Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville call for law on AI voice clones
More than 80 performers have signed the letter, with Derry Girls actor Siobhán McSweeney saying she was “deeply worried” that
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Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic, judge says
A judge has ruled the US Department of Defense acted unlawfully when it designated artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic a
Pizza restaurants: Why pizza-making robots are not cutting it
The robot pizza-making business has, it’s true, been littered with sorry tales of overcooked promises and melting fortunes. Besides Picnic,
A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young
The company’s public relations staffer sent me a spreadsheet of the supposed benefits experienced by the participants, including improved vision
More social media safety should come with Meta changes, UN says
Meanwhile, California Attorney General Rob Bonta – who represented one of the leading states in the Meta lawsuit – said
Google, Microsoft and OpenAI among 100 firms calling for better cyber defences
A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI, have signed an open letter calling on countries and
What does the Meta settlement mean for the UK? Five things we learned
The UK has its own measures in place to protect children online. The Online Safety Act mainly put restrictions on
The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
1 Meta has promised to pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark child-safety caseThe company says it will
Is Slate Auto’s new electric truck the EV Americans need?
The company is going all in on simplicity, to the point of austerity. The Slate is a tiny, two-door pickup
Unexpected chat between OpenAI bots led to Hugging Face hack
When more than 1,200 artificial intelligence (AI) agents within OpenAI started unexpectedly communicating, it led to a large group banding