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An "AI Force", an AI tsar and a hotline to Beijing: the week Washington decided how to race China
US and Chinese officials discussed a "notification mechanism" for AI incidents ahead of this week's Trump–Xi summit, days after Trump…
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Google's Gemini broke into three companies on its own during a security test. Here is how, and what it means for your passwords
The AI model found information online, guessed credentials and got into systems it thought were part of the test, Google says. The first…
World
An AI “hallucination” nearly sent US troops onto a Chinese cargo ship
A chatbot-written intelligence report claimed a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear-programme material. Boarding teams…
World
A robot learned to walk, see a bottle and pick it up in minutes — because it practised millions of times in a simulation
At a Cambridge start-up, Freddo the robot takes a plastic bottle from a staff member. The skill took minutes to develop, because it was…
World
“Employees are being assessed on how effectively they can participate in their own redundancy”
Duncan Trevithick gets a bonus if he uses AI to finish more work. He has done the maths on what that actually buys him, and the answer is…
Technology
"Months, not years": the Five Eyes warning on AI and cyber-attacks — and the economic shift underneath it that nobody states plainly
Security has always rested on attacker effort being expensive. The warning is not that AI finds new flaws; it is that the cost of…
Technology
Gmail’s AI summaries are coming to everyone — how to switch them off, why the switch takes other things with it, and the risk that is not training data
Everyone gets them, free accounts included. The off switch is real and bundled with Smart Compose. The worry is training data; the risk…
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Zoom’s Virtual Agent 3.0 settles the ticket itself — and the metric it is aimed at can be improved by failing
First-contact resolution counts whether the customer came back. A bot that answers wrongly and a customer who gives up produce the same…
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Musk puts $130 billion on his OpenAI grievance — the legal question underneath is one the whole AI industry has been avoiding
The number is a negotiating position built on a contested assumption. The question that outlives it is who, if anyone, can enforce a…
Technology
Google I/O 2022: a $449 Pixel 6a, the first Pixel Watch, translating glasses, and an AI that answered in Bangla
Two hours of announcements from Mountain View: Pixel 6a and Buds Pro, a Pixel Watch and tablet, Android 13, Google Wallet, Immersive View…
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Team Obhijatrik wins AI for Bangla with software that reads Bangla handwriting
161 projects, a jury led by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and a Tk 1 lakh first prize: the Bangladesh Computer Council's first AI for Bangla contest…