Artificial Intelligence News

Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language modelsPoetry can be linguistically and structurally unpredictable – and that’s part of its joy. But one man’s joy, it turns out, can be […]

Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefsChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned.Research conducted […]

At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a starA montage of Palantir’s CEO, Alex Karp, and waving US flags set to […]

Workers say the firm’s ‘warp-speed’ approach fuels pressure, layoffs and rising emissionsMore than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter expressing “serious concerns” about AI development, saying that the company’s “all-costs justified, warp speed” […]

Advocates are fighting against the $16.7bn global smart-toy market, decrying surveillance and a lack of regulationAs the holiday season looms into view with Black Friday, one category on people’s gift lists is causing increasing concern: […]

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Filing contained errors known as ‘hallucinations’, with attorneys arguing prosecutors’ office used AI in other casesA California prosecutors’ office used artificial intelligence to file a motion in at least one criminal case, which contained errors […]

OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himselfThe maker of ChatGPT has said the suicide of a 16-year-old was down to his “misuse” of its system and was “not caused” […]

US firm says plan to speed up product development and improve customer satisfaction would save $1bn a yearBusiness live – latest updatesUp to 6,000 jobs are to go at HP worldwide in the next three […]

Consumers advised to be sceptical about sales season discounts as AI makes it even harder to detect scamsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news […]

Music company representing Coldplay and Ed Sheeran had sued tech platform alleging mass copyright infringement Business live – latest updatesWarner Music has signed a licensing deal with the artificial intelligence song generator Suno after settling […]

Dr Talia Hussain says there is no incentive for lecturers to invest hours preparing a module they may teach only onceI disagree with the decision of lecturers to use artificial intelligence to create teaching materials […]

EU and US unshackle regulations in quest for growth, and is the AI bubble about to burst? Not yet, says NvidiaHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you from an […]

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