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AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage

OpenAI joins call for US-led global AI standards

Chief executive Sam Altman will brief the UN Security Council this week following outcry over safety concerns

Stop relying on chatbots for customer care, UK service providers urged

Citizens Advice says providers of services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’ Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care and guarantee the “right to talk to a human”, Citizens Advice has urged essential service providers

US data centres ‘are short six NYCs of electricity’

With great power comes great implausibility

In praise of the freshly fried chip | Brief letters

Chippies at risk | Consciousness raising | Cupboard love | Student meals | Death of ties In your article about the plight of fish and chip shops you barely mention the chips ( Can fish and chip shops survive? ‘We made more money by closing than staying open’, 17 September ). Almo

Stop asking AI CEOs what society needs

Imagine inviting oil companies to design climate policies or car companies to make traffic rules

How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”

Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MI

Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results.

4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”

MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas surveilled by advanc

The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?

When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses. As he walked through the desert in southern New Mexico that morning, he was within

Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030

Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’ Business live – latest updates The boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said AI will not develop to a point that will lead to the extinction of the human race within a few years, reje

Building standards for the next phase of AI

OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.

With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete

Tabby is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss.