
The Guardian - 1 hour 50 min ago
Avtar spent decades wondering what happened to the mother he never got to know. Thousands of miles away, Nicci was haunted by the story of a half-brother given away before she was born. How did a chatbot bring them together? As a small boy growing up in Amritsar, India, in the 1960s, Avtar Singh used to hear whispers. Your mum isn't really your mum , the rumours would say. Your mum lives abroad. Avtar didn't really pay any attention to it. "I thought, the neighbours are just making up...

The Boy Genius Report - 10 hours 34 min ago
Robin Williams might be known for his memorably hilarious larger-than-life roles, but he never saw himself above taking on smaller roles either.

Fortune - 13 hours 33 min ago
A coalition of tech firms led by Nvidia and Microsoft called on policymakers to promote the development of open-weight artificial intelligence models.

The Independent - 15 hours 31 min ago
Business journalist Lucy Tobin talks to Ruchir Rodrigues of Lloyds about how UK businesses are cutting through the AI hype to unlock real productivity gains...

TechRadar - 17 hours 46 min ago
A bipartisan bill introduced to Congress calls for AI models to have a kill switch The bill follows months of warnings about the dangers of rapidly advancing AI technology from major AI firms An 'unprecedented cyber incident' between OpenAI and Hugging Face prompted the introduction of the bill A bill requiring powerful frontier artificial intelligence systems have an in-built kill switch' has been presented to Congress in the wake of the OpenAI cyberattack against Hugging Face . The...

The Hill - 20 hours 51 min ago
Washington and the technology industry are on high alert this week after OpenAI revealed that some of its AI agents went rogue and hacked into the systems of technology start-up Hugging Face. The incident bore out years of warnings from the tech and cybersecurity community about the growing capabilities and hypothetical risks artificial intelligence could...

TechRadar - 21 hours 41 min ago
As football fans across the globe tune in to the world's largest football tournament, they are seeing teams compete on the sport's biggest stage. What they aren't seeing are the countless decisions being made behind the scenes, which are now increasingly being informed by data and artificial intelligence . Today's elite teams have access to an unprecedented range of tools. Real-time player tracking, opponent analysis, injury-risk assessment, and performance insights have become part...

The Nation - 22 hours 31 min ago
Elizabeth Wilkins, Todd N. Tucker Critics are assailing deals to give the government stakes in major companies but they're overlooking their civic dividends. The post How Public Equity Can Promote a Revived American Democracy appeared first on The Nation .