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British workers spend about £958 million each year out of pocket on generative AI tools for work, according to a Deloitte UK survey of 25,000 people. Of those using these tools, 17% pay for at least one themselves. This spending is part of a larger trend that employers do not fully see. About 63% of […]
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Three senators will put AI legislation in front of Congress this week, and none of them can say when it might be voted on. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, plans to introduce a measure on Wednesday requiring developers to build a shutdown mechanism into their systems. Bernie Sanders is hosting a briefing with AI […]
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Cathie Wood praised the AI industry for talking openly about its own risks and dismissed the specific risk it has been talking about, in the same set of remarks to reporters in Sydney. The ARK Invest founder said she was “happy that the leaders of the industry are advertising the risks associated with this new […]
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Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to AI, and paired the announcement with a blunt assessment of the people who are supposed to be regulating it. “I don’t think any government is nearly as deep on this as they have to […]
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Four in five American students already use AI for schoolwork, and half of their schools have no policy at all. Stanford’s data shows that the fastest adoption is happening well away from the countries writing the rules. Four out of five American high school and college students now use AI for schoolwork. Only half of […]
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Dario Amodei’s essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to “not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China” and to crack down on smuggling and on remote access to data centres outside the country. China’s commerce ministry called the essay “further […]
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Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday. As its subject declined to sit for an interview, the film built one. In a fine irony, a CGI avatar of Musk, driven by AI voice syncing, delivers statements he made in real interviews elsewhere. A man who has spent a […]
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Digital sovereignty has arrived in the boardroom and has immediately been downgraded. Some 93% of large organisations have now discussed it at the board level, and 59% say full digital sovereignty is not a realistic goal, according to a Capgemini Research Institute survey of 1,300 business and technology executives published on Tuesday. What has replaced the […]
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Most large organisations think full digital sovereignty is unrealistic, Capgemini finds Read More »
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. He also called on the countries that host AI development and sit in its supply chains to agree on international red lines on what the technology should never be permitted […]
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Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state’s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was just 48 gigawatts, and the difference clearly does not represent hundreds of gigawatts of new data centres that are actually going to be built. […]
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Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real Read More »