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Xbox producer suggests laid-off staff use AI to deal with emotions
An Xbox producer has faced a backlash after suggesting laid-off employees should use artificial intelligence to deal with emotions in a now deleted LinkedIn post.Matt Turnbull, an executive producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing, wrote the post after Microsoft...
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Minister tells UK’s Turing AI institute to focus on defence
Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has written to the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) to tell its bosses to refocus on defence and security.In a letter, Kyle said boosting the UK's AI capabilities was "critical" to...
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Velvet Sundown: Viral band success spawns AI claims and hoaxes
A band called The Velvet Sundown has had its tracks played hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since appearing several weeks ago - without anyone knowing for sure what it is.The band has a verified page on the...
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Musk’s X appoints ‘king of virality’ in bid to boost growth
Liv McMahonTechnology reporterGetty ImagesElon Musk has appointed a product developer responsible for several successful youth-focused social media apps to a senior role at X.Nikita Bier has been made X's head of product three years after publicly suggesting on the...
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‘Made in the USA’ reference disappears from Trump phone listing
Days after the Trump Organization announced plans to launch a US-made smartphone, a reference to its American production has vanished from its website.A "Made in the USA" tagline featured in promotional material for the Trump T1 phone when it...
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Meta admits wrongly suspending Facebook Groups
Graham Fraser and Imran Rahman-JonesTechnology reportersGetty ImagesMeta says it is "fixing" a problem which has led to Facebook Groups being wrongly suspended - but denied there is a wider issue on its platforms.In online forums, Group administrators say they...
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US Judge sides with AI firm Anthropic over copyright issue
Natalie Sherman and Lucy HookerBBC NewsGetty ImagesA US judge has ruled that using books to train artificial intelligence (AI) software is not a violation of US copyright law.The decision came out of a lawsuit brought last year against AI...
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‘Fast tech’ warning as demand for cheap gadgets heats-up
Chris VallanceSenior Technology ReporterGetty ImagesDemand for so-called "fast tech" - cheap electronic items often quickly binned or abandoned in drawers - is growing, a not-for-profit that works to reduce electronic waste has warned.Material Focus singled out heatwave-fuelled demand for...
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Google may be forced to make changes to UK online search, says watchdog
Zoe Kleinman & Liv McMahonTechnology editor & technology reporterGetty ImagesGoogle may have to make changes in the UK to give consumers more choice over who they use for online search services, the competition watchdog has said. The Competition...
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Supercell boss: ‘We need to take bigger risks’
Ben MorrisTechnology of Business EditorSupercellLike many businesses, Mr Paananen is hopeful that AI will help spur innovation. At Supercell it's being used to create new types of games."I've seen some internal prototypes, but it's super early. I think it's...