consent laws as “arbitrary” and “meant to be broken.” When MIT Technology…
Geo Group, an Ice partner, is moving at ‘unprecedented speed’ to build out its monitoring, executive chair saysThe Geo Group, the largest single private contractor to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), said it was building out its surveillance business to be able to monitor hundreds of thousands or millions more immigrants than it already does.The Geo Group, a private prison corporation and parent company of...
OpenAI has just released GPT-4.5, a new version of its flagship large language model. The company claims it is its biggest and best model for all-round chat yet. “It’s really a step forward for us,” says Mia Glaese, a research scientist at OpenAI. Since the releases of its so-called reasoning models o1 and o3, OpenAI…