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Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause

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The man behind Google’s AI thinks the world needs a referee. And he has drafted the rules. Demis Hassabis wants a US-led watchdog that vets frontier models before release. It is modelled on Wall Street’s policeman, and it could slow the whole industry down. Demis Hassabis does not usually sound the alarm. On Tuesday he […]

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Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks

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The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. Two stories this week suggest the reality can run the other way. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was not safe to trust. Marilyn Shuler spent 39 years reading […]

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Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%

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Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest climate targets in tech. By […]

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Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules

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Uber lost the race to build a self-driving car. Now it wants to write the rules for everyone who did. In two US states it is lobbying for laws that would force robotaxis onto its app, and its own product chief is happy to explain why. Uber could not win the race to build a […]

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xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted

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Emails between regulators and xAI’s consultants put most of the turbines in Southaven, Mississippi. Within five miles on the Tennessee side, about 94% of residents are Black. Ervin Laws lives in Colonial Hills, a neighbourhood in Southaven, Mississippi, where residents say the turbines running around the clock sound like jet engines. “I can’t do anything […]

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The White House’s next AI energy pledge targets the utilities

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The White House is preparing an event, expected within weeks, at which electric utilities, the companies that build and run data centres for Big Tech, and governors of the states hosting the biggest buildouts will be asked to promise that none of this will end up on household electricity bills. Three people familiar with the […]

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Pentagon pauses the cyber audit rule that was pushing small suppliers out

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The figure that seems to have finished the programme off is not a cost. It is a ratio: more than 100,000 companies in the American defence supply chain needing an independent cybersecurity audit, against roughly 100 accredited assessors licensed to carry one out. “So the math just simply doesn’t math,” Kirsten Davies, the Pentagon’s chief […]

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Twelve states are suing to stop the Paramount-Warner deal that Washington already waved through

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A dozen states have sued to block Paramount Skydance’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The suit, led by California attorney general Rob Bonta, was filed in federal court in California’s Northern District, CNBC reports. The timing is pointed. The Justice Department approved the roughly $110bn deal last month without conditions or divestitures, after an eight-month review. […]

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Tesla’s Cybercab drove across a car park, and the real news happened two days earlier

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Tesla has said Cybercab employee rides are starting soon at its Texas factory. The announcement came with a clip of a gold Cybercab, butterfly doors up and no steering wheel or pedals, driving itself across the outbound lot, Mashable reports. Note the tense. Tesla said the rides are “starting soon”, not that they have started, and […]

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AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first

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The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties, CNBC reports. Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupations are now exiting work at higher rates than before ChatGPT launched. The finding comes from Geoffrey Sanzenbacher at Boston College’s Center for […]

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