8 h. ago 'I took a driverless taxi in LA as tech giants prepare to bring them to UK'

An army of driverless 'robotaxis' is heading for UK shores after taking to the roads in the US - the Mirror's Jeremy Armstrong took one for a spin in Los Angeles

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19 h. ago Online tech giant beats Amazon as Kindle Fire tablets slashed to £20 for one day only

The flash sale ends at midnight

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38 h. ago Britain drops demand for 'back door' access to Apple users' encrypted data following clash with Donald Trump

Tulsi Gabbard , the US director of national intelligence, said Britain had dropped a request for the American tech giant to enable access to 'protected encrypted data'.

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55 h. ago Theatre of war: making an Edinburgh Fringe show about Iran while your country is being bombed

As Israel bombed Iran in June, Sara Amini was preparing to bring a play about her childhood in Tehran to the Edinburgh Fringe. Here the writer and performer explores the impact of war - then and now - on her creative work

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59 h. ago The Guardian view on Britain’s AI strategy: the risk is that it is dependency dressed up in digital hype | Editorial

The UK’s plans seem to outsource sovereignty for phantom efficiency. Public services provide the data and power while US tech giants reap the rewardsThere was a time when Britain aspired to be a leader in technology. These days, it seems content to be a willing supplicant – handing over its data, infrastructure and public services to US tech giants in exchange for the promise of a few percentage points of efficiency gains. Worryingly, the artificial intelligence strategy of Sir Keir Starmer’s government appears long on rhetoric, short on sovereignty and built on techno-utopian assumptions. Last week Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, was promoting the use of AI-generated discharge letters in the NHS. The tech, he said, will process complex conversations between doctors and patients, slashing paperwork and streamlining services. Ministers say that by applying AI across the public sector, the government can save £45bn.But step back and a more familiar pattern emerges. As Cecil...

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5 d. ago Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children

US senator Josh Hawley opened investigation into the tech giant, which said it had removed the policy guidelinesA backlash is brewing against Meta over what it permits its AI chatbots to say.An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, showed the social media giant’s guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual”, generate false medical information, and assist users in arguing that Black people are “dumber than white people”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Beijing puts pressure on Chinese tech giants over purchases of Nvidia’s H20 chips

Alibaba and ByteDance among companies who have received questions from regulators

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8 d. ago Beijing demands Chinese tech giants justify purchases of Nvidia’s H20 chips

Alibaba and ByteDance among companies who have received questions from regulators

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9 d. ago Chip makers Nvidia and AMD agree to pay 15 percent of Chinese revenue to America in deal to make Trump happy

Tech giants Nvidia and AMD agree to highly unusual terms as part of requirements to help them obtain export licenses for China

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1 week ago Google sends red alert to 1.8billion users over AI scam it can't stop

A new Google scam is reportedly being used by cyber criminals to steal data, with the tech giant issuing a red alert to its 1.8billion users over the fraud

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1 week ago ‘It’s missing something’: AGI, superintelligence and a race for the future

As US and Chinese tech giants chase artificial general intelligence, experts warn the hype may be outrunning the scienceA significant step forward but not a leap over the finish line. That was how Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, described the latest upgrade to ChatGPT this week.The race Altman was referring to was artificial general intelligence (AGI), a theoretical state of AI where, by OpenAI’s definition, a highly autonomous system is able to do a human’s job. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Democrats respond to FBI agreement to locate Texas lawmakers: ‘We will not be intimidated’ – live updates

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries accuses Trump administration of attempting to ‘weaponize law enforcement to target political adversaries’Vance urges Republicans in Indiana to redraw map to help tighten House gripDonald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years.Apple’s plan to up its domestic investment comes as it seeks to avoid Trump’s threatened tariffs, which would increase the tech giant’s costs as it relies on a complex international supply chain to produce its iPhones. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, warned during an earnings call in May that the tariffs could cost the company up to $900m that fiscal quarter alone. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tech giant's stock plummets after Trump demands CEO resigns over China links

Once America's crown jewel tech company, a struggling producer has drawn the ire of the President.

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2 w. ago Trump to announce Apple’s plan to invest $100bn in US manufacturing

Tech giant’s plan to up domestic investment over next four years comes as it seeks to avoid Trump’s threatened tariffsDonald Trump on Wednesday is expected to celebrate a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years.“Today’s announcement with Apple is another win for our manufacturing industry that will simultaneously help reshore the production of critical components to protect America’s economic and national security,” a White House spokesperson, Taylor Rogers, said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Apple set to boost US investment plans by $100bn, says White House

Tech giant to announce expanded pledge ahead of deadline for Donald Trump’s new tariffs to take effect

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2 w. ago WhatsApp takes down 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam centres worldwide

Tech giant warns users against responding to suspicious or unusual messages

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2 w. ago Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’

The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’. But who will it benefit? And why does he wish the tech giants had moved more slowly?If you have a mental image of a Nobel prizewinner, Demis Hassabis probably doesn’t fit it. Relatively young (he’s 49), mixed race (his father is Greek-Cypriot, his mother Chinese-Singaporean), state-educated, he didn’t exactly look out of place receiving his medal from the king of Sweden in December, amid a sea of grey-haired men, but it was “very surreal”, he admits. “I’m really bad at enjoying the moment. I’ve won prizes in the past, and I’m always thinking , ‘What’s the next thing?’ But this one was really special. It’s something you dream about as a kid.”Well, maybe not you, but certainly him. Hassabis was marked out as exceptional from a young age – he was a chess prodigy when he was four. Today, arguably, he’s one of the most important people in the world. As he...

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