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How long will humans be needed for translation?

“Il pleut des cordes,” say the French when it’s raining hard. “It’s raining ropes,” is the direct translation. It’s the…

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The island where locals say data centres are taking their water

“Water! Water!” the crowd shouted as it stormed a compound with data centres, armed with empty plastic bottles and jerry…

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Ukraine strikes Yandex data centre in third attack on Russian tech giant

Yandex has been forced to pause its operations at a data centre near Moscow after the facility was damaged in…

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Musk spent $276mn to boost Republicans in midterms: US media

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has contributed $276 million to organizations boosting the campaigns of right-wing American…

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King warns malicious online actors are evolving tactics

King Charles III has warned of the challenges disinformation and other “hostile online activity” pose to trust and security in…

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Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case

An artificial intelligence (AI) agent developed by Anthropic went rogue and sent US police a fake tip about an unsolved…

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Anthropic discloses fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, among a string of incidents…

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Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds

On 23 August, Cooper Freeman had no idea clouds above his head were being filled with a silver compound in…

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OpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an ‘unacceptable risk’

OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens was designed to promote healthier use of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, but new research has…

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‘Ghost particles’ from space telescope wins physics Nobel

Belgian-born physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work on an observatory that…

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